The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-08-02

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 mer.
chant and the time Of his accountant, and
you take the time of the messenger who
brought you the goods. Now. II YOU must
steal, steal in way to do as little dam
age TO the trader as possible.
John Randolph arose In the American
Senate when a question of national finance
was being discussed, and, stretching him
self to his full height, in a shrill voice he
cried outs Mr. Chairman, ] have discov-
cred the philosophers stone, which turns
everything into gold-pay as you go" So
ciety has got TO be reconstructed on this
subject or the seasons of defalcation will
continue to repeat themselves.
You have no right 10 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 stab.
ling, 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 super
huities God has promised us a house,
but not a palace; raiment, but not chm
chila; food, but not canvasback duck, l
am yet to see one of these great detalca-
tons which is not connected in some way
with extravaganza.
While once in awhile Henry Irving OF
an Edwin Booth or a Joseph Jefferson
thrills a great audience with tragedy, you
know as we'll as / do that the vast major
ity of the theatres are as debased as de-
based they can be, as unclean as unclean
they can be and as damnable as damnable
they can be. Three million dollars-the
vast majority of those dollars going in the
wrong direction.
Over a hundred millions paid in this
country for cigars and tobacco a year,
About $4,000, 900, 900 paid for strong drink
in one year in this country! With such
extravaganza. Dernicious extravaganza,
can there be any permanent prosperity?
Business men, cool headed business men,
Is such thing a possibility? These ex-
travagances also account, as / have al
ready limited, for the positive crimes, the
forgeries, the abscondings of the officers
of the banks. The store on the business
street swamped by the residence on the
fashionable avenue. The fathers, the hus-
bands craft capsized by carrying too
much domestic sail. That Is what springs
bllG lBdh III inc merchant 3 money Jllls
That Is what cracks the pistols of the sui
cides. That is what tears down the banks.
That is what stops insurance companies.
That is what halts this nation again and
again in its triumphal march of prosper
lty In the presence of the American peo-
pie, so far as | can get their attention, |
want to arraign this monster curse of ex-
travagance, and / want you to pelt it with
your scorn and hurl at it your anathema.
know it cuts close. I did not know
but some of you in high dudgeon would
get up and go out. You stand it well.
Some Of you make a great swash in life,
and after awhile you will die and minis
ters will be sent for to come and stand by
your coffin and lie about your excellences,
but they will not come. If you send for
me, ! will tell you what INV text will be-:
He that provideth not for his own, and
especially for those in his own household,
is worse than an infdel!"
What an apportionment! Twenty thou.
sand dollars for ourselves and one cent
for God! All, my friends, this extrava.
gance accounts for a great deal of what
the cause of God suffers!
And the dissertation goes on even to the
funeral day. You know very well that
there are men who die solvent, but the
expenses are, so great before they get UNI
49, sASNAAA bAANI ulG AllbOIYGuLs
There are families that 60 into penury
in wicked response to the demands Of
tlHs day. They put in casket and tomb
stone that which they ought to put in
bread. They wanted bread; you gave
them tombstone.
One would think that the last two OBJ
legations people would be particular about
would be the physician and the under
ttaker Because they are the two last OBJ
hgatons; those two professions are almost
always cheated. They send for the doctor
IN great haste, and he must come day and
night They send for the undertaken
amid the great soIemnities and often
these two men are the very last to be met
with compensation. Merchants sell goods,
and the goods are not paid for. They take
back the goods, / am told But there is
no relief in this case The man spent all
he had in luxury and extravaganza while
he lived, and then he goes out of the
world, and has left nothing for his family.
nothing Tor the obsequies, and as he goes
out OF the world he steals the doctors
pills and the undertaker's slippers. was
reading IN New York paper an account
Of the obsequies in family of very moder.
ate estate, and the aggregate was $4,000.
a man in New York of moderate estate
dies. He has lived in extreme luxury.
lie departs this life. The family, desirous
OF keeping up the magnifcence, orders the
following things. They were produced and
never paid for to this day:
Casll1et, covered with Lyons velvet.
1y silver holdings ;;................., $3.50
Heavy plated handles .......... 60
Sohd silver plate, engraved in Roman
n, iSOICAs ''''':'' s.................. rs
FSu lheh scarIs. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100
RRIIoIal decorations. .................. 225
Music and quartet choir at the house AZ
T TTIentE ge carriages .:................. l40
ditures amounting to............. 836
Making an aggregate of. $3.50
And all that to get one poor mortal to
his last home and never paid for! Swim.
died his family Srindlnd a. ,unn1d N.