Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-15
a1IL YYE ON COMMUNISM.
lie lllr 20 Whack up His Worldly
O wealth.

C,n. Your courteous letter OF the
DEAR 81" in which you cordially con-
lst lnSl'u rbora NV wealth and dwell to-
sent 10 ,, St, me in fraternal sunshine, is
gether WV" ";rnd While l dislike to appear
duly rec5l' Sistant to one who seems so
cold anu md SO clinging, and while do
year nisb to be regarded as purse-pr99uat or
not ro %lT must decline your klnu oller
owhafIha up not heard, very likely, that /
You Low low a Communist. l used to be,
am no! INV omd the society no doubt neg
ladmlt, | Strike nv name off the roll of
lected " ,n,bers. For a number OF wears
active men zen active as a Communist. |
was gun gun been more active, but l had
-Wo Dloientious scruples against Oelllg ac-
tive N ANY Won C may be perfectly sincere in
WHY hoIief that the great capitalists like
your 6 pel,gi and and Mr.. Vanderbilt should
Mr.: 0o w-itb YOU, you will have great
divide WIN N making it perfectly clear to
difficulty III wv will probably demur, and
them IilI Rom and haw, and procrasti-
delay anu anu gnajlv they will get out of it
n IL some way. Still l do noI wish 70 70
IN N soil cold water on your enterprise Ii
throw ,h oUlc capitalists look favorably on the
the o'Iei iii iii cheerfully cooperate with
pan, Won 90 and see what you can do
u :tb Mr. Vanderbilt, and then come to
We 1n 90 at some length to tell how the
atd the wealth is in the hands of a
L Igr and then YOU attack those men
and refer to them in a way that makes
my blood run cold. You tell the million
a;as If America to beware, for the hot
5reath'of a bloody-handed Nemesis is al
ready in the air.
You NAV say to Nemesis, if you please,
bat I have a double-barrel shotgun
sanding at the head of my bed every
nirIt and that am in the Nemesis bust
moss You also refer to the fact that the
sleuth-hounds of eternal justice are
camped on the trail of the pampered mil
Iionaire. and YOU ask us to avaunt. If
rou see the other sleuth-hounds of your
society within a week or two, wish you
70 say to them that at regular meeting
of the millionaires OF this country, after
the minutes of the previous meeting had
been read and approved, we voted almost
unanimously to discourage any sleuth-
hound that we found camped on our
trail after 10 o'clock p. m. Sleuth-hounds
who want to ramble over our trails dur
inc office hours may do so with the ut
most impunitv, but after ten o'clock-we
want to use our trails for other purposes.
No man wants to 90 to the great expense
Of maintaining trail winter and sum-
mer, and then leave it out nights for
other people to use and return it when
they get ready.
do not censure you, however. If you
could convince every one of the utility of
Communism, it would certainly be a great
boon to YOU. To those who are now en-
gagged in feeding themselves with flat
beer out Of a tomato can, such a change
as you suggest would fall like a ray OF
sunshine in a rat hole; but alas! it may
never be. | tried it a while, but my
efforts were futile. The effect of my
great struggle seemed to be that mems
hearts grew more and more stony, and
my pantaloons got thinner and thinner
N the seat till it seemed to me that the
world never was so cold. Then / made
some experiments in manual labor. AS
began TO work harder and sit down less
Hound that the world was not SO cold
1t was only when / sat down long time
that felt how cold and rough the worlC
really was.
Perhaps it is so with you. Sedentar,
habits and stale beer are apt to make u
morbid. Sitting on the stone door-sill
Of Railways and public buildings during
cold weather is apt to give you an erro
neous impression of life.
OF course, 1 am willing to put m.
money into a common fund if | can bC
convinced that it is best. was an in
side passenger on a Leadville coach som
years ago, when few of your friend
suggested that we all put our money int
a common fund, and l was almost tn,
first one to see that they were right
They went away into the mountains t
qportion the money they got from oul
Prty but | never got my dividend
hbably they lost my post-office ad