The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1850-03-28
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Joy the "glorious privilege Of being indepen-
dent impulses and purposes may be
| pure US the puresi, but his necessities will
sell him in case of an emergency. It was
simply the lack of economy that made Ar
mold traitor; it was the absence of it that
gave the wives Of the puddlers and boile,s of
our city apretext for breaking the laws If
their husbands and themselves had pracliced
this art they would have had money plenty
to establish works Of their own and to, have
secured them from oil starvation from, an in-
ierval in work. These men have been gen-
ing three and four dollars q day, and nov
when off work for a few weeks people talk
about them starving If there is any danger
il, they deserve 10 be very hungry. IA
family that saves nothing, for FUTURE e7igsn-
cies, from an income Of three or four dollors
or one dollar a daY. or even ihv cents. ;fthni
be oil they have, has very good ree.son TO ex.
pect hunger without food, at some period.
We havs known two girls who each worked
for fifty cents week. aud boarding, who
dressed well, proIided themselves with beds
aud bedding of superior quality and put
money at interest. These girls were inde-
pendent with their s25 per annum while we
hear talk Of folks starving on thousand
year. We offer no apology for those who
would withhold FROM the laborsr the full a.
mount Of his earning; but until people learn
the use of money j. is very little use TO them,
except as means Of purchasing pampered
appetites and ill health; and the. family that
cannot live on three dollars day will be
likely 10 starve on twenty. The man who
has regularly spent that much and has no
! provision for the future need not talk about
any one trying to enslave or oppress him.
He is his own enslaver-his own oppressor.
Three dollars day should and would keep
family in handsomely furnished house,
with;warm carpets, tasteful curtains, sofas,
cushions and etcetras--a table supplied.Mith
an abundance of wholesome foot, and hand
some servicios of china and silver to eat 1t
with, and allow horse and nice little,pryate
carriage for evening airing. and have money
enough to educate the children. and buy
books. We make no allowance,fot rent, for
we do not think any one should begin TO
live until he gets house TO ike in.-He
who will wilfully and deliberately pay rent
for six years, in this country, should have
guardians appointed to take care of him, on
the ground of lunacy. We could. not sleep
at nights if we knew the shingles or clap
boards or boards or straw that kept the ram
! LII 1,ol, alEa
would live upder an oven-shed all summer
and save the money allowed for ront. ,ov be
gin to get a honse with, rather than be with
out ope. Il we were the wife ot,a iaporinS
ma.n WHO got but fifty cents a day, and nc
world not eonsentto do. without tooacco'
coffee, tea. spice, butter-,o live on potatoes
and beans and coarse bread and beet until
we would get little home OF our own' '@e
would leave him, 90 offto the far West, and
build little abin with boughs rather lhah
live all our life depending on any one Tor a
shelter.
We are anxious for the elevation 'of tho
laborer. bu, he can never be elevated until
he gains more independence, and this ne
can never get until he learns to praeiice 'ha'
economy which alone can, raise him aeoSe
the fear of want. Talk as you please about
soul and spirit, but whom "aan 's long press
ed by animal wants he becomes more and
more the animal. Witness the high, spirited
sons of Erin in their hungry degradation. II
tho laborer wants to be able to resist the en-
croachments of ca pitol he must learn TO pro :
vide in summer for the cold and storms o'
winter, and if our puddlers' and boilers
wives had saved what they threw into the gut
tiers, they need not have committed a breach
of the peace for fear of starving.