The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-07-26
Prospects for
Victory Is Bright

day. l am not going to tell you how
to vote. 1t is UP to you and up TO
every voter to decide that
''But whatever you do, don t stay at
home. Go to the polls and vote the way
you want
| Ashford a Backslider.
| Clarence ". Ashford was the next
speaker. He lugged in the '95 revolu-
ton by pointing to the prison to show
where he was confined as a political
/ prisoner and used the worn-old argu-
ments to arouse the sentiments and feel
ings Of the Hawaiians. He prefaced
his remarks by saying that he was a
backslider, that when he was young
and before he came to Hawaii he had
been temperance man, but after com
ing here and residing here for thirty
years, he had changed his mind, and
was opposed to prohibition, because
when he went home in the afternoon,
hot and tired, he knew he could 90
straight to his icechest and get cold
bottle of beer out and feel happy. and
when the audience laughed, he said he
had apparently struck a popular chord.
and remarked ''You have all been there
BEFORE He added that he and all his
audience wanted to go home next week
and next year and so on and find a cold
bottle of beer in the icechest.
Minority Trying to Rule.
Ashford argued that this was com
munity, differing from Others where the
people drank liquor in greater or less
quantities. and when YOU try to RIM
things with a minority, the majority
stops to consider why a minority should
have the right to take away rights bv
a comparatively small vote. He said
there was population in the Islands Of
about 100000. and about 10000 were
voters, which IS a percentage of about
612. Perhaps 10000 will turn out to
vote today. This he considered was an
unreasonable and absurd thing where
little over per cent Of the population
was managing things. In other words
~ men were telling what the other
>. y men out of hundred should do.
whether or not they shall use liquor.
At one time he thought prohibition
was moral, logical and legal thing.
but he had changed, and il was not
for this country. He ridiculed the idea
of the prohibitionists saving that vote
for i-prohibition was vote for the
saloons. There was no question of sa
looms or no saloons
Saloonless Kauai.
lie claimed there was a workable
Iiquor law IN vogue, in which communi
tles could declare for local option, and
the commissioners can shut up the sa
rooms II they see fit. He referred to
the haual situation, where they have
no saloons at all, but he did not saw
that liquor could be bought in AS LARGE
quantities as before The commission
erS on Kauai found it legal to close the
saloons, he said. He said. however. be
was not going into the question of
whether 1t was desirable to close the
saloons However, it could be done /
anu prohibition was not needed to do it I
lie played on sentiment to show how /
! people were raising grapes IN this .
lahu OF sunshine and showers-prapes
from when wine is being made for sale /
ana now the growers would 90 into
bankruptcy II prohibition passed. They
should be protected to make cranes into
me, and the person who bought and .
PaId for the wine to drink shouId he
to drink it, if he does it in .
moderation and does no harm to anv F..
one else
Old Issues Logged In.
ne Went into long talk about the
lnordlnate love for Havaiiane..
winch he said the prohibitionist eIe-
neht Professed to have He said this
absurd and ridiculous 1t only
anne when election came around. III
.t;. known that element for nearly
-.rlF years, : he shouted, "and I have
never observed any evidence Of This
' ! II love for the Hawaiians.'
~ 'hen he spoke Of the % affair
I, 2 /. prove 1.-THE oId, old argument to
r,aE upon the feelings of the voters.
5 ne reference to the Glove for
.l,l'ns brought expressions Of
> eI>o from Link McCandless. Link
seVer INDUCING in any EXPRESSIONS Of