The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-01-11

Tnere ls nothing In the voice or man
ner of The butcher to indicate to the OK
thas there is danger ahead. The OK
thinks he is going on to rich pasture
field of clover, where all day long he will
revel in the herbaceous luxuriance; but
after awhile the men and the boys close
in upon him with sticks and stones and
shouting, and drive him through bars
and into doorway, where he is fasten
ed, and with a well-aimed stroke the
axe fells him; and so the anticipation
of the redolent pasturefeld is complete
ly disappointed. So many young man
has been driven on by temptation to
what he thought would be paradisaical
enjoyment; but after while, influences
with darker hue and swarthier arm close
in upon him, and be finds that instead
of making an excursion into garden, he
has gone ''as an OK to the slaughter"
We are very apt to blame young men
for being destroyed, when we ought to
blame the influences that destroy them.
Society slaughtersa great many young
men by the behest, "You must keep up
appearances whatever be your salary,
you must dress as we'll as others you
must wine and brandy as many friends,
you must smoke as costly cigars, you
must give as expensive entertainments,
and you must live in as fashionable
clearinghouse. If YOU haven't the
money, borrow If you crn'r borrow,
make false entry, or subtract here and
there bill from bundle of bank bills;
you will only have to make the decep-
ton little while; in a few months or
in year or two you can make it all
right Nobody will be hurt by it; no
body will be the wiser. You yourself
will not be damsged. By that awful
process hundred Thousand men have
been slaughtered for time and slaughter
ed for eternity.
Suppose you borrow. There is moth
ing wrong about borrowing money. There
is hardly a MAJ in the house bat has
sometime borrowed money. VAST es
tates have been built on borrowed dol
lar. But there are two kinds of borrow
ed money. Moner borrowed for the pur
pose of starting or keeping up legitimate
enterprise and expense, and moaey ber-
rowed to get that which you can do with
out. The first is right, the other is
wrong. Ifyou have money enough of
your own to bur coat, however plain,
IA then you borrow money for dan
dy's outfit, you have taken the first revo
luton of the wheel down grade. Bor-
row for the necessities; that may be
WE'LL Borrow for the Injuries; that tips
your prospects over in the wrong direo-
tion.
The Bible distinctly says the borrow
er is servant to the lender Itis q bad
state Of things when you have to go down
some other street to escape meeting some
one whom you owe. If young men
knew what is the depotism of being in
debt more OF them would keep out of
it.
The trouble is, my friends, the people
do not understand the ethics of going in
debt, and that ifyou purchase goods with
no expectation of paying for them, or go
into debt which you cannot meet, you
steal just so much money. If l 60 into
a grocer's store, and buy sugars apd
cofees and meats, with no capacity to
pay for them, and with no intention of
paying for them, / am more dishonest
than if 30 into the store, and when the
grocer's face is turned the other way I
fill my pockets with the articles of mer.
chandise and csrry off a ham. In the
one case take the merchants time, and
the time of his messenger to transfer
the goods tc my house, while in the 9th.
or case I take none of the time of the
merchant, and J. wait upen myself, and I
transfer the goods without any trouble to
him. In other words sneak thief is not
so bad as man who contracts debts
he never expect, to pay.
Now our young men are coming up in
this depraved state of commercial ethics,
and I am solicitous about them. want
to warn them against being slaughtered
on the sharp edges of debt. You want
many things you have not, my young
friends You shall have them if you
have patience and honesty and industry.
Certain lines of conduct always lead out
to certain results. There is a law which
controls even those things that seem hap
hazard. The most Insignificant event
you ever heard of is the link between the
two eteruities-the eternity of the past
and the eternity of the future. Head the
right way and you will come out the right
goal.
Bring me young man and tell me
what his physical health is, and what his
mental caliber, and what his habits, and
I will tell you what will be his destiny
for this world and his destiny for the
world to come, and 1 will not make FIVE
inaccurate prophecies out of the five
hundred. All this makes me solicitous
in regard TO young men, and I want to
make them nervous in regard to the con.
traction ofunpayable debts.
When young: man wilfully and of
choice, having the comforts of life, goes
into the contraction of unpayable debts,
he knows not into what be goes. The
creditors get after the debtor, the pack
Of hounds in full cry, and alas for the
reindeer. They jingle his door bell be
fore be gets up in the morning they jim.
gle bis door bell after he has goue to bed
1t night; they meet him as he comes off
nis front steps. They send him postal.