The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-12-01
AN 1ND1GNANr nERoHANr.

An INDIGNANT MERCHANT.
One,of the Kind That Don't Advertise.
EMPoRIA, KS. Nov. 81, 1876.
EDITORS NEWS: don't know exactly
who you have been driving at lately, in
your articles about men who have gone
to dry rot, and are dead weights on the
community, too mean and ashamed of
their names and business to ever put their
cards in the papers, &C., but If you mean
me want to tell you that you are pretty
cheeky to talk in that way. know
that don't advertise or give any Of my
money to churches, or to public "enter-
TANNER :" &C., but it seems to me that
have got right to use my money just as
1 want to. have got to pay my taxes, or
the sheriff will sell me out, and that's all
can stand for what you call the ''pubIic
welfare" What's the public to me. or
what's this community" or any other
city, to me? How can afford to adVer-
tise or help sustain new spapers? What
good does q paper do me? haven't got
time to read pap ers, unless have clerk,
and ii hire clerk 1 would have to pay
him wages, and maybe he would steal
change from the drawers, or take home
something under his coat at night, par
ticuIarly If his wages were pretty small,
and tell you that it's small wages /
would pay clerk or any body else.
Why, the other day a man asked me 75
cents to saw cord of wood and carry it
up stairs, and had to Pay a farmer four
dollars worth OF goods for the wood.
can't saw it myself, and L can't pay Is
cents for lazy niger who ought to do
the work for % cents, and be glad to get
it TO do these hard times, and yet you call
me mean because don't choose to spend
my money on ''public enterprises" news
papers, &C. And a washerwoman, who
ought to be glad to get anything to do to
support her family of six children, asked
me last week to pay 10 cents for washing
one day and scrubbing the floor, and iron
ing them on the next day, just be-
cause my wife happened to be sick and
couldn't do 1t herself, and she wouldn't
do it for quarter dollars good silver quar-
ter at that. and her six children out of
wood and nothing but some meal in the
house. She said she couldn't keep them
alive and clothed on that pay, and sup
pose che went of and said was stingy,
when had not made ten dollars on all
the goods sold that day, and a farmer
who ought to have paid his interest on
thousand dollar mortgage 1 bought last
year, come in and said he couldn't pay
because corn was only II cents per bushel
and his family has been down with the
all al
what's any body's family to me, except
my own? and they are expensive enough,
and yet you want me TO advertise in news.
papers. Don't 1 lay awake nights and
plan and plan and plan how to make q
dollar and save it for myself, and lend it
out where 1t will be on perfectly good
security and bring me in good big inter-
est, and amt bothered all day and night
with worrying about people trying to
cheat me, and steal from me, and yet you
call me q sordid old cuss because 1 look
out for myself all the time, and dom
care for any body else. How can afford
TO care for any body but myself. Amt !
myself? guess take right sharp care OF
myself, and [ don't let any body make
any profit of from me, If can help it.
L keep store and lend little none y, Of
course, and when a man trades with me
expect to make something out Of him
Its me, myself, look out for, and can't
afford to spend any money in newspapers
or to help any body or any thing. Why
last year had to pay $3.50 for doctor
made him trade it out OF course-jusI for
doctoring my wife and one of the child.
rem. He said she worked herself down
sick and the child didn't have warm
enough clothes. L don't believe funer-
al would have cost much more than that.
and tell you that when have got to pay
for any funeral 1t will be . cheap one. ]
amt going to throw away any OF my
money on hearses ana rosewood collins.
Money is what am after, and 1 amt q
spending any Of it on newspapers, either.
My business is suffering all the while
When first opened store, people came
and patronized me first rate, but it didR't
keep up long, and its been q getting har.
der and harder to sell goods all the time,
and times have got to get good deal bet
ter with me, before / am going to adver.
tie; You are not going to have my name,
not because am ashamed of it exactly,
but don't want it to be published be-
cause some Of your papers might get back
to the town where used to live, and my
debts there Ain't all outIawed yet. But I'd
like mighty well to geta good chance to
tell you editors what think of you. I'D
like to give you - good licking. That's
| what would like TO do. i know a man
who can do il too. 1 don't spend any
money on papers, bat manage to get the
reading Of one sometimes, when 1t don't
cost me any thing, and just you look out
for am going to keep watch of your pa.
per after this. ID. .. S.