The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1852-06-18
From the New York Tribune.
BEGGARY. a4 .a...

! The master vice Of the age is begga-
ry. Every man is seeking 10 saddle his
burden on some other man. The pa
triot loves his country. but loves the dear
people all the more that ia, offices are
given or withheld al their option. He
would scorn to Veg money, yet he can
easily stoop 10 begging support in con-
ventions and votes at the polls. The as
piring youth looks anxiously round for
some rich relative or benevolent friend Of
the family on whom he can quarter him
self for tho cost Of an education. At
the seminary he forms literary associa.
sion Of some kind to supply himself and
partners With periodicals and unolushng-
ly, proceeds to beg them Of the editors
and publishers whose labor and properly
the coterie thus convert 10 their own use
without rendering an equivalent. So
nine-tenihs Of our young men, with
many OF their seniors, are constantly
importunihg influential friends OF ac-
qnaintances 10 procure for them places
where they can obtain more money for
less or lighter work. And thus the
world runs over. with servlity, faiiery,
iaWning, whereof the radical impulse is
beggary. The wooden.legged negro or
blind stroller who cumbers the sidewalk
with on unseemly carcase while he
whines out his appeals for charity is but
a type Of the universal condition, or uni
versal tendency. Everybody IS trying to
ride on cverybody's shoulders. "Can'
you get me a place in store, on a
steamboat, or failroud?" implores the
man Of forty good years, as il his exis-
tence depended on some other man
wanting 10 borrow his brain and muscles,
and being willing to pay him for their
use in the bope Of making profit ou, Of
them. II seems to be the general notion
that God has given most Of us nothing to
do in this world, but left US TO perish in
Incidence and wan, unless some irafficker
in human sinews should fancy that he
has need of US. ''i.
How deplorably this operates on mem
tai freedom and activity, need hardly be
depicted. A. B. would naturally like TO
have an opinion of his own, bu, he must
stop to consider whether he can or can
not afford II. His livelihood depends
on his standing high in the good graces
Of this or that local dignitary, who has
no patience with erraiic and visionary
notions; so A. B. swallows and keeps
down his convictions, les, he should be
left with nothing else 10 swallow
Hence the world is full of serviliiy,
trucking and fawning, which have their
impulse in the fact that the majority pre-
fer to live as satellites rather than sep
out, ak in hand, into the worlds rough
places, and there hew out each his own
fortune.
Borrowing money, buying goods on
long credit, begging endorsements, soli-
citing influence toward procuring an
office, an engagement or settlement
it is thus ,ha, half mankind are content
to wrggle and crawl through life. Hence
The man of money, with or without heart
or brains, IS inflated into enormous con.
sequence, because everybody wants to
use him. If we were willing 10 work on
withou, him till the right time, the loan
we ask Of him might be regarded as
mutual favor; but while fifty are scramb-
ling for il, he may dictate his own terms
and still hold US the solely obliged par
~. To be in deb, or some ones hire
ling is regarded by a majority as their
natural and almost inevitable condition;
to be under mortgage seems tho natural
state Of the poor mans farm, il he has one.
We must gradually cure all this. Our
lads must bo taught to prefer laboring
for an education TO obtaining il at
charity school, or by running IN some
ones debt Our young men must be
imbued with pre- ference for forty acres
Of rugged wilderness and all ak where
With TO convert il slowly, steadily into o
productive farm, 10 clerkship, q Gus
tom-hcuse place or any subordinate posi-.
lion which is only attained by interest and
favor. Our laborers mus. learn 10 work
cheeriully and faithfully on a farm, a
railroad or wherever fair wages may be
manfully earned, but with resolution 70
be their own masters as soon as they can
save the means Of buying snug lutle
place, and, with this view, TO postpone
marriage until they have home TO take
a wife to. Or, better still, our young
mer must learn to combine as we'll as
save their earnings, and thus provide
themselves with houses 10 inhabt, soil
to cultivate and the best implements Of
industry, with less tnan half the out
lay that would he required If each were
to strive for a solitary house and FARM
Half the necessity and deficiencies
which now depress and embarrass the
poor would be obviated if they could
only be induced TO have faith in and
sympathy with each other. And these,
in Heavens good time, shall yet be at,
tanned.
0 In the Canton Of Un, of the
Swiss States, the first magistrate, at the
present time, receives an annual salary