The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-01-12

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/ privileges to offer. We entered the
new building with floating bills
amounting to $4,000 and an additional
indebtedness of $4,000 was at once in
Cured in the purchase of equipment.
! During the next two years the work
was conducted on a scale commensur-
! ate with the plant. Owing to the
! hard times the membership was not as
large as expected and there was a def
scit in two years of an additional ST.
300. Every year since then we have
paid all bills, including the interest on
this indebtedness, which we are now
undertaking to remove. Your under
standing that the payments were due
when all had been secured must have
resulted from a lack of sufficient ex-
PLANTATION, which / very much regret.
The agreement in the subscription
book which you signed is certainly
very clear on this point. The wording
of this agreement is as follows: We.
the undersigned, hereby agree to give
or raise the sums Sc. opposite our re-
spective names toward a fund of ST..
500 for liquidating the entire floating
lnde btedness of - and we guaran-
tee the payment of the sums in equal
installments on the following dates:
this is practically the same as a nom
interest bearing noCo very few regard
1t IN the same way and as matter of
fact we would not undertake to collect
by legal means in a case like this. But
we need not talk about the negative
side OF this question; you are going to
get that money and If we can help you
as we'll as we would like to you are
going to make your original plans
work successfully. 1t is easier to get
money for some things than for an old
debt, which is like burying an old
horse. Nevertheless it is something
which ought to be done and we can
never be truly successful as long as
this Indebtedness hangs as milestone
around our neck. There are men who
like tackling difficult jobs and con-
quering them. Regarding the rea-
sons why business men should sub
scribe to our work the following seem
to me among the best: First, next to
the church and the home it is a great
moral force in the community. the
value of whose restraining and up-
building it is impossible to overesti-
mate.
Commercial Value.
Every business man should have a
part in maintaining such work. Sec
ond it is a work of prevention, an
ounces of which we are told is worth |
pound of cure. Most business men
prefer to give ten dollars to keep a |
young man from going wrong than
to be taxed hundred dollars for |
taking care of him after he has gone |
wrong. That kind of a proposition |
appeals to business man. Third, it
provides suitable place for young
men to spend their leisure hours. An
employer of young men is not wor-
ried about the honesty, sobriety and |
faitnfulness of those employees who
he knows are members of our work.
and spend their leisure time at our
building. They are anxious about
the young men who patronize oues-
resorts and lead a life where
the temptation to live beyond ones
means is often responsible for loss by
THEFT and defalcation. These men
know this and spend much money for
private detectives to study the habits
of their trusted employees to find out
just how they spend their time and
money. Finally, as to the methods of
soliciting, l would say it is best to ask
for what you would like and take what
you can get. Most solicitors make a
mistake by not asking for a large
enough sum and in a way that sug-
gests that they are extending a priv
llego rather than asking a favor, or
penetrating hold.up. Try to find
men who have money and who are not
marks for every one with a
paper. 1t is better and
more economical to cultivate a few in
telligent givers for large amounts
than great number of givers for
smaller sums. The whole question of
getting a man to give money is an ex-
renely difficult one. Some men seem
% be naturally endowed for this work,
but 1t Is also clear that others can
acquire it, / All confident that If you
10 not consider yourself in the first
class you will soon be numbered
among the second. Very truly yours,
Secretary" What might have caused
is TO forever disrespect each other
may on this plan of exchanging let
.ers prove mutually helpful and en-
us to do what we want to do.