The representative., 1900-08-23
CREDITOR AND DEBTOR
A "Business" Letter With . Postscript
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A "Business" Letter with . Postscript
Attached. ..n
Dear Sir: Your note for $500, secured
by mortgage on your home, and upon
which you have paid something over
$500, the balance being long past due,
has been given me for collection.
Please call at $50 Twentieth avenue
north, at your earliest convenience, be-
tween the hours of 8 q. M, and s: 80 p.
m. and let me know exactly what you
are able to do in the matter.
Respectfully.
]. E. NASH.
P. 8. write the above as q matter Of
business, and it will be to your advaut-
age to give the same your early atten-
ton; yet in doing 80 am constrained
to add few words in hopes it may
set your mind at work to discover the
reason why hard working man should
be forced into such position as to
practically run the risk of losing all his
hard-earned savings. Why are laws
made to favor the rich and degrade the
poor; why the rich, though producing
nothing, and live in luxury, often in
riot and debauchery, are growing rich
more rapidly than at any period Of the
worlds history. and why our working
men (the producers of all wealthy, are
steadily and surely growing poorer.
Are you aware of the fact that there
are supposed to be about 100000 vot-
ers in the country, 100000, or three
fourths, being producers or working
men. and the other one-fourth, or 4,OOO,-
900, being non-producers, consisting of
men?
OF this class will only mention the
banker as the representative of the capi-
talist, and the lawyer as his paid at
tOrney or agent, and ready to embark In
any scheme to favor the interests of his
clients.
Are you aware that there are only
about 10000 lawyers and 10000 bankers
in the country? A number so small
relatively as to be almost imperceptible,
and yet are you aware that 266 out Of
our $50 congressman are lawyers, while
they are, in proportion to their numbers,
only entitled to one and fraction over?
Did you know that these 266 agents Of
the capitalists are assisted by nine
bankers, whom the votes of the labor
ers of the country have sent into the
halls of congress? And do you know
the great study of these capitalists
and their 266 attorneys or agents is to
make laws that will permit their class
to absorb the greatest possible amount
of the fruit of the laborer's toll, and
excite the smallest amount of suspicion
while so doing? Are you aware that
entitle them to 248 congressman, send
| not a single one of their own number to
represent their own class interests,
when common sense should teach them
CuCy nave IL Ia IuclE pOWcE W LudhO
laws that will forever put an end to the
trust, the great monopolies and the
wealthy generally, from riding upon
their backs and absorbing the product
Of their labor? Are you aware that
the great daily press is owned by the
capitalist class; being run exclusively
in their interests? That it is in fact
their mouthpiece, and run to fool and
deceive the producer; to pull the wool
over his eyes, so to speak, and induce
him to vote for the very system by
which he is exploited and degraded?
These are all solemn facts which should
be thoroughly studied by everyone. And
now, last of all, permit me to ask: Do
the capitalist class use your vote to
help perpetuate a system so unutter-
ably damnable?
Respectfully,
J. E. NASH.