The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-18
HOW HAS FRANCIS MURPHY
AFFECTED IT?
The Temperance Crusade as Seen From
The Point of View of the Liquor
Men.

The saloon men of Honolulu do not
credit Francis Murphy with having
caused any reduction in their receipts,
They are a unit in giving him credit
for good work in the cause of tempe
rance and some of them speak of him
in quite as friendly terms as are his re-
ferences to saloonkeepers. Their views
of the subject show how the great tenn
peranCe orators work looks from the
other point of view" and it is evident
that it seems to look very different to
Mr.. Murphys vision
The saloon business in Honolulu is
dull just now. All who are interested
agree on that but none of them say
that the temperance orators work has
anything to do with it. 1t is New
Years resolutions, the natural dullness
of all kinds of business that follows the
holidays, financial depression and other
causes,-but not Murphy. The saloon
men have an idea that he skins the
surface of the question of using liquor,
drags into his net two classes.-the
people who do not drink at all and
need not take any pledge, and the peo-
pie who have done so much drinking
that saloonkeepers do not want them,-
leaving unaffected the great majority,
who do their moderate share of imbib-
ing, and whose patronage really fills
tn cash registers behind the bars.
e. S. Cunha of the Union thought
that Murphy was doing good work,
from two points of view. He said that
business had not been affected by the
crusade, and was inclined to be faceti-
Gus about the pledge business. I'VE
shall be glad" said Sunha, "if Mr. Muir
! ply will get some more pledge e-signers
like those he is getting. They take too
big drinks and some of them do not pay
for what they get The big drinkers
are bad both for them and the whiskey
/ -a1l hot hn -rNff fe
! for both sides" Mr.. Cunha thought
, that orator Murphy did much good,
among a class of people who needed
his assistance to prevent them from GO
! ing to an extreme.
Mr.. Trevenon of the Royal Annex
] said that the saloon business was quiet
| just now but he did not think that Mr.
Murphy's evening talks had anything
to do with it. 1t was the New Years
resolutions, which, falling one by one
had not all fallen yet, and so the trade
| in drinks was not as heavy as it has
! been recently. 1t was not worse, how
! ever, than might have been expected
after the holidays.
Colonel c. j. Mccarthy of the Critic
| rion was warm in his praise of Muir
phys work, as of real service to huma-
nifty THE business is not good just
now," said Mccarthy, but is it not
bad in comparison with this time last
|
| Murphy is concerned / think ii is very
| good. The class of people who sign Mr.
/ Murphy's pledges, of course
those who have never done drinking
enough to make them need a pledge al
| all,-are customers the saloons do not
want. They are men who do not know
how to drink reasonably, who are a
nuisance in the saloons and who hurt
saloons with the general public, by
! their actions.
"Since Mr.. Murphy began his work
/ here, we have had less morning appli.
cations for free drinks than before
There is a class of drinkers who drink
more than they can stand or pay fol
at night and then come in the morning
for free drink to help them to wake
up. This sort of trade has fallen off
and we are very glad to get rid of it,
would hS willing to give 800 to Mr.
| Murphy's expenses here If he would gel
all there are of that class in the city tC
swear off They might then pay theil
saloon bills
Larry Dee, of the Hoffman saloor
wanted the temperance work kept up
Like Mccarthy, he was of the opinion
that agitations relieved the saloons o
the men whom the saloons do not wan
for customers. Mr. Murphy is a grea
help" said Mr.. Dee, "to those who
cannot help themselves and who neeC
him. l notice many of the beats are
missing nowadays and Mr.. Murphy ha.
done great good in straighten ng ou
some people who really needed some
one to get hold of them and make then
see the condition they were in and how
they needed to stop l would like t
have a talk with Mr.. Murphy about tn,
saloon and liquor business and nigh
be able to give him some points," Mr
Dee added a somewhat sarcastic re
mark to his commentator of the tenn
perance mans work. "If it wasn't TO
me and the likes of me-" he said "ther
would be no work for men like MI
Murphy"
Mr.. Dee said his daily receipts wer
up to the expectations for this time o
the year, and that he did not look 70
any falling off by reason of the presen
agitation.
In most of the cheaper saloons 1t /
stated that the temperance agitation
has had no effect as yet. These place
rely largely upon water front trad
and the patronage of other classes VIII,
are not easily reached by such meeting
as those being held in the Centra
Union church.
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