A BULLY BOY.

NZ Truth, Issue 141, 29 February 1908, Page 6

A BULLY BOY.

"TRUTH" IN SEARCH OF A HERO. Finds One m Surly, Snarling Sutton. A Few Words of Friendly Advice, i "Truth" wants a hero, an uncommon want, , to be sure, considering .that each day presents a new one, to be hastily thrown aside as not j being the true one. Our hero must possess quite a number of extraordinary characteristics. He must be a special, brew, of real, right-down badness and baseness. Police and Criminal Courts have been visited m vain. We even thought of holding up for public adoration a brave broth of a boy ,who daily wallows m shavings and sawdust, and who on one historic, and certainly not to :'be forgotten or forgiven, occasion, when real- ; ising that his best girl had' cruelly \ turned him down, could adopt no other means of exhibiting his miser- | i able meanness, but to squeak out, "I know enough about you to hound you out of the town." Mean, miser- \ able, cowardly skunk as this sort of ichap is, he does not really fill oxu | bill as a hero. Such a bloke is a bit too brave, manly and even t noble, to suit our present purposes. Still, he ' will keep, if properly salted. Our hero must be— a hero. -We want a .do or die chap, who "does" when women are about and would rather die than do, if men are within range of his long and filthy tongue. Truly, ours must be an uncommon mass of human dog-flesh. Now, it has possibly occurred to our half-million or so readers that this religious organ has no timje for that absolutely noclass . • SORT OF TWO-LEGGED BRUTE / = w,hich musters spunk enough to bully and even strike a woman, when da^ ] get from sources such as a majily man is absent, or who, even taking i a rif v . foully asi rses the ■ character and lastity of a female and uses such iilthy epithets that m days past have been provocative of gun-play and a jury's verdict of "justifiable homicide." The cowardly skunk who strikes a . woman is a dastard, the •foul-tonguod brute who maligns good .women is— what we want, a hero, and "Truth haply has discovered him m the person of one Harry Sutton, a sort of .bar-room bounce and bully, who couples the pleasant task of breaking down spirits with the delicious pastime' of draining beerglasses, and who, whenever necessary, mingles business with pleasure by bouncing unruly drunks off the premises. Now and again he breaks the monotony of things generally by bullying barmaids, grossly insulting and even threatening to do them physical injury, a threat t'other evening he attempted . to put into execution with results disastrous to himself, of which, more anon. ' A well-conducted up-to-date- hotel can always rely on a good word from "Truth," and' m naming the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel 'as the establishment where this cowardly dog Sutton is suffered, the paper merely wishes Mr Dwyef to uncterstand the currish coot he employs, and allow him (Mr Dwyer) to reckon out whether Sutton and his surly, likewise sultry, conduct to the young women also employed, makes , for a continuance of the popularity presently enjoyed by this well-known hotel. Dwyer is a just individual, businesslike, and ever brimful of good' Manor. Moreover, he is a man, and not. the sort of fellow would to\erate his bar slushy or manager or boots or cork or stopper, or whatever Sutton is, • calling women b— —. J w . Certainly no proprietor would j stand that. Nor wouW he, were he. I cognisant of the fact, allow '- for one moment a dog-fla-the-manger sort of animal that daily bounces and bul- 1 i lies the girls, who are powerless | without doing Sutton a physical In-, i jury, to check the flow ,pf.'garbage- ! ttiat he vomits up from bis cess-pit. That ,is just what this; stink Sutton \ has done daily, and it is because he [ daily does this that this paper [ IS MILDLY REPROVING HIM , ! and drawing, m its best possible (manner, the attention of the proprietor to the sort of skunk! he I employs, i "Truth" is not over chivalrous itself, I but it draws a line somew.here,. and ! merely wishes to place Yitony 'record* I that a . ' thing liable " to be^rMstaicen ifdr v a man, whd calls respectable I young women, even if barmaids, b- — , w . — s> j s .jjJjq sor^ o j scabby' coyote who, if asked by a real man to put 'em up, would drop m his . ■ tracks and whine out that he won't 'do it any more. Sutton isn't a very pleasant specimen of the male variety to gaze upon. He might be taken for a warscarred veteran, but he isn't. He's I certainly got a grim visage,' he's scarred -all-right', but .whether the scars are honorable is a matter sugject to considerable doubt. Anyhow, his latest marks of actual warfare are not honorable. They are rather honorable to the young woman, who, resenting the foulness of his filthy I tongue, defending herself frdm being I thrown down, or being struck by this 'hero of ours, very promptly jabbed him on the face with a tumbler and made the coot howl, more m anger than m pain. This is what actually happened m the hotel last . Monday. The row, if it can be so called, a-, rose out of some trivial misunderstanding over some wine-glasses. The girls look well after their glassware and are ready to resent anybody prigging a glass of u>j description. Sutton was drawn into the barney arising over the glasses somehow or* other, and, gentlemanlike, let his slimy tongue just a' bit too loose, and as he endeavored to i grasp one young woman, she, as "Truth" described, jabbed him with j the glass, and was then told that if ! she was a man he'd do for her, which, of course, is sheer skite on Sutton's part. Scabs of his sort whine when up against a man ; indeed, this sort of brave hero would run a mile sooner than clash with others of his own sex. "TRUTH" APOLOGISES TO IT* SELF for taking up so -much space with Sutton, but if it is the means of teaching him that it is a cowardly dog act to attempt to, let alone strike a woman, it will be amply repaid for the time wasted over this waster. Again, m a fatherly sort of way, it advises Sutton not to call any woman a b w — -. ,It might be the means of still further spoiling his beauty. Arlios !-