Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1885-05-28
COMMUHIsM.

COMMUNISM.
Why Bill Nye Refuses 70 Whack Up
With Communist.
DEAR SIR: Your courteous letter
of the first instant, in which You cor
daily 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 90 yearnful and SO
clinging, and while I do not wish to
be regarded as purse-proud or arro-
giant, I must decline your kind offer
to whack up.
You had not heard, very likely,
that I am not now q Communist. I
used to be, I admit, and the society
no doubt neglected to strike my name
off the roll Of active members. For
q number Of years I was quite active
as Communist. ] would have been
more active, but I had conscientious
scruples against being active in any
thing then.
|. While you may be perfectly sim
cere in your belief that the great
capitalists like Mr.. Gould and Mr..
Vanderbilt should divide with you,
you will have great difficulty in MAX
ing it perfectly clear to them. They
will probably demur, and delay, and
hem, and haw, and procrastinate, un-
til finally they viii get out of it in
some way. Still I do not wish to
throw cold water on your enterprise.
If the other capitalists look fayora-
bly, on the plan, / will cheerfully CO.
operate with them. You go and see
what you can do with Mr.. Wander
bilt, 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 q few men, and then
you attack these men and refer to
them in way that makes my blood
run cold. You tell the millionaires
of America to beware, for the hot
breath Of a bloody handed Nemesis
is already in the air.
/ You may say to Nemesis, il you
Iplease, that I have a double barre
shot-gun standing at the head of my
bed every night, and that I am in the
Nemesis business. You also refer te
the fact that the sleuth-hounds oI
eternal justice are camped on ths
trail of the pampered millionaire
and you ask US to avaunt. II yos
see the other sleuth-hounds Of you
society within week or two, / wisl
you would say to them that at reg
ular meeting Of the millionaires o
this country, after the minutes Of th
previous meeting had been read an,
approved, we voted almost unani
mously to discourage any sleuth
hound that we found camped on on
, trail after ten o'clock, p. N. Sleuth
!, hounds who want to ramble over ou
trails during Office hours may do Q
!. with the utmost impunity, but afte
. ten o'clock we want to use our trail
for other purposes. No man want
!, to 60 to the great expense of main
tanning trail winter and summer
and then leave it out nights for othe
people to use it and return it whe
they get ready.
I do not censure you, however.
:, you could convince every one Of th
utility of Communism, it would ce
;, tainly be great boon to you. 7
3 those who are now engaged in feet
ing themselves with fat beer out Of
!. tomato can, such q change as yo
+ suggest would fall like ray Of su
shine in rat-hole; but, alas !! it ms
never be. I tried it awhile. but n
efforts were futile. The effect OF n
, great struggle seemed to be that men
hearts grew more and more ston
= and my pantaloons got thinner al
thinner on the seat till it seemed
me that the world never was so col
Then I made some experiments
:, manual labor. As began to wo
harder and sit down less, 1 found th
the world was not so cold. It "
:. only when I sat down long til
that / felt how cold and rough t
- world really was.
. Perhaps it is SO with you. Sedt
:. tary habits and stale beer are apt
=. make us morbid. Sitting on the ste
- door-sills of Railways and pull
o buildings during cold weather is ,
- to give you an erroneous impressi
- of life.
:. Of course, / am willing to put
money into common fund il | I
be convinced that ii is best. / Y
an inside passenger on Leadv
'ha 1 coach some years ago, when q few
he |your friends suggested that We
ee- put our money into common fu
XII and / was almost the first one TO
'on that they we're right. They "
~ away into the mountains to apport
led the money they got from our pa
'tly but l never got my dividend. Pro