Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-09-08
COMMUNISM.
Why Aili Nye Refuses to whaok Up with
Communist.


DEAN SIR: Your courteous letter Of
the first instant, in which you cordially
consent to share my wealth and dwell
together with nae in fraternal sunshine,
is duly received. While l dislike to
appear cold and distant to one who
seems so ycarnful and SO clinging, and
while l do not wish to be regarded as
purse proud or arrogant, l must dc
cline your kind offer to whack up.
You had not heard. very likely. that
[ am not now a Communist. used to
be, | admit, and the society no doubt
neglected to strike my name oil the
roll of active meDIbers. For q number
of years was quite active as Com
munlst | would have been more ac-
tive, but | had conscientious scruples
against being active in anything then.
While you may be perfectly sincere |
in your belief that the great capitalists
Ike Mr.. Gould and Mr.. Vanderbilt |
should divide with you. you will have
great difficulty in making it perfectly
clear to them. They will probably
demur, and delay, and hem. and haw,
and procrastinate, until finally they
will get out OF it in some way. Still |
do not wish to throw cold water on
your enterprise. If the other capital
lists look favorably on the plan, W III
cheerfully cooperate with them. You
90 and see what you can do with MIR.
Vanderb 1t, and then come to me.
You go on at some length to tell me
how the most of the wealth is in the
hands of a few men. and then you attack
these men and refer-to them in a way
that makes my blood run cold. You
tell the millonaires of America to be-
ware, for the hot breath of bloody
handed Nemesis is already in the air.
You may say to Nemesis, if you
please. that | have double barrel shot
gun standing at the head of my bed
every night, and that am in the Mem.
esis business. You also refer to the
fact that the sleuth-houndS OF eternal
Justice are camped on the trail OF the
pampercd millionaire, and you ask us
I to avaunt. If you see the other
slcuth-hounds OF your society W thin n
week or two. | wish you would say to
them that at regular meeting oil
the rnillionaires of this country. after
the minutes of the previous meeting
had been read and approved. we voted
J almost unanimously to discourage amy
sleuth-hound that we found campcd on
4 our trail after ten o'clock p. m. Sl"'th-
+ hounds who want to ramble over our
. trails during office hours may do so
with the utmost IMMUNITY, but after
:, ten o'clock we want to use our rails
! for other purposes. No man wants to
20 to the great expense of maintaining
trail winter and summer, and then
leave it out nights for other people to
use it and return it when they get
ready.
do not censure you, however. L!
YOU could convince every one Of the
:, Utility of Communism. it would GER
. tainly be a great boon to you. 10
those who are now engaged in feeding
" themselves with flat beer out of a to-
h mato can. such change as You sug
l. gest would fall Ike a ray OF sunshine
l. in rat hole; but, alas! it may never
n be- | tried it awhile, but my effort:
- were futile. The effect of my greal
y struggle seemed to be that mems heart'
II grew more and more stony, and my
y pantaloons got thinner and thinner OF
u the seat till it seemed to me that thu
world never was so cold. Then made
.. some experiments in manual labor. Al
began to work harder and sit dow
y less, | found that the world was not 81
1t cold. 1t was only when sat down I
long time that l felt how cold ant
r rough the world really was.
10 Perhaps it is so with you. Sedentar.
G. habits and stale beer are apt to max
ii us morbid. Sitting on the stone door
he Sills of Railways and public building
L. during cold weather is apt to give yo
or an erroneous impression of life.
$, OF course, am willing to put m
TX money into common fund If can b
convinced that it is best. | was a
r. inside passenger on Leadville coac
I'd some years ago, when few of you
ST friends suggested that we all put on
IL money INTO a common fund, and wa
d. almost the first one to see that the
kc were right They went away into th
# mountains Ato apportion the none
IS they got from our party, but neve
It got my dividend Probably they los
Id my post-oiiice address.-BW Nye, i
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