The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-16
STILL FURTHER REASONING.
LETTER FROM "NoTA BENE.

EDITOR BULLETIN AFTER work
ing my way, with patience and
perseverance worthy of better re-
suits, through the tangled junglcs,
dark labyrinthian passages and
mental vaporings of which the to be
continued cffusion of my friend, ID.
M. Crowley, is chiefly composed, l
feel convinced that he rushed into
print before lie had fully recovered
from the facilitating and weakening
effects of his recent evangelical,
soul-saving and sole-blistering tramp
over the rough lava, and among the
benighted denizens and lethargic
Christians of Hawaii. Having spent
several months in aiding to subdue
Captain Jack and his savage band
of hardy followers among the lava
beds of Idaho, during the Modoc
war, | can properly sympathize
with friend c., and would deem it
unmanly to take advantage of his
apparently enfeebled and intcllec-
tually exhausted condition. l shall
therefore content myself by treating
him with all the forbearancc which
my generous nature and kindly i'm
pulses can on the present occasion
afford. "Consenting to dra,o q
lance with Nota Bene for sooth!
Judging from the many futile and
feeble attempts he has made to place
me hors de combat in this contro-
versy, l take it that he is better
fitted by nature to draw hand cart
down hill than he is to cope with
me on the question of Prohibition,
backed as 1 am by the giants Truth,
Correct-understanding and Honesty
of Purpose.
1 confess myself env.igiy at - .lHss
whether to giggle Or hiss at the
mendacious arrogance of the person
who sets himself up as a Judge of
the political influence or literary
status of a worldwide circulating
public journal, yet plainly shows by
his own words that he is incapable
of discerning the difference between
magazine and weekly newspaper,
and this is what friend G. plainly
shows when he speaks of Harper's
Weekly as q magazine! That gen.
tleman makes very sad mistake
when he flippantly insinuates that he
is an older magazine reader than l
am and in seeking to belittle such
leading journals as Harper's
Weekly and the Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette, lie only succeeds
in proving an ignorance in news
paper matters that is truly appalling
in man of his literary pretentions.
With an elaborate display of garbled
twaddle and useless verbiage, he
says l have laid myself upon to CEN
sure for attacking his beloved poll
tical trickster, st. John, under the
mask of nom dc plume. This is a
mere bit of threadbare subterfuge
and slurring which was. long ago
done to death by person. who had
no other missile within their reach.
But the cream of the joke lies in the
fact that, after berating me fol
simply quoting what was printed il
an Eastern paper against the Prohi.
bition chieftain, he, almost with the
same breath, hurls TRADE of abu
sive insinuations and malicious innu
endoes at the head of Governor
Hoadly, of Ohio, than whom there
are no more honorable and straight
forward public men to be found il
America or elsewhere; and by al
reliable accounts is ca tough MAJ
to challenge face to face" In com
menting upon that gentleman, VIII,
did not Mr.. G. reprint all of m.
short quotation from the Governor
speech? Was not this little morse
of strategic cunning suggested b.
the well-known fact that the trutl
half told will ofttimes serve n pur
pose much better than direct false
hood?
1 shall italicise and use his owl
burglarious jimmy of words, that h
handles so deity to force an ell
trance for the introduction of pc
method of insinuation which he ha
adopted, and through which h
hopes to steal away at least POI
ton of Gov. Hoadly's good name
and will say that Mr.. G. might han
; added: "But 1 am frequently con
PEELED to use, not only an alarmin
amount of sophistry, but also {
argumentative inconsistency, in OIL
der that / may keep up an appea
ance of usefulness, and make IN,
7 self solid with the very pious, bl
I fearfully peevish, alarmists int
9 whose good graces l have worke
Q myself, and whose well-stocke
larders and large purses, filed to +
, pletion with the tangible results
n their exposure to perils and ardl
t Gus Christianising labors among Il
!, harmless heather, are to me attra
t tions of no small consideration, al
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