Apropos of the movement for reduction of wages dealt with in today's leader a correspondent sends us the following extract from a Jetter sent to a banker in explanation of why the writer could not reduce his overdraft T have been held up, held down and bogged, walked on, sat upon, flattened out, and squeezed. First by our Income Tax, the Super Tax, the Excess Profits Tax, War Loans, War Bonds, War Savings Certificates, the Automobile ax, by every Society and Organization that the inventive mind of man hag conceived to extract what I may or may not have in my possession. Next by the Red Cross, St. Dunstan's and Children's Homes, Y.M.O.A. and Y¥.W.C.A., the Salvation the Belgian Relief, the Austrian Relief, the Black Cross and the Double Cross, and every Hospital in the town and country. The Government has governed Dusiness so that I don't know who owns it, I am inspected,—suspected, quired, and commanded, so that T don't examined, and re-examined, informed, re-now who I am, where I am, or why Jam here at all, All that T am aware of is that I am supposed to be an inexhaustible source of money for every known need, desire, or hope of the human race; and because I will net. sell all I have, and go out and beg, borrow, or steal money to give away, I am cussed, discussed, boycotted, "talked to, talked about, lied. to, tied about, held up, hong up, robbed, and near ruined. and the only reason why I am clinging to life now is to see what the hell happens next.
He really ought to take to liter-; ature. A pen so gifted would soon reduce the overdraft.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.