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the sao motives has taken the and Is ks
had been taught believe previous to my leav-
ing Europe Tor this country that the Americans
noble hearted generous and justiceIoyipg people,
that the hmsiiesp piees conducted In unison wit
the habits and instincts of the great body Of the Amer
Had IL been tod TO me- that there would eve
appear in an American newspaper such article a.
have extracted from he Times of thi- morning wou
have treated The person who told foul sander
Of the character and lbeer of the American pres
but there stands the article lender In the Ney PW
aiy 7,s.es a PAPER that boasts of lis circulation +
tens of thousands and OF which American gentleman
OF the name ot H. J. Raymond Is proprietor and chief
and responsible r,dactor
This sir not the first time that you have dragged
my name before the public In columns in the
injurit and infamous manner Why am thus select
you and the most vile and public ISLANDERS in
refer, nee to me! I have you do not know
you and have never injured you in my life And your
article of to. day quite convinces that you do not
know and that you most profoundly ignorant Of
my past present history.
Your in reference to certain celebrated pot-
cal foreign character whom 1t Is useless to name and
the public how much credit and reliance be placed
upon your written remarks either good or bad In rofsr
to him myself
will not this time allude except in general terms
to the degrading nsinuaon and ephets applied to
in your artcle-tbsy are worthy of the source from
whence they emanate. Such article brands you for
what you ara man utterly unworthy to hold the re-
sponsible position of editor Of daily American newspa-
per! appeal your manliness and of honor for
redress. again beg of you to read your article.
In order to point ana illustrate attack the local
authorities Of the city you drag most
manner into your article the Of helpless unpro
tected female, who il modesy endeavoring to earn
livelihood by her profession, and whom you suppose II
perfectly helpless, and whom you publicly attack
and SANDER with impunity
But sir you may find, your cost that American law
and American jury will protect me from the vio
slanders of American paper and American gentle
man! To that law will appeal for Justice and = jury
of your countrym shall decide between
less you yourself in the columns of your paper,
make voluntarily the only reparaon which 1t is In your
power to make; that Is to say you must reract every
When you indulge in calm "sober second thought"
feel assured you will do it. What has been my past
bsory?-why am u homeless wanderer In America, in
city after city tong day after day and night after
night? Is il not to gain honest livelihood acquire
a competence? II had been the vile character you
would wish to make me appear think that need to
have left the shores of abandoned and gay Europe
quire money luxures! My thus far onward in
life MIR Raymond has been wild eccentric and unfortu-
nateb guilty in the light you pretend show it.
and which you would convey others for my detrmcnt,
so unjusty and 80 unmanly When mere baby, WAS
taken to an oriental cline and there before had reach
ed the age Of eleven years had acquired those wild
and eccentric habits which have been retained with
out doing harm to any one, and which a mind consti
tuted like yours little cohversant with the great world
cannot understand appreciate-and you would
strue the untamed habits and innocent gaietes OF my
disposition into evidences OF deep moral guilt When
read your article of this morning blushed not for
self but for you as responsible editor TO the public for
what yeu state. When returnedo Europe after very
short time domestic troubles of which the victim,
forced to free myself from them and with the thought
less ignorance Of schoo girl at the of fourteen,
made a most unfortunate marriage with one wholly un
suited to be my husband and protector and with him
eurned again to India; there my husband died. re-
turned to Europe aud being without resorted to
the stage and became dansee and years passed away
.. my career in which | was gaining daily in
the public favor, and did not meet with
proach In the pursuit Of my professional engage
mens danced at Munich, in Bavaria The aged King
sought my friendship. I gained his confidence and for
three used for great and noble purposes and for
no mean end At the expiration of that time found my
self on exile in England met with one said tohave po
married He unsuited to my character, and found
myself disappointed in all my best hopes instead of find
ing quiet domesticated happiness found myself this
wife Of dissipated and impoverished English spend
thrift divorced him and returned to the stage Cir
for %oaa be spa sS
during my prominent public career in Europe, and while
being mixed up in the great political events Of mpor
tant Kingdom had not been the victim Of calumny and
sander and had not made many and powerful enemies
II would ie sl siIanr.r after became poor exile
and retired to private life II had not still been [ths
victim Of calumnyl owing to the influence generally
and widely extended Of certain body the more so
when lett private life to return to my profession on Lhs
stage The first night made my debut in Pa1;, a;ssr
six years many even n America, VINO were present.
must remember the scaldng bitter tears shed on the
occasion. l knew well / then before me the
long continued prosecutions Of all kinds that would fol-
low, FIST as Lola Monies then the Countess On.
LaDf,ldt but alas all tie fearful pictures that had
passed in my mind. in few moments vividly were
too ale by far for the reality of which the
victim When left Europe sir did proudly hope that
in this land these attacks would Though must
remark that no European paper could sanction you
to have used the insulting language have done
tome) and that while quietly following my profession,
the American press would not slander me. They have
reason to do In many Of the newspapers have
not been abused but from others have received the
most cruel uncaed for, and constant abuse, and fore
most among them has been your Daisv Tunes You sir,
call upon me-a helpless wonan-to make my enemies
prove that am "a brazen prostitute" You sir for
fhall prove that and will appeal to jury OF
American men, your own citizens, to make you prove
words make and your press compensate me,
so far your deep wrong to woman can be compen-
sated for the American Day Times will be by word
before the whole world give you one more chance to
do Justice and to be gentleman Simple justice is all
Task
Publish my letter. and state honest man, that
you have done me foul wrong in your arclesthat you
have written of under wrong influences, hastily in
ignorance--apd l will forgive you But if you do not
this simple act Of justice will then make my ap
peal for justice protection and redress to the courts Of
your city in which stranger. seek no legal
quarrel with any one-much less with the press; but
such arocious calumnies as you In ignoance or rom
base motive, have heaped upon my defenceess
head, I will bear no longer. Now take your choice 1
write this letter hastily and more in sorrow than in
anger use your English words as they come to me,
and the subject is that female Of delcacy how
independent and spirited wishes to wrte
about But II must be done, and have finished my
part And now sir honest man, as an American
gentleman the conscientious editor Of widely circu-
lated newspaper appeal you, sir to do your part
What that part L. leave to your own sense OK COZ
mon decency and justice to decide -
Nj DE LANDSFELDT,
W,prrx srnrrr LOLA MONTEZn