The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-05-11
tuesday Evening, May o, 1884
Our NEW DREss.-It win be seem from

Qua New DREss.-It will be seen from
the neatand clear appearance of this weeks
paper that we are determined to spare nei-
Their pains or money in making the Gazette
an acceptable visitor to tic fire side of every
family in the county. We are determined
that old Fairfield shall be represented in the
'news-circle" Of the country with a paper
equal to any other in the State, both in mat
ter and appearance.
When we took charge of the paper one
year ago, we were the junior editor Of
the StAtc-had limited pecunary means
and little experience; but being a practical
printer we entered upon the discharge of
our duties with a well weighed determine
ton toilet nothing dauntus in our course, and
by iAbcring with our hands as wellas head
succeed in permanently establishing our
selves in business.
This course has taught us one very i'm
portant fact-a lesson we would feel proud
to be the humble instrument Of intoxicating
into the breast of every young mar in the
county, namely: That LABOR, certainly,
is the foundation and cause of wealth. For
any young man, therefore, to know how
rich he is, or how much capital he has, he
has only to enquire what he a do and
whore he canget employment for his hands.
Therefore he who is able to work, and who
can find employment at fair pay, is rich to
begin with, and it is only a loss of time and
energy to stand still and gaze with a be-
wildercd and vacant stare at the success of
your more fortunate neighbor.
No mar can be the architect of his own
fortune without energy, nor rise to emil
nence without interchangeable labor. Indus
trious labor of any kind, ina country like
ours, with economy, and being applied
where labor is in demand for wages, is a
sure foundation of wealth. Man does not
have to labor to acquire the power. 1t is
a capital with which he is endowed by Gre
alton, an Independent faculty, and more
productive than any other.
ENERGY, untiring ENERGY, is what the
young men of our county most need. II
might seem quite unnecessary to say, in
view of what energy and enterprise have
accomplished in and for this country, from
the beginning of our history, that they are
capital. With slender means they have
worked uabouude1 wealth from the long
repose of a continent, and erected thereup-
on a vast national estate. No other species
of capital have contributed SO largely to this
~stupeadaus result. AS the collective pow
or of national enterprise is composed of in
dividual enterprise, we find accordingly the
same character in isolated conditions,
~'chequcring the whole surface of society
with great achievements effected by single
persons. There was capital enough in the
soul Of Washington, to humble the greatest
nation, and to make another, with means
that would have been laughed to scorn as a
subject o~fprophecy. In all our history,
and in the various walks of life, are to be
found like miricles of energy and enter
prise, originating in the profound and mex
haustible wealth, and carried forward to
consummation by the invisible power of
maa's moral attributes.
Young man, With lbs, this day "don''
your new dress, and enter with re-doubled
energy upon the discharge of your duties
determined to leave nothing undonc to
make yourself eminently useful to yourself
and community. This, at least, I'VE have
done, and if u~ntiring energy and constant
application to Business can secure the sue
cess ofthc Gazette, its prosperity in the fu-
ture as in the past, is certain.
In entering upon this Our "New Year."
Dur old subscribers will accept our thanks
for the generosity which characterized their
support during the year that closed on
Thursday last. If the wishes Of a kind
friend can secure them success their sue
cess is certain. To our new subscribers we
extend a hand of welcome, and trdst tina.
all, both old and new, will receive instrue-
ton and pleasure from the perusal of oul
columns the coming year.