Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-21
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE GAINED
MANY VICTORIES DURING YEAR

SoA Ciui1y pfcpdIcus udSc Dccu sent W
to the papers Of tie different lang
uages in use, week by week, for publ
cation with illustrative cuts and car
toons from time to time, the objec
being TO mold and strengthen publ,
opinion. No paper has closed its col
umns TO us In this regard. Freely
gladly do the editors and publisher
afford US valuable space in their hos
pitable periodicals, not so much fol
policy's sake on their part as 1t Ii
for downright intelligent principle
We have also published and sem
broadcast our own press paragraphs
500 each month, as well as many thou
sands of tracts, leaflets, booklets. graf
uitously received by the box-full from
national headquarters. Mrs. ]. M
Whitneyis The Temperance Question
in Hawaii has served splendid pur
pose, and Rev. C. @. Burnham's Cate
chism on Alcohol In both its English
and Hawaiian forms has answered a
felt need. These have been published
under our own auspices, Mr.. and Mrs
w. ID. Westervelt helping us bear the
expense of the one and the Maui Aid
generously contributing toward the
cost of the other.
along lines of local reform, silc-
cessful work in removing number
of saloons from the so-called public
market zone of Honolulu was done a
year ago, while more recently cam
paign was undertaken in order to ex-
pose the Illegal and immoral rela-
tons existing between the Brewery &
Mating Co. of this city and the retail
liquor traffic, the result being that
the light of publicity was let in upon
nefarious condition of things which
has long outraged public conscience
and defied the powers that be. This
startling expose will tend greatly to
develop public sentiment in favor of
prohibition, the coming of which is
rapidly FASTENED by the men them
selves engaged in the traffic whose
crooked business methods cannot
stand the light of day. One promin-
emit wholesale establishment lost its
license, a retail saloon was closed, its
proprietor and manager having COM
mitted perjury, another wholesale
place suspended for three months
while wholesome warnings were dealt
out to all engaged in the traffic. We
had a hard fight some time ago to
defeat the plans Of the Pleasanton
Hotel. situated opposite and in near
proximity to the Punahou schools, to
secure a liquor license permitting an
open bar. OF course, in all this the
league simply seeks to mark time.
make progress. abide its time and toll
patiently, strenuously. persistently
for the larger and ultimate victory
when the entire traffic win be over.
thrown and saloonism forever abolish
ed.
"The liquor boards of the different
islands comprising five commission
ers each, appointed by the governor,
are not naturally popular organiza-
tons. The work of these commission
ers is ardous. Their duties are diff
ficult. They serve without compensa-
ton. For the most part, they try to
do their best to enforce the law and
also are fairly faithful. Kauai has no
retail saloons. It's business is all done
by wholesale establishments and yet
blind piggery flourishes and crime
and misery. the results of drink,
abound
sMauis commissioners propose to
follow in due time Kauai's example In
doing away with saloons The Board
viii also consider at its next session
an anti-treating regulation, which, II
properly enforced, will tend to lessen
! great deal of drinking at the bar.
Hawaii, the Big Island, is also max
ing an advance through its board OF
control. Some very stringent ana
drastic regulations were recently Is
sued for the better control of the traf-
fic. while solicitation by agents IN
plantation camps and otherwise has
been forbidden
@Oahu's board pegs away as con-
sistently as possible, seeking TO inter
oret and enforce the law as fairly as
! board can and encouraging its hard.
and faithful inspector IN mis-
efforts to bring the lawless to account
ma stamp out the blind piggery which
he traffic is bound to create, and at
times encourage.
mo liquor law is good. No saloon
aas q right to exist No regulation
regulates. To prohibit the manufac-
ture. sale and use of intoxicating drink
win alone cure the evil and set our
.erritory free. saving us not only the
expense of the unnecessary traffic IT.
,eif. but also fully IS per cent OF the
.ost of caring for the crime, insanity
and poverty, the direct or indirect re-
suits of the same.
TEMPERANCE SUNDAY.
I'm November last temperance Sun
iay' was observed in churches, Sun
Law schools and young peoples socie-
les throughout the islands, all follow
NJ a suitable program OF exercises.
presenting the pledge for signature
md taking a free-wiil offering IN ala
,f the league. The same plan viii be
oIlowed this year.
..Press dispatches state that July
4 900 delegates attended the monster
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