The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-11-13
Live WrrHIN Your MEANs.-The Maine Farmer
breaches a yery good discourse from this common

1--we WITHIN YouR MEANs.-The Maine Farmer
breaches a very good discourse from this common
sense maxim.
GIVE don't Ike stinginess." We don't Ike {" eccuc-
N.Y." when it comes down TO rags and starvation.
We have no sympathy with the notion that the poor
man should hitch himself to a post and stand still,
while the rest Of the world moves forward. I. is no
mans duty to deny himself of every amusement,
luxury, every recreation, every comfort, that he may
get rich. 1t is no mans duty to make an iceberg OF
hinself-to SHUT his eyes and ears to the suferings of
his fellows-and to deny himself the enioyments that
result from generous actions, merely that he may
hoard wealth for his heirs to quarrel about.
But there is yet an economy which is every mans
duty and which is especially commendable IN the
man who struggles with poverty-an economy which
Is consistent with happiness, and which must De prac-
ticed, if the poor man would secure his independence.
1t is every mans privilege, and becomes his duty
10 T. live within his means; not uc to, but within them.
Wealth does not make the man, we admit, and should
never be taken into the account IN our Judgment CT
men. But a competency should always be secured
when it can be, and it almost always can be, by the
practice of economy and selfdenial to only n tolerable
extent. 1t should be secured not SO much for others
to look upon. or TO raise US IN the estimation CT otncrs
as to secure the consciousness of independence, and
the constant satisfaction that is derived from It's ac-
ouirement and possession. We would Ike to impress
this single fact upon the mind Of every laboring man
who may peruse this short article, that it is possible
for him to rise above poverty, and that the path to in
dependence, though beset with tolls and seif-sacrifc
is much pleasenter to the traveller than any one can
enter upon. The man VINO feels that he IS earning
something more than he is spending, viii walk the
streets with q much lighter heart, and enter hs home
with a much more cheerful countenanee than he who
spends as he goes, or falls gradually behind his neces-
sites in acquiring the means of meeting them. Next
TO the slavery of intemperance, there is no slavery on
earth more Calling than that of poverty and indebted
ness. The man who is everybody's debtor is every
body's slave, and IS in q much worse condition than he
who serves n single master. For the sake of the pre-
sent 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 exc
~ day-if but a penny, be it g penny-it is better
than nothing; infinitely better than running in debt, q
penny a day. or a penr5 a week. If he can earn a
dollar, let him try, fairly and faithfully, the expert
ment of living on ninety cents. lie viii like it.
"People viii laugh Let them laugh.
"They will call me ~stingy.'' Better call you stingy
than to say that you do not pay your debts. "They
will wonder why 1 do not have better furniture, live
in a finer house, and attend concerts and the play
house" Let them wonder for a v while; it won't hurt
them and it certainly won't hurt you. Dy-and-by
you can have a fine house, fine furniture of your own,
and they will wonder again, and come billing and
coo;ng around you like so many pleased fools. Try
the experiment. Live within your means.