Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-18
REV. JOHN +. COWAN CHOOSES
TEMPERANCE AS SUBJECT FOR
STIRRING CONVENTION ADDRESS

states are now ready to approve 1t,
leaving only 11@states to win; and
anyone who has watched the rising
tide of temperance sentiment in ILL.,
nois, where Is counties recently voted
dry, in Kentucky where strong tenn
perance laws have been passed and
in California where a strong fight is
being made, must realize how likely
happen at the next election.
/ had talk on this matter with DR..
Charles NJ, Sheldon while here last
week. He Is on his way to New Zea-
land to help them in their third fight
for prohibition. When he returns to
the United States in September he will
set out on an educational campaign
in behalf of this 18th amendment.
What is known as the "O'bying
Squandron,' composed of men like DR..
Sheldon, Ex-Governor Hanley of Indi-
ana, O. w. Stewart. the prohibition
assemblyman of Chicago, will visit
$50 cities of the U. s. including all
the capitol cities, holding conferences
and mass meetings. Already $4,000
has been subscribed to finance this
campaign, one gentleman in Boston
giving his check for $4,000. Gov.
Haniey expects to raise from $4,000
to 100000 TO carry on this work un.
til the bill is passed and the amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States will be ratified. But the
duty of the church on the liquor ques-
ton Is writ In big letters. The church
must not fail to make itself felt and
heard in Congress. Every small coun-
try church. every Sunday school, every
Christian Endeavor must do its duty.
must count for all it is worth This
is q wonderful opportunity. We live
in a grand. telling age. Only the
apathy of the church or its failure to
do its duty as a whole can defect this
great life. this splendid chance of vic
tory. Whoever Hawaii may send as
its delegate to Congress. should be
sent so charged with the high voltage
of prohibition current that he will
make the sparks fly against the liquor
traffic when he gets there. Whatever
is accomplished through resolutions
Of churches, Sunday schools and
Christian Endeavor societies. or let
tiers to delegates, or by all these
means, the churches of Hawaii will
not have done their duty If they per-
NIT their delegates to leave the dock
without being tremendously and vi
tally impressed that the Christians
Of Hawaii are set heart and soul and
hands and feet for that amendment
and that II he fails to represent them
on that question and to voice their
desires strongly they will repudiate
him forever after: they will ostracize
him; they will execrate him; they
will burn him in effigy: they will tar
and feather him and ride him on q
rail: they will blot his name from the
book of their political remembrances
and bring him ten thousand miles deep
into oblivion. hope the churches
viii serve notice on the future dele
gate. before this meeting closes. that
they mean for him to do his duty in
Washington without any shifting or
trucking or half-heartedness. III.
When this amendment is passed.
what then? Is our duty done? No!
The fight against intemperance will
be only starting. Splendidly begun;
hopefully begun, but to educate and