The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-07

I men can not be content, nor are they salts
flied with increasing wages as they advanced
lin their trade or profession; they covetS
senough to start them in life when other men
Ehave stopped And when their wages do,
( not meet their prodigal expenses, they year.
sby year sell themselves, their work, their
smoney, their energy, their hope, their life,
stheir future, to men who can pursue and
scontrol them until death will be welcome as
IA glad relief. And this occurs every day:
saround US, and the warning seems TO affect
mo one, the example seems to be Lost, and.
Hundreds rush on to the same fate. Reck-
Hess speculation, the insane desire to be rich.
the extravaganza of personal and family ex-
Spenses, are prolific sources of financial fail
lure, and yet tGey are the easiest ways in
which retrenchment can be made and money!
Saved. We are only just over the fever heats
safter the war; We are realizing now howl
muck honest labor is worth, but for somes
{ there must be lower depths yet before event
1this simple truth is understood. Dishonesty
tricks by which fortunes were made are nows
: being exposed, and the accumulated thou
sands are melting away in the clear light of;
shonest dealing; and the men who cheateds
2and swindled are driven by the record of
I their own baseness from the scenes of theirs
ztheft. They lose not only their social posi-
3tion, their reputation in church or society,
fbut they forfeit all they have gained in busi-
5ness, and men shun them and their under;
5takings henceforth. They were not content;
II. i.
fright dealing; they must leap to the top-l
most round of the ladder and enjoy the
sluxuries and pleasures of life before theyE
<could pay honestly for them. These menI
@have lured others on, debts have been in i
scurred, that they too might live like mill
5lionaires, and bankruptcy and disgrace have:
fbeen the result. We are learning now toI
Z look with distrust upon such riches; we arel
SLOWLY appreciating the value of continuous
Shonest, honorable work and the reward that
Els certain to follow.
q Men who with q salary OF 81 200 spendI
sss2, 500, will now be watched, and the source;
4whence they derive their extra income will
zreeeive the attention of their employers
2and disgrace and discharge will be the result
sReckless expenditure of money will elicit
sremark, and the first dereliction from duty
3vill be punished. Prudent business mem
4will investigate the means by which extrav-
sagant living is maintained, and the foolish
pride which forces debt will cost many their
5positions and debar them from other places!
ffOf trust. How many of the defaulters, the
5forgers that to-day are either detected or un-I
sSdetected can not trace the motives of their
Ncrimes back to the pressure for money to!
meet debts incurred by fast living. 1t is the
burden that they could not shake of, and
their servitude was so CALLING that they rum
s the risks of exposure and final disgrace to be
fonce more free
Manly, womanly independence is worth
zalmost everything in the world-the power,
the right to stand before the world free, free
: from the clutch of any who can degrade
SIn debt man is not himself, woman loses
3her freedom: each is more or less in the
4power of some one who can to a certain de
<gree control their wages and their actions
MEN with the burrows of age and care uPon|
stheir faces, with gray hairs and dimmed
5eyes. are working like galley slaves to keep
5from their throats the grasp of those to|
3whom they are in debt, They are toiling to
$2.pay the money borrowed IN years when they
3could have done without it, and are hoping
4only to work on to earn enough to keep
S them from pauper's grave. They dread to-
s]meet their master, the man who holds their
4notes, and shrink when they can pay neither
ZIthe interest nor the promised part of the
{lprincipal.
q The man and woman who willingly lifts
8upon their shoulders the burden of debt
fastens there a crushing weight that unless
<1their recuperatiye energies are perfect will
3ruin and kill them. If married, and starting
Hin the new life they allow fashion or folly
Ito enslaye them in this tangle; they are
3darkening their home and paralyzing their
'3keenest, best powers If they permit their
3common sense and prudence to be silenced,
3and buy that for which they can not pay at
the moment nor in the immediate future,
sjthey will be slaves to the merchant who
43secured slaves alto him-so small a cost,
1but to them months, perhaps years, of anx-
3ety and terror.
q There rs no need for young people to re-
u gard marriage as an expensive luxury; it is
l1vhat they may choose to make it, the
8 state in which they work the best, do
Sthe most get the best of life. economic and
Save for old age, or it is to add another evil
,9to those which preceded it. A simple
755hOme, place to bring and keep the best of
'5fearth and life, is the result OF one course; /;
5fooIish, silly, expensive living is the other.
III is easy to choose and take the reward.
q We need cottage homes, not rooms here
and board there; not boarding; not cran ped,
Irregular habits, but modest. unpretentious