Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-09-07

anticipated, have been realized And, in
deed, we doubt whether people who have
many and expensive holidays, enjoy with
zess the ordinary comforts Of life half as
much as those who pursue the even tenor
of their way and find every day enjoyment
in books and papers, recreation in walks
and rides, wit in wcll-sclectcd company,
and whose regular business interests and
responsibilities prevent any necessity for
foreign and far-fctchcd stimulants as un-
natural as they are cloying aud enervat-
ing.
"You can not touch pitch without being
defled," and the one who, unknown or
known, at home or abroad, visits any Of
the haunts of guilty pleasure, must in his
calm and honest moments own that they
are cminnGy JeIM2siay in their nature
iwarEng the mind, h!unting the scnsibili-
ties, and bringing together the most disso-
lutte and dangerous classes in society. The
crime and dcbauchcry elected by single
day of circus riot, is not excclled in year
! Of relief from such assomblages.
That at circulatcs money" is Satan's
own argument, which he always brings to
bear in favor of evil Robbery and piIlago
"circulate money" but honesty and ind
ustry would DO i. much better Yellow
Fever in Harrisburg would "circulatc
money" for nearly all who had it would
haste to get away, But whether money 50
''circUla!cs' as 70 do gooi, is the test.
Money ';circulated' into the pockets of
strolling show-men, is Of course party
expended where gathered; but most of
it goes to the City from whence the outfit
was .malc, and is a dead loss to the com
munity from whence it was taken
/ "But the money comes from the coun-
try" it is also argued-juss as if it were
any difference whether it came from bo-
rough or a township; but it generally
haTDcns that the towns contribute twice
as much as the country. To pay out two
dollars to get one in ''circulation," is not
a very brilliant financial operation
/ "Ef We don't have it, somebody else
will This is the plea that Wrong ever
makes. The gambler, the thief, the pros
titute, all urge it. "If l don't counterfeit
money, somebody else will, and might
as well have it as anybody" "If We don't
print immoral or obscene books, somebody
else will, and We might as well have the
money on our side as to let it go over the
river" "If VIC don't steal money Or ter
ritory, somebody else will, and we may as
well have it as others"
The loss Of time, when thousand or
two of men and youth spend day at a
circus, is large. Say 1900 laborers attend,
and each e1pcnd, in addition to their time,
the small I'm Of so cts Their time would
be worth as much more. Here are $500
expended in senseless, and silly, and demo-
ralizing sport. Of this sum,perhaps $500
are spent in town with landlords, &c, aud
$1,000 are taken off to pay the expensive
outfits, wages, &C., Of miserable, shart-lived
performers.
And very many who neglect their work
and waste their money thus, can not oford
it. 1t is therefore cruel for men of means
to set SO bad an example as to attend those
places, for many who are by their example
induced to attend lack the comforts if not
the nccessaries Of life for their families.
We have seen men crowding into these
dens who owe their Doctor, owe their
Printer, owe their Mechanics and their
Merchants, and who will take the money
honestly belonging to their ncighbors and
friends, and bcstow it upon horde of It'll
neratiEg mountebanks. Such men will
take all their families to a "show," when
at other times they lack bread, and at all
times lack instruction to ft them for honor
and happiness in life and for better
world the Lord of which never licenses
such amuscments as We advert to- Some
Of their devotecs, moreover, often require
charity from neighbors and from oversoers
Of the poor.
In every way We can view it-morally
or pecuniarily-circuses are evil and if
evil. every GOOD citizen should do what he
can, by staying from them,by discouragng
the attendance of others, and by keeping
them as far away as possiblc,t to bring them
into such disrcpute that they will be abol-
ished, and known only as one of the bar
barOus and demoralizing sports of the past
4 Woad to the Ballick Books.
You are tho institution for me
You rhr lace where the fcllers says whats
To ta i.3' and how to do it, Sposin
You ha.at bocn bilt What thenl Why we should
Have iad = tyrink a rulin of u.s.
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