Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-05-05
FOR PROHIBITION
is NOT TEMPERANCE
And Hawaii Will Assert
Its independence.
On July rs

ritOry has ever known, ana IL SeeHlS
completely cut Of plaae that a dis
quieting feature of an internal ma
ture such as the election Of July 26
is sure to be should be thrust upon
us.
The prohibition question is a
problem that Is not going TO be set
tied without leaving its mark in the
shape Of strained relations. not only
between common workaday people,
but between the merchants and other
financial heads who are responsible
for the making or updoing of the
Territory. ...
This coming unpleasantness seem:
to me to be all uncal.ed for. and the
father of It all appears to be an out
slider, to whom hope the Territory
will issue a rebuke on the 2Gth OF
next July that he will not forget foI
some time to come. o..
My feelings in the matter may be
attributed to spite, but, be that as II
may. will relate an incident of my
life that may, all things considered
seem strange that | take the stand
do In this prohibition question.
My father was slave to liquor
early in life, and remained so up ia
the day of his death. One evening
when was a boy about nine or ten
years of age, my father failed to
come home after his daily toll. and
1t being payday night, mother knew
very we'll what had happened. TAX
Thg-me. with her, she went out into
The darkpess in search OF the author
Eef my being. We had not gone far
before we found him. hopelessly
dfhnkEfyIng beside the road. lie
was more than drunk-he was be-
fsctted; SO much so that the power
of speech was not in him. | well
remember the look that came oveI
my mothers face as she gazed al
that form in the shape of man and
then at me, her only child. She
babe me go down on my knees there
in the cold and wet, and she exactet
a pledge from me that ! would never
let drink so control me that ! nigh
at any time In my life be in thu
same condition as my father wa
then ia. gave the pledge she ask
ed and have kept It. Mother wa
wise not to put me under a pledg,
never to taste drop Of liquor, fol
well she knew such pledge woult
be violated sooner or later, but sh'
put me under pledge that, to use {
slang phrase, left it to me as to how
far 1 would go in the liquor cues
ton. t.,
II is not TO be doubted that thu
champions of prohibition would coa
slider me good timber for their cam
paign, but | assure you that an
strictly the reverse, |, can not 81.
that | am a lover OF saloons or sane
tion the sale of liquor to every per
son who applies for II. In fact,
have no use for liquor and very lit
tie use for those who seem to b,
under the impression that they cal
not five without II, but at the sam
time We are all free agents. and
don't believe In anyone debating L
me what shall or shall not drink
There are several sides to thi
question which will be thorough
threshed out before election come
on. Here Is one of them, Their
are somewhere between five hundre
and a thousand people In these Is
lands connected with the liquor bus
mess, not including barkeepers an
saloon owners. who are earning thei
living by giving an equivalent 4
time and labor, for the wages the
receive. II prohibition obtains, wha
Is to become of this large, number @
people? VIII those who desire pre-
hibition furnish them with employ
ment paying as good wages?
Then there Is the question Q
taxes. / have not the exact figure
at hand, but the money paid into tn
treasury of the Territory by the lie
uor interests must amount to man
thousands OF dollars. This, added
the other amounts that are paid |
through other channels OF trade,
found Just about sufficient to. max
both ends meet In the matter OF rur
ming the public business. Now, NJ
Prohibitionist, II you knock this mic
little slice, represented by the liqut
interest taxes. of the general co
leetable fund, who Is going 10. mai
up the difference, or, at least, whel
lis the like amount coming from
make up the total? You will be Il
first to raise the roof when yoi
taxes are raised about twenty-f'
per cent.
But that is not the main point Z
which am baking. There Is
feeling of independence, such as HI
lately been exhibited by Mr.. Fai
banks and more recently by NJ
/ Roosevelt, during their visits
Italy, personally feel as II Coz
gress. Woolley or someone or som
thing was trying 10 "butt in" {