The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-02-14
Letters rom
The People
PROHIBITION DOES PROHIRTT

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/ to hear that prohibition does not PRO
mont the sale Of liquor The worst
hIhd OF lie sometimes is that which
| looks most like the truth. And 10 hear
that prohibition does not stop the sale
OF liquor is the worse kind Of a lie
because to some people it looks most
like the truth.
| 10 hear that prohibition in these IS
| lands would not stop the sale Of IauoT
should be an insult to the police of
TINS city. When it is positively proven
that liquor is one Of the causes of
TINS me race of people dying out, not
only Of the Hawaiian Islands but of
the whole South Seas, it should be the
prlde or every policeman in Honolulu
TO make tins city 50 dry once prohibi-
ton IS made a law, that the very roof
OF dram holes viii cry out vengeance.
II You think prohibition does not
step the sale of liquor 90 to Burling-
ton, Vermont, or Portland, Maine. How
did burlington. Vermont, stop the sale
of Hquor2 It was Doctor Buckham,
president of the University of Yer
mont, who did it. How did he accom-
pllsh this? By spending his own money
hIrlng detectives to watch things. Now
watch the results. Today the running
expenses Of the county of Chittenden
without the saloons is one fourth what
1t was with the saloons And today
also the jail of Burlington is nearly
empty when it was crowded while the
saloons were open. If YOU want illus
trations of this kind visit every prohi-
bltlon town in the United States You
know the crimes committed under the
influence of liquor | Will stop right
here on this point.
Here is the American nation, which
gives the best of its manhood to the
navy for the protection of these Is
lands. No man can enter the navy
nowadays without good credentials of
excellent character. And what do you
do when they visit here9 You make
them a disgrace with your ''rot gut
whisky.
Some viii say: Owe did not coax
them to drink Is it not human
nature for men away from home and
on restraint for weeks on board ships
of the navy to fall in your dirty ''pit
falls as long as they are open and
get drunk? You will say they will
YOU ever hear that two wrongs made
one rightg Do you know enough to
understand this?
If the outside world would do as
much for the protection of its young
men as the discipline of the navy does
for its bluejackets every man in the
service would be regarded as a gen
teman. Collectively the man in uni
form is respected as a matter of ma
tional feeling; individually he is not
respected as much as he should be and
the saloons in port cities and the want
of better places of entertainment
ashore are largely responsible for that.
One hears the word liberty thrown
in as an excuse for the open saloons.
What right have we to dictate to a
person what he should put into his
mouth? On the same line of reasoning
what right have we to examine food
on the public market to see II 1t Will
cause ptomaine poisoning or not! IL
liberty means the right Of open saloons
and the nonrestraint of nature on the
mart Of men. then | have right TO
saw that because a man has two legs
and a goose has two legs therefore a
man is a goose. What is logical to
some is not always good reasoning.
Prohibition anywhere does not mean
the absolute impossibility of blind
nips" to get liquor in some way. Ot
the two evils, namely selling liquor
or the sly and the open saloons 1t
means to choose the lesser of the two
evils with the open saloons.
We are bound to hear a lot of non
sense in favor of saloons, and perhaps
in the sight of some | am no WISER
lint if the surface of the earth We're
all level the country would not be half
50 picturesque nor so interesting. %
we must he thankful to those on the
opposite side of this question for max
mo life so interesting in Honolulu just
now. \ great many Of them know
that liduor is a curse, but lawyer
who wants To win his case for his client
even though the lawyer knows III NJ
| heart that his case is rotten one Will
| contjnne in spite of vengeance, Judge
/ and iurv 10 make white appear as
white a. newly fallen snow. ana 81
are the ealoonkeepers and their fflendS
Inst look at Germany today. You
say they are big drinkers of beer ana
! if does them no harm Well, II II doeS
| Them no harm why is 1t that many
towns IN Germany are now begging foi
prohibition? Read the papers.
This should be a fight to flnlsf
against the saloons. People must nt
educated on the subject by more pnDi''
lectures. and heart to heart tax
once Won know you are right 20 ahead
There j. no one so blind as he Whl
will not see. But keep on the goo'
work. \ few vital points we'll pu
forth should be. published an IN aist hfi
attractive way On posters an" G'S' ~ !"
nted broadcast. along with public lee
lures on the subject.
In conclusion l will say that II on'
man Ike Doctor Buckham of the NJ
versitv- If Vermont, at least while
WAS there a student, can stop the sal
"f liquor for the sake Of college stu a
dents then why can't the millions o
! Honolulu hire detectives to prove |,