The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-07-11

liquor because its use has but one re-
suit and that is its abuse 1t is self-de-
vouring. Instead of becoming surfeited,
condition attendant upon the excessive
indulgence in any wholesome article of
food or drink, the more liquor you take
the more you want. Its use reverses the
natural order of things. The supply
creates the demand This is just what
happens in the use of any other bane-
full drug. For example, opium, NOR
phine, and strychnine.
/ am opposed to the use of spirituous
liquor because the traffic in it is direct
bid for the commission of crime 1t is a
criminal offense to become drunk
Drunkenness is even admitted by rum
sellers to be bad though it is difficult to
see how they can be sincere in such an
admission because drunkenness is caus-
ed by the rum-sellers. Consider the en-
ormity of the proposition Liquor causes
drunkenness. The number of offenses
for drunkenness are many times greater
than all other criminals put together TN
less there be an exception in the case of
gambling.
The law licenses the sale of liquor
Thus the law encourages the violation of
the law; it sanctions the creation of Grim
inals. How Industrious the sowing of
the seed How bountiful the harvest
| am opposed to the use of spirituous
liquor because it is demoralizing to the
rum-seller who deals in the draughts
of death over the gilded bar in an atmos-
phere of tinsel and glitter and glare and
suggestive paintings, where decency has
to hide for very shame. Ina
CINE the wives and daughters of
some of the very respectable accompany
ing the husbands and fathers into a sa-
loon to take drink, yet no man should
go for amusement to a place where the
moral atmosphere is such that he may not
be accompanied by pure woman. It
must blunt the moral sense of man to
sell that to another which he knows is
bunting the faculties of such other and
taking away his powers of resistance to
his appetite. The rumseller must Danish
all human pity from his thoughts, to en-
able him to take dollar after dollar of
hard-earned wages that he knows (and
no one knows so well as he) should be
taken home, and would be taken home if
the victim had not lost large part OF
his manhood, to wife and children who
suffer and wait in vain for the return Of
the besotted husband.
The saloon is the nursery of crime.
Any man who lives in such an environ
ment must of necessity, to a greater or
less extent have scared the genial cur
rents of the soul The runl-seller is
social outcast The Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, one of the most power
full secret orders in the world, will not
permit person who sells spirituous liq-
uors over the bar to become a member.
While | do not wish to be understood as
claiming that every man who sells liquor
is a degenerate, what | do contend for
is that the selling of liquor in its tend
ency is degrading.
| am prohibitiOnist because science
has concusively demonstrated that liquor
used as a beverage is injurious to man.
That this use brings with it a host of dis
eases and makes us more susceptible
than we otherwise would be, to host
of others
am a prohibitionist because the use
of spirituous liquor has a natural tend
encv to make its user drunk. This is the
shameful seal that our law has put upon
it. The traffic is damned by the very law
that authorizes its sale The title OF our
law is, "An Act to Regulate the Sale of
Intoxicating Liquors. not law to en-
force the sale of pure food, but law
encouraging the sale of an intoNicant-a
beverage that parayzes the brain, makes
beasts of men, turns law-abiding citizens
into murderers; law in disguise per-
hitting the sale of cordial for produc-
ing dyspepsia neuralgia, hob-nailed liver,
red nose, foul breath, insanity, heart dis
ease, broken hearts, starvation, lascivi-
business, delirium tremens. Our law
makers in pandering to the evil desires
of men have gone far to brand the traffic
as infamous. They should have called it
by its true name The term Intoxicating
liquors is too mild.
I am a prohibitionist because the
strong become weak, the proud are
brought low before this ruthless, inn
placable foe to the human race.
In this small community | call upon
the magician Memory" and he brings
before me the shade of man of no
mean ability as a writer and who could
have been a great power for good in this
community, but who went down before
the scourge of drink. AS his shade dis
appears. his sons takes its place. ! see