The San Francisco call., 1895-11-18
Refers Mr.. Lux's Partner to His
Counsel for Interpretation
of the Letter.
DESIRES TO HUMANIzE HIM
Preparing Him for Final Judgment
in the Courthouse in the
Sky.

BAKERSFIELD, CAL, Nov. E.-John
Barker, whose property, worth $4,000, was
sold under mortgage for $4,000 to Henry
Miller on the 18th inst, has written an
other letter to Miller. which he calls
Open Letter No. 2, with promise OF more
to come. The letter is as follows:
Henry Miuer-sIR: On the 18th ult. I wrote
you a letter that you no doubt consigned to
the waste basket. In 1t told you would call
meeting of my friends OF Kern County on the
steps of the courthouse on the 11th inst, the
day you were to make the foreclosure
sale of my property. The response that
l received to my invitation, can assure you,
manner in which my recital of some of the
now s'ancient history of Kern, in which you,
as well as myself, cut an important figure, and
in which rendered you valuable service, and
in which l dressed you up in your best-ftting
suit in my 'Sunday-schooP' style, was received
by as attentive and as respectable an audience
as could be produced in Kern, in the most fiat
tering manner to me, and every word OF 1t In
dorsed cup to the handle"
You have now finally consummated your
desire and obtained my prOperty and you
must now feel highly gratified and ecstattcally
happy. Yon have your "pound of flesh" but
there are still two weapons left to me that are
beyond your reach-my tongue and my pen.
These f4G YOU are for %hateyep time may
stick to you like the poisoned shirt
OF Nesbits, burning and fostering and
blistering throughs the rhinoceros-like
you live to cumber and curse the earth with
your presence, which in the course OF nature
cannot be great while. AS know that you
will neither understand nor appreciate this
stvle of writing, and [ also know that the
slang and filth of the slaughter house would
be better suited to your comprehension and
more congenial to your tastes, and that
to address you in such language is very
much like casting pearls before swine,
still, knowing that you have corral full of
lawyers feeding and fattening at your cribs, it
consoles me to know you can get some of them
10 interpret it for you.
You will observe that am not as you may
have supposed, entirely friendless, and that
aid, and that you with all your wealth, can
not muzzle it or the still mightier weapon and
twin brother, the pen.
Your course in Kern county has not en-
deared you to very large circle of its people.
You have sown the wind here in many and
various forms and places, and you have
sown so shall you reap, and harvest OF whirl-
wind some of these days need be no surprise to
you. AS far as | am concerned | shall con-
tent myself with camping on your trail.
There are innumerable joints in your armor
that l know how to find and pierce.
The manner in which you have
avoided add evaded taxation, and the methods
you have employed in so doing are matters of
public comment, and the manner in which
the burthens OF taxation have been saddled
upon our small land owners and farmers by
you, and such as you has become a sore griev-
complete exposure; and this, If | live, you
shall have, l in this fight to stay, for
"thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel
just"
Mr. Delmas has torn from you some of the
secrets and methods by which sou have
acquired the enormous wealth you control and
which hurts you so much to divide with the
legatees of Mr.. Lux He has furnished arrows
for our quiver ''that he tips with scorpion
stings' and wings with his inimitable sarcasm,
and the fact. by the way, that he makes you
vince occasionally shows us that when the
fickle goddess took you under her pro lection
and bestowed upon you her smiles she neg
lected, like Thetis when she baptized Achilles
in the Styx, to give you thorough dip, and
so left some portion OF you vulnerable 10 the
shafts OF Satire. which only makes you
More darkly sin by Satire kept in awe.
And shrink from rdcule and not from law.
The subjects upon which shall in future ad-
dress you are many ana various.
And wheresoer my theme may gang
cannot now determne
Perhaps it may turn out sang,
Perhaps turn out sermon.
But whatever they may be I intend they
shall operate upon you beneficially; in moral
sense | mean, and it may be possible that
have mission to humanize and civilize you
and perhaps finally fit you when you appear
before the final judgment. so that Saint Peter
may not have to pronounce the final doom
that, if you now were called before 1T in your
present un:epentant and unregenerate state,
would be:
Heinrich, you schust dake de left hant road
down in dot corral along nit de goats we're you
pelong What you doing here, amt it?"
Such impudencer he'd mutter as he
slammed the portals in your face.
Trusting l may be the humble instrument
this fate, remain, hopefully yours,
JOHN BARKER