The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-02-04
FOR SOLDIERS
AND HAWA||hNS
W0OIIey Bases His Prohibition
Argument on Needs of
Two Classes.
HITS ALSO AT THE PLANTERS
Says Illicit Dealers Should Be
Hunted Out Like the
Plague Rats.
HITS ALSO AT THE PLANTERS

If congress enacts a prohibition
law for this Territory it Will be be
cause Of the representations made be
fore the senate committee by John G.
Woolley regarding the necessity for
saving the Hawaiian people from Elk
tinction and degradation and the plea
made for the creation of conditions to
extend the anti-canteen movement be
yond the limits of the army and navy
reservations
Says Mr.. WoolIey. in a speech at
Chicago, speech Incorporated in the
printed report of the senate commit
tee hearing, issued by the governments:
1.-The federal government has drum
med the drink out of the camps for the
health, safety; and efficiency of the
soldier. The rule is enforced and in
creasingly respected by the officers
The territorial authorities cooperate as
to the camps outside the city and re-
fuse to license man traps at the gates.
But distances are short The marine
barracks is in the heart of the city.
and the city is cantonment Of
saloons
cit is not worse in this respect than
| other license cities of its size 1t is
| rather better But the conditions that
| obtain make the saloons of Homo
| lulu more miscellaneous than those that
prey upon mainland cities of the same
| class.
| "'The Island of Oahu IS to all in
tents and purposes a naval and mill
| tary camp, from the water to the
| clouds on the mountains. The rule
| of congress should embrace it all, and
the Illicit liquor seller should be hunt
for the health and honor of the soldier
and the country.
"The native Hawaiians, reduced
now, by the vices and diseases OF
Christian nations. to some 10000 II
number. are as fine a race, under the
circumstances, as the world can show
| Measured by any standard they eX
hibit some virtues that would adOrr
the nations that are more advanced
They are nominally Christians. Tha
is, they are precisely like other Chris
tans. But they are still the veries
barbarians when they take to drink
"Thev have no love of money, t
make them stingv. They have no lov'
of power, to make them prudent
They have no loud call to thrift anC
industry. They are gentle, handsome
hospitabIe, peaceful. But they are onl,
ninety years removed from naked an
imalism. The liquor traffic simpl,
murders them.
. For the sake of humanity AM
A"cencv. the spirit of the internationa
agreement to keep alcoholic drink
from south Sea peoples and the pole,
of our own government, which keep
American Samoa safe from the saloon
ought to include Hawaii.
s'But the Territory Is unequal +
this plain duty, though well enoug
disposed. until the sturdy. middle
class democracy arrives. It has no
arrived. and is not yet beginning I
arrive.
'.Hawalj has a population Of 40
no0. Seventy Thousand Of these ar
IJaranrso. presenting problem that j
serious f not dangerous. Their elm
lrcn born in Hawaii are American cat
zeu- The time is not far away whc
they VIII be an important factor /
tp.'rins
"Twertv thousand are Chinese
Sixteen thousand are Portuguese
/ -ayar thousand are hyhrids and tc