The Nevada journal., 1852-01-22
For the Nevada Journal

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Put beegar on horse back and he win ride
B to ne degiii'
Naw my hearers, | do not msan to
say that you are beggars. Far
from it. On the contrary, it is my
candid and solemn belief that most OF
YOU would sooner steal than eg You
know as well as ! do that every SER
amon must have text TO begin with,
and | coula not at the moment hit
npon one taL seealed 70 sanilt l0oge
directly at the subject on which ] pro-
pose to edify you on the preset occ,.-
sion; and | believe moreover that ii
will be found to be quite as appronri
ate as the texts which purport to form
the foundation of the sermons of my
broti er Clergymen in general.
Some OF you-very many of you
my fellow sinners, now present, before
you left the states, possessed very lit
lie of the real rino at any one time,
and were not altogether inSenSible to
the true value Of dime. Well, yo"
came to California, because you tho't
money was much easier to come at
here than in the states; and SO it is.
You came resolved to make and carry
home fortune, and if yos have not
realized TO the full extent your extra
VACANT expectations, you have most of
you had much better luck than you
deserved. Many of you who were
never before in possession OF one hun
dred dollars at any one time, have
since you arrived here handled money
by the hundreds and by the thousands,
and where is ii? Gone spent un-
necessarily, lavished, squandered lost
at the gaming tablet You had never
been enough used to money to com
nrehend its evancscent nature You
had yet TO learn that i would take
unto itself wings and fly away. You
got it so easy here that it appeared to
you of little worth, and you scattered
it like dust; and here you are grum-
bling and growing because you are
no better off for coming to California.
Well it's your own fault. Why in the
name the god of idleness, the demon
Of waste, and Of bacchus to boot,
haven't you been more industrious on
The one hand, and more prudent and
economical on the other You had TO
work in the states 312 days to get a
living Tor the year Of 500 days, and
rather a mean living at that; and here
where you can lay up from three to
iyc dollars per lay, clear Of all expen-
,cs, you spend half your time or more
GooIing away the rich su.pIus of your
few days Of industry,
l tell you, my hearers, it will not
pay here in California for man to
spend his time in sucking his thumbs
1t is true, | know, that n certain spc-
cies OF animals Is said to live a part Of
The year and { ow fat with no other
isustcnance than what it gets by suck
ing its paws. But then it must be re-
lmembered that this said animal is in n
state of partial torpof, and is stnpi~
/ fed without any addition to this cheap
and simple diet Now you, my hear
ers, seldom get lower than a state OF
stupidity, condition which for the
-
most part, while it seems to paralyse
all efforts for gaining or savin money,
in no wise diminishes your appetites
for dainty fare and other expensive
superhuites and extravagancies.
Again | repeat, you came to Cali
/
fornia, my unstable minded hearers, to
make little fortune in tn; shortest
possible ime--to work hard and live
cheap. You calculated upon putting
Iup with many privations- upon dis
pensing for time with most of the
comforts which you had been accus-
toned to. Your object was to gather
and to save--to gather and to say
so that YOU might the sooner return