The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-01-20
ANDERSON s c. THURSDAY JANUARY 90 1870 VIC
Pay Up.

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We have hidden final farewell to the
old and taken fast hold of the New Year
The festivities that greeted The annual
stopping place in our count of time are
over, and we address ourselves to the Sc,
rious thoughts and the weighty under,
takings of the three hundred and sixty
five days that belong to the incoming
cycle. Holidays have their shady as we'll
as their sunshiny"side. 1t is wise, whilst
they are with US, TO look onlyA at the
brighter aspect, and wiser still, when we
have done honor to the feast, enjoying
the relaxation that should strengthen for
renewed exertion, to address ourselves
with added vigor to the real duties OF life.
If we had an almanac that predicted for
us the social and business meteorology of
life, we should, under the head of Janua-
ry first, see "About this time look for
many bills" 1t is settling time. All
sorts of bills are coming in. Those who
have bills that they consider perfectly
good have kept them back from presenta-
tion till this period; those who have bills
that they consider decidedly bad make ut
this time a strenuous effort to realize
them. Many man at the first OF Janu-
ary finds that he owes more than he
thought he did, and many others find that
they havo less to pay with than they ex-
pectcd.
The money question of the year has to
be faced, and the problem of making both
ends meet solved. To those who cannot
pay, who have been improvident or spend-
thrift, there is nothing to be said except
to advise them to do so no more-advice,
by the way, which they are not likely to
heed, and which is therefore scarcely
worth giving. But to those who can, we
say aPay up" Put your money in Cir
culation, look over your accounts, collect
your own bills, and endeavor to COM
mence the year with clean balance sheet.
Especially pay your small, debts those
you owe to your doctor, your tailor, your
shoemaker, and your tradesmen general
ly. Great injustice and great harm are
often thoughtlessly done by those who
are abundantly able to pay, by thenegect
of their small accounts The very insig-
nificance of the amount in their estima-
ton tends to make them careless about it.
They know they intend to pay, and know
that they can pay by merely drawing a
check, and therefore put it off. But what
is small matter to them is a large one
to the creditor. "Many mickles make
muckie." The personal and family bills
that we make are generally small ones,
but their aggregate, owed by line of
customers, is often the sole capital of the
tradesman.
You have been good purchaser, he
knows you are safe to pay, wants con-
tinuance of your custom and does not like
to press you. But he wants his money
badly. He owes bills that must be paid
if his credit is to be maintained. Per-
haps he has been 80 far successful in the
past year as too see the way to enlarging
his business at the commencement of the
new year, but if you are slow in paying,
the chance may be lost; or he may have
been unsuccessful, and your prompt pay
ment may be the only thing that can save
him from sinking into bankruptcy. Either
case may be one of your making There
fore, pay up. The prompt payment with
in this month of ali the small bills, owing
by those who are able to pay, would put
an amount of money into circulation that
in its turn, running into all the channels
of trade, would relieve embarrassments,
revivify business, and give tone and con.
6dence to the commercial aspect of the
opening year. Besides, if you pay, some
body else may find that money coming to
them, and be able to pay you. So there
is Justice as we'll as selfishness in paying
american.