The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-18
QUESTIONS FOR nEpuDiAFoRs.

l, Surprising you had, last year,
been involved in a great difficult law
suit, on whose issue not only all your
property but your character was at
stake, and which you could not thor
oughly try without raising $4,000 in
cash, and suppose you had advertised
for this money, saying, eff any one
will lend me the $4,000 l need, l
will pay him $4,000 if l win my
suit" and thereupon some one had
loaned you the money and you had
Herewith gained your case, how much
would you owe that creditor until you
paid him e?
II. Supposing that, having thus
obtained the requisite means to prose-
cute your suit to triumphant issue,
and won it, you should feel moved to
stigmatiae the leader as Il Shylock,
usurer, robbcr, descendant of Judas
Iscariot, DC, &C., would you not have
abundant reason to suspect your own
integrity and honor
III. Supposing that you had been
laboring under heavy embarrassments
through the last three or four years,
and had thus been impelled, because
you could do no better, to make six
long notes of 81 900 each, and intrust
them to broker to sell for your ac-
count, and he had sold them at differ
ent times for $1,000, 5000, $500,
500, 5000 and $500 respectively,
according to the goodness of your
prospects and your credit when they
were severally negotiated, and sup
posing that you had thereby weather.
ed the storm and re-established your
fortune, and supposing that these notes
were about TO fall due, how much
would you owe the holders respective
ly ? and on what principle would you
require any reduction from the face of
their several demands ?
". Supposing that the holder
should present one of these notes for
payment, and it appeared that it had
been sold repeatedly for more and then
for less than had originally been paid
for it, as your prospects happened at
the moment to be darker or brighter,
and that the last holder, believing you
good, had paid $3.50 or $3.50 for it,
how much would sltisfy your obliga-
tion to him 2
Y. Supposing you should say to
him, or to any holder of one of those
notes, "Sir, have fixed my property
so that no one can get legal hold OF
it, and now [ will give you, in cx-
change for my note which specifically y
and inconiestaby draws six per cent.
interest per annum in gold, another
note for 81 900 drawing no interest at
any time and payable at my own con-
venience if ever and, if you do MT
see fit to take this, you shall never be
paid anything whatever" could you
ever thereafter look into a mirror
without confronting the reflected vis-
age off very mean, shameless william :?
VI. Surprising you had thus adver-
tised your true character to the whole
world, and had thus destroyed your
own reputation and credit, wouldy your
debt have become fraction smaller,
or the obligation to pay it shade
less, than it was before ?
VII. Would you not, on the whole,
look up with respect and admiration
to your neighbor, who, being similar
ly indebted, should say to his un-
fortunate creditors "Ihe long and
short of the matter is that, being a
bold and straight-out scoundrel, | will
never pay you one cent and, if you
don't like that, you may help your
self the best way you can?"-Tibune.