New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-05-05
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Live Within Your Means ,,s

We don't like stingyness. We don't like "econo.
n1y' whenit comes down to rags and starvation. We
have no sympathy with the notion that the poor man
should hitch himself to post and stand still while
theest Of the world moves forward 1t is no mans
duty to deny himself of every amusement every lux
ury every recreation, every comfort that he may get
rich. II is no man make an iceberg of him
seto shut his eyes and ears to the.snesings of his
jfelloWs-and to deny himself the lenioynents that
results from generous actions-me that he NAV
/ hoard wealth for bis heirs to quarrel about.
but there ls yet an economy which is every man.
daty,and which IS especially comrnendable in the
man who struggle with poVerty-an economy which
y consistent with happiness, and which must be prac
ticed, it the poor man would secure independence.
1t rs every mans privilege, and it becomes his
duty to live within his means mot upto, but within
them. Wealth does not make the man, we admit.
and should never be taken into the account in our
judgment of men, But competence should be Sc
cured wheni can be; and it. almost always can be
by the practice of economy and self-denia To- onIya
toerabe extent It should be secured, not SO much
for others to look upon or to raise in the esti
ton OF Others as tesecure the consciousness of indie
pendence and the constant satisfaction that is de-
rived from It's requirement and possession. @ 3's
We would like to impress this single fact upon the
mind Of every laborrg man who may gper,lse this
short it is possible for him to riseaboye
poverty, and that the path to independence though
beset with tolls and selfsacrce is much pleasanter
to the Traveller than any one he can enter upon az
The man who feels that he is earning Something
more than he is spending, will walk the streets with
much lighter heart and enter his home with much
more cheerful countenance than he who spends as he
goes Or falls gradually behind his necessities in ac
quiring the means Of meeting them. '''''fT ~ =.
Next to the slavery of sintenperance there is no
slavery on earth more CALLING than that of poverty
and indebtedness. The man who is everybodyis
debtor IS slave and in much worse com
diton than he who serves single master. II *@
For the sake Of the present then as well as for the
sake Of the future, we would most earnestly urge
upon every working man to live within his means!
Let him lay by something every day--if but penny,
be it pennyTTit is better than nothing infinitely
better than running in debt, penny day or pen
nya week If he can earna dollar let him try fairly
and faithfully, the experiment Of living on ninety
cents. He will like it, IN "a II " X A. N ~ = y
People will laugh Let them laugh. "They will
cay me sngy Better call yon stingy than
not have better furniture live in finer house and
attend concerts and the play house, Let them won.
der for while it won't hurt them, and it certainly
won't you. By and by you can have a fine house
and fine furniture Of your own, and they will wonder
again. and come billing and cooling around you like SO
many pleased fools. Try the experiment Live with.
III your means. Maine Farmer, ~ 2t