Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-04-25
QUESTION FOB RRpUDIATOHs.


First-Supposing you had, last year,
been involved in o great and ditiouit
lawsuit, on which issue, not only all
your property, but your character was
at stake, and which you could not try
without raising $4,000 in cash and
suppose you had advertised for this
money, saying Z" If any one will lend me
the $4,000 | need l will pay him $40, 900
il | win the 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.
Second-Supposing that, having thus
obtained tho requisite means to prose-
cute your suit to a triumphant issue,
and won it, you should feel moved to
stigmatize the leader as o Shylock,
usurer, .robber, descendant of Judas
Iscariot, etc., would you not have
abundant reason to suspect your own
integrity and honor2
Third-Supposing that you had been
laboring under heavy embarrassments
throughout the last three years, and
had thus been impelled, because you
could do 10 better, to make six long
notes Of $1,000 each, and entrust to a
broker to sell for your account, and he
had sold them at different times for
$1,000, 5000, $500, $7oO,$6OO and $500
respectively, according to the goodness
of your prospects and your credit when
they were seyerally negotiated, and sup.
posing that you had thereby w~eathered
the storm and r~e.established your for
tunes and snpposing that these notes
were about to fall due, how much would
you owe the holders, respectively? and
on what principle would you require any
reduction from the face Of their several
demunds2
Fourth-Supposing that the holder
should present one Of. those notes Tor
payment, and it appeared that it had
been sold repeatedly for more and then
for less than had originally been paid
for it rs your prospects happened at the
moment to be darker or brighter, and
that the last holder, believing you good,
bad paid you $3.50 for it, how much
would satisfy your obligation to him!
| Fifth-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 n legal hold Of
it, and now | will give you, in exchange
for my note, which specifically draw
six per cent. interest per annum in gold,
another note for 81 900 drawing no in
terest ut any time, and payable at my
own convenience if, ever and, it you
don't see fit to take this, you shall never
be paid anything whatever" could you
ever thereafter look into q mirror with
out confronting the reflected visage Of n
very mean, shameless villainP
Sixth-Supposing you had thus nd
vertised your true character 10 the
whole world, and had thus destroyed
your own reputation and credit, would
your debt have become q fraction small
er, or the obligation to pay it n shade
less, than it was before2
Seventh-Would you not, on the
whole look up with respect, and admi-
ration to your neighbor, who being
similarly indebted, should shy to his
unfortunate creditors "The long and
short of the matter is that, being q bold
and straight.out scoundrel, | will never
pay you one cent and, il you don't like
that, you may help yourself the best
way you CAM"