The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-07-14
LAW AND LICENSE
SOME FUNDAMENTAL
By Woolley.
FUNDAMENTALS

By John G.. Woolley.

! " ME the M ltl ilitNtt0SS liz \ -00-s-
to convey the impression that there va
some common interest between trad'
unionism and the manufacture and SAL
OF intoxicants, this suggestion IS re
PEELED on every occasion when the mat
| ter is presented to the labor men IL
| its true light and when the maIlgt
purpose OF the liquor interests IS eN
posed to view.
! - have no sympathy with the state
ment. 50 often made, that the manu-
| facture and sale of liquor has contrib
uted to the industrial development OF
| the nation. On the contrary, l believe
| that l.quUr has contributed more to the
moral. intellectual and material deterlo-
ration of the people and has brought
more misery to defenseless women and
children than has any other agency III
the history of mankind
Or face about IL the other direction
and inquire.
Consult the oracle Of the alleys,
where pauperism writhes and reeks and
rots Is the liquor traffic safe for the
people! And the two great experts
ON the subject. The Massachusetts
Bureau Of Labor Statistics, and the
famous Committee OF Fifty, produce
the figures to show that not less than
thirty nine per cent Of pauperism is due
to drink.
Take the wretched testimony of the
brothel. Is the liquor traffic safe for
the people? The answer is instant: The
soul Of the brothel is the drink-not
lust, drink.
Call mp the white slave trade that
catches girls and hawks them in the
dissipation market, as fishermen take
fish and sell chem. Is the liquor traffic
safe for the people! And every dirty
pander OF them all acknowledges that
drink is the working capital of the
business.
Call up the .jails, the forcing beds of
crime. and put the question. Is the
liquor traffic safe for the people! And
they answer fifty per cent of the jail
horror is the drink.
Call up the insane asylums. Is the
liquor traffic safe for the people: And
no man puts the figure at less than
fifty per cent for the drink.
Call up the scrap-heap of broken
homes and lost prospects. What is the
matter here! Many things, but mostly
drink.
The schoolhouse cries: Keep the sa-
loon away from me, and even the
license law agrees to do It.
The church cries save me from the
sacTilege Of a near saloon. and even
the license law tries to do II. Election
day cries save ME from the open saloon.
And even the license law seconds the
motion. Sunday, the rest day, the day
OF home and worship, cries for protec-
ton from the saloon. And even the
license law agrees to give it.
No. You will listen vainly for one
brave, honest word, among all the
voices of the century, that speaks in
favor OF the beverage liquor traffic on
the score of safety for the people.
Write it on the workhouse gate,
Write it on the schoolboy' 5 slate,
Write it in the copy book,
'Where there s drink, there S danger.
Write it in the nations laws,
| Blotting out the license clause;
Write it on each ballot white,
50 it can be read Alright,
''Where there S drink, there 5 danger
Write it on the ships that sail,
Borne along by storm and gale,
Write it large i'll letters plain,
! Over every land and main,
Where there 5 drink, there 5 danger.
Write it over every gate,
On the church and halls of State,
/ In the heart of every band,
/ On the laws of every land
Where there 5 drink, there 5 danger.