Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-15
Encouraging Facts Cited to
Show Steady Advance in
Cause OF Temperance Il

Honolulu and comparing II with that or
other mainland cities.
The question who are the liquor
license commissioners? was one OF
the first taken up in the report Mr..
Patty asked If these men were men of
such character as the position calls
for, and If they are men who can al
ways be relied upon to act unbiased,
free from all interests except the
public welfare. Three of the com.
missioners, he said, have been chosen
during the past year, and. while two
of them are new to the work, they
are both men of integrity and abil-
ity. Personally, he doubted very much
If it would be possible to select five
men in the community better quail
fed for the arduous and thankless
task of seeing that the provisions OF
the liquor. law are carried out. He
named the present commission as con-
sisting of w. E. Brown, George Pot
ter, Carlos Long, A. L, Castle and F..
J. Lowrey, Jr
Political Side Taken Up.
Taking up the political side of the
temperance situation, Mr. Patty said:
"The political aspect of the past year
shows the absolute necessity for unit
ed effort in our precinct clubs and at
the primaries We should use our
utmost diligence in securing the no
mination of delegates to the terrific
rial and municipal conventions, who
are in favor of temperance legislation:
We were told that the liquor interests
were only interested in Office because
khok hni n
ity would assist in securing an eco
nomical and efficient administrator OF
public affairs.
The Good Templars lodge was or
ganized and christened Oahu Lodge,
No. 1, of Honolulu, on August 20 OF
last year, and only those who have
tried to organize lodge of this kind.
said the report, know how hard 1t is
to get it started. The lodge now has q
membership of forty, and eight new
names have been secured during the
past week. This lodge is having an
influence in creating public sentiment,
which will probably be the cause OF
doing much good for temperance.
Practical Reform
During the year the league paid
seventy-eight dollars for medical treat
ment of a person who had never been
sober more than three months at a
time since he was. twenty-one years
old. He has now been sober for near
" a year and is working steadily and
earning good wages. This is only one
of the many instances where man
has been pulled out of the rut and set
back on. his feet through the efforts
of the league. 81 think that this sort
of work is appreciated both by the
individuals and by the public Mr..
Patty went on to say" and the great
trouble is that we do not have the
time to follow these cases up by
writing or in intercourse with the
people to show that we have a con-
tinued interest in them" A short
time ago. Mr. Patty came out, through
the medium of the press, with a
strong announcement of the so-called
coffee shops which are said to flour
ish in the vicinity of the fish market.
Taking this matter up in his report,
he said, in part: 81 have spoken upon
the subject of place for those who
were not inclined to patronize the sa-
looms could spend social evening,
in nearly every respect which I have
read before this organization, and 1t
is still live subject. We. as a league,
should give this matter serious con-
sheraton and make beginning in
this very important work l made
some inquiry about this matter when
/ was in San Francisco recently and
found that there was man in Stock
ton who makes business of training
men to send out to take charge of
clubs of this kind. A bill has been in
troduced in the present legislature
for the appropriation of $4,000 for an
Hawaiian dictionary; if one-half of
that amount could be spent for a place
where the Hawaiians and others could
be kept from the saloons, it would be
of much more value to the COM
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Saloons Under Scrutiny ~:s...> u.
by our influence in representing
facts, getting petitions against sa-
looms, etc, three requests for saloons
were denied, the application for three
other licenses for three other licenses
were finally abandoned, and one Jap
anese tea house was forced to close
its doors. A decision by the attorney
general that property holder must
be a person with lease az. FEAST one
year old was a very good point for
the Anti-Saloon League. Every week
for the past four months there mas
been an article published in the Kuo-
kua on the temperance question; there
has been an article in each OF the daily
papers at least once in TWO weeks.
The papers were used extensively for
advertising during the political cam
Eaign, not less than. fifteen cuts APP
Tearing within three weeks believe
that vote of thanks is due all the
newspaper III the city for the active
interest they have always ta:len in the
cause of temperance.
The drinking fountains which have
been installed throughout the city dur
ing the past month were paid for by
the Antf-Saloon League anG the W. c..