The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-05-21
SURPRISING VICE.

may lOS commenting upon Jne evils
of gambling, says: AS nothing is
more alarming than the general tend
ency of The church in our day to
leave the reform of abuses to secular
agency, so nothing is more full of
hope than the disposition shown by
preachers of whom DR.. Parkhurst,
of New York, is noble type" etc.
The above brings forcibly to mind
the late escapade of DR.. Parkhurst
with regard to Mrs. Hattie Adams,
the wickedest woman in New York.
The following will show how much
sanctity and nobility of soul, rests
within the sacred atmosphere of the
Rev. Parkhurst:
"Morbid sensationalism feeds upon
sensations, and each excess breeds
new sensations. We have asked Mr..
Parkhurst and other preachers what
good they expected from their sensa-
tional preaching, and what we fore
told has come to pass-the great
modern newspapers have taken hold
of the details produced in the Park
hurst suits with great avidity, and
their columns are filled with filth
under the most disgusting displayed
headlines. We cannot republsh in
the South West what these papers,
which go to our homes and must fall
in the hands of our children, print,
but to give faint idea of, and to
support our earnest protest against
these publications, for which DR..
Parkhurst, the President of the So
ciety for the Suppression of Crime,
the great presbyterian preacher, is
directly and Immediately responsible.
We clip the following least objection.
able parts, simply asa suggestion of
the whole bulk of nastiness, from
one of our yesterdays morning
papers.
"The report relates how the explor-
ing party, made up of the Rev. DR..
Parkhurst, Mr.. Erving, Sunday
school teacher, and detective had
'bargained with the landlady for five
girls to do the can-can and the high
kicking, and stipulated also that they
were to divest themselves of all
clothes. The girls carried out the
arranged program to the letter.
The can can lasted about fifteen
minutes, and was supplemented by
other indecent gymnastic perform
ences. The Sunday school
teacher, Mr.. Ewing, corroborated
the testimony of the detective, and
when hard pressed to tell what part
he took in aid of the performances
said he danced twice around the
room with one of the naked girls.
The Rev. DR.. Parkhurst testified in
the same strain, and said he had wit
messed the can-can danced in its
most lacvious styles. He also
stated that he treated to beer at a
dollar bottle and drank two glasses
of the vile stuff.
''Now, we do not pretend to know
the exact measure of the efficacy of
prayer, or the sanctifyng effect of
church-going and revival meetings,
but presuming that all that the advo-
Gates of religious exercises of this
kind claim for them be true, will any
one of them be good enough to tell
US how much praying and exhorling
will be required to kill the germs OF
vice and depravity which the Rev.
Parkhurst and his society have man
aged to plant, through the news
papers and their own examples, in
the impressionable souls of the
young and growing generations.
Is there no law against this mode
Of promoting vice and immortality?
Will the Presbyterian church stand
by idly while DR.. Parkhurst
shows the yet uninitiated the way
to the dens OF all manner of vice,
and teaches them how to crafty,
in the most revolving fashion that
trained vice can suggest, the baser
animal passions which he awakes
where they lay dormant?"
The above stamps DIR. Parkhurst
as hypocrite, and an unprincipled
mountebank. He goes to the house
of Mrs. Adams, pays her the money
to start the circus, and taken a hand
in the show as one of the actors.
Also IN buying beer and drinking it
with the girls, and seemingly enjoy.
ing himself hugely. Then proves
himself mean enough to have the
woman prosecuted for the very crime
that he was the instgator of, and the
same performance in which he took
part. The unchristan methods of
DR.. Parkhurst not only cause a feel
ing of resentment and hate, but also
cause deeper plunge of the poor
unfortunates into the vortex of de-
pravity, despair, total RUIN and
finally death. S. S.