Year: 1875

The following dun is the best decidedly
that We have ever read. The man who
would refuse to pay up after perusing such
an episte would deserve to be kicked into
tan-vat by jassax, or talked to death by
scolding wife. 1t was issued by gentle
man doing business at Fountain, Minnesota,
to his delinquent debtors, and is commend
ed to the attention of thousands of business
men who are situated as he is:


My DEAR SIR: | want to ask YOU
plain question, in all kindness and sincerity,
and | would like to have you answer it
honestly and candidly, not in two or three
years or months, but now, this week Sup
posing you were as poor as Jobs turkey,
and had invested two or three thousand
dollars in an enterprise which you designed
to make an exclusively cash business sup
posing as matter of accommodation and
good nature, you had trusted it out all over
the country, from h-ll to Jericho sup
posing you had kept adding to your means,
and still putting it on the books for few
days, until your funds were played out.
like old Foot's prayer meeting supposing
you had claims coming against YOU in the
hands of business men who had accommo-
dated you in good faith, and needed their
money supposing you had some pride in
you, and meant to be square toed and pune
ual, and hated to see u man whom you owed
when you didn't have the legal-tender in
your trowsers to pay his just and lawful de-
mands, worse than you would to see an Iu-
jun or the Devil and supposing those
whom you had accommodated felt perfectly
easy and eontentcd "shied the track when
you went to see them, and told the wife of
their bosom, Not at home, or came into
town and left without paying even part
supposing they held your money, and waited
patiently for wheat to come up five or six
dollars Il hundred-what would YOU do ?
Would you let your debts 90, ''and smile
and be villain or would you sue every
mother son of them that didn't pay you
if it were the last business You transacted
in town?


If you were an honest man you'd do the
latter, and that's just what I'll be compcll-
ed to do shall do, if the Lord is God, or
there is a king in Israel


L don't want money to look at [ can
earn enough for that; / don't want any to
salt down | never could make it keep
but out of several thousands trusted out.
humbly want few hundreds, and I'll be
ID if | won't have it, or an execution re-
turned nulla bona.


! have in addition to erecting an eXpen-
sivc store in Fountain, been seduced into
investing over thousand dollars in new
hall, which is an ornament as well as
convenience to this town at large. As you
know, | was promised four hundred dollars,
cash, to assist me- Well, out of this little
four hundred | have received just twenty
six. | don't expect any more. and | don't
want it The hall is done 1t is mine,
and to let when the school house cannot be
had. But | want what is owed to me. 1t
is small amount to you; it means thous-
ands of dollars to me. | shall be home in
a few days to square up. Let doc, have
the money now, before go. There is not
one of You, man or woman, from Christi
ana to Dublin, that he would not run his
head into the fire to serve, whether he ever
expected anything for it or not. Get his
receipts before 90 home, and his soul will
rejoice. | love you myself as Il mother
lovcth her frst-born; but | love to pay my
debts better than | love any man, woman,
or child on God Almightys green earth
and by the Great Eternal and the Centen-
nial of Congress, propose to do it, if |
have to make cost for every man in Fill
more county Now let's have the spond-
ulicks, and see how sweet and pretty | can
smile upon you. Yours earnestly.


c. s. POWERS,
Senior partner in the firm of c. :. Powers


e Sons