Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

iHE nan who pursues a honest c.lua, though he may meet y1th re- verses iu the world, always has some thing left s1 fall back ou. He may be burned out by fire, or h:s effects may be carried away hy a cyclone, leaving him utterly Gsnuiless, yet those with whom b. bus traded for years, knowing that he Is honest, and that he will live up to l.s promises, say tO him secure another building and open up business, We will back you and let you have aL-tAe goods yoa want, and y0u can pay xsr them when yol eau It will be remembered how tae merchants of Boston and New York came to the relief or the honest bls.ae-= mel oi Chicago on the occa- sion 1f the great fire ia that city ID 1872. Mt aue of them but vas able to resume hgzlesz as soon as quarters could be secured Bat the tricky and dishonest ones -tl8-e El5 had been in the habit as -aal-u- heir creIitOr5-failing and then e-rs-sn- a settlement on from lj to 51 cents on -ue dollar, to resume with m7rt.sal capital, had no credit and cll,l not buy a dollars worth Of goods without paying the money down. There are thousands of prosperous merchants u Cu,a-o who are now wealthy, that were left destitute after the great fire, with nothing in the world to resume business on except their good names. 4 rascal, cheat and a fraud may get ahead lew hundred or a few thousand dollars. but there are few of such men who gam a competence, and still fewer who save 1t. Show us a man who habit ually refuses to pay his debts, and we vii. show ru man who can never sue csel in lifa, unless he reforms. The man waois always ready Co pay and never t-ia- t' defraud his creditors is the one who w.I eventually succeed. IT you are ID deb. SlO1 and you come into the pos session of Sl00. remember that the money does not belong to You, but to the man whom you are indebted to, and that # is not only your duty, but to your in- terest To pay the debt as soon as posFi- bie But 1T you cannot pay all the money 10 your creditor, pay the most Of lt Jp him, and never rest until you shall have paid the balaace. Occasionally there are men who start business in a town, aad after building mp a credit abroad and a trade at home, deliberately gH Co work with g. view of so shaping t-..- affairs as Co make money by failing up~ and then settling on per ceut- CT p committing arson for the p1rro=e getting the Insurance money after aair stock has been reduced to empty barrels and boxes. Such things a-a li--raceful, and should not be conn t5uleeI iu auy community. IT tine in- Jury .a3 disgrace that follows Euch dla- baIical ac!s only attacLed to the guilty party it would not ba so bad {; but ii d5ss not. 4 few such failures n a town ilrairs the credit of every merchant m it who owes a dollar abroad. Creditors send in their bills and insist upon i'm mediate payment, or what IS the equiva lent good and sufficient security that the bills will be paid on short tine We are compelled to admit that suct questionable failures have been made in this place, and that good men have been nsGe to suffer in con sequence. The bosiness men and the public can do much toward putting a stop to such nefnrioui praet,cas. Iti- the duty of every hon est man to condemn and expose suci rascallty, which must necessarily lnJu-' the sta1dIng of our merchants abroad and iu time the standing of the whol' community. We are glad to know, how ever. that such thincs are condemned by nearly all of our business men, ana by the community generally. Rascali'y and fraads must be busted if we expec credit abroad, and prosperity at home Men wuo make their money by arsol and fraud should be summed by al good citizens; have nothing to do wltl such men. Deal with responsible an' honorable houses; build up the goo name of good houses, and you will buii' up a reputation for the town. It's b
 honorable acts and fair dealing that m dividUals succeed in life, and towns an' cities are only :scoIlections of indiUd
 uGls.