The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-11-18
The Lexington Dispatch
Wednesday, November 10, 1903.
Pay as You 60.

s.Uncle Ed" Doesn't Believe in Debt
and Sending Away from Home for
Goods.
Pay as you go. This is a good
motto for every man. This thing
of working all of ones life to pay
depts is not pleasant. I have known
men who would get in debt when
young and when they died they were
still owing money. Debt is q good
thing to master, but a very bad mas
ter when you are under it's CALLING
yoke. The most awful part of any
debt is when settling time comes.
Oh, yes, We must settle up some day.
That is a day We dread, if fortune
has not smiled on us, Or prosperity
been with us. Settling day has
caused q lot of trouble in this world
and I do not doubt that many will
shrink from that final settling day
when all debts must be paid, whether
We have wherewith to psy them or
not. I say settling day is q trying
time.
This is the time of the year when
ali classes of workmen must come up
and balance up accounts. The far
mer who has been going to the
merchant all theyeear to get supplies
must straighten up, as we say. The
fertilizer agents will be around for
the last time in q few weeks and
something in the way of pay must
come. Rent must be paid and the
note on the mortgage must be taken
mp. The wholesale merchant re-
quires the retailer to give an account
and if we look at every vocation OF
life We find that this is q busy time
of the year.
This is the time of the year that
all men ought to rejoice. The fruits
of another year r almost slowed
away and We see our labor rewarded.
Hay is put into barns, nearly all of
the other crops are gathered except
corn and all of our cotton and to-
bacco gone to pay debts and the
toiling man is left with little. Too
many of Us never realize how hard it
is to pay q debt until paying time
comes. It is very easy to get in
to debt, but hard to get out of.
Dry bread paid for tastes sweeter to
me than fine syrup on q credit. I
had rather ride behind q slow mule
that belongs to me than behind a
racer that some one holds papers on.
My old buggy, no matter If it does
make q little noise, rides better to
me than q rubber tire, because I
don't owe for it. I had as leave meet
my merchant as the preacher, for I
don't owe him anything. The bank
or is not Fostering me with duns
just because I don't believe in giving
notes. I had rather pay as I 60.
This thing of endorsing notes too
freely gets q fellow into trouble
sometimes. 7 heard Of q man who
had to pay 5000 last week because
he went on 8 friends" note.
I had much rather make a little
and have it clear than to run on a
big scale, going in debt for every
thing, doing this thing We call slime
business" and coming out the small
end of the horn. When I pay a debt
/ feel like I have cotton rid of q
great enemy. If We working people
would once get to running u bust
ness on q cash basis we would soon
get to the place where a little fall in
market prices at a particular time
wouldn't hurt rs.
Another great evil is paying for
anything before you get it: Now,
I don't mean the newspaper sub
scription. The ne wspaper man has
to live. I mean this way of sending
way off for some article and paying
for it before you even know you are
ge;pg to get it at all. In these kind