WHAT NEXT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 241, 10 September 1932, Page 9

WHAT NEXT.

A contributor has forwarded the following extremely “confidential” letter to ail exchange, which adds that, as others ma.y be in a similar predicament, the letter is published in full. It reads: For the following reasons I am unable to send you the cheque for which you ask:—l have been held up, held down, sandbagged, walked upon, sat upon, flattened out, and squeezed out by the income tax, the super tax, the beer tax, unemployment tax, stamp tax, and by every society, organisation, and club that the inventive mind of man can think of to extract what 1 may or may not have in my possession for the Red cross, Black Cross, and Double Cross, and every hospital in town and country. The Government has governed my business until 1 don’t know who owns it. I’m inspected, suspected, examined. and re-examined, informed, required and commanded so that I don’t know who I am or why I am here at all. All I know is that I am supposed to he an inexhaustible supply of money for every need, desire, or hope of the human race. Because I will not go and beg, borrow, or steal money to give away, 1 am “cussed, discussed, boycotted, talked to, talked about, lied to, lied about, held up, hung up, rung up, robbed, and nearly ruined. The only reason I am clinging to life at all is to see what on earth is going to happen next.