Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-18

~ lnere any part 81 tue "hiske! tdih' 'h"'
pays?
Not one single item.
A woman dolefuliy beating drum and crying
Bread, bread" precipitated the French Revo-
lntion. The whole world is today crying out
with the age-pain of hunger Within recent
months there have been great bread riots in
Vienna. nearreyolution in Great Britain and
labor unrest in France. in our own country
the fact that the anarchistit organizations have
been able to stir the laboring classes and create
hitter industrial warfare, both West and East,
indicates that hunger, for the most part is at
the bottom of it. The people, the great masses,
are hungry for bread, hungry for clothing, hun
erv for better houses, hungry for e1ucation-
eager, we might say, to put a foot rung higher
ND on the ladder OF better living 1t is all very
we'll to answer the perplexed and restless wage
Garner, EaCiod knows but Labor, organized La
Dor. proposes to know also, and to know the
way out
prominents member Of the United States
Congress in j. great speech on the floor OF the
House, bearing on the subject under considera-
ton. recently stated that .The cost Of living
Is high, largely because there is not sufficient
labor employed in the production of useful
things, nor sufficient legitimate employment OF
capital in the supplying of the legitimate needs
Of the people.
1t seems that there is no lack of raw material
in this vast Republic of ours. Nor is there Q
dearth Of labor, for even in the most prosperous
times upwards OF 100000 unemployed men
tramp our streets Something evidently inter
renes between the raw material furnished in
Natures rich supplies, such as potential food
and potential comforts, and the ranks of Labor
hungering, longing for the opportunity to con
vert this potential raw material into such means
as to satisfy the needs and longings of mankind
What, we enquire, is the intervening factor
LIQUOR STANDS BETWEEN. Note the words
Of a great leader of Labor: Liquor has per
rerted a vast wealth of raw material. 1t hai
robbed a million or more of men of the right t,
work 1t has taxed the people for the pric
Of its crime, of its poverty, of its insanity, o
its endless and cumulative iniquities. 1t has ele
waited men whom the people despise; too often +
rule over us as traitors to the common good
fostered bribery, created graft and fought blind
II against every reform, against economy
against purity of politics and efficiency of in
dustrialisnl'
Again, we enquire, does it pay? Let us tax
concrete illustration. workingman wit
ten dollars in his pocket enters saloon. I'll
takes a glass of beer and then takes anothe
with his friends, then treats all present at til
bar, after which he takes asdrink of whisky
When he leaves the saloon his money is all gon
and he carries "a load
What is the effect of his drinking. upon hin
self? Does it tend to raise his standard of liyin
and condition of efficiency whereby he may b
able to demand higher wage? Does it col
tribute to the intelligence and character wit
which he can back up his demands? Are nc
these sensible questions for him to consider
Probably about one dollar of the ten dollar
which he has spent goes to the Government q
an Internal Revenue tax The other nine dollar
in part 60 to the saloon keeper, his bar-tende
the brewer, the distiller, and in part to the pol
ticians who give protection and the balant
TO the war fund with which 1.-THE traffic" fgh
its way to its rich livelihood.
So far as Society, of which the man is a mel
Der, is concerned, so far as his family is CO.
eerned, and so far as he himself, the value ,
that ten dollars, with slight exceptions "
have noted, is absolutely lost, and the only m
proceeds accruing to the man himself from I'll
expenditure of his wages is crH
Let us follow the case little further.
The man goes home with his load lie fin,
his wife absent, gone to solicit help from h
sober neighbors. She has, therefore, become
charge upon the community. One of the childr,
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