The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-06

the United states senate. We believed
we could secure the passage of the bill
in congress, or failing OF that. secure
a submission Of the question to the PEG
pie of the Territory.
Accordingly, the executive committee
Of the antisaloon league directed me
to proceed to the mainland in pursuit
Of Two chief purposes. First. to enllst
the national order Of Good Templars IN
the establishment Of line of total ab-
Stinence lodges throughout these IS
lands. Second. to promote the passage
Of the johnson bill then pending IN
the United States senate. prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of lntoXlcat-
ING drinks in this Territory.
The first of these purposes has been
ACCOMPLISHED The leaders of the great
worldwide society of Good Templars
met my overtures with the most prompt
and cordial hospitality, and they
propose to put organizers at work here
TO found social centers at convenient
points where music. instruction, debate
and social pleasure shall unite IN ald
of personal abstinence and the enforce
ment of law.
Congress Receptive.
Arriving in Washington. I found both
houses of congress in receptive MOOD
10 nv message But Senator Johnson
had died. leaving the hill that he had
introduced. without a sponsor. DIS
covered promptly that a bill in congress,
to be successful. needs a live member to
push it. After addressing the senate
committee on Pacific Islands and Porto
Rico in the interest of the Johnson bill
and finding it very sympathetic. | can
vassed the situation carefully and fixed
upon Senator Curtis Of Kansas, reg
ular' Republican, a convinced prohlbl-
strongly interested IN the native
races, by blood, reason and experience,
eloquent. energetic and popular, ana
asked him to Introduce substitute for
the Johnson bill. He did so, gladly,
and pledged his best endeavor to secure
its passage The committee accepted
the substitute and voted to report 1t
favorablv.
Then we struck a snag, Prince Ka-
lanianaole. the Delegate. induced the
senate committee to grant rehearng
at which he strongly opposed the Cur
It's bill as a violation of the principle
Of Home Rule. He was al all stages
of the contention entirely friendly ia
the doctrine of prohibition. but very
Jealous Of the popular prerogative. His
argument with that of Mr.. Mcclellan,
strongly supported by sundrv civic
bodies in Honolulu. was very influential
with the committee.
Delegates Argument.
If the protests of the chamber Of com
merce and the bar association of this
city carry in spirit any opposition to
prohibition they We're very skiIlfully
framed, for they urged nothing but the
principle of local self government. The
committee appealed to me to conced'
the point ana submit the question to
the popular decision. | have no means
Of knowing what the decision would
have been if | had refused. But as it
seemed to me | was beaten III the argu-
ment, and, more than that, ! was con
scious of the merit of the Delegate s
position, and | had all along had in con
temptation the securing of a pleblscite
in the event of failure on the original
proposition. | therefore entered into a
stipulation. of record in the committee,
that if the Prince would then and there
agree to stand with me in the house
and in the plebiscite | would agree to
joint resolution submitting the matter
to the people. The stipulation was
made. ana the Prince has kent his part
of it LOYALTY and perfectly to this time.
1t is my Judgment that the action of
congress is better than what we sought
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