The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-08-25
TO LOAPERS.

N"N 'S' 10 IoeoVh ooout your ually pOCa
ton. Hold up your sheepiSh heads and
say why sentence of the most unqualife.
condemnation should not be passed upor
your conduct. How can you possibly
have the impudence 10 stretch your Iazy
bones out on store boxes, or block up the
post Office door with your carcasses
10 the no small annoyance of busy work
ing men who are engaged in some uselu
occupation! How can you be content tc
pass away the time" longing around
the streets, only shifting to avoid the rays
OF the Sun-in company Of your equally
lazy and equally useful companions. the
dogs; and perchance once in a while
setting your canine friends to fighting for
the sake of gratifying your brutal love Of
iun!-and how can you have the unblush
ing imPudence to gaze under every lady's
bonnet who is compelled to pass by, and
Just before she is quite out OF hearing in.
dulge your vulgar propensilies by re.
marking, "what gait, "what big leet,"
or "what stuck up air, !" and turning to
some OF your companions inquire of him
how he'd like 10 hitch horses with that
feminine for life?" You poor fools, don't
you know that her "stuck up air" was
caused by her having to pass such crowd
of "human brutesl" And don't you
know that instead of criticising a lady's
gait" you ought 10 be home mending
your garden gate! And that no sensible
feminine will "hitch horses" with you, as
long as you pursue your present busi.
ness, or rather no businessl
DO you suppose that you were made to
live Tor no other purpose than to loaf"
and hinder industrious people by asking
unmeaning questions, or standing in Their
way! Al d, do you think you are deci-
dedly sharp" when you hail gentleman
who is hurrying about his business. and
ask him if be is walking for wagesl" To
be sure he is walking for wages and you
are loafing for wages for which you will
surely get some day il you don't mend
your ways. i. e. free boarding in the poor
house, or you may be promoted to the
rank of a high private in The penitentiary.
Time may hang heavily now, but you
may hang heavily in time if you don't
stir yourself and make yourself useful.
Do you imagine that you were created
to do nothing, and that brains were put
in your great pumpkin heads for the poor
use you make Of lheml Do you think it
honorable for you to do nothing because
your fathers have enough to support you
when you know what they have got was
got by honest industry? And do you
suppose your mothers and sisters were
sent into the world TO cook meals and
wash shirts for such worthless beings as
you?
And then when night comes what do
we see you at! Why, about a grocery
or liquor store. of course. There you
post yourselves and make it a rule to ask
any working man who may chance to
come in, and who has earned few shil
lingS in the course of the day, 10 treat"
"''u a. blC oaihO UNIV uISC oo q ISuSOus
that she is the OILY man in the crowd
who is making any money" And then
afer you have spongend enough liquor
off "clever fellows 10 make YOU drunk.
you sally forth and make might hidious"
with your beastly shouts, and finally lie
down in some gutter with your equally
respectable companions the hogs.
New. ain't you beautiful Sc, of fel-
lows!-FelonS, we ought to call YOU
Your brszen face ought to be covered
with shame at the idea Of degrading poor
human nature in this manner, especially.
when you must acknowledge that il is an
awful burden to do SO. Then go 10 work
like men or else take arsenic. and thus
make yourself Of some use; by giving the
printers chance TO publish your depart.
ure under the head of suicide"