Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-28
CHRISTMAS AFTERMATH.
Dizziness Reigns All Along the Way
Where to Last Thursday Such
Animation prevailed.

The usual Christmas aftermath is
here. The bottom has dropped out
of business. Is is the calm that fol.
lows the storm.
From the propositions one bumps
up against since Thursday it wouid
seem that one resolution is on good
and strong, and that is to tie dozen
or two extra knots in the strings
around the pocketbooks and thus add
to the stagnation.
This is the greatest mistake that
could BIO made.
We see people who are unusually
liberal before and up to the passi ny
away of Christmas, who the very
next day are willing to distress FAM
lilies if it js necessary to collect a
debt, and others who would, to that
time, grant most any kind OF loan
when the next day no securely that
city property could offer could pull a
dollar from their locked and sealed
pocketbooks.
These things render the coming OF
Christmas each year dread rather
than the pleasure it ought and used
to be and the whole is quite sufficient
to cause one to doubt whether afssI
all things are what they seem. FOL
what could bs stranger than to see
person going right ahead boosting
up everything coming along. shout
ing his conf dence In everything
around from the very housetops, ad
vising everybody to be liberal to, and
lenient with the poor up to certain
day and the very next day appear II
the arena where he walked the day
before philanthropist, verltabi'
miser who hasn't got dollar to turl
loose on any kind of an investmsn
nor a copper cent to contribute to
person if they were dying from hun
ger and it would keep them alive
We have often felt that II Their
ever was . time for good to show il
person it should be after havin
felt the influence Of Christmas day
: and this good should not be ephsms
real, but in these latter days MANI
{ heart seems coolest in the days i'm
a mediately following Christmas, tn
rule of many being to squeeze dow
upon debtors harder than at any othe
time shut their doors against dom
favors of any kind; discharge en-
ployes psremptorily. regardless
what suffering it means for them
their families, because, forsooth,
few stagnant days with the stores TO
low after Christmas, thing mo-
: natural when moments though
: will suggest to them that all imm'
dliats needs were provided for in I'll
purchases made Christmas week al
consequently the dull days 80 far
the stores are concerned are somewh hi
natural and should cause no alarm.
It il the capitalist; the hou'
: owner; the landlord that this artic
ID intended to refer to and We trust TIL
it will have the effect of going dow
to the hearts of some and cause
softening for it is not all OF life
it live nor ali OF death to die.
g So far a. The Progress 10 concern'
t. it asks no mercy. being under
t, earthly obligation to any one, and
re will practice what it breaches
re lodging no promise verbal or oths
1t wise that it has made and no one vi
}. ind their dealings with II changed
J. the influence that the passing
" Christmas seems to have upon othsl
DR. Be lenient with the debtor; wit
m draw not your influence from t
J. affairs of commerce that the whs'
~ may not be clogged; remember :
d, past prosperous year that our sscti
ty had and that il 10 possible to In
Iothers; feel that you have much 10
Thankful for, and above all be not
drons in the hive Of industry but
w up and doing by lending hand .
he cheering Others on who could
90 brought in to help by the infiusT
In YOU could lend. In . word. alo
with your resolve to turn over . III
leaf to be a better man morally let
go further and say charitably q
commercially a. we'll.
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