The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-09-21
From Fowler on Matrim0ny

childhood and after If: attachment L
the PLACE Where oae lives, or has lived
UnwiIingness to change 1t desire TO 10
cate, and remain permanently, in one
habitalion, aud to OWN and IMPROVE
homestead Patriotism.
J Home, home! sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home"
The advantages of having permanent
H ONE and The evils and losses cOnsequen
upon changing it, are each very great
Three moves" it is said care as bad as a
| fire." Those who have homes oltheir own
be they ever so homely, are comparatively
rich. They feel that no crusty landlord car
turn them homeless into the streets, or sci
their furniture al auction for rent Rent
| days come and go unheeded, and the domes-
lie affections have full scope for delightful
exercise. Every married man is bound by
this inha5ihiue law Of his nature, as well as
| in duty TO bis family, TO O1cN house and
garden spot and every wife is bound by the
same law and duty, to render that home as
agreeable as possible. The prevalent prac-
tice of renting houses, violates this law and
arrangement of mans domestic nature, and
must necessarily produce evil 10 both owner
and tenant. This is established by facts as
well as theory; for, what observer is not al
once struck with the general tact, that land
lords improve their houses only to raise
their rents, and charge enormously for every
additional convenience; and tenants Will
not make improvements, because they intend
soon TO "mOre;" besides, often wantOnly
damaging their dwellings. All permanent
improvements, such as fertlizing or beauti
'ying garden, rearing fruit Of various kinds,
setting Out trees, shrubbery, &C., raising
stock, and getting colUeHienceS and COM
jortS for flmily around you, require sue
cession OF years; and, therefore, tenants are
compelled 10 do without them. ltthey wish
fruits or vegetables, instead OF pucklng the
fully ripe cherry, the delicious peaCh or pear,
and the ever varying fruits Of the seasons,
and setting down quietly 10 enjoy them
{" under their own vine and fig tree" by
which their relish would be doubled, they are
obliged To take their hard earned money, pay
q lour-told price in market, and, after all,
take up with articles that are green, WIted,
or stale it being The universal custom to
pluck fruit for market bsftre 1t is ripe, SO
that it may keep the longer, and not spoil by
being transported. Who has not tasted the
difference in eatables fresh from the garden,
compared with those purchased in the mark
Ell Again market men, being generally
too poor 10 own land. are obliged to demand
high prices in order TO cover eXhorbiant
rents, which furnishes an excuse for those
who raise things for market on their own
land TO do The same. This, together with
the markets being iorestalled by Aucksters
and spectators, increases the price Of pro-
visions so enormously, that one dollar earn
ed by those who OlUR a house and Bit Of
land, brings more than FIVE, if not than ten,
earned by city tenants. What consummate
folly, then, to emigrate from the country 10
cities, because dollar week more wages
may be given, when the increased expenses
OF rent, fuel food, &c. are perhaps five
times more than the additional earnings
This reveals one cause Of the greater degree
Of poverty, privation, and suffering ia The
city than in the country.
Again, city tenants usually buy small
quantity at a time such as a pound Of meat,
hall pound of sugar, a pint of milk or mo-
lasses, a cent bunch Of onions or radishes,
an ounce of tea, a pound of -four, &C., and
hence are obliged TO pay double price, or at
least all the difference between the whole
sale and the retail prices, besides the in.
creased price Of articles in the city above
those of the country; while those who OWR
land, usually raise, or else lay in their years
supply Of provisions at the time Of their pro-
ducion, and at a comparatively traing cost.
To this renting system mainly do we owe
the exhorbant, but merely nouina, prices
of " city properly the rents and the rise Of
the property combining to increase them ;
whereas, were there but few tenants, the
city prices would sink far below those de
manded for country properly, from which a
Twin pnnII hp oh I IL nf 10
most efficient causes Of hard times" aud
distressing poverty. For small room, 100
contracted 10 yield scarcely a comfort, and
often in the basement or attic, many tenants
| are compelled TO pay their hard earned dol
lar every Saturday night or be turned into
the streets. 1t has infused its blnetul influ-
ences into nearly all the arrangements and
relations Of life. Indeed, so great and mul
Hilarious have its evils become, that they will
compel men ere long TO abandon it, and bug
expensive one. Rents will then fall, ant
landlords be losers. TO own the house yol
live in is enough owning more, will injurt
all concerned.
This faculty and its combinations, plainly
indicate that the prevalent practice of board
ing, is not the most prof able or agreeable
Those generally take boarders who are ,ot
poor 10 rake care Of them, so that the fare it
boarding house is far inferior to that in tn,
family. And then, too, the social feeling
cannot liod qualification or reciprocation.-
Boarders frequently waste more Than is nee
essary, so that toarding creates a self,I
feeling, where all should be harmony ant
friendship, And then, 10 be sick in board
ing house or tavern Let those who know
its horrors, bear witness. To be sick a
home, with all the attentions that affection
sit is estimated, thai the expenses of NOV ing OF
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