Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-04-08


its caption in the mouths of the lazy
and the vicious. The Editor treats the
subject in a mastery manner, and han
dies those woo hold the doctrine, with
out gloves.
Let the rascals be lashed as with
whip Of scorpions say we. NJ.
THE WORLD OWES ME- A LIVING :"
That's false. sirl 1t doesn't owe you
a fartbing. You owe the world for the
light of its days, the warmth of its sun
shine. the beauty of its earth and sky.
AMI for its love. affections. ana friend
ships, clustered around and clung to
your WORTHLESS trunk. For all these, and
other blessings of countless numbers.
you are debtor. You have never even
thanked God for health and life. You
never made the world better for your
living You owe for the breath you
breathe and the strength you enjoy
You have nothing to your cr"dit ON the
dsv book or ledger of life-not cent.
You have never taken dollars stock
in Heaven. You are a miserable, aim
less. indolen' bankrupt You float down
the stream Of your lazy existence Ike
food wool on water. Were you to sink
to-day to oblivion, you would not leave
bubble.
The world owes you living! Where
is there a manly thought uttered. or a
noble deed performed? Where are the
evidences of your labor? Nowhere
You are lounging through life with your
hands in your pockets an indoIent lo.fer.
swearing and slavrring nonsense. You
drink, gamble, and chew tobacco. but
never earned your board. A pile OF
lumber would be Of more account, for
that could be worked into forms of use
fulness and beauty. but you will not
make anything of yourself. or allow So
cieiy to do it. A world OF such as you
would be the place to live in indeed
You have degraded our common man
hood. instead of ennobling and elevat-
ing it. aud in nothing but the form and
vulgar speech are you above the
brutes that perish. And because you
are too lazy to work. you claim that the
world owes you a livingl
Don't le'l that lie again. you sluggardl
The world or society would not suffer
loss were lightning to strike you, or the
cholera TO take you off. There are too
many Of such. Were you treated as
drones are treated in the hives, you
would have been kicked out of creation
years ago. You are sponge, swollen
with what you have absorbed from soci-
ETY. You dwarfed the intellect given
you, and neglected the endowment it
would have brought you. So effrctually
have you wasted the boon Of lie, that
uuless your bones shall go to the dissect
ing room. and your picked carcass as
fertilizer upon some God forsaken spot,
you have passed through life to no ur-
pose. The tobacco you have chewed
has only defied everything around you.
and the liquor you have drank has only
been adullerated by your miserable na-
ture, and been turned into rowdyism
ann profanity. You contaminate every
thing you touch. and even those Ike
you will keep their children from the
leprosy of both your teaching and exam
PIE.
No. sir. you owe the world better
life. You never can pay all the debt,
but you can do better and commute for
twenty FIVE cents ON the dollar. Do
and say something noble and manly; la
Dor for some honorable purpose. and not
inhale Gods pure air for nothing, and
gruut through existence like hog, hav-
ing only tSo aims in life-to reach the
bar ard the dinner table; and only two
attributes--to eat to glultony and drink
to drunkenness.
The world owes no such a man liv-
ingl-C Cdyuga Chief