The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-03-25

ANDERSON. S. g.,
he says, II will sell you all the goods I
have got on credit, clerks and all; l will
Just close out to you on credit; you can
get anything you want here" He was q
hardshell.
O, I want to see every denomination1n
this country come to the point where the
man, if he is q Christian at all, this
world knows he is honest: that be is
honest; and he will do what he says he
will do. Cries of "Amen." That is
what we want. I will tell you what we
want in Chicago, and we want it in every
place in America, and that is revival of
honesty. We don't want revival of
shouting, nor q revival of singing. You
all sing pretty we'll now. Laughter
But I will tell you what we want; we
want revival of honesty, honesty, hon
esty.
am down on homesteads, I am down
on all that thing. "Ah," you say, "that
won't do. Why, you would leave man
without dollar in the world" God
bless you, I have been left right there
many time myself Get the idea?
Many time I have been left without
dollar in the world and had wife and
four or five children to look after, too,
and not a dollar in the world. Why,
what is the matter? Would you rather
be dishonest with $500 in your bank than
be honest and have none? You are diff
ferent sort of fellow to myself if that is
your line. Mark what tell you: If
you handle money at all let it be honest
money. will tell you another thing.
DISHONEST MEN.
Whenever man who owes money can
live in fine house, and board with his
wife, and be agent for his wife laughing
himself my! my! my Laughter
Agent for his wife! Now, sir, I want to
find my sbroud and get in it laughter
before I ever get to be agent tor my wife.
Renewed laughter Agent for his wife !
Sister, why don't you have his name
changed and make him take your name ?
All, brother, this agent for wife. Now
you may be all right am now talking
about myself-you may be covered fully,
but I am never going to be agent for my
wife. I am never going to board with
my wife. / am going to let her board
with me. Look here at that man board
ing up there with his wife in $4,000
house, and riding down these streets in
81 200 carriage. aud that driver sitting
up there on the front seat, the finest
dressed man in town. And there is the
man sitting back in that carriage, and
there is poor widow walking along the
street, with perhaps hardly any shoes on
her feet. And that man in that carriage
owes that poor woman $1,000 that she
deposited with him. If there is any hell
at all you will go there sure, sir. Great
applause.] 1 believe my wife loves me
too we'll to live in a $4,000 house and
see poor widow woman walkiog in the
street barefooted, and have gobbled up
that poor woman's money. I think my
wife loves too we'll to suffer such as that.
And tell you, my brother, this question
of honesty must be brought down to
plain, simple propositions. man is
honest, or he is dishonest, and say of
this speculation, if you run meat up you
are taking dollars and cents out of the
pockets and stomachs of the poor. If
you run it down, then what? Ah, me, I
can't cry to save my life when one of you
spectators gets gobbled up. I can'thelp
but look on and say: "Goue, thank
God, gone" Laughter. Gone glim-
mering! 1 have tried my best to feel
sorry for one of these fellows, but never
could get up any sympathy for him. l
don't know what is the matter. Right is
right and wrong is wrong. That is the
truth about them.
Now we are talking about the condi-
tions of Christianity, and / believe hon
esty is the bedrock upon which we build,
if we build at all. 1t is downright hon
esty, and 1 know what l am talking
about. Righteous. I don't believe in
your homestead nor your bankrupt laws.
God bless you, brother, I have been
where paid the last dollar could pay,
and was still hundreds of dollars in debt.
never took homestead though, never
took the benefit of bankrupt law. I tell
you another thing. When | started in
a poor, starving church down in Georgia
men who could have held me UP said
they would have more confidence in the
fellow if he would pay his debts; and
my precious wife, though raised far
above that plane, was doing her own
cooking, her own ironing, all her own
housework, and I was cutting her wood
and doing everything could for her;
and out of my poor meagre salary l saw
my wife reach the point where she didn't
have good dress to wear to save her life,
and I didn't have q whole coat to my
name, but I would 60 and pay $3.50 at q
time on a note; and thank God, ,spaid
the last dollar-100 cents on the dollar.
[Applause.] And you can do it, too, if
you try. If you can pay your debts, and
you don't pay them God will put you in
hell for it, and you need not mouth us
here on any other proposition. APP
plause. Now, if you cannot pay your
debts, do your best, and if you cannot
pay 100 cents pay copper cent. Do
your best and pay every nickle you can,