The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-01-05
Ironical Eulogy on Debt.

the debt of nature, and the first in
stinct is to put off the payment of it to
the last moment. Many persons, il
will be observed, following the natural
procedure, would die before they
would pay their debts
Society is composed of two classes,
debtors and creditors. The creditor
class has been enormously supposed
the more enviable. Never was there a
greater misconception; and the hold it
yet maintains upon opinion is re-
markable example of the obstinacy OF
error, notwithstanding the plainest
lessons of experience. The debtor has
the sympathies of mankind. He is
seldom spoken of but with expressions
of tenderness and passion-"t
poor debtori' and ''the unfortunate
debtorn On the other hand, harsh and
hard-hearted are the epithets allotted
to the creditor. Who ever heard the
"poor CREDITOR" the unfortunate cred
itor spoken of No, the creditor never
becomes the object Of pity, unless ne
passes into the debtor class. A cred
itor may be ruined by the poor debtor,
but it is not until he becomes unable to
pay his own debts, that he begins to be
eompassionated.
| A debtor is man of mark. Many
eyes are fixed upon him. many have
interest in his well-being; his move
ments are of concern; he cannot dis
appear unheeded; his name is in many
mouths; his name is upon many books;
, he is man of note-of promissory
note; he fills the speculation of many
minds; men conjecture about him,
wonder about him, wonder and con-
lecture whether he will pay. He is a
man of consequence, for many are rum
ming after him. His door is thronged
with duns. He is inquired after every
hour of the day. Judges hear of him
and know him. Every meal he swal-
ows, every coat he puts upon his back,
every dollar he borrows, appears be-
fore the country in some formal docu-
ment. Compare his notoriety with the
obscure lot of the creditor, of the man
who has nothing but claims on the
world; landlord, or fundholder, or
some such disagreeable hard character.
The man who pays his way is un-
known in his neighborhood. You ask
the milk man at his door, and he can
not tell you his name You ask the
butcher where Mr.. Payall lives, and he
tells you he knows no such man for it
is not on his books. You ask the baker
and he will tell you there is no such
person in the neighborhood. People
that have his money fast in their peck
cts have no thought of his person or
appellation. His house is only known:
No. II is good pay, No. II is ready
money. Not a scrap of paper is ever
made out for No. II. 1t is an anony-
nous house; its owner pays his way to
obscurity. No one knows anything
about him or needs his movements. II
carriage be seen at his door, the
neighborhood is not full of concern
lest he be going to run away. If q
package be moved from his house, a
score of boys are not employed to
watch whether it be carried to the
pawnbroker. Mr.. Payall fills no placS
in the public mind; no one has any
hopes or fears about him.
The creditor always figures in the
fancy as a sour, single man, with griz
zled hair, scowling countenance and
a peremptory air, who always lives in
a dark apartment, with musty deeds
about him and an iron safe, as impen
etrable as his heart, grabbing together
what he does not enjoy, and what there
is no one about him to enjoy. TIL,
debtor, on the other hard, is always
pictured with wife and six fair-hairet
daughters, bound together in affection
and misery, full of sensibility, and suf
fering without fault. The creditor
it is never doubted, thrives without
} merit. He has no wife and children te
pity. No one ever thinks it desirable
that he should have the means of liv
} ing. He is brute for insisting that hi
must receive, in order to pay. 1t i.
not in the Imagination of man to con
} ceive that his creditor has demand,
: upon him which must be satisfied, ant
} that he must do to others as other,
must do to him. A creditor is a per
/, sonification of exaction. He is SUP
} posed TO be always taking in, and never
giving out.
People idly fancy that the possession
of riches is desirable. What blindness
, Spend and regale. Save dollar ant
} you lay it up for thief The pruden
} men are the men who live beyond theil
means. Happen what may, they ar,
} SAFE They have taken time by tn,
forelock. They have anticipated for
tune. The wealthy fool with gold il