Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-09-03

means of a little rest and leisure for the improve
| ment OF their minds.
! In proportion as people easy and ndepen
dent, and have made little provision for tht
future by laying up their wages and earnings
are they nbe to work at what occupations arc
most to their advantage. When people have the
option it is generally found that they work at the
useful occupations, and this accounts (ns was said
| before) for q grea, portion of the present won
dcrfu prosperity Of the United States, compared
with that of most portions of the world. MOI
! wonder full, however, compared with what it light
be will be. The power of EaborIng where we
will and how we will, is independence! If we
have this power of the United States, why is
there not more brought to pass, why are there not
more useful productions, why there many
contemplate, frivolous ones, that no wise man
cares nytlng bout; why is ihcro SO much pow
erty. why SO many that arc removed only HAIR
breadth from poverty!
This is one great, and very important reason.
The laboring people do not know their pow
or; they have seen 1t IN other countries and
have never been taught j: here. The great body
Of those who labor with their hands, make this
mistake: they think that thoy compelled by
their condition. to spend their tis3?o in blowing up
soap bubbles, if the rich, who, they saw, have
all tie wealth. prefer this; that, they live upon
wages, they must live according to tho will of
others; that if the rich man, the capitalist, choos-
TO carry vicious, and of course to them,
ruinou. business, they have option in the mt
ter. MANY of them, however. and admit that
it must make an immense difference in the COM
fort Of tho whole people, whether proportion OF
them employed in poughing, sowing, reap
ing, &C., another in healing the sick, instructing
the ignorant, and spreading knowledge in the
world and so on, whether they occupied in
Blowing soap bubbles, in which it is plain
that these must be supported at tho expense OF tho
rest. All lido lackovs, orvants retalners, ought
in ISfr n no n cd n
bubble blowers;-and all their employer the
idle of rich men. all the expensive fashion
ablo people who do nothing; all tho lottery pco
pie; all tho gentlemen Ito tho honor of the coun
try there ire but few who spend their lives IN
breeding and training horses to gamo wi,h,indccd
all oilers, rich poor, ought 10 have tho exclu
s:vo honor of carrying on the soap-bubblng bu
sincsS.
This, then. Is the grand dstincto of free
milton, and by far the most important That the
people have the power of producing what they
choose, in other words, of using their labor as
they choose, and then of spending thor money,
which is tho pro!uct of their labor, they
choose; and it is because much depends upon
this being rightly understood. that /! shall horeaf
attempt to prove and illustrate it In tho fullest
manner.
In England. great porsonagcs sometimes hire
three stout, full grown footmeu, to stand behind
their cnrrin ges. These are clothed in rich Iivor-
for their services. The hard working people
must of course, tho money that pays thcso
agcs. and for the laced coats and bats. In tho
present condition of England it may be necessa-
nv for portion Of the poor people to got living
in this way. Ru. this would be a contemplate
employment for three abe-bodiod mon in the Uni
ted States, whcro thcro many productive
employments. by which laborcrs may increase
property. This is is a specimen Of the worthless
occupations which consume the labor, and cause
the poverty Of he people.
SO different - the condition Of tho United
States from that of the creator part of the civil
lied world that the Iaborcrs hero arbtcrs of
their own destiny, and of that of the country;
thew and they alone, have the power to decide
what occupations there shall be, how men shall
labor, in what trades, at what arts. When say
they have tho power. do not mean the power TO
pass laws for that purpose; but much higher and
better power, the power Of becoming indepen-
dent, flor which mon may work they choose.
There is a large class Of vicious employments
that do not simply leave the world where It
was but make its condition worse. Some of these
have areadv been alluded to. Men who are en-
ployed in keeping and fighting game-cocks, or in
training horses to game with, or who spend tholr
timo in manufacturing md selling little pieces of
red or blue paper which they call lottery tickets,
are engag ed in occupations, that at once con-
temptbe and vicious. These do not add to the
general store by which the wealth of the world
is increased, but they lessen it. by corruptng
themselves and their fellow citizens, and thus ia
king away thoir working faculties. The work
ing mon who follow at the heels of these horses
and their gaming owners, do not understand
what they are about; they have not studied their
own interests.
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