Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 319, 9 November 1891 — A New Temperance League. [ARTICLE]

A New Temperance League.

\V o are pleased annoinu-e tlie f;ī iii:ttion of a Tem pei aue I .eairue. lioiiohiiu, whieli ue liope wii! it- inllueneo tbr goo<t i«» everv nook »nd i>>n#tr <v: lhis i»ighiy iavored' gronp 'i" is!ai.ids.- lu ]hakir£ this .uiao:?/iee!r< 4 ii' w-? do i>ot \v»aih it und'rsrood, a* wa.« >.iid *t ihe inaugtiral iiiectin«r, wiili ihe •uenpor:try ' hnimian of tho meet*iii£, Mr ( * anh-, last Satur'iay ( evening, thnt tiie oreseDt orwa* the i)i>t of the kind ;n the eouuti*, ;r w.'s fnieiidevi to anv refleotion o?i the work of any exiptin« tempei>})}ev ;o>titutiorii but on the contrar3 T , ; he forMalion of ihe preH«ut wa? piuuipUHi with !he vit\v to eo-oi»er-/.iur with tho Mitiriu«* aiul k»Ting k undertaken !\v et!iers in the juse of temp€r;UKe in Hawaiī. and eweialU' U* sopi\!em« v n' ih*t

Ten to fiftoen minute addresses were made by Rev. 01sen, Mrs. Whitney, MissVM. (ireen. and Mr. B. Hogan. The tenor of these ad>lresses wasan appeai in favor of the evstablishment of the League. in view of the rank growth of the evil in the community, and the increasing danger in whieh the young were particularly placed in, as thev heeame detached from their ieaeh rs and from paternal infiu ences.