The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-12-24
4 DUN As IS A DUN.
/ Advertisement in the Chatfeld MINI, }
Democrat.
NOTICE.

My Dear Sir: | want to ask you [
plain question, in all kindness and sim |
cerity, and | would like to have you an
swer it honestly and candidly; not in
two or three years or months, but now.
this week! Surprising you were as poor
as Job S turkey and had invested two
or three thousand dollars in an enter
prise which you designed to make an
exclusively cash business; supposing, as
matter of accommodation and good
nature, you had trusted it out all over
the country from hell to Jericho;
supposing you had kept adding
your means. and still putting it
on the books for few days" until your
funds were played out, like old Foot S
prayer meeting; supposing you had
claims coming due against you in the
hands Of business men who had accom-
modated you in good faith, and needed
their money; supposlng you had some
pride in you, and meant to I've square
toed and punctual, and hated to see q
man whom you owed when you didn't
have the legal tender in your trousers
to pay his just and lawful demands,
worse than you would see an MUM or
the Devil; and supposing those whom
you had accommodated felt perfectly
easy and contented, ''shicd the track
when Won went to see them, and told
the wife Of their bosom to answer mot
at home" or came into town and left
without paying even part; supposing
they held your money and waited pa
tiently for wheat to come up to ninety
cents or dollar, or pork to bring five
or six dollars a hundred. WHAT WOULD
YoU DOT Would you lie. your debts GO.
ssand smile, and smile and be villain
or would you sue every mother S son
Of them that didn't pay you, if it were
the last business that you ever trans,
acted in town.
If You were an honest man you do
the latter, and that's just what Ill be
lcompelled to do, and shall do! if The
Lord is God or there is king in Israel!
| don't want money to look at, can
learn enough for that. | don't want
any to salt down. | never could make
it keep; but out Of several thousands
trusted out, humhly want a few hun
ldreds. and I'll be id if | won't
have it, or an execution returned nUli0
bona.
| l have, in addition to erecting an ex
Ipensive store in Fountain. been seduced
into investing over thousand dollars
in new hail. which is an ornament as
well as convenience to the town at
large. As you know, was promised
four hundred dollars cash to assist me.
Well. out Of Of this little four hundred
I have received Just twenty-six. !
don't expect any money, and
I'll don't want it! The
Ihall is donei Its mine, and to let,
when the school house cannot be had.
But want what is owed to me. 1t is
a small amount to you: it means thou
sands of dollars to me. ] shall be
home in few days to square up. Let
'Doc." have the money now, before
90. There is not one Of you, man or
woman. from Christiana to Dublin,
that he would not stick his head Tor
. the other extremity in the fire ttserve,
whether be ever expected anything for
III or not. Get his receipt before 60
home and his soul will rejoice. / love
you myself. as mother loveth her first
born, but love to pay my debts better
than love any man, woman or child
, lon the face Of God Almightys green
|earth. and by the Great Eternal and
Continental Congress, propose to do
, lit, if / have to make costs for every
man in Fillmore county. Now let's
| have the sPosDurIcKS. and see hoH
/ sweet and pretty can smile upon you.
. Yours, earnestly,
!. g. s. PowERa
Sen. partner in the firm Of G. 8
Powers & Sons.
Fountain, Dec. 11th, 1874.