The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-08-24
cnEsrER. CHARGED

on Flodden,s fatal field. Since that
memorable day the words "Charge it,
have been the cause of the death, tinan-
cially speaking, of millions of good
men and true Farmers, mechanics,
merchants, lahorers, men and women
III every avocation of life have suffered
from the effect of those baneful words,
sCharge it,
Look around among your own nc
uuaintances in this rich and fruitful
Willamette valley and count how
many men who once owned many
broad and fertile acres and who are
now working rs hired hands on the
lands once owned by them and lost
through the words ''Charge it, Sean
the records of your country and note
the mortgages, the death grips held
by those sharks, the foreign money
lenders, and by those no less rapacious
gentlemen, our local capitalists, over
the homes Of the people. Ask why
these things are so and you will be told
those people were too fond of going in
debt to the merchants. Charge 1t"
accounts for ninc-tenths of the mort
cages recorded in your county.
That merchant was doing q seem
ingly prosperous business in Albany,
Scio, Lebanon, Halsey, Harrisburg or
elsewhere, yet he had TO make an as
signment HIS bills become due, h5s
creditors are inexorable; they must
have thefa money; they viii not wait.
The merchant, complying with the
request, many, many times repeated, TO
Charge it, = has thousands upon thou
sands on his books, which cannot be
Immediately collected. Ruin stares
him in the face, and there is no other
honorable way left for him, if he can
not find some friend 10 step in With
money to his aid, than TO turn over
everything he is possessed of--often
many times tile amount of the claims
against hin-to those creditors for
them to make their money out of if
they can. Charge it, has been fatal
TO his success in business. It has been
fatal TO the mechanic, the day laborer,
the professional man. the editor; in
fact, who has escaped unscathed from
those portcntous words?
Why not turn over new leaf? Why
not make the words .Charge it, obso-
lete, in fact make them as dead as Mar
nlion is now. Our crops are abundant
You may be in debt. Now IS the time
10 get out; do so as early as You can.
Eonfine your wants in the future to
your means Of paying on the spot. If
You own but one square rod OF ground,
let it be Your own. When You want
TO buy anything on credit, don't buy it;
wait until you have the means of pay
lng for what YOU want. When YOU
feel sorely tempted to sell anything on
credit, don't sell it; wait until the
other fellow has the means of paving
for what he wants Credit is snare
and delusion; cash down Is what goes
now be up with the procession. Let
Spot cash. be Your motto, whether
You buy or sell. Then yea will have
no worry, no dread Of creditors, no
grieving over bad debtors; when an
jmpeeunious cuss lights out You can
let him go cheerfully-he won't owe
You anything; verify, in all the busi-
ness ph,ises Of life, the peace that pass
eth all understanding will be yours.
One Of the laws of these United
states that is systematically violated
ia the naturalization law. If its pro-
visions We're honestly conformed to
there need be no just apprehension in |
reference to immigration Not only /
must the applicant have been resi-
dent Of this country five years. but
during that time he must have behaved |
<1s q man Of good moral character. 4
faithful enforcement of that provision /
would have prevented a very large
proportion of those foreigners who are
now American citizens from becoming
such. 1t is well known that the tur-
bulent and disorderly element of our
cities is largely foreign, and it is just !
as well known that the corrupt and
eorrupting element In our politics
comes from the same class. The nat /
uralization law in some of its most inn
portant features is dead letter.
The following derivations of the
names. of the presidential candidates
are given in a merican Notes and Que
Fies: The name of Cleveland is cor
ruption of Ciifaand, so called from its
situation on a steep, rocky locality
Thurman Is from Thor, the Saxon god
and man lis figurative meaning is
one having the strength and wisdom
of Thor Harrison means Henry's son
or Harry's son. 1t is identical in
meaning with Harris and Herries.
Morton is q local name, from the par
1sh of Morton, in Nithesdale, Dumfiie-
shire, Scotland. Nor in the Gallo,
signifies big, great, and ton is from
dun, hill. Morton, the big or great
hill.
We would like to have the correct
figures of the sum on which Jay Gould
and Vanderbilt pay taxes. 1t would
furnish very interesting reading, and
allow one practical knowledge of
very vulgar and exceedingly diminu-
tive fractions in calculating the per
cent. Each of these gentlemen are
reported TO be worth nearly $500, O00,-
900. a tax of five mills on the dollar
would be 81, 1,0O0I0 900 each, and we will