Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-09-09
LETTER TO
COMMUNIST
Bill Nye Declines Offer
to Whack Up With
Applicant

ly consent to share my wealth anc
dwell together with me in fraterna
sunshine, is duly received. While
dislike to appear cold and distant tC
one who seems so yearnful and cling.
ing. and while do not wish to be re.
garded as purse proud or arrogant,
must decline your kind offer to whack
up.
You had not heard, very likely, that
| am not a Communist. used to be,
| admit, and the society no doubt me-
elected to strike my name off the roll
of active members. For a number of
years l was quite active, as a Commu-
mist. | would have been more active,
but had conscientious scruples about
being active in anything then.
While you may be perfectly sincere
in your belief that the great capitalists
like Mr. Gould and Mr. Vanderbilt
should divide with you, you will have
great difficulty in making it perfectly
clear to them. They will probably de-
muir, and delay, and hem and haw,
and procrastinate, until finally they
will get out of 1t in some way. Still,
| do not wish to throw cold water on
your enterprise. If the other capt.
talists look favorably on the plan,
will cheerfully cooperate with them.
You go and see what you can do with
Mr. Vanderbilt, and then come to me.
You go on at some length to tell me
how the most of the wealth is in
the hands of few men, and then you
attack those men and refer to them in
a way that makes my blood run cold.
You tell the millionaires of America to
beware, for the hot breath of bloody
handed Nemesis is already in the air.
You may say to Nemesis, if you
please, that have double barreled
shotgun standing at the head of my
bed every night, and that am in the
Nemesis business. You also refer to
the fact that the sleuth- hounds of
eternal justice are camped on the trial
of the pampered millionaire, and you
ask US to avaunt. If you see the other
sleuth- hounds of your society within
week or two, wish you would say to
them that at regular meeting of the
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 can2ped on
our trail after ten o'clock p. m.
Sleuth- hounds who want to ramble
over our trails during Office hours may
do so with the utmost impunity, but
after ten O'Clock we want to use our
trails for other purposes. No man
wants to go to the great expense of
trail winter and summer,
and then leave it out nights for other
people to use and return it when they
get ready.
do not censure you, however. IT
you could convince every one of the
utility of communism, it would GER
tainly be a great boon to you. To
those who are now engaged IN feeding
with fiat beer out of
tomato can, such chance as you
suggest would fall like ray of sun
shine in a rat hole; but alas it may
never be. | tried it while, but my
efforts were fruitless. The effect of
my great struggle seemed to be that
mems hearts grew more and more
stony, and my pantaloons got thinner
and thinner on the seat, till it seem ed
to me that the world never was so
cold. Then l made some experiments
in manual labor. AS began to work
harder and sit down less | found that
the world was not so cold. 1t vs. s only
when l sat down long time that |
felt how cold and rough the world
really was.
Perhaps it is SO with you. Sedentary
habits and stale beer are apt to make
us morbid. Sitting on the stone door
stills of Railways and public buildings
during cold weather is apt to give you
an erroneous impression Of life.
Of course, / am willing to put my
money into a common fund if | am
convinced that it is best. | was an in
side passenger on Leadville coach
some years ago, when few of your
friends suggested that we all put our
money into a common fund, and was
almost the first one to see that they
were right. They went away into the
mountain to apportlon the money they
got from our party, but | never got
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