Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-04-03
AQritultural anN Domestic.
A FEW WORDS OF ADVICE.

We have yet few words for the times
to utter, and will condense them as much rs
possible.
We have no desire TO create "pressure"
or ''panic," but rather to prevent one
And this we consider the way to do it:
/. Let the farmer or other man of mod
eratc means, who meditates building new
house this summer, consider carefully his
means as well as his needs and be sure he
has the wherewithal to finish before he is
tempted to begin. If he owes nothing
which he is liable to be required to pay, and
has means in hand sufficient to surely carry
him through, let him go ahead with all en-
ergy and confidence. If not let him fix up
the old shelter and make it do for another
year. Don't let the new house eat up the
old farm.
II. Let the country merchant about to
buy fresh stock look carefully through his
old one, and see whether he cannot cut
down his orders, considerably without i'm
pairing his assortment. If he bought 81 y
600 worth last spring, let him see if judic-
ious and careful purchases Of $4,000 worth
would not replenish his stock adequately
this spring. Let him who sells $4,000
and him who sells $4,000 worth per aunum
make similar retrenchments in their Spring
purchases. And let all be sure that their
customers will not only buy and consume
but pay for their entire stock before the
season for rcplenishing again.
III. Let each consumer in moderate
circumstances ask himself-"Have | pdiO
for the goods l have already bought and
usedl If not, let me stop short and buy
henceforth no faster than l can pay. The
old score must be wiped off as can afford it,
but not dollars worth shall be charged to
my running account" If this constrains
mothers and daughters to wear their old
dresses and the sons to wear their old dress
boots and hats till the busy season shall have
ended, they will manage somehow to survive
the trial.
~. Let the farmer who lives under O
mortgage or chronic debt ask himself if he
could not sell something that would pay of
part of that debt. Suppose he has hun
dred acres of land and owes 81 900, nigh,
he not sell off quarter of his land, pay of
his mortgage, and have as much land lef
as he has stock for, with means to till Il
the best advantage? But very many ar
worrying along under load OF debt VIII
have much more than one hundred acres o
arabic land. To such we say sell off if pos
sible enough to pay your debt and provid
you with stock and implements for the resi-
due, unless you are sure your crops will pa
off your mortgage when due, and don't rel
on the chance of your land rising rapidly j
value. 1t may do so; in time, it probabl
will but the sheriff may sell you out, CT
that time shall have arrived.
V. If you are pressed to take stock in
new railroad, or other improvement calcul;
ted to benefit your locality, do not shrink bc
hind your neighbors and try to reap pc
sonal benefit at their expense, but considc
what you can do, in justice to your famil
and creditors, and say: "If can sell picc
"off my farm for enough to pay up m
Subscription, and have farm left wort
''morc after your road shall be built than ii
"wholc now is, | will go in; but if not, yo
"must wait till next year-at all events,
"must. Ivalue railroads, but cannot pc
unit them to plunge mo further into deb
"Henccforth | pay as | 60"
vi. ms IS good time TO stop drIDl
ing Liquors, using Tobacco, and other no,
ious habits like these. There is a good de;
that might be said on this head, but We lea,
our readers to suppose it. We are a prod
gal people, and are always letting our e
penses run ahead of our incomes Let
resolve now to see the end Of this, thong
this should bring us down for season
old clothes and coarse fare.
We are heavily in debt to Europe.
Our city merchants and bankers owe tho
of Great Britain; the country owes the cite
the farmers owe the merchants-in sho
two-thirds of us are in debt. To 'owe no m;
anything is not the rule, but the exccptio
Tho bare interest on our Foreign Debt
a heavy item in our annual outgoes. III
Tariff Reduction, which takes effect in Jul
will inundate us with more goods, CIV,
though we do not or,ler them. We mi
not be able to pay off much this year, b
let us resolve 70 go into debt no further
Let us stem the current this year, that '
may be able TO roll il back thereafter. Al
as our Foreign Debts mainly made up
the Debts Of companies and individually
us sternly resolve that We will individual
and corporately, 90 into debt no further
1t is high time that we recognized and c
forced the sound old maxim Of pay as you Z
~ Y. Tribune.