Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1855-08-14
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.SocialIty.
Industry is the avenue to wealth. Some
Philosophers say that neatness and cleanli.
ness are requisite to the attainment of this
end, perhaps SO. No doubt that the neat
er and cleanlier people are. the more they
enjoy their wealth, but that it is necessary
TO be clean, in order to be wealthy, we think
does not follow from the premises. The
collier, for instance, cannot be wealthy or
have even q comfortable living and be clean
all the time. His very occupation pre-
cludes this in his case-so Of many others.
The people here are an industrious people.
No community known to the writer are more
50. They have had many opportunities at.
tforded them from which 70 create wsalsR.
and they have seized upon them, and pres.
sed them in service. They diyein the bow.
els of Mother Earth to bring forth hidden
treasures, seemingly not satisfied with sur
face production. The different mechanic
arts flourish and thrive, because they are
needed. Who needs them? Why the
wealthy man, wants his neighbor the car
penter, the brick and stone mason to as.
sist him in securing comfortable house
for himself and family. They have labor
to sell and he wants to buy, so they mutu-
ally are an assistance to each other, in the
enjoyments Of life. The man by his wealth
is prepared to assist the artisan, the artisan
by his superior knowledge and skill, is en-
abled to assist the man Of wealth. Eli.
ther one, is not entir ely Independent Of the
Other What can the wealthiest man in
any community do without the mechanic
and common laborer-and yet how often
are the members OF the mason's or car PEN
ter's family despised by those who use them.
Why the need of this? What creates these
distinctions? Are they guilty Of sins against
society? Are they all ninnies, or numb
skulls? Not at all. Often the reverse is
the fact. 1t is created by false pride en-
Igendered by the possession Of Wealth.
Now as long as the artisan stands in his
own strength, works out his problem by his
own genius, so long, he has the advantage
lover the merely wealthy. When we wish
to credit talents or responsibility to any one.
Il we should measure the man, not his wealth:
(which oftentimes is the result of fraud
arl knaveryl Wealth merely viii not con.
Ifer responsibility on any one, nor will 10
make him worthy to be thought respecta-
BILE. "'Tis north makes the man, tho
want Of it the fellow" So soon as any one
initiates the merely wealthy, so soon he de.
parts from the true path to honor, to hap.
; piness, he ceases to be man, and becomes
the ape, the imitator 1t is the producer
who is entitled to the most respect from his
fellow men, no matter what the production
is, be it cloth or corn, or thoughts and
ideas The man who never adds to the stock
of human happiness is drone; fit only to
be cast out Of society. Icare not what is
his position in society--he may be wealthy
t yet if he is no producer, does not originate
something that will tell on the destinies oi
men, in some way or other, either for their
present or prospective happiness, he has
, lived to little purpose, and the folly Of imi,
itating such a man, or trying to do so, is
perfectly apparent to any rejecting mind.--
The man who strulyindependent in thought
and feelings will be SO in action. He will
, have no slayish fear Of what his neighbor
may think Of this or that, but he looks al
the bearing Of things on the future. He
stops not to calculate whether the thing he
i intended to do will please his neighbor. Il
: may be something that will give his wealthy
neighbor great offense, but the thing he in
] tended to do is for the public good, and the
idea Of succumbing to the individual ca
price of one man, be he ever SO wealthy, i
i not thought Of, for moment.
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