The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-07-20

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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, forif
a man buys anything he does not mean
to pay for he is a thief.
OF cours sometimes men are flung
of misfortunes and they cannot pay.
l know men who are just as honest
i'm having failed as other men are
honest in succeeding. suppose there
is hardly a 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 l 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 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,i if YOU must steal,
steal in a wav to do as little damage
to the trader as possible.
John Randolph arose in the Ameri-
can senate when n question of ma
rional finance was being discussed.
and. stretching himself to his full
befuh+ in n sbri1l vo;ce he cried ou+.
"Mr. Chairman. 7 have discovered the
philosopber's stone. which turns ev-
erything into pold-pay as YOU go!"
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 for which Won are homeless
" in debt TO the wheelwripbt who fur
nished the landau. and to the horse
dealer who nrovided tbe blooded snan
and to the harness maker who capari-
soned the CAV steeds. and to tbe liv-
and to the driver wbo with rosetted
hat, sits on the coach box.
Oh, I am so glad when II is NOT the
absolute necessities of life which send
people out into dishonesties and fino
them into misfortunes. II is almost
always the ~superHuities. God has
promised us n bouse but NOT n nal
ace; raiment. but not c~hinchi1la. food
but not canvasback duck. 7 am vet
to see one of these great defalcations
which is not connected in some wav
with
F~xtravagance accounts for tbe die.
turbance of national fnances Arrr.-
cations are made nm of units ond
when one-balf of the neonIe ~ tb;s
country owe tbe other half how Gov
we expect financial prosneritvp Again
and again at the national eIec. ion uo
have had n sposm of virtue ana VIC
said. .Ont uitb ono odmin;s4na.e
and in with another and le+ ne baua
a new deal of things and then wo
will get all over our pertnrbotion 7
do not care who is president or who is
secretary of the treasury or how
much breadstuffs % ont If +ba conn.
try or how much gold is imnorted nm
til we learn TO nav our debts and -
becomes a general theory in tbis cow.
try that men must buv no moro thar
they can paw for. Until that +ima
comes there will he no nernopen+
prosperity. Look at tbe -nerrioiou.
extravaganza. Take the one fact that
New York every wear NAYS 60 ooo ooo
for theatrical amusemen4s wb1o
once in awhile n Henry IRVING or on
Edwin Booth or n ,Josenb Jefferson
thrills a great audience with tragedv
you know as well as T do that tbe voSt
majority of the thea+ers are nc do.
based as debased they can he. as nm
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