The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-18
KEEP OUT OF DEBT.
Keep Out Of Debt-keep Out Of Debt
Is the Advice Of the Chi
capo Examiner.

ca0o Examiner.
/ Remember that the dollar you spend
SO quickly today, and the other dollar
tomorrow. and the day after, will
mean later independent manhood. pow
er to control your own time, direct
your own career
! Money enough though it be but
ten cents a day more than you spend
means freedom, independence, the
right to look any man in the eye as
This equal.
And poverty, debt, the spending OF
ever SO little more than you actually
have, means slavery now, anxiety,
humiliation in the future.
Poverty deprives children Of educa-
tion-and SO 1t means ignorance.
! Poverty deprives children OF care
and good food-and SO it means dis
ease.
Poverty takes away mems courage
drives them to despair, makes them
seek relief wherever 1t can be found
and SO poverty means drunkenness.
i Wherever you find men miserable,
poor and underpaid you will find ig.
Inorance and drunkenness.
i Wherever you better conditions and
lift the weight Of poverty, drunken
ness and ignorance diminish.
Il Whatever your age or habits. or con-
dition, there are two things that you
can do-you can better yourself or you
can make things worse.
. II you are young man or woman
starting out in life, or one young
enough to have many good years
ahead Of you, 1t is absolutely in your
power to make your life dignifled, in
dependent and satisfied.
However old you may be, or dis.
couraged, it isn't too late to fight
against the curse that weighs on mil.
lions of men, the curse Of present
poverty. and that other curse, almost
J as great. the dread of poverty in the
future.
It is in your power to be trt", e you
will do 1t. Spend less than you make
and you will find that spending less
means, in almost every case, earning
more.
II man puts into Learning aud
thinking the hours and the vitality
that he puts into frivolous spending
he will soon find his power to earn
increased
You must remember, however, that
of the majority of men are worried
hard up, living along from day to day
: it Is because going in debt is very
easy and keeping out OF it is diff
cult.
Every day the temptation comes tc
spend this and to spend that.
On certain day everybody must
: have new hat, and goes and gets II
! he thinks he must spend as much
!. as anybody else does there goes one
: chance Of saving.
Each man thinks that he must dress
!. as we'll as somebody else does.
: And a million young fools thinl
: that they must take drink when 4
is offered to them-and also that they
must buy drink In their turn, which
: is idiotic.
And tens OF thousands Of married
| men are kept poor because they i'm
agine that they must do as we'll al
somebody else does-and too oftel
! their wives help them to keep poor
Try to bear in mind that few
years from now it won't make mucl
difference to you whether you got |
> new hat on September Is, 1911, o
not-but 1t will make very big differ
: ence at that time whether you hav
few thousand dollars saved up or
= few dozen men trying to collect bill
= from you.
Remember that when you are wei
off, when you can say truly that yo
: owe no man a dollar, people Away
. like the way you look. They find n
: fault with your dressing.
Remember that all the varnish, al
the fine clothing. new hats, neV
shoes, can't do you bit of good whe
you and everybody else know tina
: you can't afford those things.
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f. It isn't easy to save and be ind'
PENDENT. If it were everyone woul
be prosperous and independent. BIZ
If lit is possible to keep poverty away.
"a It is possible to be free nal
i afraid Of no one, controlled an
Tossed by nobody.
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