Show milestones OF commercial DISTORT not content with pointing Dg out that advertising in a narrow contracted mossback and non circulating sheet brought mr flavin the san francisco francisca clothier to hie his roin ruin the san francieco examiner now maintains that il the unfortunate merchant pays a single cent on the claim which C h the paper holds against hi him in for advertising he will III be defrauding fra creditors who have every evory right to expect better treatment at hie his handa hands in other words the examiner pointblank point blank advises him to repudiate the claim entirely arguing that the paper has already dono done him injury enough by pretending pretend lax to advertise his business without now coming forward to add insult by presenting a bill for alleged services Bor vicea rendered rea dered it even intimates that be he bas has cause of action in a suit for damages this is an ingenious but not altogether dubious course to recommend certainly a paper that clainie a large or general circulation and hasa t it obtains money under filse pretenses from advertisers who are led to believe e they will be able to reach the public through its RA columns in this view of the case cass a victim who has been brought to rain ruin through tigh the swindle owes it to the community hat that he be confess bis his own mistake and expose the falsehoods of his betrayer the general proposition that a man who Is tool enough to be caught in any euch such trap deserves to have hava the sheritta sherif Ta lock pat put on his door undergoes much nine h modification when the worst bas has finally come and the sufferer ia Is then an object of pity bat charity in the face ace of each such stupid business basine ea dealing may not be expected always it men will be blind to the examples left by other men how long can they expect public sympathy to come to them in their self incurred tr oabe |