The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-02
MRS. COUGARS IDEAS.

| Mrs. Helen Cougar said: while am
always in favor of any conscientious eff
fort which is being made against in
Temperance 1 can consistently say that
am not in favor of Mr.. Murphys plan.
Francis Murphy is not an honest man;
he is a mountebank and a hireling of
the whisky league. He is In for the side
of the question that has the most money
| in it, every time. l say this without
Ihesitancy, because I know it to be true
from my own dreadful experiences with
him and his plan of work. He has been
a great hndrance to temperance work
in the States, but his day is about over
there.
.'The people have come to know and
distrust him, and they have made it i'm
possible for him to appear there in pub
lie. He can only speak to the rabble,
and probably of these he would hardly
get a fair gathering in some places. /
have plenty of facts to base these
statements upon and did l care to take
the time 1 could tell many things that
would disgust the public with Francis
Murphy He is held in contempt by the
prominent workers of temperance be-
cause of his traitorous conduct. Many
times he has defeated revolutionary
measures in Nebraska and Kansas and
in other States by working in the pay
of the saloon league men.
| II know this. 1 was practically at the
head of the Prohibition party in one Of
these States, and several times when we
had labored and had an amendment
about to be passed, with public sentiment
and everything working properly, Fran
els Murphy has spoiled 1t all. When the
saloon league men saw they were In
danger they would send for Murphy and
put him to work talking about prohibi-
ton and saying that 1T was not needed
or wanted, and he would speak night
and day, breaking down our work ana
defeating our legislation. Any man who
could do that is no friend of temper
lance and Is q traitor Also, any man
who would do that must have motive,
and that motive would be, obviously,
money and the money of the whisky
league l have heard Mr.. Murphy speak
about three times. / would not go to
hear him again, because L could not en-
dure his monkey-shines in the pulpit.
Temperance work certainly is serious
lenough to call for some dignity, and
Mr.. Murphy not only lacks dignity, but
his actions in the pulpit are sacrilegious
in the extreme, and absurdly ridiculous.
He has no logic and advances no line
of thought He dances about upon the
niatform in a silly and senseless manner
and without any purpose whatever, ex-
cept 1t be that he is playing to the gal
llerv gods On one occasion / went with
INV brother and friend to hear him
and he didn't know we we're there. He
did not make a success of his sermon
that night and could get no one to sigr
the pledge 1t was election day and he
had a fairly large audience. He tried
hard but didn't get any one to sign
Then he came down into the audience
and asked people to sign. He shook
hands with my brother and asked him
to sign the pledge and then asked my
Young lady friend to use her influence
to get him to sign. My brother made
no reply. and Mr.. Murphy reached
across and took my hand. Won't you
sign, sister?' he asked without looking
up.
1T waited a minute; then I said. Fran