Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-07
Plan STATEWIDE
FIGHTS AGAINST
LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Temperance Forces Prepare to
Begin Work of New Fiscal
Year With Renewed Wgor


Plans are being made for several
statewide campaigns on the mainland
during the coming months. The press
has made the following announce
ments:
MITCHELL s. D.. July 25.-"Ar.
rangements are being made for the
greatest gathering of temperance
forces ever known in this state to be
held at Mitchell, September s and 8.
At that time a campaign for state
wide prohibition viii be formally
launched.
Plans are in the making to have
some OF the leading speakers of the
nation here, also notable men of
South Dakota, and the program will
be announced soon. One thousand
delegates are expected, not including
those attending from Mitchell. The
meetings VIII be held In the Mitchell
Corn Palace, the largest auditorium
In the state, seating 5000 persons.
Montana for Prohibition.
Twelve months ago Montana was
considered the wettest state In the
Union. Today several are wetter.
Then, everybody thought that II would
be one of the very last states to go
for prohibition Now, anyone who is
at all familiar with conditions Ia the
Treasure state believes that 1916 win
see a dry law on her statute books.
On June 26. In Helena. great pa
rade was held. II was headed by q
platoon of Helena police which had
as a rear-guard one Of the city's Off
cial water wagons. Then came mag
nifceht military band, and this was
followed BY the various sections Of the
parade representing the numerous
good citizenship organizations of the
state. Fully 10000 people, probably
more, stood On the streets and
watched the BIG, well ordered parade
go By.
All saioons Closed.
BAYONNE, N. J., July 23.--As a re-
suit OF the Standard oil strike-riots
going on here, Sheriff Eugene Kin
kead has ordered all the saloons Of
Bayonne closed. No such order was
given the groceries, hat stores and
meat markets
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July 49,
Liquor men in the village Of Chester
ton. near Laporte, we're given severe
Jolt yesterday. A week or more ago
an attempt was made to burn the
Methodist Church at Chesterton. The
-rumor Immediately spread that the in
cendiary attempt was the work of
wet syrnpathizers. Immediately the
liquor men proclaimed their fnno-
cence and with a blowing of trumpets
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arrest of the guilty person. Yester-
day George Gulstrom surrendered him
self and confessed to the authorities
that he set IRE to the church while
intoxicated. He then demanded that
the saloonkeepers pay him the offered
reward.
BREWERS JOURNAL, June 3d.
During the first three months of the
fiscal year Of 1914-15 the beer produc-
ton has decreased more than 3,000,-
900 barrels, declares the Brewers
Journal Of June.
EDMONTON, Alberta, July 25.-Al-
berta, Canada's faiFest province, is the
first In the Dominion 10 adopt provin-
cial prohibition Il did 50. by an enor-
nous avalanche of votes, burying the
liquor traffic so deeply down that no
resurrection is possible. The "drys"
polled 46.957 votes and the "wets" 27.-
752. The cities of Calgary, Edmon-
ton, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge all
gave dry majorities.
Medical Profession.
The remarkable change In the atti-
tude of the medical profession toward
the use of alcohol In the treatment of
disease is shown by the records of
the Cincinnati hospital, an institution
among the greatest of its class In the
world and located in one of the whis-
ky centers of the United States. For
the year 1914 only seven pints of In.
toxicants were used for its patients
for the entire IL months.
DR. HARVEY w. WILEY: 'If DIR.
Sigismund Goldwater should succeed
in banishing only adulterated aIco--
holic beverages from the city of New
( York, he would eliminate at least rs
per cent of all the whisky, beer and
gin sold there, in addition to giving
great impetus to the cause of temper
ance and prohibition"
This was the statement made to
reporter Of New York paper by Dr.
Harvey w. Wiley, pure food expert
and former guardian of the national
digestion, in discussing the campaign
against alcohol recently inaugurated
by DR.. Sigismund Goldwater, health
commissioner of New York City.
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