Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
|RUMSELLER GETS HOT
REPLY TO FOLLOW UP"
Letter to Liquor Dealer Who
offered "Private Stock"
Whisky an Eye-Opener
TERRIFIC ARRAIGNMENT
Filed in Dayton. o., Establishment
With Label "T. B. g." Which
Means "To Be Got"

DAYTON, o., Jan 9--Thorc is on file
N the office Of certain wholesale liquor
. dealers firm Of this city letter in
which those who have seen II have been
nightly interested They are few in
number. for the letter caused no con-
n siderable pleasure and is said to have
nrovoked some violent language.
The letter was in reply to the follow
mn" circular which the iuuor house uses
m connec' ion with a scheme Of selling
what II calls private stock whisky "
The man who wrote the letter had re-
celyed one circular about II. which he
. ignored Then the "follow-up" was sent
10 him, saying:
1--WE are surprised that you have not
/. accented the greatest offer we ever pre-
sented to the men of America. Thou
. sands OF men jumped II the opportunity
10 try this superb whisky, and we can
. not understand why we did not hear
from you. Now We ask you-man TO
n ,nan-can't you use quart Of rich.
pure whisky In your home? stop and
Il oonsider what we are Offering Don't
nut this off as you did before Slip
Il your remittance in the order card here
with, and welBpsee that the goods go
forward by the first express"
Then the man replied.
Before you reld his letter of reply
u you ought to know who the writer is.
. THE liduOr dealer took the pains to
find out all about him and said some
very forceful things, when he got his
. .information) His name is Arthur Tai
image Abernethy. He has halr-dozen
. learned degrees He lives in Green's
.boro, y. G. Ten years ago he stood high
in learned circles, as an educator, an
editor md an author. Since then he
has been down to the depths of Lell and
Is struggling back upward. His letter
explains why. as well as explaining
|why he did not buy the whisky. The
letter reads
"You say that you cannot understand
why you did not hear from me. Yes
and /, too. am surprised that you have
mot heard from me. ! have used your
&rye whisky in the past, and have used
the red rye whisky of other distillCrs Of
your kind, and | am surprised that they
have not all heard from me-
"You should have heard from me when
} drew a fortune of $50, 600 aut Of the
banks and wasted 1t i'm riotous living
Ereveling with other unfortunate men
under the demonlac a achemy and spell
Df your devilish deCOCtOn. You should
have heard from me when I threw away
q reputation equal to that Of any young
5nan in America for the privilege Of maxi
Iing an outcast and wreck of myself
drinking your vile whisky
II will admit, I have been rcmiss in
not letting you hear from me long before
this time. l should have written you
with a pen made from the plumaEe
plucked from the bird of paradise that
drove from my contented and happy
home; / should have penned you in my
heart's blood on the occasion of the
burial Of my gray-haired mother, whose
heart I broke by my conduct, white under
fhe devilish influence of your damnahle
{ stan, I should have kept you informed
should have 'repOr cd progress When
"A awoke to the sad realization that, from
man carrying degrees and titles Of
honor from the great universities. and
started well up the ladder Of recognition
hs the author of more than nineteen
Historical works, I had fallen into mem
pal, moral, physical and financial bank
fuptcy, I should have called on you. |
should have wended my way into your
richiy decorated private office i'm Dayton.
the walls Of which are crimsoned with
lhe blood of thousands of human wrecks,
and there demanded Of you that you give
me the reward of my faithful YassalaEe
20 your devilsh, demOralizing, disease
making, mnd-wrecking business.
But If / have been remiss in letting
you hear from me, remember that you
will hear from me i'm the future. I am
how a preacher of the Gospel, and
am making it my business to let, not
Dnly you, but every other manufacturer
pr the liquid damnation that is utilized
IN hells communion service know tn It
am being heard from. You make your
appeal to me as man to man-and it
Is because you are not a man and be-
pause your Internal business unmans
nen that | am fighting 1t to the bitter
|end with all the recCnsecrated powers
lett In the former man that your de-
lnoralizing dope could not destroy.
You speak of talking as man to man.
why, you would not dare stand before
man and insult his manliness with
Inc proposition to unsteady his nerves,
disorder his digestion, disturb his heart
potion, muddle his mind, demoralize his
demeanor lbuse his activity and cloud
bis conscience with the use of your
materlal. You urge me to stop and
consider-and it is because have stop
ped and considered that l am eternally
and everiastingly the sworn enemy to
your nefarious business, so long as l
snail hereafter be permitted to live"
II may interest the reader to know
INIT this letter is filed in the case
labeled '"T. b. c." which, employees Of
ehe mouse say, means ITO be got"