Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-09
The Duty Of the Hour
TEMPERANCE SERMON
By Or. John. w. Wadman

the bottle" If Ire had lived Uncle
Sam would not today be wearing q
white apron like Milwaukee brewer,
n St Louis distiller or 4 corpulent New
York schooner, selling liquid FIRE to
harlots and minors and habitual drunk.
ards. and otherwise manufacturing
physical. industrial, moral and politi-
cal incompetents Only by such a rad
ical change in our organic law as will
forever dissolve this premiership with
John Barleycorn will our political re-
demption from national crime and
outrage be secured, causing an atone
ment to be made for the blood money
which the unspeakable license system
has wrung from the bodies and souls
OF millions upon millions of our people
slain by this intolerable foe of the
ages ... -:-
Prohibition Does Not Prohibit.
The oft-repeated declaration by the
liquor men and their patrons and
friends to the effect that laws against
the manufacture and sale of intoxi-
eating drink cannot be enforced car
ries with Il on its face Gne of the, most
terrible indictments OF the traffic per
Sc. Such declaration on the part OF
the whisky ring" and others is equiv.
alent to saying that we have class
of criminals in the liquor trade who
intend to carry on a business In our
country law or no law. In other words,
il is a frank ayowal that II is law
defying traffic; that the business can
not be controlled by legislation. Here
then is the same old spirit OF fnsubor-
or rather Instruction, which
cropped out in George Washington,s
day and took $4,000 soldiers to Quell.
IL is the same old spirit which burst
forth in st. Louis in 1872 and spread
far and wide, stealing millions OF gov.
eminent money before II could be over
taken and punished. Yes. Il Is the
same old story. The liquor traffic II
criminal. 1t is the supreme foe OF
the state, the despoiler Of morals, the
Impoverished of industry, the corrupter
of politics, the underminer OF home
and school and church, civiIlzation,s
great moral triangle
The Duty Of the Hour. ~.
The question then Is not will prohI-
bition prohibit but will the government
by and of and for the people, assume
such an attitude upon this issuspnow
confronting it, involving its physical,
moral, Industrial and political destiny
as will forever settle the question and
wipe the traffic out OF existence. This
is the challenge of patriotism. We
cannot escape it. The armies OF
Europe have banished strong drink.
Are we less patriotic than the people
of Europe? Vodka has gone from Rus
STA. Absinthe has been outlawed IN
France. Opium is no longer allowed
in China. Is America to limp along
in the rear guard OF the march of
ages, still manufacturing, sellingeand
drinking that which mdermines her
national permanency, her industrial Of.
ficiency, her commercial prosperity?
No. No. Nothing shall now deter the
onward march Of our sons and daugh-
tiers whose sires in Lincoln's day. IN
obedience TO "suppliant freedoms CALI
marched as "embattled farmers forth
to war and fought until the shackIes
fell from millions of slaves, with like
devotion and heroism, / say, shall these
Sons and daughters Of the republic re-
spending to the challenge Of patriot
ism
Strike for the green graves OF our
sires
Strike for our affairs and our fires.
Strike till the last rum foe expires
For God and native land