The Afro-American advance., 1900-11-10
THE USES OF MONEY.
Census Once to Issue a Volume on
This Subject.
Many There Are who Consider In
debtedness n Source of Prosper
ity, In Spite of Mr.. Micaw-.A
ber's Eloquent warning.
Especial WASHINGTON Letter l

/ - Especial Washington Iet.erl
| 90 IT AN over $500 in debt and that
fact Worries me great deak'
II The remnrk was made by gov
ernInent clerk in reply to an inquiry as
TO how he was getting on Senator Pet
tigrew. of South Dakota. smiled as he
said: THAT would worry me, too.
am never happy unless l an upwards of
S5o, 600 in debt The man who can't get
in debt $4,000 or more can't do busi-
ness. Credit is necessary in all large
business transactions, and it is a.so
necessary in small business enterprises.
Fortunes are made only by those who
have large credit.
How do YOU ever pay your creditors
when you borrow such large sGmsP= It
staggers me to think of being $4,000
| in debt
= pay back by making the borrowed
very few people who realize that money
will make money faster than any other
thing on earth. 1t is because money is
such a money maker that money occu-
| pies such conspicuous position in the
political, commercial and international
procedures of the world You get out
of money once; be absolutely without a
dollar, and you will find that this is a
cold. cruel and selfish world
Unfortunately. this latter statement
| Is known to be true by all who have eX-
perienced contact with the world un-
der adverse circumstances. II is also
unfortunately true that majority of
the young men of this country do not
know the value of money; and they
learn its value sometimes all too late in
life.
SIS there no secret place on the face Of the
| earth,
Where Charity dwelleth. where virtue
hath birth? n
Is there no place where knon< from the
poor
VIII bring kind angel to open the door ?
You may search the wide world wherever
you can,
But find no door open to a moneyless
man"
Senator Pettigrew is not rich man,
and never will be, because with the
money-making faculty he also has the
prodigality of youth. Although he may
not be properly charged with being ike
unto Daniel Webster in every other re.
spect. he certainly is somewhat like
unto that great statesman in his ability
10 accumulate indebtedness; with this
differences: Pettigrew pays, Webster
didn't.
And. by the way, the census office
Is trying to find ont why people borrow
money. The officials of that bureau ask
all sorts OF questions. They want tc
know whether we own property, and
If so, If it is mortgaged. And. II so
why the mortgage was incurred. Al
sorts of replies have been received to
these inquiries. One of them is from
William Mckinley, who states that he
sis a citizen of Ohio, residing tempo,
rarily in Washington; and he states
that the house in which he lives lis n noi
mortgaged."
All of the inquiries of the census OF
flee supervisors are being cheerfully
answered. even those which pry into
the affairs of men who borrow money
Very many thousands of ladies, how
ever, decline to give their ages. In al
of these eases IL is presumed that they
are more than 25 years of age, and they
are being tabulated accordingly.
People. as n RUE. have been perfectly
willing to tell whether they own tho
houses in which they live or whether
they are tenants. or burdened with
mort ga ges. This information when OBJ