Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-11-24
From the Gem of Science.
AequiSitiyeneSS.


Money is the god of this world. This
is true of a grpat majority. How many
who were once respectable, and compar-
atively happy, have since bathed themsel-
YES in misery and wretchedness, and pros
trated theil virtues and their all, for a
mere pdItry sam How many have been
induced by it to go into court ofJusticeC)
and kiss the Holy Scriptures, and then
turn around and swear falsely against
brother! How many wrongs have the
legal and the medical professions perpe-
trated for few almighty dollars How
many rich men have been made richer,
and poor men poorer, In the course OF
dishonest speculations, saying nothing OF
rotten Banks and the hundreds OF honest
men that have been driven to want, and
the poor that have been distressed by
them! for the honest are unsuspecting
and the poor have not the means of knowl-
edge and these are the ones that have
to bear the smart, and bear the load that
the designing and "more knowing, are
continually heaping upon them. They
must sweat, and tug, and feel as bad as
they please : they can not thrust them
selves from this weight that is continually
bearing them down to poverty and the
grave. There is, however, narrow
escape. 1t is in following the miserable
examples oftheir oppressors. Thus, under
the present state of things, the great
TENDENCY and EXAMPLE is, to encourage,
practice, and tolerate wrong, to lower the
moral sentiments, and to strike a dagger
to the very heart of humanity! Let any
one look for himself, upon the Rhoorbacks
that are played off in political swindling
the office seeker tampering with human
nature and the appetites and passions OF
men, and he will then be convinced ofthe
controlling influence of aequisifiveness..
Look again, and you see the influence OF
intemperance joined with this organ ::
men are continually quareling about
property, and lawsuits are multiplied, the
costs of which in three quarters of these
cases amount to double the amount OF
damages recovered. The honest, but
poor and pennyless are deprived OF
/ homestead, even. Yea, more--they are
thrown upon the cold charities OF the
word. wandering from place to place,
deprived of domestic tranquility, the pleas
ures of social life, without even land
enough, on which to lay his head when
refused humble couch, or pillow, in
the agonies of death. And if he is buried
at all, his body must not rest with
j tsThe rich, aud Iortlly ones of TIE earth,''
but away in some secluded ground. This.
4 we believe is real view of the subject
Society is truly in a lamentable condition
Her bosom is moved like the waves o.
the sea, as if to relieve herself from inter.
nal commissions.
| "Money is the root of all evil. The
desire to acquire property,-to amas,
wealth-and to hoard up money as we
| have seems the great and prevailing
object at the present period.
i Religicnists aspire after, and desire it
/ the misery christians pray for it; ths
lmoralist is fettered and bound down fo
want of it and Reformers can do bu
little towards advancing the great Gauss
i ofGod and man, without II.
i The discord and inequality that w
have seen, is caused in an abuse of thu
faculty and the remedy hes in its uniform
cooperation with the moral sentiment
: and enlightened Intellect.
II s---- ----- ----------- 49, fs.rf
8 A PUBLIC HOUSE, IN ALABAsIA.--A
!. man down south recently built a house 0
logs and turf, hung out his 'sshingleN ant
sent the following advertisement to thu
! village paper:
sNotice to Travellers sign Of the Phi
and Tatur. Having built large cOndi
tion to my Public Dloelliag House, az
:. prepared TO contain travellers IN mor1