The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-02-04
HELEN COUGAR WILL NOT TRY
TO SAVE US.
Says Her Treatment by a Certain
Sensational Paper has been cry Dis
courteous-Stin Roasts Murphy.

Mrs. Helen Cougar has no apology
to make. She says so and during the
course of this statement she further
declared herself regarding Francis
Murphy He is traitor to the cause
of temperance she asserts and he
has done much to retard the prohibit
ton movement. Moreover he has OPEN
~ worked in the interests of the sa-
loon. As far as Honolulu is concerned
Mrs Cougar says it will have to worry
along without her help She had even
deired to form a society here for the
purpose of handling the social evil but
the town must now do the best it can.
Il consider said Mrs. Cougar this
morning, that | have not met with
papers here. But | suppose the occu-
patton Of issuing a sensational news
paper here without the aid of cable is
very great so they sieze every little
opportunity for making senation.
have been misquoted by that paper but
If | have afforded them any material
l should not of course feel any regret
Certainly, after | leave be- shall not deigr
to take any notice of my treatment
here, as | do not consider the paper
CT sufficient importance. | would like
to have taken up the social evil ques
tior. In my own city which is a place
about the size of this we have organ
AEtb Il SbtltlN Nnltn ndluleS TINS mat
ter bus in view of the treatment which
l have received here ! will do nothing
in Honolulu.
II have nothing to apologize for and
| will repeat what ! have said regard
ing Francis Murphy. When | say that
he is a traitor to the cause of temper
anCe | know whereof | speak. His in
huence is entirely gone in the states.
| will cite one instance of the work
that no docs Francis Mt1rnhN
ced from one of the churches i'm Gin
cinnati that he would visit the dance
hall saloon across the Rhine the follow
ing night. A large crowd was present
at the resort the next night as he had
been given permission by the saloon
keeper to speak the proprietor evident
~ thinking that big crowd would be
drawn.
About 9 o'clock Murphy was intro
duced and after going through his
usual monkey shines, dancing and run
ming about, he succeeded i'm getting the
crowd which was about half seas over,
to believing that he was the best fell
low in the world. He tried to get them
to sign the pledge but failed and then
he announced he would take up a
collection. The crowd literally threw
the money at him. He went STOPPING
and bending over picking up the money
until he had his plug hat nearly fun of
dollars and change. Then the proprte-
tor got angry and literally showed him
from the place because Murphy had
gotten so much money from the pat
rons Of the resort. All that Murphy
went there for was to get a collection
and without exception, the papers the
next day handled him without gloves.
Mrs. Cougar also told how Murphy
she claimed had allied himself with the
saloon element in Omaha, Nebraska
when the preachers and w. c. II. L
women who had gone to the polls to try
and induce the people to vote for pro-
hibition, had been mObbed by the heel
ers of the saloon interests.
Regarding her statement that she
represented a syndicate of eastern pa
pers and magazines, Mrs. Cougar said
that she was not regularly in the en-
ploy Of any publication but was merely
contributor and a free lance. She
wrote when she chose she said
Mrs. Cougar and her husband attend
ed the impanelling of the grand jury
i'm Judge Humphreys court this morn
ing. They will go TO Hilo tomorrow
and after touring the islands they eX-
pect to go to New Zealand and perhaps
Australia. Mrs. Cougar says she may
write a souvenir pamphlet for her
friends, of her trip to the islands of the
Pacific.