Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-02-23
To the Right Man II Frequent
Iy Acts as a StimuIant to
Good Work.
BY NO MEANS ALWAYS CURSE
Pressing Financial Obligations Have
Sometimes Boon the Means OF
Enrichlng the World With
Great Works Of
Genius.

To the right man debt is blessing
1t spurs him to bring out the soldier
spirit and to make the fight that wins.
But to the one who is lacking q
sense Of financial honor debt is a
curse. He doesn't feel the lash Of the
collectors insistence or the bill with
( the red mixed Please remit" To the
honest soul those things are as blows
/ under which the flesh witches, and
he makes high resolves that that tor
ture shall not always be bis. He
doesn't Ike the idea of getting In
debt in the first place. but the ext
gencies of life force It upon him. Then
be buckles down to pay the creditors
Who knows how much of priceless
value the world has received because
some once obscure genius was hound
ed by creditors? With his alleged
fondness for the cup that cheers and
then mocks. would Edgar Allan Poe
have found time for the masterpieces
which be implored editors to buy
had not the bills pressed hard?
It was sensitiveness over heavy OBJ
legation that inspired Sir Walter Scott
TO put forth his best endeavors; that
made Sam Clemens, at sixty, moisten
bis hands and declare he would not
leave a legacy of debt to his children
Balzac was tormented by duns until
he wrote string of hooks reaching
half way across q large room. and
nearly all of them are good.
Many of those TO whom the world
owes most never got away from their
relentless creditors. The lash was APP
piled to their backs and they bowed
their heads to the work. that their
names might not go down dishonored.
To be In debt is not an unusual
situation, but It is no more endurable
from the fact that so many are tread
ing the same path.
20. he doesn't pay his debts,"
To the real man such an accusation
is as bad as to say he steals He owes
money and doesn't pay it. The world |
judges that way, making scant allow
ance for desire.
Debt is not disgraceful to the man
who has an honest purpose to pay /
1t is disgracefuI to him who contracts
1t without figuring ahead on the
chances of payment. 1t is well. in the
scheme of Providence, that IT is hard
for the average man to borrow a few
dollars without ample security. It is
well that money lenders are some
lines harsh and persistent II teaches
rs the proper measure of values. II
gives one the necessary education to
handle wisely and frugally what he
ong and hard over the problem of in
,reasing the earning capacity
1t is true that these bitter tests
:ause some men to become aggrieved I
It the world and quit the fight. or else
ose their aggressiveness- But such
men would never count in the worlds
even though q gold mine
we're poured In their laps.
The world only knows the workers.
he men who emerge from out of the
Iuagmire of debt and misfortune The
hid born with a silver spoon In its
mouth but lives and dies Unless II :,
evelops some reputation along char
table lines. shows a willingness to do
God with the money 1t has inherited.
g existence might be represented BY ;
iphers- 1t is rare that It is given to
person who has never known the
rgent need OF money the gift to
reate great thing
So don't weep too much over the
ian tn debt He'll win out if the d.
Inc force is In him and lose II It
mt In neither case is there occa- >,
on for lamentation---Edgar White in
hicago Tribune