Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-19
Breuities From The
Anti-Saloon League

The committee on legislation OF the
AntiSaloon League met Tuesday and
/ carefully prepared its report for the
conference held Wednesday in the Lii.
, brary of Hawaii in order to discuss
| the bills TO be presented at the next
session of the legislature for the pur-
pose of securing new or improved leg
| islation along lines OF civic better
ment. The proposed measures OF the
Anti-Saloun League have already been
published.
Several hundred copies of Mrs J.
NJ. Whitney's little book comprising
d history OF the temperance question
in Hawaii from early times down to
the present, together with little PAM
phlet prepared by DR.. j. w. Wadman
containing some helpful suggestions
ton TO children, have been mailed to
public and private teachers all over
the territory
The executive committee met Thurs
day afternoon and adopted G. II.
Dickey's resolutions whereby certain
constitutional changes were made in
the work OF the league In order to Sc
cure territorial organization. The
committee instructed the superinten.
dent to take the necessary steps to-
wards the election of representatives
by all churches and missions of every
denomination and the holding of a
territorial annual convention in Homo
lulu the latter part of February when
-, Dol Il ~
the national superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of America, will
be present and confer with the local
workers in regard to future plans.
The visitation of the city scrools by
Superintendent Wadman in the inter-
ests of the leagues educational cam
paign among children, has been con-
tinued during the week Monday
morning was spent at the Royal
school There is no assembly hall
there and it is impossible to have
its 100 or more pupils gather in one
place. Under the guidance of the
principal, Doctor Wadman visited
each class of the higher grades by it.
self and with the aid of little map
OF the United States, showing how
the nation is rapidly going dry, he ex-
planned to the children the nature of
prohibition, it's, rise, growth, results,
etc.
Central Grammar was visited Tues
day and Mrs. F. w. Carter introduced
the speaker to the upper grades as
sembled in three class rooms thrown
into one Doctor Wadman states that
this was one OF the happy incidents of
his experience in which, the students
insisted on his Temperance" SO to
speak, and some further remarks
anent the big movement in favor of
prohibition The meeting was certain
ly most enthusiastic and this educa-
tional campaign among the school
children is not only cordially support
ed by the board of public instruction
and teachers, but meets with the
hearty approval of the public.
ed strike breakers who we're brought
into the state. The militia instead OF
aiming to maintain order and secure
justice, were used to break the strike.
Special attack was made upon the
Ludlow colony, it being the largest"in
the district There were nine hundred
people living here; two hundred and
seventy-two of them children, twenty
one having been born during the win
ter. There were twenty-one national
tiles and yet they lived in peace. 1t
was this colony against which the
militia, including the mine. guards, d.
rected their fire April 20. A number
of the inhabitants were killed and the
tents we're destroyed by fire.
In the Investigation following the
Ludlow battle it was shown that many
of the militia who we're receiving pay
from the state we're at the same time
in the employ of the coal companies as
guards and were receiving double pay.
They were really employees of the
companies, fighting in the name of the
state.
The destruction Of the Ludlow col
ony maddened the strikers so that
blood-shed and disorder became gen.
eral. Mine properties were fired and
the communities terrorized. A group
of women met in the state house in
Denver and upon their insistence the
governor telegraphed the president at
asking him to send fed
eral troops into the state. The effect
of this move was to bring quiet and
at least a temporary peace into the
troubled districts.
Continued next Saturday.