Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-08-25
YOUNG MEN
Compelled by Society to Keep Up Ap.
pearances.
To DO This the Moral Fabric Il DESTROYED
Happy wiz he lie Who Resists Temp
tation. Lives According tn His Means
and Pays His Debts.


OK that there is death ahead The OK
thinks he is going ON To a rich pasture
field of clover, where all dav lie will
reycI in the herbaceous luxuriance;
but after while the men and the bows
close in upon him with sticks and
stones and shouting, drive linn through
bars and into doorway, where he is
fastened, and with well-aimed stroke
the AK fells him; and so the anticipa-
ton OF the redolcnt pasture field Is
completely disappointed. ~ many a
young has been driven on by
temptation to what he thought would
% paradisaical enjoyment; but after a
while influences with darker hue and
Nwdrthier arm close in upon him: and
he finds that instead of making an eN-
curslon into garden he has been driv-
en- "a an OK 10 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 10y the behest, You must keep
up appearances; whatever be Your
salary, YOU must dress as well
a. others, YOU must give wine and
brandy To as many friends, YOU must
smoke a costly cigars, YOU must give
a. expensive entertainments and YOU
must live in a. fashionable a boarding
house If YOU haven't the money. Dor
row. Ii YOU can't borrow make "A false
entry. or subtract here and there "A bill
from bundle of bank bills; YOU will
only have 10 make the deception lit
tic while; i'm few months. or in a year
or 'yyo, you can make all right No
body viii bc hurt 10y it, nobody will he
the wiser. You yourself viii not be
damaged. by that awful process IA
hundred thousand men have been
slaughtered for eternity.
suppose YOU borrow. There is moth
Ing wrong about borrowing money
There is hardly man who has not
sometimes borrowed money. Vast es-
tatos have been built ON a borrowed
dollar. But there are two kinds OF Dor
rowcd mOney-money borrowed for the
purpose OF starting. or keeping up
Legitimate enterprise and expense. and
money borrowed To get that which YOU
can do without The first il right. the
other is wrong. If YOU have money
enough of your own to buy "A coat.
however plain. and then YOU borrow
money for a dandy's outfit. YOU have
taken the first revolution of the yhc el
down grade. Borrow for the neces-
sites; that may be well. Borrow for
the Injuries; that tips your prospects
over N the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says the Dor
rover Is the servant of the lender. 1t
Is tad state of things when YOU have
To 70 down some other street TO escape
meeting some one whom YOU owe. If
young men knew what is the deSpotism
of beng in debt, more of them would
keep out of it. What did debt do for
Lord Bacon, with a mind towering
above the centuries? 1t induced him
to take brides and convict himself as a
criminal before all ages. What did
debt do for Walter Scott? Broken
hearted at Abbotsford Kept him writ
ing until his hand gave out in paralysis
to keep the sheriff away from his pic
tures and statuary Better for him if
he had minded the maxim which he
had chiseled over the fireplace at Alb
bot~ ford, Waste not, want not"
The trouble is, my friends that peo-
pie do not understand the ethics Of go
ing = debt, and that if YOU purchase
goods with no expectation Of paying
for them, or go into debts which YOU
can not meet, you steal just so much
money. If ] go into a groccr's store
and ruy sugars and coffees and meats
with no capacity To pay for them. and
no intention of paying for them. I am
more dishonest than il / go into the
store. and when the grocers face is
turned the other Nvay fill
my pockets with the articles of
merchandise and carry off ham. In
the one case | take the merchant
time. and take the time of his mes
Scngor to transfer the goods to nv
house while the other case take none
OF the time Of the merchant and I
wait upon myself, and ] transfer
the goods without any trouble
10 him! In other words. q sneak thief
Is not so bad a a man who contracts
debts he never expects 90 pay.
Vet in all our cities there are fam
lilies who move every May day 10 get
into proximity to other groccrs and
meat shops and apOthccaries They
owe everybody within half a mile Of
where they now live. and next Nav
they will move into a distant part of
the city, finding a new lot of victims
Meanwhile YOU the honest family in
the new house. are bothered day by
day by the knocking at the door Of
disappointed bakers, and butchers.
ana dry goods dealers, and newspa-
per carriers and you are asked where
your predecessor is. You do not
know. II was arranged YOU should not
know. Meanwhile your predecessor
has gone 10 some distant part Of the
city. and the people who have anything
20 sell have sent their wagons and
stopped there 90 solicit the valuable"
custom Of the new height Dor. and he.
the new neighbOr. with great com
placency and an air OF affiuence. orders
the finest steaks and the highest-priccd
sugars, and the best OF the canned
fruits, and perhaps all the newspapers.
And the debts will keep on accumu-
latinP until he gets his goods on the
3oth 81 next April in the furniture cart.
No wonder that 50 many OF our mer-
chants fail in business. They are
swindled into bankruptcy by these
wandering Arabs these nomads OF city
life. They cheat the grocer out OF the
green apples which makes them sick.
the physician who attends them during
their distress, and the undertaken who
fits them out for the departure from
the neighbOrhOod where they owe ev-