Show HUMAN HECATOMBS this is a shockingly suggestive caption but it is true although the deed was not perpetrated with weapons of steel or iron but with uch ch equally sure and deadly during a trip a short timo time since since to the arctic reg regions igns the U S revenue steamer corwin called at st lawrence island the in inhabitants libi of which had been engaged for some time past buying illi illicit it liquors for which they paid in firs urs the Chr christian idian gentlemen says tile S san F francisco ran cisco aua alta who engage in this fiendish traffic manu rac turing a deadly quality of whisky at trifling cost and selling it to the poor ignorant t islanders at nt an extravagant price in seal real skins overdid overbid the iniquitous business through their cupidity A small quantity of the abominable liquor would doubtless have been abundantly sufficient to keep st I lawrence lwrence island in disorder for a year and to give the islanders a lesson in our boasted christian civilization but this did not satisfy the greed of the christian traders who in their avarice were determined to strip the natives of all their seal skins for this purpose they plied them with their infernal internal drugs until their numerous kegs were empty and scattered about the island and all the of that region were dead and none escaped these thase poor people says the alta died of star starvation ration to the number of six hundreds hundred they got drunk on the whisky traded to them and kept so during the sea son for laying in their T inter winter supply ot of walrus and seal real when winter came cold and stormy they had no food and after eating their dogs they succumbed one after the other to the pangs of hunger till not one wag was left alive A party from the corwin took tool photographs of groups of these bodies as they still lie frozen stiff upon the ground at several of the settlements on the island it would be difficult to imagine a more mord shocking eom commentary menta ry upon the claims of christianity and religion the better impulses of our nature are indeed terribly shoal shocked ed at the recital of such horrible deeds and this to satisfy the cupidity the inordinate desire of christian men y to accumulate wealth at such a wholesale sacrifice of human life it is a fearful responsibility that rests upon these honolulu traders I and wo we fully indorse the sentiments of the alia alta that the man who is capable of sending cheap and deadly whisky to ignorant and tribe tribes robbing them of the products of their labor and f tinning turning the smooth current of their simple lives into an all that ends jn deat ll may bow his head at a christian Chri etian altar on the sabbath but there is not a humble victim of ilis his cupidity whose soul is not far whiter than his in the eight of the lord mr hallenbeck haa has recently re turned from a christianizing tour to honolulu and is boast boasting ingot ot his revivals and conversions of natives to christianity but if the con verta everts are anything like the above named christians we pity them for in in the language of holy writ they are twofold more the children of hell than they were bea before ore they were converted the alia alta wonders if sir mr hallenbeck con averted any of the traders in the vil gainous whisky on the island it thinks they are church members already but the revival that is most needed is one that will awaken the cold callous hypocritical lying thieving murdering church members who enga engage ge in such speculations as bradin trading g illicit whisky for fur seala seals when conservators conservatory conserva tors of the public peace and good order of utah attempt to regulate the traffic in whisky and other judicial power is invoked to crush them in the laudable endea pronounce their prosecutions for f or violating the ordinances in relation thereto illegal oh tempora em pora oh mores |