The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-12
RODERIx .. MATHEsON. EDITOR
Covers the Ground
California there

makes out an excellent case why the saloon should
go and says a great deal as well in the advocacy
OF complete prohibition f. 3" .....2
THE drunkard, the moderate drinker and the
total abstaner will all admh that the frequent and
immoderate use of distilled liquor as beverage
is hurtful" says the Times "But when it comes
TO prescribing remedy for the evil they will not
agree. Nothing is more difficult than to persuade
men to adopt measures of which they do not ape
prove foe doing away with the drink evil There
are Christians who would refuse to accept free
ticket to the New Jerusalem because the line Of
travel not over their particular orthodox road.
ANY restriction on personal liberty of any kind
is vigorously opposed by some people Said one
obector the other day I liquor drink every
day get drunk occasionally too. spend my own
money, and myself suffer the headaches and the
pangs Of conscience which follow. So long as the
temperance people keep to moral suasion all right;
when they try to save my soul by talking to me,
all right; but when they attempt to take away my
liberty to take drink of whisky by taking away
the right of barkeeper to sell it to me, then
protest. We live in America, not in Turkey; in
the twentieth, not the twelfth century, and it is
my privilege to get boiling drunk at my own ex-
pense,' t.l,. al..".... ..t&#@.I
The answer to this plea is that man does not
get drunk at his own expense. He gets drunk at
Inc eNpcllSC VI Ills WllS ldHllly 'hS WIN
munty Any man who drinks to excess forces the
community to stand the expense to a greater or
less extent. A record of the cases brought before
the criminal court shows that eight out Of ten of
the defendants were habtually or occasionally in
temperate. The cost of jails poorhouses and in
same asylums is not borne by the saoonkeepers
or by the drunkards they make but by the tax
payers. These items swell the tax levy and thus
the taxpayer pays the cost OF mans carouse. / he
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city to do work, make bill which it would be
difficult for the saoonkeepers to pay and the bill
made out by mothers, wives and children for the
amount to pay for broken hearts and destroyed
homes would be difficult to meet
1.-THE idea that man can live alone is a mistake ;
y he belongs to church which admits Of no separa-
ZION; he is single track which must be run
on at such rate of speed that he will not collide
with others. We are drops in an ocean whose ev-
cry pulsing wave communicates from Labrador to
the Indies We are not alone and cannot live
A alone AS to saloon suppression taking away a
mans liberty it might as well be said that stat
ute against bigamy deprives him OF his liberty to
fresh supply of domestic felicity.
THE suppression of the saloon will decrease the
!. cost of government save homes from destruction
and men from themselves "..-
THE saloonkeepers claim that they are engaged
in legitimate traffic in which the law permitted
them to enter and IN winch III consequence OF TINS
permission they invested their capital The answer
is that the saloonkeepers knew there was anti
liquor agitation in the land, and that it liable
h to break out anywhere in favor of prohibition or
in favor of saloon suppression by local option.
Especially saloon suppression liable to come
where the women are voters and the man SO blind
as to invest his money in a gin mill deserves to
lose it for his stupidity.
1T is sometimes said by the allies Of the bar
keepers that to Danish saloons would tend to dis
courage the growth of cities. If this be true does
it not follow as a correlative proposition that to
increase the number of saloons would tend to in
duce the incoming of people and of capital? In
our advertisements of our city speak OF our
siyscrapers, industrial plants, great stores
our schools and our churches why not, if drinking
bars induce capital, speak Of our fine saloons and
boast OF the amount paid for licenses? If numer-
Gus saloons advantage why not say to
strangers Here, sir, is one OF Our finest gin mills
with rosewood bar. cut-glass fixtures, card room
upstairs a back door to the Temple of Venus in
the rear, and the police in cahoots with the pro-
prietorT
ct is true that with saloons abolished would
lose the income now derived from saloon licenses
hut we would also lose large portion of our outgc
for jails poorhouses, hospitals etc, filled by
which were caused by the saloon The experience
OF many other cities has shown that in every in
Stance the closing of saloons has been followed by
reduction in taxation and that the moral ozone o.
a city without saloons has been invgorated"
The new censorship law, included in the Trad
ing With the Enemy Act, gives the authorize!
control of the mail addressed to foreign ports ant
very necessary control this is Heretofore the
shadow Huns could gather information for the
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