Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 4, 13 November 1901 — Page 2
2 HOME RULE REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1901.
The Black List of Intemperance
Intemperance cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength, and age in its weakness. It breaks the father's heart, bereaves the doting mother, extinguishes natural affections, erases conjugal love, blots out filial attachments, blasts parental hopes, and brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; sickness, not health; death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends—and all of them paupers and beggars. It feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites cholera, imparts pestilence and embraces consumption. It covers the land with idleness, misery and crime. It fills the jails and almshouses and demands asylums. It engenders controversies, fosters quarrels and cherishes riots. It crowds the penitentiaries and furnishes victims to the scaffolds. It is the life-blood of the gambler, the element of the burglar, the prop of the highwayman, and the support of the midnight incendiary. It countenances the liar, respects the thief, esteems the blasphemer. It violates obligations, reverences fraud, honors infamy. It defames benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue and slanders innocence. It incites the father to butcher his helpless offspring, helps the husband to massacre his wife, and the child to grint the paracidal axe. It burns up men, consumes women, detests life; curses God and despises heaven. It suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, defiles the jury box and stains the judicial ermine. It degrades the citizen, debases the legislature, dishonors the statesman and disarms the patriot. It brings shame, not honor; terror, not safety; despair, not hope; misery, not happiness; and with the malevolence of a fiend it calmly surveys the frightful desolation—and, unsatisfied with its havoc, it poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, blights confidence, slays reputation, and wipes out national honor; then curses the world and laughs at its ruin. It does all that, and more—it murders the soul. It is the sum of all villainies, the father of all crimes, the mother of all ahominations, the devil's best friend and God's (and man's) worst enemy.—Anon.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the utterances of our correspondents.—ED.]
A Reply to J. W. Bipikane.
Editor Home Rule Republican:—Seeing a notice in a communication signed by J. W. Bipikane in your issue of the 9th inst., warning the public from giving any aid to the Hoomana Naauao Church, of Pauwela, if solicited by the undersigned, as I was unauthorized to do so, and stating also that I was dismissed from the pastorate of said church at Pauwela, Maui, I would like to state that I was duly authorized to do so, and all subscriptions are accounted to the church, over which I still preside, and the donors' names will be duly published when our debt has been fully paid.
REV. J. E. KEKIPI.
[We would caution the public to go slow in their contributions to charitable organizations or churches, lest it prove to be "pearls before swine."—Ed.]
All those who wish to secure copies of farmers' bulletins and the Agricultural Department's Year Book, will have the same forwarded to them by addressing or calling at this office. They are being distributed free of charge.
NOTICE.
ALL the Members of the Executive Committee and of the Home Rule Republican Party are requested to be present at the regular meeting on Thursday evening. Delegate Wilcox will address the meeting, before he leaves for Washington.
PACIFIC HEIGHTS.
Few cities in the world can boast of as many scenic attractions in the same area as Honolulu. Waikiki, Diamond Head and Kapiolani Park are but an hour from the center of town. Moanalua's magnificent landscape gardening is about the same distance. The world-renowned Nuuanu Pali is but an hour and a half from the harbor over a most attractive and excellent macadamized road.
The less accessible places, such as the head of Pauoa Valley and Pearl harbor, present sights well worth the trip, but the easiest, most comfortable and quickest way to see them all is to take a Pacific Heights electric car at the end of the Nuuanu tramway. It is safe to say that five cents never was able to give pleasure in the Hawaiian Islands as a nickel spent in a ride up to where Desky's powerful naval searchlight attracts attention of all the residents of the city.
By day or night the trip is equally delightful and the view excellent. Both day and night the cars are filled with those who want the benefit of the higher altitudes and purer atmosphere. The ravine between Nuuanu street and the foot of the heights is a revelation. The winding roadway up the heights proper is full of surprises. But the climax is reached when the car stops at the quaint Japanese teahouse at the upper end of the line. Here all kinds of temperance refreshments are served. By an easy footpath still further heights are accessible. From this point, Pearl Harbor spreads out as a map. Diamond Head cuts the sky on one side and Punchbowl's dishy slopes lie many feet below. In the other direction the incomparable coloring of the sky where they meet the peaks of the mountains at the head of Pauoa Valley and Nuuanu Valley make a picture no painter has ever been able to accurately reproduce.
A residence on such a spot is an incomparable boon to any city, and to tropical Honolulu it is almost the "seventh heaven" in the Paradise of the Pacific.
COTTAGE on Emma Place; centrally located. Enquire of Dr. Alvarez, 1240 Emma street.
For Sale
ONE IMPROVED HOPUSE LOT, on Prospect street, on Punchbowl slopes, commanding a fine view of the sea and surrounding country; fine drainage and healthy location; water on premises. Terms: Half cash, balance on mortgage.
Title Clear.
Mrs. R. W. Wilcox
Walters, Waldron Co., Ltd.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Queen St.
N. FERNANDEZ
NOTARY PUBLIC
TYPEWRITER, ETC.
Office: 208 Merchant St., Campbell Block
Rear of J. O. Carter's Office
Tel. Blue 751 P. O. Box 194
P. O. Box 992 TEL. WHITE 811
KWONG YUEN HING CO.
Importers and Dealers in
Chinese Silks, Handkerchiefs,
Grass Cloth, Matting,
Fine Teas, Manila Cigars,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
922 NUUANU STREET, AND 16 HOTEL STREET,
Honolulu.
Tel. No. 53 P. O. Box No. 222
KING ST., NEAR O. R. & L. CO., DEPOT
OAHU LUMBER & BUILDING CO.
LUMBER MERCHANTS
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS
Importers and Dealers In
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Paint, Oil and Builders' Hardware
Grand
OPENING
CAMARINOS'
Gambrinus Saloon
Alakea St., near King
Everything
Very Touching
Beautiful garden scene contains coffee trees in full bearing, bananas and pineapples, all inside.
EVERYBODY INVITED
For Sale
A BEAUTIFUL suburban residence, with fine, large dwelling and outhouses, barns etc.; fruit trees and ornamental plants; area about 2 1-4 acres; for sale cheap. Inquire of
Mrs. R. W. Wilcox
Title Clear.