Milford chronicle., 1901-07-19

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senate when n question of national
finance was being discussed, and, stretch
ing himself to his full height, in a shrill
voice he cried out, "Mr. Chairman, I
have discovered the philosophers stone,
which turns everything into gold-pay
as you gop' Society has got to be recon-
structed on this subject or the seasons Of
defalcation will continue to repent them
selves. You have no right to ride in a
carriage for which you are hopelessly in
debt to the wheelwright who furnished
the landau and to the horse dealer who
provided the blooded span, and to the
harness maker who caparisOned the gay
steeds, and to the liveryman who has
provided the stabling, and to the driver
who, with rOsetted hat, sits on the coach
box.
Oh, am so glad it is not the absolute
necessities OF life which send people out /
| into dishonesties and fling them into mis-
| fortunes. 1t is almost always the superhui- |
ties. God has promised us a house, but /
not palace; raiment, but not chinchilla; |
food, but not canvasbaek duck. am yet |
to see one Of these great defalcatiOns |
which is not connected in some way with |
| extravaganza.
Extravaganza accounts for the dis |
turbance of national finances. Aggrega- |
tons are made up Of units, and when one
half Of the people of this country owe the
other half how can we expect financial
prosperity? Again and again at the ma
tional election we have had a spasm Of
virtue, and we said, "Out with one adj
ADMINISTRATION and in with another and let
us have a new deal Of things and then we
will get all over our perturbation" do
not care who is president or who IS sec
rotary Of the treasury or how much
breadstuffs go out of the country or how
much gold is imported until we learn to
nay our debts and it becomes a general
theory in this country that men must buy
, no more than they can pay for. Untii
! that time comes there will be no per-
manent prosperity. Look at the PERM
cious extravaganza Take the one fact
that New York every year pays $3,OOO,-
600 for theatrical amusements. While
= once in awhile a Henry Irving or an Ed
n win Booth or a Joseph Jefferson thrills
e n great audience with tragedy, you know
I as well as l do that the vast majority Of
/: the theaters are as debased as debased
Il they can be, as unclean as unclean they
l. can be and as damnable as damnable
a they can be. Three million dollars, the
Il vast majority Of those dollars going In
Il the wrong direction.
Il Harmful and Unnecessary Expense.
= Over a hundred millions paid in this
. country for cigars and tobacco a year.
y About $2,OOO,OOO,OO0 paid for strong
% drink in one year in this country. With
q such extravaganza, pernicious extrava'
, gance, can there be any permanent pros
N perity2 Business men, cool headed bust
70 ness men, is such thing possibility
20 These eXtravagances also account, as
n have already hinted, for the positive
Il crimes, the fOrgeries, the abscondings Of
n the officers Of the hanks. The store OF
so the business street swamped by the resi-
i. dence on the fashionable avenue. Tn
fathers, the husbands craft capsized b!
,a carrying too much domestic sail. Tha
ie is what springs the leak in the merchant
bo money till. That is what cracks the pts
is tolls of the suicides. That is what tear
ia down the banks. That is what stops in
nj surance companies. That is what halt
an this nation again and again in its tr
n umphal march Of prosperity. In the pres
he ence Of the American people so far as
m can get their attention / want to arraig
~ this monster curse of extravaganza, and
a.. want you to pelt it with your scorn an
hurl at it your anathema.
How many fortunes every year wrecl
|
ne such a pass that when we cry over OF
asst sins in church we wipe the tears ava
MS with a $3.50 pocket handkerchief! | shO
u you domestic tragedy in five acts:
~. Act the first-A home, plain and beaut
OF full. Enter newly married pair. Ent
es- cOntentment. Enter as much happine
pc as ever gets in one home.
OF Act the second-Enter discomfort. E
Oh ter desire for larger expenditure. Ent
YES envy. Enter jealousy.
on Act the third-Enter the queenly drei
10 makers. Enter the French milliners. L
put ter all costly plate and all great extraV
l th gances.
the Act the fourth-Tiptop of socie
uh- Princes and princesses Of upper tend'
ght floating in and out. Everything on
the large and magnificent scale. Enter c.
ara tempt for other people.
cent Act the fifth and last-Enter the
signee Enter the sheriff. Enter
ing creditors. Enter humiliation. Enter
see wrath Of God. Enter the contempt of
Stai ciety. Enter ruin and death. Now d
'hat the curtain. The play is ended, and
'onl- lights are out.
ave | called it a tragedy. That is n
solu homer. 1t is Il farce.
eiiI- Extravaganza counts for much Of
DNuDeflSul. VINO arc lueSG DeOplG WI
Dril- you have to help? Many Of them are
IHes, children of parents who had plenty, Ii
sheu IN luxury, had more than they neeC
much s,,o,,t ali tbo,, nod snent moro TOO. I
ough J;o5 "a Lee tboir fomilios IN move
enc Some Of those who call on you now
are aid had an ancestry that supped on
" Rundy and woodcOek. ] could nam
ana score of men who have every lux
-hose They smoke the best cigars, and
osscs drink the finest wines, and they have
Iuuo1 grandest surroundings, and when
you. die their families will so on the cold c
'sanl ity Of the world. Now, the death Of
, may a man is a grand larceny. He swim
W nu I the world as he goes into his collin,
win he deserves to have his bones sold tC
). ~ medical museum for anatomical $
- ~ mems. the proceeds to furnish bread
10 his children.
T n,6n Providing For Ones own.
means know it cuts close. did not
buys hut some Of you in high dudgeOn v
is ex- get IN and 90 out. You stand it
Some Of you make great swash in
S who and after awhile you will die, and
0 owe listers will be sent for to come and
,rhOod by your coffin and lie about your
their lences. But they will not come. l
sailing send for me- l will tell you what my
une or will be- "He that prOvideth not Il
IN for own, and especially for those of his
there household, is worse than an infidel."
great yet we find Christian men, men Of
until means, who sometimes talk elOqI
city to about the Christian church and
ghbor- civilization, expanding everythin
them themselves and nothing on the ca
ltchers God, and they crack the back of
nd the Palais Royal glove in trying to hi
Id, and one cent they put in the Lords tire
0 more What an apportiOnment! Twenty
on un- sand dollars for ourselves and one C
whom God All. my friends, this eXtravt
o some accounts for a great deal of VIII
its, the cause Of God suffers.
srs and And the Dissertation goes on, e
lem the the funeral day. You know yer
sugars that there are men who die solver
Drts I'M the expenses are so great before Il
npensa- underground they are insolvent.
nauaint- are families that go into penury il
e thou ed response to the demands of tn
q critics. They put In casket and tOmbstOl
t name, which they ought to put in bread.
loes not wanted bread; you gave them
stone.