The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1854-04-29
Sermon to LOaier..

stand mp here you lazy r.ecalS and let Us
reason about your daily vocation Hold up
your shccpish hands and say why sentence
OF the most unqualified condemnation should
not he passed upon your conduct. How
could you possibly have the impndcnce a
stretch your lazy bones ont ON store boxes.
or block up the post office door with your Ia.
~ 'arcasscS to the no small ANNOYANCE Of
busy working people who ARE engaged in
some useful occupations How can you be
c"htented to pass away time lurngng
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 g.
qually useful companions, the dogs; and
per chance once in while setting your ca.
nne friends to fighting for the sake of graft.
lying your brutal love of fun. How can you
have the impcrtinance to gaze under every
tsdIe's bonnet who is compelled to pass by,
and just before She is out Of hearing indulge
your Vulgar propcnslties by rcmarkng, "what
gait or what big feet or "what a stuck
up air, and turning to -ome one Of your
companions inQuird Of him, chow he'd like
to 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 a crowd of "human brutc,:"-
Don You know instead Of criticisiug a lady
gait you ought TO be at home mcndi .
your garden gate, and that no sensible fcmi.
nine will "hitch horses with any one Of YOU
as long as you pursue your present business
or rather no business.
Do you suppose tn.: ;ou were made TO
llVc tor no other purpose than to loaf and
hinder industrious peoplcby asking uumcan-
ing questions, or standing in the way: And
ito you think you are "dccidcdly sharp,
when You hail a gentleman who is hurrying
about .. business, and ask him if hu is
walking for wagcs:' TO be sure he is
walking for wages which you win surely get
some day if you don't mend your ways, I. r.
free boarding in poor house. or you may
hc promoted 10 the rank of nigh ipryatc In
the pcnltenliary Time may hang heavily
with you now, bat you may hang heavily in
time if You don't stir yourself aud make
yourself useful
DO you Imagine you were created 20 do
nothing, and that brains were put in your
great pumpkin heads for the poor use yuu
make Of them; d. You think it honorable
for You 70 DO nothing bccausr your fathers
have enough 10 support you wbcnyol know
what they have was got hy honest iudGsiiyi
And do you know your mother. aud ,l.,
tcIs were sent into the world 10 cook meals
and wash shirts for such wor,hlcs. beings a.
you:
And t. e. wl en- ni.l come. what Go We
see you at; Why, about grocery or Iig-
uor store, or ,alaon, of course. There you
post yourselves and make il a rule 10 AK any
working man who may chance to come in,
and who has earned few sh'ilu.- In rhr
course of the day to treat and at the same
time urge as u reason. that hes the only
man in the crowd who is making money.
And then after you have sponsod enough
liquor oi clever fellows to make You drunk.
you sally forth aud make light Mi,ogs with
your shouts, and finally lie down in some
gutter with your equally respectable com,
panions, the hogs
Now amt You a beautiful set Of fellows.
VIM ,"us bragan bT faces ought - hr 'o'.r'u
80. L., at ,h, tito { d' d'S'"dl"H poor
human naturC IN t.s manner. Especially
when ypu must acknowledge thnt II i
burden 10 do So Ih,n ~ to worn ike men
or else take arsenic, and thu. make your
selves Of some use, 10y giving the printer a
chance topulI,h your departure under head
of suicide.