Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-07-28
Live Within Your Means.

We don't like slingiBesA We dom
like economy when II comes down 10 star.
walton. We have no sympathy with. TIE
notion that q poor man should bitch him
self TO post and stand still while. the res
Of the world moves forward. Il is no man.
duty to deny himself Of every joy, ever
luxury, evely recreation. every comfort
that be may become rich. Itisno mani
duty to pate an iceberg Of bimsslf-tc
shut bis eyes and e6rs 10 lhe suferiogs d
hisfellOWs--snd 10 dsBy bimseIf the en-.
JOS meut lbat results from generous action.
merely ihat3he nav AssFd wealth 70,
bis heiss 10 quarrel about.
But there is yet an economy which i
every mans duty and which Is commend.
able ib the man who struggles with pov.
erty--an economy which Is consistent with
happiness, and which must be praeticed,
If the poor would secure independence.
It is every mau's privilege, and il be-
comes bis duty 10 live within bis means;
not up to but within thOm. Wealth does
not make Ibe man, we admit, and should
never be taken into the account 10 our
Judgement Of men. But competence
should be secured when il can be, aud
It almost always can be, BY the practice
Of economy and self denial to only tole.
rsble extent 1t should be secured. not
50 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 deri.
we'd from It's requirement and possession.
We would like to impress this single
fact upon The mind of every laboring man
who may peruse this article--lhat it is pos
slble for man TO rise above poverty, aud
thst the path to independence, though be.
set with tolls and sslf-sacri6ce, is much
pleasanter to the traveller than any one lie
can enter upon. @ ,Ea.
The.ran who feels that be is earning
something more than be is spending, will
walk the streets With much lighter heart
and enter his home with a much mors
cheerful countenaLce, than be who spends
rs he goes. or falls gradually behind his
necessities in acquiring the meens Of meet.
ing them.
Next to the slavery Of intempersnce
,hereis no slavery on earth more CALLING
thau that Ct poverty and indebtedness. =
The man who is eveybody's debtor Is ov.
slave, and in much worse con-
iition than be who serves q single master.
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 10 live within bis means. Let him
lay BY 81 melting every day-if but pen
ny, be It penny-it is better than moth.
ing; infinitely better than running in debt
a penny day ora penny week, II he
can earn dollar let him try, fairly and
the experiment Of living on
ninety cents. He will like il.
"People will laugh" Let them laugh.
they will call me stiugy." Better be cal
ed stingy than say you do not pay your
iebts. %fhey will wonder, why | do not
have better furniture, live in finer house,
md attend concerts and play houses. p
let them wonder for awhile, it won't hurt
hem, aud it certainly won't hurt you
By and By you eau have a 6no house.
md fine furniture Of your own. and they |
Vill wonder again, and come billing and |
,ooing around you like so many pleased |
Ools. Try the experiment. Live within
our means. Maine Farmer,