Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-07-17

| them no more sugar. Then they find
the region unhealthy, and they hire "a
carman, whom they never pay. TO take
! them to some new quarters where the
merchants, the druggists, the butch
! ers, the bakers and the grocerymen
come and give them the best rounds of
! beef and the best sugars and the best
! merchandise of all sorts until they find
out that the only compensa ton they
are going TO get is the acquaintance of
the patrons. There are thousands OF
such thieves in all our big cities. You
see cal them by the right name. for if
a man buys anything he does not mean
! to pay for he is thief.
Of course sometimes men are flung
OF misfortunes and they cannot pay
| ] know men who are just as honest
i'm having failed as other men are
honest in succeeding. ] suppose there
IS hardly man who has gone through
! life but there have been some times
when he has been so hurt by misfor-
| tune he could not meet his obligations
! but all that / put aside There are
a multitude of people who buy that
| which they never intend TO pay for,
| for which there is no reasonable ex-
! pectation that they will ever be able
| TO pay Now, if you have bec.me
! Obvious Of honesty and mean TO de-
| fraud, why not save the merchant as
much as you can? Why not go some
| day to his store and when nobody is
looking just shoulder the ham or the
| spare rib and in modest silence steal
away? That would be less criminal.
because in the other way you take not
! only the mans goods, but you take
! the time of the merchant and the time
! OF his accountant, and you take the
time of his messenger who brought
You the goods. Now, if you must steal,
steal in way to do as little damage
TO the trader as possible.
John Randolph arose i'm the Ameri-
can senate when n question of ma
! tional finance was being discussed,
and, stretching himself to his full
height. in a shrill voice he cried out:
Mr.. Chairman, | have discovered the
| Philosophers stone. which turns ev-
erything into gold-pay as you go,"
society has got TO be reconstructed
on this subject or the seasons of de-
! taIcation will continue 30 repeat them
selves. You have no right to ride i'm
a carriage for which You are hopeless
! ~ IN debt to the wheelwright who fur
nlshe,. the landau. and to the horse
dealer who provided the blnoded span.
and TO the harness maker who capari-
s"ned the gay SteedS. and to the liv-
eryman who has provided the stablinp.
and 10 the driver who with rosetted
hat. sits on the coach box.
On. am so glad when it is not the
absolute necessities of life which send
people out into dishonesties and fling
them into miSfortuneS II is almost
always the superfluities. God has
promised Us a house. but not pal
ace; ralment, but not chinchilla; food
| but not cauvasback duck. am vet
TO see one OF these great defalcations
winch - not connected in some way
with extravaganza.
ENtravagance accounts for the dis
| turbance Of national finances. Aoore-
cations are made up Of units. and
Whe1 one-half of the people Of This
country owe the other half how can
we expect financial prosperity? Apain
ana again at the national election we
nave mad spasm Of virtue, and we
SAID: "Out with one Administrations
ana IN with another and let us have
ne" deal of things and then we
VIII get all over our perturbation.
40 not care who is president or who j.
secretary of the treasury nr how
much brcadstuffs GO out Of the coun-
Try or how much gold is imported nm
vi we learn To pay our debts and II
becomes general theory in this conn
Try that men must buy no more than
lhey can pay for. Until that time
comes there Will be no permanent
prosperity. Look at the pcrniciou,
eN'r'Iag"nce. Take the one fact that
We" FORK every wear pays $1,000. 900
Tor theatrical amuSements. While
p"'' 'n a"hHe Henry Irving or an
=" WI" ho"th or Joseph jefferson
'"''IN great audience with tragedy.
-" "no" as wei as do that the vast
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