Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-03
Sermon to Loafers.

IClaHl tight up mere you lazy raScalS
and let us reason about your daily voca-
ton. Hold up your sheepish hands and
say why sentence of the most unqualified
condemnation should not be passed upon
your conduct. How could you possibly
have the impudence to stretch your lazy
bones out on store boxes, or block up the
post office door with your lazy carcases,
to the no small annoyance Of busy work.
ing people who are engaged in some USE
full occupations? How can YOU spass
away the time" lounging round the
streets, only shifting to avoid the rays Of
the sun or the cold blasts of the wind
in company Of your equally lazy. and
equally useless companions, the dogs: and
perchance once in a while setting your
canine friends to fighting for the sake Of
gratifying your brutal love of fun? How
can you have the impertinence to gaze
under every lady's bonnet who is com
PEELED to pass by, and Just before she is
quite ont Of hearing indulge your vulgar
propensities by remarking, "vhat gait"
or ''what big feet" or x what stuck I'D
air" and turning to some one Of your
companions inquire of him. " how he'd
like to hitch horses with that feminine
for life q You poor fools, don't YOU
know that her ''stuck up air" was caused
by her having to pass such crowd of
"hnman brutes 2" Don't you know that
instead Of criticising a ladv's ssgait," You
ought to be at home mending your gar
den gate! and that no sensible feminine
will "hitch horses with any one Of you
as long as you pursue your present bus
mess, or rather no business.
Do you suppose that you were made to
live for no other purpose than to loaf"
and hinder industrious people by asking
umneaning questions, or standing in their
way? And do YOU think YOU are :'de-
cidedly sharp when you hail gentle
men who is hurryng about his business,
and ask HIM if he is his walking for
wages 3 To be sure he is walking for
wages which you will surely get some day
if you don't mend your ways, I. E. free
boarding in poor house. or YOU may be
promoted to the rank Of high private in
the penitentiary. Time may hang heavi.
ly with you now, but You may hang
heavily i'll 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 them! Do YOU think it
honorable for YOU to do nothing because
your fathers have enough to support you
when you know what they have 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 grocery or
liquor store, or saloon, of course There
you post yourselves and make it rule to
ask any working man who NAV chance to
come in, and who has earned few shil-
lngs in the course Of the day to 'streat"
and at the same time urge as a reason,
that he's the only man in the crowd who
Is making money. And then after YOU
had sponged enough liquor of "clever
fellows" to make YOU drunk, you sally
forth and make night hideous with your
equally respectable companions, the hog?
Now amt you beautiful set Of fel-
lows !-felons we ought to call you.
Your brazen faces ought to be covered
with shame at the idea of degrading poor
human nature in this manner. Especial-
ly when you must acknowledge that it is
a burden to do so, Then go to work
like men or else take. arsenic, and thus
make yourselves of some use, by giving
the printers chance to publish your de-
parture under the head of suicide.