The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-07
sOEE G00O ADVICE
An Atticle Every One Should Read aud
Remember

your town, county ana STATE. Eaeron-
ize home dealers. Don't send your
money sway to some mail order house
Just because it happens to be the chesp-
est supply hoaseon earth; there sre FIVE
hundred more Of that kind in the United
States; but spend it with your home
merchant, who is your friend, and in
the long run sells you your goods j1:t
as cheap. When you spend dollar
with your home merchant, you know
what you are getting, and You are deal
ing with one who has stood by you when
you needed help, and still stands by
you il sickness, when the crops fail,
when out Of work, and when the icy
baad Of death crseps into the home and
claims one Of your loved ones. Stand
by your merchant, for be is an integral
part of the community, lending his aid
TO public enterprises and charitable, as
veil IS helping to bear the burden OF
taxstion. Who hss done more for you,
for your town, your county, and al
your public enterprises, than your
homs merchant? Who has helped
more people, been w,rae imposed upon,
and more abused than you: home mer-
chant? The real fao,s are, he is one
of ycu, eating your chickens, butter,
fruits, vegetables and other things that
would prove loss to you if it were not
for him. How is it with the big mail
order man? H has nothing in com-
mon with you; no interest in you, your
town or county, other than securing
your trsde-cssh in advance.
All, my brothsr, tura the tables and
let your merchant send his money away,
ana buy al he consumes, and lst your
produce and other barter rot on your
cand5, what would you say? Let's
lock fairly st both sides. Ifyou want
anything your merchant hasn't got, he
will gladly order il for you, and the lit
tie prof! he makes, you will get back
in some Hs7. He has to eat and have
work done, ell Of which he pays out OF
the little profits he mskesin selling his
goods. e about the money you send
Of? You never sec it again, aud if you
were really in need and should make
known your wants to Mr.. Outsider, be
would ssy, mo-; I have IS much Of
that kind Of business IS I GIN attend
| nearer home" Does your homs mer-
chant deny you vhsn in distress? Be-
honest. Isn't your name on merchants
books all over this county for goods you
have worn out and provisions you have
eaten? Has Mr.. Outsider ever sold
you anything on credit? D. you be
Iieve he will dc il? NJ, you know bet
ter than to ask it. These are every
day, connon.sense questions, staring
YOU in the fsce, and an honest answer
from you will put you on cur slds OF
the question.
Come up sqzareiy and fairly and be a
pillar in the church sDd rafter in SO.
ciety. Pay your honest debts, even if
you have to suffer to do it. The only
difference that ne Can see in not paying
your honest debts (4hen you csp) and
stealing, one is q broad, open, daylight,
face to-faoe stealing, and the other IS
sly, don -#ant-to-Le caught 1t steal
ipg. Jast stop and think before you
begin to get mad. Isn't it SO? In the
light of justice, answer the question,
and then read on. If | were to buy
Your goods and hide behind the home.
stead act ard not pay, you, what would
you call me? Oh, ny brother, as sure
IS Col is the Judge, We mead waking
40 along these lines. A thief is
thief, csEeh him where snd when you
will. Il you get another mans proper
ty and p an ways to beat him by hiding
bshind The puny arm O. the Law, you
are thief.
We are not after the poor, poverty
stricken, down. trUdden laoorer, Who hiss
perhaps some excuse for dadging
his obligations. but We are after
the man who wears tailor made clothes,
tooth pick shoes, standing collars,
smokes from three to ten cigars s. day,
goes on excursions, goes to theaters and
shows, sends his children to dancing
schools, psss for having them taughsto
dance, and owes the poor grocery man
for the meat aud bres6 thss have kept
his children alive, and the dry goods
man for the clothes they have worn out,
and the poor furniture man for the beds
on which they sleep; and, if peTchance
one has died, the undertaken for the
cofGn in which the loved one sleeps. il
you are church member and running
on these lines, your influence for good
isn't worth the snap Of your finger, and
you had better repent or pull out. 1t
you are sinner out Of the church and
catering to these things because some
sinner IN the church is guilty, for Gods
sake call halt, retrace your steps and
follow some honest mans example. If
you have gone to friend and persuaded
him to go your security for money or
for goods, and, through mismanagement
or extravaganza, caused this friend to
have to pay your debt, do you feel easy
spending money for things you could do
without The very clattes Of the hoofs
Of that horse, the rsttle of the wheels
Of that buggy, the llcks Of the hammer
that drove the nails in the construction
of that law allowed homestead, that
downy bed, that bookcase, that won
derfui library you are pilIng away ID
that book- case for your children to read;
yes, it may be the children themselves
will ali roll over you, like mounthins OF
iron to sink you down, down, in the
flames Of perdition, unless you repent
and settle this side of eternity. You
can't hide behind the homestead act
nor the bankruptlsw and stand acquit
ted in the sight OF God and honest
people.
If you can and don't, or won't
straighten up, even il it calls fer real
sell. denial, You are dishonest, and you
would say the same thing about your
fe!IoWnan should he treat you likewise.
If you practice such ways, You wall
be iould out, and your aoomlnsble
hypocrisy will be hso.ed and hisse6 at