The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-10-14

in the world, and in that bank his word
was law. Its vast deposits he regarded
as his own, and used them accordingly.
He himself and his great residences and
his royal s'style'' had to be kept up,
even if every body and every thing else
should have to go down. But this
splendor, this princely extravaganza,
this stupendous spread could not
be kept up and go on forever. There
is an end to all things, and especially
when they are splurgy things-and one
day Ralst0n, whose annual expendi-
lures exceeded the entire capital of his
bank, and whose brilliant mightiness
had been maintained these dozen years
or so by the free use of other peoples
money and the help Of other peoples
foolish worship of a very false and a
very pretentious idol, was pushed to the
wall, and up he goes, with his big bank
and all his grandeur, like an exploded
powder-magazine A huge bag of wind
again bursted and vanished! And the
Pacific Slope, which had for years pin
ned its financial faith to the skirts OF
this Man of Splurge, now suddenly
wakes up to find itself one vast empire
of bankruptcy and ruin. With his fall
thousands have lost their all, and 'sthe
end is not yet. - s:-.rs.,a
WHAT DO ALL THESE FACTS PROVE?
That the Men Of Splurge are very un-
safe men-very dangerous to have any
dealings with, By them is the country
filled with speculation and inflationary
schemes, and by them is the CONNER
cial, industrial, and financial world
precipitated into periodic wreck and
chaos. They are men of wind, not
substance; men of gauze and glitter ,
not solidity; men of buster, not brains
Beginning with nothing, they succeed
by the sheer force of brazen impudence
in building themselves up on the credu.
lity and folly of their fellow-men, and
Ithen launch out in a career !O1
personal, domestic, and socia
extravaganza that makes them CON
spicuous above all other men-and still
people are thoughtless enough not to see
that this sort of thing is the precursor
of sure disaster. None but real Princes
can live like Princes, and even they mo-
unfrequently find it ruinous. 1t cost:
heaps and heaps of money to keep ul
the ssstyle' of these Men of Splurge
and if you are creditor of theirs, looi
QUIT is yostr money they are using
and it is yo,tr money that will be los
! when their day of reckoning comes. l
, is safe piece of advice to give, whei
t we say,
AVOID THE NAN OF sPLURGE
= as you would a mad dog, highwa..
f robber, or any other enemy of you
!, personal safety. History, ever sine
the world began, emphasizes this les
son.
And the man of Splurge is by n
means confined to bankers, writers Ora
tors, or politicians. Here and there yo
!, will find him in almost every departmen
: of affairs, in city and country. Some
: times he is a merchant, often real-es
tate speculator, often a stock-jobber
: and occasionally a manufacturer
= Wherever you may chance to find him
you will readily detect the peculia
: symptoms and characteristics of tn
!, Splurge tribe-bhuster big pretensions
!. smagnificences' continually doin
: .great things" and continually abor
= to do still greater things. The verb
q spl,rye is synonymous with our defin
6 ton Of the verb to spread and SO thi
7 is the actual self-spreading capacity {
= the greatest of mankind, that those Ell
" gaging in that sort of experimentation
:: either for their own or other people
i delectation, generally burst themselves
:, or fiatten themselves out so completed
that they never recover their norma
!. equilibrium Chicago Tribune.