The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-12-21
a Short Sermon.

The following sensible editorial
is taken from the Greenville Times,
and as it applies to our part OF the
country, we take pleasure in copying
it:
The prevailing fault of the people
of the Delta is generous one,
working benefits to all but them
selves. 1t is extravagance--laylsh-
ness-a love for the elegantly USE
less and luxurious things of life not
commensurate with the finances of a
community which by reason OF tins
very characteristic, will probably
never be ample enough to keep place
with their tastes. This amiable
weakness is a heritage from happy
but improvident past; and as long as
the decendents of the princely plan
ter of old time continue to form the
main portion of our population and
give it social laws it is probable that
the same conditions will exist. We
live easily, having no fear OF the
| failure of seed time and harvest, and
what comes so readily goes With IN
difference. The faculty Of aecumu-
lation seems to be lacking as a char
acterlstic of the people of this favored
section, and strangers coming In are
quickly enamoured of the mode OF
life. and fall into the same habit
with surprising readiness, no matter
how economical or even parslmon-
ious the ideas they first bring with
them may be. There is excuse for
this. for the love of beautiful dress,
handsome furnishings and all the ele-
S aances of life appeals irresistibly to
the aesthetic nature of all ambitious
e OF cultured people. Every summer
there is perfect hegila from the
Delta to northern watering places,
seaside resorts and fashionable
spings, and from these places The
travellers return famlliarized Will
; the mode of life lived in large cities
r and among people who crafty thel
tastes unhampered by money con
r siderations. During the past fou
D. wears the constant sermon of tn
e press has been enconomy, and clos
r counting OF cost was forced upon u
IA as never before. Last summer wa
,f time of almost unequalled depres
!, sion in the business of Greenvllle
re vet the representation at the summe
resorts of the North was almost a
large as ever, and when the stringel
re CIV was at its highest it is estimate
I'd that the community spent owe
Is- SIS, 600 for bicycles.
TO AS soon as cotton went up In prlt
IN and prospect of better days began
10 appear it became evident that IL
=, =, habit of extravaganza was M
an affected after all by the experlen'
K. of hard times, and the people
,r- Greenville and of Washington cou
90 ty seem decided to launch out ane
re upon the same career of goo
'se natured recklessness that charactf
- lied us before the enforced econon
of the last five years. The Ne
Hampshire farmer labors painful
~, wv from year 20 year on his stony al
40. barren acres, and amasses what IS
en- fortune to him where Delta pla
ere ter would quickly starve. The b
my farmer of Mississippi passes |
me whole life on the red quilted ridg
&C. and broom sedge bottoms OF his
80 tie holding, content to grow enou
., to eat and give his children kno'
.sc- edge of the plainest elements
mes education, but these humble FAR
bo- seldom bear 4 mortgage. III
owners live in no fear of bel
turned out at the bidding of ere
Ter, tor, and while having little, they
me content, because they know Of no
81 ing better. Far be it fror lls
hold up these sordid examples
'is' models for our own people, III
Inc are more arguments IN favor OF
Washington county way than tn