St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-21

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+ Never did greater bOndman live than
the man who is struggling under debts
he cannot pay. The weakest point in
education and the greatest danger
threatening free institutions is the habit
of contracting extravaganza debts and
diScOunting the future years in advance.
Whenever man contracts heavy
debt he voluntarily, for that length OF
time, binds himself to state of slavery,
/ and when debts pile up beyond his ca
pacity he is bound forever, if his credit
Ors do not release him.
There should be a law passed that
every man, woman and child should
have branded on the palm of the hand
the word mol" and whenever any one
proposed debt to them they should hold
/ up the branded hand, with the answer,
mop
Politicians and teachers are trying to
give reasons why, in land of plenty.
there is still so much suffering and COM
plant of hard times.
1t is because the majority of the peo-
pie owe more than they are able to pay
they have lived up their earnings
ahead, and are now simply trying to-
carry out promises made to creditors.
and have no time or means for anything
else. They are servants to the
lender" and must be governed accord
ingly. The majority of men are not
willing to sell themselves once, but
they do 1t over and over again. until
there is no hope or chance of redemp-
ton. The records of the country show
that for the last twenty-five years, in
stead of getting out OF debt, the major
ity have been getting deeper in; and it
is the exception, not the rule, to lind a
piece of property clear.
Nearly every day the papers record
some suicide committed by an unfort
innate weary of life under a load of
debt. These cases are not confined to
novels alone, but often occur where
there is every appearance OF comfort.
and in nine cases out of ten are because
the load was too heavy to bear. He saw
no end to slavery. land quit. Ii he had
only had mo- branded in his hand, land
when his tongue was too feeble to utter
it, held up the burnt palm, he might
have been saved. 1t is hard to pass
shop windows. decorated with beauties
and attractions, holding out temptations
to buy; to see people riding by in fine
turnouts, apparently free from labor
and care. 1t is great temptation where
proprietors are so willing to accommo-
date, and clerks are so nice, but the
only SalVatlOn is TO say mo"
Pay Day Will Certainly Come,
and before it gets here hundred disap-
pointments. Other people will be be-
hind, and that will stop you the same as
those ahead and behind come to stand
still. Those VINO should be the first and
farthest from debt are in the worst of
all, with the least prospect OF getting
out.
The poor farmer! Think of him.
Every farmer would jump to-day as
high as the top of his house if he could
say II am out of debt and my property
is clear" Do not state the truth when
| say debt is the burden OF your soul.
With the soil wearing out from constant
cultivation, with your hair each year
turning more gray, with sons and
daughters growing up to be educated
and cared for in life, if your health
with death, how long would it be before
your widow. like the widow In the |
Bible who cried to Elisha, would say
The creditor is come to take unto him !
my two sons for bondSmen?"
DO you know Of any one to perform a |
miracle to let them Out? No. They |
would have to serve the creditor as
bondsmen for debt, or be cast beggars |
into the street.
Commence to-day to say NO" and |
teach your family to say it. You are in |
the middle of a wilderness. and must |
retrace your steps to find the road. |
Journey back as fast as you can and |
find the path that leads out of debt. |
have to be put on loWrde and a hard |
bed while you are looking for it. You |
can live OH an almighty small amount |
before starving to death, Tor l have |
tried it. The hardest part may be in |
getting your family to see it. But they |
will, if you go at it right, and it is some
times the case they are better at Seing |
it than you may be. The farmer must |
live within his income and on what he |
raises, if he.ever gets out Of debt. He |
has got to let everybody else
alone until he has purchased |
himself and gained his liberty. |
From the sheep he raises he must eat
the meat and put the skin on his back |
for coat and have his family do the
same. With the OK he must do the same. |
What could look more dressy than a
white lambskin vest and undercOat and |
a black bullSkin Overcoat for North |
Dakota farmer? Of course, in warm |
climate this would not do, but in cold |
state like this it could be adopted. When
you get out of debt wear whaty please.
But the debtor has got to go back to
primitive state and start over again to
get out.
Nor think in natures state they blindly
trOd.
The state Of nature was the reign of God
The farmer ought to 90 back to state
of nature and start over again, because |
he has been the biggest fool of all of |
them and should do penance. The man
who patented every piece of his farm
machinery is rich: the man who manu-
features his Irvine is rich; those who
produce his sugar. salt, glass and every
thing he wears have been looking out |
for years ahead. forming combinations
and trusts, and passing laws to protect |
their business and get
Rich Out of the Farmer;
and the poor, short-sighted farmer has
been voting to tax himself and shut |
himself out from the markets of the |
world to protect others, until to-day he
wakes up and finds himself bankrupt |
and the creditor standing at his door to
take him and his family for bOndsmen.
Nothing short of miracle or general
bankrupt law will let him out. Think |
of farmer paying $50 a thousand for
poor boards to build horse shed, and |
giving mortgage on his horse to buy
the boards. and then going to the polls
and voting 50 thousand protection to
the man who stole the pine tree the
boards were made from he mortgaged
his horse to get the shed for. Here are
brains and pauperism both combined at
the same election.
Farmers, look at cold facts, and sit
down and ask yourselves when and
how you are ever going to get out of
debt? Instead of getting nearer the
shore you are getting farther from it
every year, and the waves are rolling
higher.
What is your plan for getting where
you can take rest and get in out of the
wet? You may laugh at the white lamb
skin vest and black bullskin Overcoat.
but if you kept on voting protection to
every industry but your own and letting