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Sir;...This article does not much surprise me...It does surprise me that America is going to waste another moment of life on the death of Jackson... I never saw much in him, and what ever disease he had created in him a grotesque characature of a man.... But it does not surprise me that you should attack him, even in death where all should know peace...While you bend every effort to defend the wealth of those who do nothing for it, Mr. Jackson actually did something for his money...Isn't that cause enough for contempt??? Doesn't the sweat spent to buy wealth make it Filthy Lucre???When wealth is actually created is when it is most vulnerable... To take home a penny, the poor must give one to the government, and give at least one to the employer...Why not keep it this way??? Isn't the working man a brute, and is not every poor man made rich also brutish in his wealth??? How many popsicles could Elvis afford as a child??? And given unlimited funds, what do the wildest dreams of averice afford but what youth denied???Wealth is not the same disease to those born always with it... To those who once know want as babes, no amount of wealth can cure them...Poverty, and the working class smell will hang on them until they die, and then, they will not be so much morned as abused by the wealthy they hoped to join in our pantheon of greats....You might consider the words of a Zurich Choir Master named Felix Hemmerlin who wrote in the first half of the fifteenth century a book entitled De Nobilitate in which he said this: Beside the man of gentle birth he [the man of the common herd] looks not like a human being, but like some hideous, half terrifying, half comic hobgoblin... He is a human being with back twisted and humped, shapeless as a mountain, with foul and grimmacing visage, the stupid random stare of the donkey, brow covered with furrows, beard unkempt, hair a grayish matted thatch, eyes blear under brows like bristles, and he has a huge wen... His unshapely, course, mangy, shaggy body is upheld by wambling legs, and his foul and scanty clothing leaves his discolored and inhuman breast exposed to sight.... ...If this portrait seems a little over done, it may be; but then go to church and see those who have given their lives to their labors, and their money to their churches... We may be better off, but it is with such contempt that we are all viewed by the tolerant gentle people of America, as having no reason, nor right... Thanks...Sweeney... And I have the above reference by way of Ludwig Marcuse...