Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-09-17
LETTER FROM MR. LITTLE.

issue Of your paper there appear
Cd q clipping, copied from
Seattle, Wash, paper, making me
che subject of very unwelcome
attention. L, therefore, respect
fully request that you permit me
10 offer q word with reference to
the matters and things therein
contained. l invite no epistolary
Sonflict, and this reference to my
private matters may be as unin-
teresting to your readers as it is
painful to me; but to remain
silent might be susceptible of an
erroneous construction.
[ came from Seattle to this
Republic with the knowledge,
advice, consent and approval of
my family and friends, for the
purpose of enhancing my busi
ness opportunities, and for no
other reason. When / left Seat
tie I was somewhat in debt, my
partners and | had quarreled,
and to this day they owe me more
money us my share of the fees,
still in their hands, than would
pay all the debts | owe and leave
me a very creditable balance.
| am not now, nor never have l
been, under any charge in any
court, city, state or county; nor
has there ever been even
shadow, or the mist of shadow,
or vague intimation of any fact,
or condition suggesting dishones.
W or trickery. against my good
name from any respectable or
honorable source in all my life,
and the contrary state of facts are
susceptible of easy proof. / did
rot run away with any mans wife
or daughter; nor did any mans
wife or daughter run away with
me. All that can be said of me
As that, so far as money
goes, was financially
Frustrated when l left Seattle,
and owed some debts, not another
blessed thing. These attacks are
intended to make me feel the bit
ierness of the social frown i'll this
Republic, and injure me profess
sionally if possible. What could
be said in my favor would sound
better from other lips than mine.
Since my arrival in this Repub-
lie | have paid my way, attended
strictly to my own business, and
worked hard, and the statement
that | deserted my family is alb
solutely false. The press and the
people have treated me as well as
shey would treat any stranger who
gOmes here and attends strictly to
his own affairs. The cruel, bitter,
spiteful words which have found
their way into your columns from
a Seattle paper, emanate directly
or indirectly from a quartet of
male bipeds that form an excres-
eence to more than one character
OF bar-not all of whom reside in
Seattle. These miserable UulguS
know nothing of legal classics,
nothing of the laws refinements
Dr its higher capabilities. They |
pick their associates from among
those who demonstrate their
ability to relate a scurrilous or
obscene story, or sing a ribald |
song, or hold a leading member
ship in bacchanalian club.
These accomplishments will |
better advance one with these re-
formed rakes, these tyros of the |
profession, than polished mental
equipment, or ancient or honora-
BILE family name. With such men
rs these intellectual refinement or
professional honor, is little valued |
and hard to be maintained. They |
have no financial standing, and |
an action against them would be |
mn expensive luxury, and a judg- |
ment against them would result |
IN nothing but name. The only |
season | have not prosecuted |
ihese vampires, these vultmes in
human form, long since, is that |
Aitherto | have not been able to
do so from financial standpoint.
Now, having borne the pelting of
pitiless storm of falsehood and |
Villainous insinuatioGs, these |
Shouls who prey on human char
acter have invaded the sacredness
of our home and have spread a
drag-net over the family, and all
ahe blunders, absurdities and de.
hnquencies are paraded to the
public with fendish glee, that all