Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-08-06
LIVE wITH1N YOUR MEANS.

We don't like etinginess. We don't like
ECONOMY when it 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 the
rest of the world moves forward. 1t is no
| mans duty to deny himself oc every amuse-
ment, every luxury, every recreation. every
comfort that he may become rich 1t is no
mans duty to make an ice berg of himself
10 shut his eyes and ears to the sufferings of
his fellows--and to deny himself the enjoy
ment that results from generous actions
merely mat he may hoard wealth for his own
heirs 10 quarrel about.
But vet there is economy which is every
mans dafy, and which is especially commend
able in the man who struggles with poverty
--an economy which is consistent with hap
Piness, and which must be practiced If the
poor man would secure independence.
Il is every mans privilege. and becomes
his duty TO dive within his means; not up TO
but within them. Wealth does not make
the man, we admit, and should never be "a
ken into account in our judgement of men.
But competence should be secured when 1t
can be; and it almost always can be, by the
practice of economy and self-denial to only
tolerable extent. it should be secured not
80 much for others to look upon, or to raise
us in the estimation of others, as to secure
the consciousness OF independence, and the
constant satisfaction that is derived from its
requirement and possession.
We would like to impress this single fact
upon the mind of every 1aboriHg man who
may puruse this short article--tha. it is pos
sible for him to rise above poverty, and that
the path of independence, though beset with
tolls and self-sacritce, is much pleasanter to
the traveller than any one he can enter up
on.
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 cheer
ful countenance than he who spends as he
goes, or falls gradually behind his necessities
in acquiring the means of meeting them.
Next to the slavery of iutemPerance there
is slavery on earth more CALLING than that
of poverty and Indebtedness. The man who
is every body's debtor, is every body's slave;
and in much worse condition than he who
serves a single master.
For the sake of the present, then, as we'll
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 some
thing every day--if but penny, be it pen
uy-it is better than nothing; infinitely bet
ter than running in debt, penny day or a
peany week. Il he can earn but dollar
let him try fairly and faithfully the expert
ment of living ninety cents. He will
like it.
"People will laugh Let them laugh
''They will call me stingy." Better be CALI
ed stingy than say you don't pay your debts.
'They will wonder WHY do MOI l.ase se.. -,
furniture, live il. finer house, and attend
concerts and the play house." Let them
wonder for while, it won't hart them, and
it certainly won't YOU By and by you can
have fine house, and Gne furniture of your
own, and they will wonder again, and come
billing and cooling round you, like SO many
pleasant FOOLS Fry the experiment. Live
within your means Maine Farmer.