Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-02-04
A QUEER ssDUN...
How Minnesota Merchant Asks His
Debtors to Pay Up.

| DeUtOFS 10 ray
| [From the Chatfeld (Minn) Democrat, December e.
| NOTICE.
My DEAR SlE:-I want to ask you plain
| question, in all kindness and sincerity, and
would like to have you answer it honestly
! and candidly; not in two or three wears or
months, but NOW! THIS WEEK! Surprising
you were poor as Jobs turkey, and had in
vested two or three thousand dollars in an en-
terprise which you designed to make an Ex-
cLUslvELY CASH business; supposing, as a
matter OF accommodation and good nature.
you had trusted it out all oyer the country,
from h-ll to Jericho; supposing you had
kept adding to your means, and still ''puting it
On the books for few days." until your
funds had played out, like old Foot's PRAYER
meeting; supposing you had claims coming
against you in the hands Of business men who
had accommodated you i'll good faith, and
needed their money; supposing you had some
pride in you, and meant to be square-toed
and punctual, and hated to see a man whom
you owed, when you didn't have the legal
tender in your trowsers to pay his just and
lawful demands, worse than you would to
see an MUM or the devil; and supposiny
those whom you had accommodated felt per-
fectly easy and contented, ''shied the track"
when you went to see them, and told the wife
OF their bosom to answer ''Not at home," or
came into town and left without pay
ing even part; supposing they held your
money, and waited patiently for wheat to
come up to 80 cents or 81, or pork to bring
$5 or Sc hundred, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Would you let your debts 90, ''and smile, and
smile, and be villain ?" or would you sue
every mothers son of them that didn't pay
you if it were the last business you transacted
in town?
If you were an honest man you'd do the
latter, and that's just what I'll be compelled
to do, and shall do, if the Lord is God or
there is King in israeli
| don't want money to look at q can earn
enough for that; l don't want any to salt
down Il never could make it keep; but out
want FEW HUNDREDS, and I'll be id if l
won't have it, or an execution returned nulza
bona.
have, in addition to erecting an expensive
store in Fountain, been sEDUCED into invest
ing over 81 900 in new hall, which is an Or
nament as well as convenience to the town at
large. AS you know, / was promised $4OO
CASH, to assist me. Well, out of this little
$400 have received just $26. don't expect
any more, and don't want it! The hall is
done! 1t is mine, and to let, when the school
house cannot be had. But l want WHAT is
OWED TO ME. 1t is small amount to you; it |
means thousands of dollars to me. l shall be |
home in few days to square up. Let ''Doc."
have the money now, before 60. There is
not one Of you, man or woman, from Chris
tiana to Dublin, that he would not stick his |
head in the fire to serve, whether he ever ex-
pected anything for it or not. Get his receipt |
before 60 home, and his soul will rejoice.
love you myself, as mother loveth her first
born; but l love to pay my debts better than
love any man, woman or child on the face
of God Almighty's green earth; and, by the
Great Eternal and the Continental Congress,
propose to do it, if have to make costs for
every man in Fillmore county. Now let's
have the spondulicks, and see how sweet and
pretty can smile upon you.
Yours earnestly,
c. S. Powers,
Senior partner of the firm of G.. S. Powers
& sons.
Fountain. December II. 1874.