Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-18


you the goods. Now, If you must steal,
steal in way to do as little damage
to the trader as possible.
John Randolph arose in the Ameri-
can senate when question of national
| finance was being discussed, and,
| stretching himself to his full height,
| in shrill voice he cried out, "Mr.
Chairman, l have discovered the phil
osopher's stone, which turns every
| thing into gold-pay as you go!" So
ciety has got to be reconstructed on
this subject or the seasons of defalca-
ton will continue to repeat themselves.
You have no right to ride in 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 caprisoned the gay
| steeds, and to the liveryman who has
| provided the stabling, and to the driv-
| er, who, with rosetted hat, sits on the
coach box.
Oh, l am so glad 1t is not the abso-
lutte necessities of life which send peo-
them into misfortunes. 1t is almost
always the superfuities. God has
promised us house, but not a palace;
| raiment, but not chinchilla; food, but
not canvasback duck. / am yet to see
one of these great defalcations which
! is not connected in some way with
! extravaganza.
| EyfraUa for tho dfS-
turbance of national finances. Aggre-
cations are made up 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
a new deal Of things and then we will
get over our perturbation l do not
care who is president or who is sec
rotary of the treasury or how much
| breadstuffs go out of the country or
how much gold is imported until we
learn to pay our debts and it becomes
a general theory in this country that
| AiSh ihbol buy ~ iioAO thSy Noh
pay for. Until that time comes there
will be no permanent prosperity. Look
at the pernicious extravaganza. Take
the one fact that New York every
year pays 100000 for theatrical
amusements. While once in a while
Henry Irving or an Edwin Booth or a
Joseph jefferson thrills a great audi
4 Unit I'VE oadu EnnW wall
as l do that the vast majority OF the
theaters are as debased as debased 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.
Harmful and Unnecessary Expense.
Over hundred millions paid in this
country for cigars and tobacco a year.
About S2,000,000,000 paid for strong
drink in one year in this country.
With such extravaganza, pernicious
extravaganza, can there be any perma-
nent prosperity? Business men, cool
headed business men, is such thing a
possibility? These extravagances also
account, as have already limited. for
the positive crimes, the forgeries. the
abscondingsof the officers Of the banks.
The store ON the business street
swamped by the residence on the fash
ionable avenue. The fathers, the hus-
bands craft capsized by carrying too
much domestic SAIL That is what
springs the leak in the merchants
money till That is what cracks the
pistols of the suicides. 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 prosperity.
In the presence Of the American peo-
Pile so far as l can get their attention
/ want to arraign this monster curse
Of extravaganza. and want you to pelt
1t with your scorn and hurl at 1t your
anathema.
How many fortunes every year
wrecked on the wardrobe. Things
have got to such pass that when we
cry over our sins in church we wipe
the tears away with $3.50 pocket
!
tragedy in Ave acts:
Act the first-A home, plain and
beautiful. Enter newly married pair.
Enter contentment. Enter as much
happiness as ever gets in one home.
Act the second-Enter discomfort.
Enter desire for larger expenditure.
Enter envy. Enter jealousy.
| the fhird M ha nnaap1x,
dress-makers. Enter the French mil
liners. Enter all costly plate and all
| great extravagances.
Act the fourth-Tiptop of society.
Princes and princesses Of upper ten
dom floating in and out. Everything
on large and magnificent scale. En-
ter contempt for other people.
Act the fifth and last. Enter the as
signee. Enter the sheriff. Enter the
creditors. Enter humiliation. Enter
the wrath Of God. Enter the contempt
of society. Enter ruin and death.
Now drop the curtain. The play is
ended and the lights are out.
| called it tragedy. That is a mis-
homer. 1t Is a farce.
Providing for Ones Own.
| / know 1t cuts close did not
know but some of you In high dudgeon
would get up and go out. You stand 1t
well! Some of you make a great
swash in life. and after awhile you
will die, and ministers will be sent
for to come and stand by your coffin
and lie about your excellences. But
| they will not come. II Won send for