The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1910-10-22
Kepoikai and
the Catholics
IN One Hand He Carries An Olive
Branch, In the Other a Club.

When the Independent candi-
dates w. j. Coelho and A. n.
Kepoikai held meeting on the
premises of the Catholic church at
Puuiki, Hama, they told the people
who had assembled there they loved
Catholics and had profound
respect for the teachings and teach
ers of that religion. Of course they
were looking for Catholic votes
hence the sudden love for the faith
put forth to mislead the simple
country folks at Puiliki, Hama.
Kep ,ikai said his mother was
true Catholic, that he had been
educated partly by Catholics and
therefore love the Catholics, This
he said when he was looking for
votes from Catholics, and that was
the front he presented for them to
look at. Turn him around and
look behind him and you will find
a man going out of his way to make
a few scornful remarks at the res
pected teachers and leaders of the
holy Catholic church.
In the suit brought before Judge
Kingsbury by Annie Mulvany,
guardian for Mary Silva, versus
Mary Dunn ct ais to set aside GER
tain conveyances involving property
valued at $75, 900, with a big fee in
it for Kepoikai and his partner,
this is what Kepoikai said Of the
Catholic teachers of the faith whom
he professed to love while at Puuiki,
Hama.
1.-The disposition of Mary Silva's
property is the direct act of Father
Maximin. He thought for her. and
directed the entire conduct of this
old woman, as completely as if she
was "A mere machine, insensible to
reason or judgment. To this decrep-
| it, blind woman, who had lived S6
years or more, struggling against
the vicissitudes of life, he was the
Vice Regent of Christ. Her faith,
that she nursed from her mothers
breast, was confirmed at the Altar
of the Church, and consecrated
over and over again at Holy Com
munion, led her as a devout Cath
olic to regard the will of the priest
as the will of God; to disobey him
was to imperil her soul; to her mind
he had the power to bind or loosen
here, and hereafter. No one better
understands this than these defend
ants, nor was Mrs. Mulvany, bright
as she is, immune from his inhu,
ence. We quote few questions
and answers to illustrate.
| Mrs. Mulvany on, the stand was
examined in part as follows:
@. You say Father. Maximir
asked you to come outside, what
did he say to you?
A. He simply told me he want
ed me to come outside; had moth
ing to say about it; he told me tt
stay outside, and | wish now | had
not"
The defendant Mary Dunn testi
fed: 81 went and got Fathel
Maximin because Mother had con
, fidence in him. She could truth
fully have said, | got Father Maxi
min because Mother dare not dis
obey him, as she was looking
Eternity in the face, at too short ;
range, and thought what shall i
r profit man if he gain the Who'll
world and lose his own SOUL
We have profound respect for tn
Church, and we know that thi
mans spiritual superior has, as al
$ Bishops have, directed that priest
! should not bother about the tenn
| poral affairs of men. The Churc
= is not responsible for this acts, AM
: it lost by the conduct of this priest
i for as Sarah Crozier remarked
j Father Maximin forgot the Churc
legacies, and the Church gill ne
: get any more for they ave ha
4 enough already"
And all this from Kepoikai WI
u told the natives at Puuiki how