The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-07-19

ers viii sell them no more meat. and
the bakers will sell them NO more
bread, and the groceryman will sell
them no more sugar. Then they md
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 Compensation they
are going to get is the acquaintance of
the patrons. There are thousands of
such thieves in all our big cities. You
see call them by the right name, for if
a man buys anything he does not mean
10 pay for he is a 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 theme have been some times
when be has been so hurt by misfor-
tune he could not meet his obligations.
but all that I put aside. There are
multitude of people who buy that
which they never intend to pay for,
for which there is no reasonable ex-
pectation that they win ever be able
10 pay. Now, if you have become
oblivious 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 a way 10 do as little damage
10 the trader as possible.
John Randolph arose in the Ameri-
can senate when question of ma
'tional finance was being discussed.
and. stretching himself to his full
height. in a shrili voice he cried out:
Mr.. Chairman. have discovered the
philosopher stone. which turns ev-
erything into gold-pay as you co."
Society has got to be reconstructed
on this subject or the seasons of de-
falcation will continue TO repeat them
selves. You have no right to ride in
a carriage Tor which YOU are hopeless
~ in debt to the wheelwright who fur
1 NJ n he Ia L.
dealer who provided the blooded span.
and to the harness maker who capari
soned the gay steeds, and to the liv-
eryman who has provided the stabling.
and TO the driver who with rosetted
hat. sits on the coach box.
Oh. 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 superhuities God has
promised us a house, but not a pal
ace; raiment. but not chinchila: food.
but not canvasback duck am yet
TO see one of these great declarations
which is not connected in some way
with extravaganza.
Extravaganza accounts forthe dis
turbance Of national finances Aggre-
cations are made mp 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 national election we
have had a spasm Of virtue. and we
said: out with one administration
and in with another and let us have
a new deal of things and then we
viii get all over our pertnrba ton" /
do not care who is president or who is
secretary of the treasury or how
much breadstuffs 90 out Of the eoun-
try or how much gold is imported NJ
I'll we learn to pay our debts and IL
becomes a general theory in this coun-
try that men must buy no more than
they can pay for. Until that time
comes there will be no permanent
prosperity. Look at the pernicious
Ntravagance. Take the one fact that
New York every year pays s.. 600 600
or theatrical amusements. While
nee in awhile a Henry Irving or an
.dwin Booth or Joseph jefferson
hrills great audience with tragedy.
GU know as well as do that the vast
la1ority Of the theaters arc as de-
ased as debased they can be. IS I'M
lean as unclean they can be and as
amnable as damnable they can be.
hree million dollars. the vast ma
ority of those dollars going in the
: wrong direction.
over a hundred millions paid in this
country for cigars and tobacco vear
! About $4,000, 100000 paid for strong
drink in one year in this country.
With such extravaganza, pernicious
extravaganza. can there be any per-
manent prosperity? Business men.
cool-headed business men. is such n
| thing possibility? These extrava-
gances also account, as I have al
ready limited, for the positive crimes
the forgeries, the abscondines OF the
| officers of the banks. The store ON
the business street swamped by the
residence on the fashionable avenue
The fathers, the husbands craft can
sized by carrying too much domestic
sail That is what springs the leak
in the merchants money tin That
IS what cracks the pistol of the sui
cides. That is what tears down the
banks. That is what stops insurance
companies. That is what halts this
I nation again and again IN ~ ri