The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-16

manner of the cuttle-fsh. But the
inky poison in his Knight have
added, leaves no stain. Forum
ately for Truth and Honesty
(with his big H), Hoadlyism has
not yet become epidemic. Nota
Bene might have added" a good
deal more, had his fiery Imagination
been capable of more than this, his
expiring attempt, but he has sue
ceeded in painting his own inward
portrait, aud if ever Il man sue
ceeded in picturing himself as a
dried-up human gourd into whose
life blood no milk of human kind
ness fows; whose Every bones are
marrowless" for any generous
human action, and incapable of sup
posing generosity in others-unless
through "pecuniary interest, or
a bread-and-butter consideration,
here he stands, framed, and on exhi-
bitIon.
There is a vulgar maxim attri-
buted to the lower class of lawyers,
"No case, abuse the ether side. T"
n. b. tries his hand at this in the
way of painting my portrait as the
hunter after well-filled purses and
larders, from which l have been
paid and fed. l may have worked
myself into the good graces of some
reformed rum-cursed victims, whose
honest grip is to me "riches," and
the kindly greeting of whose wives
and children is to me monumental"
and who now enjoy the full calabash
and the fatted porker of their own,
to which they were but recently
strangers. But that l entered into,
or am engaged in this Temperance
and soul saving" work-as my cha
rity-preaching friend is pleased to
term it-for any hope of pecuniary
reward past, present, or prospective,
is not true. Nor am | the mouth
piece or representative of any organi-
cation, ''soul saving" temperance,
political, or otherwise. Had n. b.
ever measured my backbone, he
would know that l have enough to
go on ''my own hook" Not that l
would not deem it q high honor to
be commissioned and enabled to
give my whole time to so good u
work, for can anything be grander
to the man or woman who loves
their kind than to lift up the fallen
to help to reanimate the despairing
drunkard with hope, that he may
again stand erect, man, before his
fellows and his God! To help to
kindle anew the lamp of love so
ruthlessly quenched by the drink
curse? Yes, Nota Bene, it would
take more adjectives than your
small mud-rake could heap up, to
make me blush to receive support
for such work. also know that
the daily private appeals for help
made by the drink victims of Homo
lulu, are severe drain upon the re-
sources of benevolent Christian men.
Thanks to kind Providence, and
cold water, / am neither 'weary
of work. nor otherwise "unfortu-
nate" Just now, l have both the
work and the will and muscle to do
it, and therein would not exchange
places with any retired whiskey
king in the Hawaiian Islands, for
what little / get is sweetened by the
consciousness that it is got by honest
labor. | repeat, then, without fear
of being questioned in any good
mans conscience, that 81 have no
pecuniary interest pro or con in the
liquor business" and although con-
Tossing to enjoy a well-filled larder,
| confess also that outside of my
own house l have no recollection of
feasting anywhere out of two-bit
restaurant, nor have l received any
thing out of any ones purse except
in exchange for labor at my trade.
The truth is, my narrow-souled
friend, l don't mind telling you,
that | have not been fed on the
eleemosynary plan, now or hereto
fore.
Go then, thou rash and egotistical
scribe, and view that pile of "mo-
lasses and glue" which the BULLETIN
imp has prepared in anticipation of
thy self-imposed penance! would
not have thee swallow it, for l fear
me that thou art over carbonized-
burnt up internally already, but
give the devil his due Cat least one
dollar) and receive in exchange a
basin of water, of which put some
on thy tongue and lave thy aching
brain. Moral, Shakespearian: ''Es-
chew sack, and live clcanly."
AS to those charts about which
n. b. so kindly advises me, | may
inform him that they were imported
to my order and | am q contributor
to their cost, and they are intended
to be used by me on every square
mile of these islands, where | can
gather an audience of twenty per-