The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1884-12-19

Chicago Express.i

Chicago Express.
Debt has killed more men than
pestilence; has filed more luils
than intoxicating liquors; has sent
more souls nnhidden 10 Judgment
than unlequiled love; has robbed
mankind OF more happiness than
Death.
Debt il the destroyer OF peace,
the ravisher OF contentment, the
death warrant Of happsBess.
Il bars the way 10 prosperity, u
sits a spectral guest at the socifl
board, It stands between the chll-
,lren aud the fire upon the hearth,
and absorbs the light and warmth
and comfort which are theirs by
right. H..
Ii robs the landscape of its beau:
ty, the warm breezes Of their soft
ness, causing the one to become !
barren waste, and the other III
carry the chill Of December In its
caresses-
| Debt is He'll.
Ii is great stone lying upon the
sepulcre OF hope, forbidding 1t a re-
surrection.
The rack is a bed OF flowers con-
pared to that which debt prepares
for its victims. u.
thumb screws and a cat-o-nine-
tails would bring a grateful sense
of relief to the debtor who conld
thus be made to forget bis mental
sufierings.
The brain is more sensitive than
tue body. A weight that wonld
crush tue body Is as nothing to the
weight which debt lays upon the
brain. 4
Dante's Inferno is a failure and
bis hell a weak conception because
he failed to depict the suIerings OF
one goaded TO frenzy by debt
Debt robs modesiy OF its bushes
manhood Of its virtue, the race OF
its humanity.
Religion is q farce and Cbrist's
mission on earth a failure, II 1t eau
not save men from the fortunes OF
debt.
Chlldhood and youth aud man.
hood and old age are crushed by IT,
/. Ii is a Fiend Incaruate that has
! taken possession OF society; has
! poisoned the we'll spring OF justice
has tainted the pure waters Of mer
y cy has corrupted the fountain o.
!, lite.
u Debt warps the judgment; i
!. palsies the brain; IL stiles the
! prompting of the heart to good
ness.
1t is u prompter TO crime. II
7 whispers evil things into the ear ol
!, its victim; II holds familiar cod
: verse with desperate resolves.
. 1t il the Nemesis OF the race to
! day. Il lies down With men n
Z night and rises with them In ths
; morning, follows tbcn ut their ~
bors, and returns to sit at theiI
side while they feed.
: 1t rasps their nerves until they
fall asleep from exhaustion, and
I, colors their dreams with the tint
ines of hell afterward.
II is the Molock Of the Nineteenth
: Century.
Infauts are sacrificed TO it daily
> 1t drinks up the sunlight before u
J reaches the tenement houses 70 tor
: bids the pure air to penetrate Il
}, the homes OF those whom IL hai
:, made poor in the cities, or to th'
}, factories where they toll for th'
bread which debt causes to b'
moistened with tears.
u 1t causes bright eyes TO eros
{ DIM, stroug arms to grow weak
i changes honest men aud women Z
u become thieves and wautons, an'
} transforms q nation of treemen int
8 race of towards and slaves. |
. must be slain or The nation will die
D. civilization perish, and the worit
n roll backward into another thous
Q aud years OF darkness aud barba
. rism until Christ shall como aeali
y 10 race willing to heed his warn
II ings against debt and nsury.