The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-31
.GE|L IS A
FALS|F|ER
Sensational Yarn
OF a StroIling
Preacher.
GLIB LIES ABOUT
SITUATION HERE
A Man Who Plays Fast and Loose
With Hawaiian Facts
and Figures.

Among the shady characters who
now and then get an entree To Honolu-
la pulpits under the guise OF temper
ance evangelists and the like. Edgar
Cell has been. next To the famous Ham
mo1d. one OF the most conspicuous
Shortly after Cell left here certain
American papers began TO TEEN with
correspondence containing foul asper-
sions Of Hawaii and it's people. Cell
was suspected OF being the author: and
though no proof could be had. citizens
who will read the following report OF
one Of mis- addresses I'm Manila, must
feel that he is not above such business:
Two years before / started out on
this trip no man could have known
that the most persistent and malignant
attack on missions ever made in the
United States would be begun within
thirty days OF the time / should set
out on my tour OF the world TO make
an Independent study of missions Ny
first visit was to the Hawaiian Islands.
which we have taken possession OF.
But we have not taken all the old
families When a number OF the citi-
zens there desired to start an opposi-
ton newspaper they had TO send TO the
United States for Arizona cowboy I
to edit IL. When he arrived he had a 0
pistol In each boot leg. and in his first /
issue he proceeded to light into one of ,
the old families. The next day a rep
rescntative of that particular old fam !
lily called on him for an explanation,
and he desired to infiict personal in
jury on the editor when the editor
pulled one OF the pistols from his boot
leg and supplied the mans head with
ventilator. GaughterJ
The white man can civiliZe the trop-
he ha IN 10 q vii
tilators. But 1 tell you that IL the
United States cannot rule an archi-
pelago better than IL is ruling the Ha-
waiian Islands II had better go out OF
business. In the city OF Honolulu is
the blacklist blot that have found I'M
der the most splendid flag that floats
to any breeze. In one portion OF the
city are five buildings that are called
the stockade. but call them the stock
yard. These five buildings are divided
into rooms and there were in these
rooms. according to the reports of the
United States Secret Service Bureau.
720 girls from ten years up. Those
gates were opened 800. 0c0 times in one
year. These buildings are opened by
men that call themselves Americans,
but tell you that no man has a right
to call himself a representative Amer
lean who conducts that kind of a bus {
mess, any more than that man who ,
at the opening OF the new bridge the /
other day had the right to tear down
an American flag and use IL to de-
stroy the banner of little boy who
was a part of that procession by au- I
thority of the highest power in this 9
that sight made my blood /
boil and / wanted to break through :
that crowd OF people and infiict just '
on the insignificant scoun- 1
ireI who would so abuse the power he S
possessed and desecrate the flag Of the a
which has promised to do so I
much for this people i am an Ameri- h
AN from the top Of my head to the
Ioles of my feet. but / deny the true T
americanism OF the man who would X
Itoop TO thus wound a native boy. d
Applause.) a
Those men in Honolulu made $4,000 $
lear profit in one year out OF that II
len of infamy. The last thing upon ID
nv leaving Honolulu was a delegation
skiing me not to advertise this dis Il
race for the sake OF the business in {,
erests OF the Hawaiian Islands. Now L
-ou will understand under what ex- v
RENE difficulty missionary work has b
o be carried on in those Islands Il
ew years ago under a policy OF mis- 81
AIKEN economy. the missionary boards 81
rfthdrew their missionaries. leaving ri
he people without the aid OF these 81
God Influences and entirely at the 10
lercy OF such evils as has been de- HI
rrfbed Very few realize that from h;
Ioiatry the Sandwich Islands have
! less than fifty years from the time II
le missionaries begun their work Sc hi
1red a church membership OF 100000. III
In our five islands OF the Samoan al
r0up the natives are wonderfully CT
leased with the American rule. They in
art to stay under our flag forever. fr
IN tell YOU what has happened in
merfcan Samoa. The natives have
uilt n school house costing $4,000. II
as all been paid for by natives. One q,
land in the group with an annual in
,me of Sc 600 has given s.. 900 for phil