Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-02-05
THE WAY OUT.
Suggested Methods Of Overcom-
ing the Stress Of the Times.
Sam Jones Advocates the Application of
the Golden Rule as q Remedial Meas
ure-Preferring One Another
In Brotherly Love.
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have never been SO much interested
In the origin of evil but I nave been
profoundly interested In the way out
of the evils in which we ind ourselves
SO often cntangled.
Ibis new year ushers In upon us a
condition of things we have never had
to meet before.
1t Is no part of q philosopher now to
try to account for the evils which be-
set us in the commercial and industrial
world, but the real philosopher is hunt
ing the way out.
1t has been said that words are
leaves, but deeds are fruits" Now IA
the time for fruits, we have had leaves
long enough,
The cast, with its problems over the
financial and manufacturing issues, the
west with its short crops, F1orida with
Its frozen oranges, the south with It's
five cent cotton, the middle states with
their overproduction of wool, cattle
and horses-these all present ques-
tions and entanglements which moth
ing but the wiscst wisdom and the most
heroic effort ought to tackle. These
are tho only weapons by which the
common difficulties can be conquered.
Politicians have failed to solve the
problem or meet the wants of the peo-
pie; the vaporizings of editors and the
logic of the philosopher have all alike
failed to lead the people out of the will
derness over into Caanan.
There is but one way out. We can
work our way out, for busy man viii
earn something, q busy man does not
talk much, a busy man does not spend
much, busy man has something to
pay past Cues with. 1t is better to
work for nothing than to be idle for
/ pay. There are q thousand things to
which we can turn our hands and keep
busy.
II work was the habit of our lives we
would soon find our way out Of the diff
hculties which besct us ON all sides.
We have a few men who are over.
worked, but the large majority of men
work too little and many not at all.
1t is the duty of every man not only
to be employed at something, but to
pay every dollar-every nickel he can
ON his debts. When one man pays it ena-
bles another and another to pay, and
one dollar may travel from San Fran
! cisco to Boston in q weeks time and
pay thousands of dollars of debts.
This is no time for boarding money.
Every man who has money ought to
turn it loose in the best possible way it
can be used. There are millions locked
up, hidden away, which, il wisely used
In the next twelve months. will usher
an era Of prosperity upon the country.
We must be leniert towards each
other. This is no time to sue and to
levy executions, to file bill and put
men In the hands of receivers. 1t is no
time for the hungry debtor to pounce
upon the more hungry creditor. An
execution levied upon a man to-day
might not pay fifty cents on the dollar,
when twelve months from now the
creditor will get one hundred cents on
the dollar. Thousands Of our good
people to-day are begging terms with
the tax collector; thousands OF men
who three years ago were in case and
comfort are to-day strained In every
nerve to get the bare necessities of life
and to meet emergencies which come
upon them. The song prayer comes in
SO well now:
Teach me to feel ano,her's woe,
To hide the faults see:
That mercy I to others show
That mercy show TO me-"
God lives and reigns- The darkest
hour is said to be just before day.
Where there is q will there is a way.
ALI things come to him who wait. A
man never loses anything by being
merciful and kind.
It is source Of pleasure to see
what patience and forbearance our
people exercise toward each other.
Many creditor or debtor is patient
when they as debtors are pushed by
their creditors. Maybe If one should
sue, another would have to sue, and
another and another, until the sheriff
would go from morning till night levy
ing executions here and yonder. We
can avoid this We must do it. Let
the farmer do all he can to help the
merchant, the bank do all it can to help
the farmer, the laborer do all he can to
help all the others, and If we are help
full instead of hurtful in all our rela-
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gather strength for the conflict, victory
will come, sooner or later, with better
and brighter day which must surely be
somewhere in the near future
This is not the time that, like Shy
lock. we shall demand the pound OF
flesh. These are the times when we
must accept a ten per cent. payment
or q twenty per cent. payment on q
debt and wait with q worthy honest
brother; these are times above all
others when a debtor should seek to
pay even Ave per cent II no more than
that.
To do nothing when little would do
so much is almost criminal itself. he
who does the best he can not only
satisfies tho average creditor but wiz
carry the consciousness that he y
rood, honest. upright man. To DC
harder than we are obliged to be upon
q creditor must and will carry regrets
as time wears on. You cannot tget
blood out of turnip. Forbearance can
not cease to be virtue until times are
better. If one can wait all can wait.
Then all will wait.
We can do q thousand things 40 have
never done. There is no telling what
man can do. Possibilities are almost
infinite, backed up by pluck, and energy
and honesty.
Talk is cheap, the less some men 90
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