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

against temperance measures, and I say
again he is a mountebank He is ridicu-
lous, undignified and sacrilegious in the
pulpit, and certainly do not admire
him in the least. He has been practical
ly ousted from several of the cities in
the States, because sensible, self-re-
spectingy people would not endure him,
and he could at best get the rabble to
talk to. When it became SO apparent
that he was in the hire of the whisky
league his Influence was gone and he
was held in contempt everywhere. 1 am
thoroughly acquainted with Francis
Murphy's history and the history of his
work from it's beginning. and / know
what am talking about. If 1 thought
him an honest man l might excuse his
bad judgment; but / know him to be
dishonest, and I have no use for him
in the world and no patience with his
monkey-shines.
Il do net mean to take a pessimist' s
view of affairs, but when l see the havoc
caused by the sale OF liquor 1 some
times almost despair. I hear that Mr..
Murphy was accorded a great reception
by a certain class of the people of this
City and did not give satisfaction to the
representatives of the churches. That
is no more than I expected No, 1 do
not admire Mr.. Murphy. That is great
work that Mrs. Nation is doing in Kan
sas. 1t is wonder to me that there
are not thousands of Mrs. Nations in
stead of only one.'
REV. E. a. CORY TALKS.
Rev. E. A. Cory said: Comparisons
are always odious. 1t would be very diff
fcult to compare Mr.. Murphy's work
with the work of other temperance peo-
pie who are laboring along other lines.
Mr.. Murphy does not aim to be third
party prohibitionist, an anti-saloon
league man or Women'S Christian Tenn
perance Union man; he is simply a gos-
pei temperance worker. AS such he is
a success. 1t cannot certainly be said
that he has failed when thousands of
men have been redeemed for Christ in
the church under his preaching These
statements are given in answr to the
question as to my opinion in regard to
Mr.. Murphy's work in comparison with
others. 1 repeat again that 1 feel that
is is not altogether just to compare his
work with that of others, for he works
along independent line for gospel
temperance, a separate and different
work than those which have a political
aim
SECRETARY COLEMAN WRITES.
H. E. Coleman, secretary of the Young
Mems Christian Association, wrote: Il
am thoroughly in sympathy with gospel
temperance work and believe that
great good has been done in our City by
its apostle. Francis Murphy. l think it
hard to get along without saloons where
large majority of the people drink,
but that no saloons is the natural re-
suit of strong sentiment against it's use
and SALE
MISS AcKEEMAN WRITES.
Miss Aekerman wrote the following:
by careful investigation of police rec
ords, l find that while our esteemed
friend Francis Murphy was inducing
men to sign the pledge that more ar
rests for drunkenness were made than
in any previous period for some years,
and a visit to all the saloons of the City
revealed the fact that they were still
full of men who could not be reached in
the church or by any other moral force.
''1t is my conviction, from what I have
seen of the saloons and in the saloons
of this City, that drunkenness will new
er permanently decrease so long as the
long as the saloon has the right given
them by law to make men drunk, just
so long men will reel through these
streets.
I'm an asylum for lunatics it was the
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