Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-05-21
A TnnlLLRNu APPEAL.
How n Minnesota Merchant Asks ills
Debtors 10 Pay Ur.

Ny DEAR Sir IL wa'h TO usk you n
plain question, in all kindness aud SINGER
ity, aud 1 would like to have yon answer
ii honestly and cNndidly; not In two or
three years or months, but now THIS
WEEK Supposlng you were as poor rs
jobs turkey, and had invested Two or
three thousand dollars in nm enterprise
which you designed to make an ExCLU-
sIvELY CASH business snpposing, US a
matter Of accommodation and good nature,
you had trusted 1t out all over the country,
from IL - II to Jerico suppose you had
kept adding TO your means, and still
putting it on the books for few days"
until your funds played out, like old
Foot's PRAYER meeting; supposng you had
claims coming against you in the hands Of
business men who had accommodated you
III good faith, and needed their money /;
supposing you had some pride in you, and
meant to be square toed and punCtual, and
hated To see a man whom you owed, when
you didn't have the lcgnl-tender in
your trowsers TO pay his just and lawful
demands, worse than you would to see an
lNJuN or the Devil; and supposing those
whom you had accommodated felt perfect.
ly easy and oontented; "shied the track"
when you went to see them, and told the
wife ot their bosom TO answer Not At
home" or come into town and left withou:
paying even part supposlng they held
your money and waited patiently for
wheat to come up TO ninety cents or a dol
lar, or pork to bring five or six dollars n
hundred-wuAT WOULD YOU DO? Would
you let your debts go, "and smile, and
smile, and be villain !" or would you
sue every mothers son of them, that didn I
pay you If it were the last business you
| transacted in town?
II you were an honest man you'd do the
latter, and that's just what I'll he compell-
| ed TO do, and shall do il the Lord is God
or there is King in Israel!
| don't want money TO look at II can
earn enough for that y don't want any
to salt down Il never could make it keep y
but out of several thousands trusted out,
| humbly want A FEW HUNDREDS, and I'll
be d ID il / won't have it, or an execution
returned nuiid bona.
have, in addition TO erecting an exten.
sive store in Fountain, been sEDUCED into
investing over thousand dollars in new
| hall, which il an ornament AZ well as con-
venience TO the town at large. As you
know, / was promised FOUR HUNDRED
DOLLARS, CASH, to assist me. Well, ont
of this little four hundred have received
iust TwENTY.sIX. don't expect any
more and | don't want il! The hall is
done 1t is mine and to let when the
school house cannot be had. But l want
WHAT IS OWED ME. Ii is small amount
to yon; it means thousands of dollars to
me. / shall be home in few days to square
up. Let "Doc." have the money now, be-
fore go. There ia not one of you, man
or woman, from Christiana to Dublin
that lie would not stick His head in the fire
to serve, whether lie ever expected any
thing for 1t or not. Get his receipt before
/ go home and his soul will rejoice.
love you myself, rs a mother loveth her
first-born but love TO pay my debts bet.
Ter than love any man, woman, or child
on the face OF God Almighty's green earth
and by the Great Eternal and the Cont
mental Congress, propose to do 1t, il
have to make costs for every man in Fill
more county. Now l.'s have tile spon-
dulicks, and see how sweet and pretty
can smile upon you.
| Yours, earnestly, G.. S. POWERS,
Senior partner in the firm of G. s. POWERS
& soN's.- Chatfeld, (Minn.) Democrat.