The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-08-20

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81 II Bill Nye tosa Communist.
DEAR SIR: our courteous letter Of
the !. LIST inst, in which you cordially
consent to share my wealth and dwell
together with me in fraternal sunshine.
is duly received. While I dislike to
appear, cold and distant to one who
seems so yearnful and sog flinging, and
while l do not wish to be regarded as
I-pnrse: proud or arrog I must
cline your kind offer to whack up.
ii You had not heard. very likely, that
Gam not now q communist. used to;
Fbe,I admit, and the society no doubt,
neglected to strike my name off the.
role of active members. & ,Eor q NUM-
Der of years I was quite active as. a.
communist i would have been more
active, but Il, had conscientious scru-.
then.
While you may be parfectly a.sincere,
in your, belief that, great capitalists
like Mr. Could sand Mr.. Vanderbilt:
should divide with you, you will have
great dificnlty in making it; perfectly
clear to them They: will probably
den1ur,, and delay ;nnd hem, and .haw,.
and procrastinate, until, finally they
will get out of it in some way. Still L.
do not wish to 1thraoSwssf % Id water on
your, enterprise. II the other capital
lists look faYorably on the plan, 1 will
cheerfully cooperate with them. You
60 and see what you can do with Mr..
Vanderbilt, and then come to. me-. \, 2.
You 90 On ~ e Sonic length Is feif me-
how most of the wealth IS ID the hands
Of lew men, and then you attack
those meg aalft1Ifrefer to,thsmyyin away
tell the millionaires Of America to sbe-
ware, foE ths hpt breath Pf;P blood III,
handed Nemesis ISL Tread iii tile ART
You may shy to Nemesis, If you
please, thai. 4 have. a fdoii ble- barrel
shotgun standing at the head of my
bed every night and & that { am Z IN che
Nemesis business. You also refer to-
the fact that the sleuth- hounds Of eter-
nal Justice are. camped on the trail Of
the pampered milf ohaire, and you ask
ss:eutf-hohhnds Of yso olh society," within Il
week pfltwo! / ishf y6dsWoala SAY Etos
them that at q regular meeting of the !
millionaires Of this lc9uh tIy. After the
minutes Of the previous meeting had
been read and approved, we voted nj
most unanimously to disco ANY:
sleuth-hound that we: found ;,camped
on our trail after 10 o clock D. M.
Sleuth- hounds who want to ramble
over our trails during office hours NAV
do SO with the utmost simpuMity, but
after 10 O'Clock we want to use Hour
trails for other pnrposes 81 Mo- man.
wants to go to tho great expense Of
maintaining trail wfnter and sum
mer, and then leaYe it out nights for
tothsr people to uise and return Fl lWheni
they get ready. a :5}s J
81 do not censure you, however. If
YOU could convince every one Of the
utility of communism, it would corr
tainlY By a great boon tbf you. To
Ethoseiwho are now eng aged fiH feeding
themselves with flat beer out of = to-.
mato can, such q change as you sug-
sgest would fall like q. rag of Ssuhshine
in d rat hole; but alas! 1t may never be.
Itried it a while, but my efforts were
futile. The effect Of my great strug:
gle seemed Ito sbs that mems hearts
grew more and more stony, and my
pantaloons got thinner and thinner on
the seat, till IL seemed to me, that the.
world meyer was 80 cold. Then j.
made some experiments in manual la
Dor. As I,began to work harder and
sit down less, I found that the world
was not SO. cold. It was only when
sat down long time that Efelt, how:
cold and rongh the world really was.
Perhaps it Is SO with you. Sedent-
|.ary habits and stale beer are apt to
mako us morbid. Sitting on the stone
door sills gof ii Railways J. and public
buildings during cold weather is apt
TO give you. an 4! errone impression Of
life: 1s 's.t' 5.s:3 5 n
OF course, / am willing to put my
money intoS} 30 com mon fund sif j. can
be convinced that it is best. / was an
Outside passenger on q Leadville coach
somo years ago, when: % few Of our
friends suggested that we all put our
money into a common fund, and I was
almost the first ono ito SEQ that they
were right. They went away into tleS
mountains to apportion the money
they got from our party, but I never
got my tdivid ehd:a Probably they lost9
my post, Office address.44Ne l0 II oakj,
Mercury. il ii Il