The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-08-26

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herbaceous luxurl-
ance; but after awhile the men and
the boys close in upon him with sticks
and stones and shouting, and drive MIN
through bars and into a doorway,
where he is fastened, and with we'll
aimed stroke the axe fells him; ana
SO the anticipation of the redolent pas
ture field is completely disappointed
So many a young man has been driven
on by temptation to what he thought
would be paradisiacal enjoyment; but
after awhile influences with darker hue
and swarthier arm close in upon him
and he finds that instead Of making an
excursion into a garden, he has been
driven las an OK to the slaughter"
We are apt to blame young men for
being destroyed when we ought to
blame the influences that destroy them.
Society slaughters a great many young
men by the behest, you must keep
up Appearances; whatever be your SAL
ary, you must dress as we'll as others,
you must give wine and brandy to as
many friends, you must smoke as cost
1y cigars, you must give as expensive
entertainments, and you must live in
as fashionable a boarding house. II
you haven't the money, borrow. II
you cant borrow, make a false entry,
or subtract here and there a bill from
a bundle of bank bills; yOu will only
have to make the deception a little
while; in a few months or in a year
or two you can make it all right. No.
body will be hurt by it, nobody will be
the wiser. You yourself will not be
damaged" BY that awful process a
hundred thousand men have been
slaughtered for time and slaughtered
for eternity.
Suppose you borrow. There is moth
ing wrong about borrowing money.
There is hardly a nan h has not
sometimes borrowed money. Vast es-
tates have been built on a borrowed
dollar. But there are two kinds of bor-
rowed money: Money borrowed for the
purpose of starting or keeping up legi-
innate enterprise and expense, and
money borrowed to get that which you
can do without. The first is right, the
other is wrong. If you have money
enough of your own to buy a coat, how
ever plain. and then o borrow
money for a dandy's outfit, you have
taken the first revolution of the wheel
down grade. Borrow for the necessi-
ties; that may be we'll. Borrow for
the luxuries; that tips you prospects
over in the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says the borrow
er is servant of the lender. 1t is a bad
state of things when you have to go
down some other street to escape meet
ing some one whom you owe. If young
men knew what is the despotism of be-
ing in debt, more of them would keeI
out of it. What did debt do for Lore
Bacon, with a mind towering above the
centuries? It induced him to take
brides and convict himself as a Grimm
al before all ages. What did debt d.
for Walter Scott? Broken-hearted a
Abbotsford. Kept him writing unit
his hand gave out in paralysis to keel
the sheriff away from his pictures an
%statuary. Better for him if he hat
minded the maxim which he had CHS
eled over the fireplace at Abbotsford
Waste not, want not"
The trouble is, my friends, that PEG
. pie do not understand the ethics of go
ing in debt, and that if you purchas
goods with no expectation of .payin
for them, or go into debts which yo'
cannot meet, you steal just so muc
n If I go into a g%rocer's stor
and I buy sugars and coffees and meat
with no capacity to pay for them, an
no intention of paying for them,
am more dishonest than if I go into til
store, and when the grocer's face
turned the other way I fill my pocket
with the articles of merchandise an
carry off a ham! In one case I take tt
merchants time and I take the time
his messenger to transfer the goods
my house, while in the other case
take none of the time of the merchan
and 1 wait upon myself, and I tran
fer the goods without any tro1
BILE to him! In other words,
sneak thief is not so bad as a man WI
contracts debts he never expects to pa
When a young man wilfully and
choice, having the comforts of lii
goes into the contraction of unpayab
debts, he knows not into what he zoe
The creditors get after the debtor, tt
pack Of hounds in full cry, and ala
for the reindeer. They jingle his doc
Y bell before he gets up in the mornin
they jingle his doorbell after he h
gone to bed at night. They meet hi
as he comes off his front steps. TIL
send him a postal card, or a letter,
curtest style, telling him to pay u
They attach his goods. They wa
cash, or a note at thirty days, or a nc
on demand. They call him a kna,
They say he lies. They want him d
ciplined in the church. They want h
turned out Of the bank. They come
him from this side, and from that sit
and from before, and from behind, a
from above, and from beneath, and
is insulted, and gibbeted, and sued, a
dunned, and sworn at, until he gets t
nervous dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, q
liver complaint, gets heart disease, g
convulsive disorder, gets consumptit
Now he is dead, and you say, "Of coul
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