The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-10-07
of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser.5

Mr.. EDIroR:II beg to be allowed again to tres
pass on your space with my personal matters, which
the letter of the Sheriff of Oahu in last Saturdays
government organ would seem to render necessary.
In the first place, his letter is a general denial of my
assertions in your last, but he does not propose enc
particle of proof. whereas I can prove the truth of my
statements He speaks of writing me a letter of
warning. I did receive a letter from him just before
1 was fined, but there was not one word in it about
my selling liquor to natives, which was the charge he
subsequently, brought. When Mr.. Steele took out a
spirit license | became his bondsman, and the Sheriff
then told me in the presence of Steele, as he subse-
quentiy stated when [ got my own license, that the
bond was n mere matter of forn-that government
never had nor ever intended to prosecute it, as such
a course would, if practisei, have the effect to deter
any one from becoming bondsman for another. The
Sheriff says: 81 defy Mr.. Peatt TO prove that the
pubicans sell spirits to natives Is this an invita-
ton for me to turn general informer and do the duty
of the police for them In regard to the amount Of
fered for the transfer of my license, the party came
to me three weeks after I refused the Sherif-s propo-
sition and o1erei $1,000 for the license. This 1 can
prove. He says there we're dreadful doings at my
house, which he was obliged to /. see and take cog
nizance Of" Why not then have done his duty and
arrested the offender or myself, instead of sending SO
TO endeavor TO entrap me-ot which last affair he
makes no mention, He certainly ought. in the rigiianf
and energetic discharge of his duty to have arrested
at once those who were guilty of the g filthy, lascivi-
Gus conduct, . of which he speaks as occurring in my
house, and which | utterly deny that there was any
more than there was in any public house where
dancing was practiced under the old license. can
bring good evidence to prove that l was very particu-
lar to prevent any improper familiarity between the
sexes on my premises But give a dog a bad name
and he will soon be run to death. / understand too,
that my wife has been slandered in this connection,
and that the Sheriff is the author. I would merely
say that in the event of being called upon, it may be
found much easier to make assertions than to prove
them. L have always, in my travels round the world,
with my family born a good character, and | shall
not now suffer the Sheriff of Oahu to rob me of So that
which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed -
l have heard, though am not prepared to prove,
that the Sheriff has in one or two instances borrowed
certain sums from those who have just opened public
houses, and this. I have no doubt, was a sort of black
mail or hush money not to be returned. I do how
ever, know, that about two months after / opened
public house, he endeavored to borrow $500 from me.
I did not have that amount at the time, but sent him
$50, of which said fifty I have never received any
tidings since. Author PEArr.