Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-25
Claims He Did Not Mean to Say Women Were Unchaste
 and Men Dishonest.
HUMBLY APOLOGlZES
 FOR WHAT APPEARED
Writer of Letter to Iowa Paper Ayers That One of Personal
 aNture Was Mixed With It to Make Sensational Reading.

that the men of Bisbee are without
 honesty and the women without vir- ture. C.. k. Pratt last night made a lengthy statement, explaining how an
 article from his pen appeared in an
 eastern paper, making just those out.
 rageous charges.
 Awed by the storm of condemna. ton he has brought down upon him.
 self, Pratt states that be is ready to
 make any apology that may be asked Tor by any citizen of Bisbee. He an. nounces his anxiety to have it un.
 derstood that he did not mean to as
 sail the chastity of Bisbee's women or | the integrity of it's men.
 Pratt claims that he wrote two let.
 ters to the editor of Burlington, Iowa, paper, and that only one of
 them was for publication, the subject matter not referring to the women or
 the men in any way. The other letter was of a personal nature, and related
 that in meeting some of the windy pio-
 neers of the west he had learned from
 their lips much about honor and chas, i tity.
 Pratt is small man, plainly show. 1 ing the effects of illness. He deeply
 regrets that the Iowa paper printed
 what it did over his signature, and
 any reparauon he can make he will
 make gladly and without delay
 In g spirit of fair play, Pratt's state,
 nlent is given the public that they i may judge and decide whether or not
 he deserves to be condemned. Here i is what he said last night:
 There appeared in this mornings | issue of your paper an article entitled
 A Letter from Arizona and signed
 c. F. Pratt.
 l Now, ever since Paul was brought
 before Aggriffa, every man has been entitled to speak in his own defense | except where honest treatment was 1 denied. And ever since Mark Antony i spoke at Caesars funeral, every mans l good and bad qualities have been al. | lowed to receive just rewards.
 1 Now, in regard to this letter to ! Iowa, | wish to say: this letter was written to an eastern paper, whose editor is a personal friend of mine, and with it was written personal let. ter, expecting him to rewriJe my ar, ticle, cutting out obnoxious parts, Tectifying my grammar, etc.; but as 14Nt II" A-. AtS@LAL, "AOJS IIC GltCE " eSl Nos i whose letter I can show to inquiring l parties, was out of the city, and an
 amateur, wishing to start record l for himself, put the two letters to- | gether and produced the article as it appears above the name given for
 which lam supposed to be responsible. Now, as to the way this personal
 letter describing the people of Bisbee | is concerned, I wish to make an ex-
 planation. Arriving here, one of the l first parties with whom I came in con- | tact was an old man, who passes l throughout the Southwest in different
 shades of frontier life, having been | the author of articles in McClure's s | Magazine, on the origination, as a i degenerate tenderfoot from the east | listened to his tales of Arizona nights. | describing life as from his views of ! its existence, and as a tenderfoot was held up for everything from the price | of drink to several dollars borrowed, i or blood money, as you wish 10 call | 1t
 "The article fell into his hands; 1 1t was shown me. and after an ex- planation, such as have given here, | if I, had produced another dollar or two | towards his support, which he exacts from degenerated tenderfeet from the l effete east, and for which he has al
 ready hung me up for, would have
 been o. K.: but not coming over with i the goods, he wishes to not only bawl me out, but build up his own reputa- | ton with a grapastand play, after a l long-continued debauch. and pose as | pNr
 either of which, if he Is to be the cham. | pion, may God be merciful to us all | as sinners, for although I have been
 styled a de9enerate hobo from the
 east, of which I say nothing, consider | ing it's no one's business who am, or what my name is wish to say that 1 the impressions made on the mind of an customer by such men as Cyclone
 Bill." 'Jflondyke JackF or Rattle
 soake Pete" while listening to their
 tales of f1air-breadth escapes and 1 where the female sex plays. the part | of net only the Amazonian. but of the | harlot, produces an impression that, | like finger marks of fate in the sands ! of time, only become ohliterated by the waters that wash from eternity's shore, and as this twhat shall I call
 him?l who has taken interest enough l in this affair, after an explanation such as any man could give. And as asking me personally for an explana-
 tion, or an apology, told him, as I
 am writing here. that if ony man,
 woman or child wished an apology. per lsonally or otherwise. after reading
 my exclamation that consider myself
 eDough a gentleman to most humbiy
 beg it, but as to offering an apology
 to any man who has made his repu- tstinn by shooting men In Texas,
 stealing horses in Oklahoma, robbing
 banks in Montana, or, in fact. any Of
 the would-be characters who take ad-
 vantage of an customers degeneracv
 as you wish to call 1t. and for which
 if had put up the proper amount of
 coin it would have been all right.
 have this to say, that his reputation
 produces as much fear in my mind as
 the sanctity of holy water produces re