The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-13
MURPHY CLUB ROW
BRINGS OUT SENSATION
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dication" speech upon Saturday night
when the club is to give an entertain.
ment One of the directors stated thar
he himself had overheard Mr.. Austin
saying so, while conversing with a
| third person during the afternoon.
| This caused great CONSERVATION
among the directors. They drew the
conclusion that Austin, not being sure
! of an audience at his 'vindication,'
when billed as such, would take ad-
vantage of their entertainment, wher
| a crowd would be assured. They were
| all averse to having Austin present
| Mr. Murphy himself not liking AUS
tins plan, but they were at loss as
| to how they could prevent 1t. The
| trouble was that Mr.. Austin Is as We,
| the president of the club. One sugges-
| ton, that Mr.. Austin be requested .tc
| resign Immediately, sorely tempted the
directors, but they decided not to d.
| so before Mr.. Austin had handed over
| his statements, and before all the re-
quests which the club directors have
| laid before the trustees had been act
ed upon. At last they decided that il
Mr.. Austin came and wanted to speak
they would put his speech last on the
program Then, when ne started, they
would leave the hall and let everybody
else present be at liberty to do so.
EVENING MEETING.
At about o'clock last night we'll
attended and exceedingly successful
experience meeting was held at the
Murphy club. First a few hymns were
sung, whereupon Mr. Murphy read q
scripture lesson and commented upon
| 1t. He then made speech with his
usual text of love towards ones fellow
man.
He compared the weak sinful man to
la ship, which drifts without rudder
before the wind; man who has lost
control of himself Is like the ship which
has hoisted a signal of distress. Some
body with love and charity towards
mankind must step in and help. He
then showed how the pernicious evil of
drink appears not only in the drunkard
who is the head of family, but still
more in his children. It's just as when
you have injured tree, the damage
shows itself, not so much in the trunk,
but the tender leaves and the flowers
are the first to show the injury. When
a man drinks, it Is just shown in the
children, who have bad clothing, bad
food and often have to wear papa :
old trousers" LOOK at the man." said
Mr. Murphy. who will stand at a bar
down his own and other mems throats.
And not only that--not only the food
and clothing, that the children miss,
but look at the man, who spends his
money in intoxicating liquor, while his
children need an education. All of us
here who have not had much chance OF
an education in our childhood, know
how much it is worth. l would lack
butter on my bread and sugar in my
tea, rather than 1 would have my chill
dren starve for an education. That Is
the reason why I want people to come to
tits hall. where they and their families
can have q good time for very little
money, so that money can be saved to
benefit the wives and children. That's
why am working here, travelling
around all over America. I want to get
the American workingman to quit the
saloons and to spend his money for the
good of his family And the good work
has succeeded; during all Labor Day
didn't see a single drunken man in this
city, and I hear that Labor Day passed
IN a very orderly manner in San Fran
cisco That's where the good work
shows, and with the help of God, every
American laborer will give up drinking
intoxicating liquor. And If they don't
do it in one day, they'll do it in two.
God bless them! That's just like the
cosintryman of mine, who came to
America and he was SO satisfied with
the new country that he wrote back to
friend of his in Ireland: YOU'D better
raise little cash and come over right
away and If you can't come in one ship,
come in two -
L tell you, giving up liquor is going
to do the workingman a lot of good.
Here there are some fellows kicking
about wages, and If they want to they
can save from SO cents to So a day by
letting whiskey alone. 1 am working
man myself. i used 20 work for fifty
cents a day chopping cord wood Not
many OF you would do that, would you?
And now I'm working, too. I am go-
ing from one place to another, and when
see poor, broken down man, I go TO
him and tell him to let go of his liquor,
and be man and be happy. And he'll
cry to me that's too late. and to let him.
go, but I say, Never God isn't dead;
He can help you And many. a man
has done himself and his family the
greatest good on the day when he stop
ped being a slave of intoxicating LIQUOR
And God bless you ALL"
After Mr.. Murphy's speech, several
other speakers followed, making short
addresses Especially beautiful was a
short speech by Mrs. Austin, the mother
of Franklin Austin. The infinite tact
and simple pathos with which Mrs. Aus
tin alluded to recent affairs of the club
went right to the heart of every one of
ner hearers. OF other speakers there
We're Mr.. Sabate, Mr.. Trumbun Mr..
Moves, and many more.
The talent of Mr.. Agulnaldo Smith was
Immediately recognized by the leaders of
the club. and he favored the assembly
with speech. which unfortunately was
very short He alluded to the time when
ne had aided Mr.. Murphy in starting his
temperance movement, and spoke feel
ingly OF his sympathy with the cause,
Mr.. Smith has lately been studying In
the States, and has limited that he NAV
devote his manifold talents to aiding the
temperance cause through its present
troubles.
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