Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-03-21
CLARKsBURG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH
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PAY YOUR DEBTS.
The following sensible editorial article
from The Augusta Constitutionalist suit,
more places than one. and careful
perusal of it may lead to COED result,
even here in this community:
AS The New Year is upon us, and with
its annual call on all who owe accounts for
settlement, the subject aud the occasion
suggests now appropriate reflections on
every debtor, whether rich or poor
whether the demand be large or SMALL
Now to those who are absolutely without
means, whether in money, property or
! assets wherewith to settle, we have no
Admonition or advice 60 offer, and can
only tender our sympathies for their pen
niless condition. But on those in debt.
W ho have means or can command them,
to pay up, we would urge the moral and
social obligation resting on them TO do so.
This is a time of unexampled pressure !;
and OF scarcity Of money. and many are
dependent solely on the good faith aud
promptness Of those who owe them, for
the means of meeting their own engage
ments, and Of supporting their families. No
man who can pay just claims held by
such persons should decline paying, or
should postpone prompt settlement.
There is an immense amount Of indeht-
edness, both in town and country. in
small sums, yet in the aggregate swelling
up to most imposing figures. Now. too
often it is the habit Of persOns having mo-
ney in their pockets with which to pay
small bill presented to them, to put it off
because it is small. Others, who may
not have money At the moment. put it off.
because being small sum they think it
Of little consequences whether it is paid
that day. or month or q year hence.
and SO conclude to pay it as soon as it is
convenient.
They never think it their duty to put
themselves to any Inconvenience TO get
the money. and often the Convenient mo.
ment never does arrive. Thus q just
small debt goes unpaid for months-per-
haps years, and the honest debtor. nee
dy tradesmau or mechanic goes without
his just dues. This is often done too, ve-
~ often. by men who are in the circles Of
high liIe-weArlng fine clothes and putting
choice segars, and not unfrequently spen
ing on champagne and oysters that which
ought to go 70 their boOtmaker, or tailor.
their butcher or grocer. Many fine silk
dress or bonnet or a school bill, or a shoe
bill, doctors bill, or at last, not least a
printers bill, will be postponed or utterly
neglected by men who will not scruple,
through themselves or families. to indulge
in every new superb uity, caprice or uxu-
ry may suggest, which they can procure
on credit. or which the ready mo,
ney they have on hand. and which should
go to pay old scores, may be required to
purchase.
II all such persons would come square
up TO their duty. the honest toiler, who
must pay as he goes. and who has often,
to pinch his fnmlly in necesSaries, would
be able to pay all he owes, and live com
fortably. The merchant who has goods
to buy, and notes for goods to meet in
bank. and house rent to pay ; the pro.
newspaper publisher, all would get on
more smoothly; house rent would be
paid, the butcher, the grocer, the carPen.
ter, the merchant. aud the mechanic Of
every grade, would feel the hard times
less sorely.
All who are in business know how ra.
pidly money once paid out circulatcs from
hand to hand, and how many deUtH any
given sum Of money will pay passing
from one 10 another. Ten thousand dol
lars paid out one day in community.
will settle ten times that amount of in
debtedness. No man. therefore. ~ho has
but ten dollars in his pocket, should con>
slider it SO small n trihe, that it is mat.
ter of no consequence whether it is paid
one day or another. Start it-let it take
the rounds, and before week is over. it
will gladden. many " fire side, and settle
many annoying demands.