True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1858-01-27

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csrelessness 5abont the laws offs God in
one direction, ,!thatIallowsFaDmah to make
money any, way ganaesety way, willilead
to careIesshess in other respects, which
will eventually ruin yall he has Before
9s;nada agbntE1g lSd' q" "a'9 PSF l1'rh'
s95ris; g., s!l .ac9 c,! cigig p
This whole business Of making money,
as i is called, il, 4. mystery and q mage
even to many involved in it. Real value
Isl addedgto the wealth Of the community
only by the productive arts Of life, farm
Ing, fishing, mining, manufacturing and
commerce. What is called money-ma-
king is sometimes only q dexterous trans
fer of the money, from one, mans pocket
torthat of another, without any real COM
pensation. The transaction may be legal,
but not moral, not Christian. BY eager
ness 70 make a fortune at once, the shi-
ming laws Of eternal rectitude msYab be set
aside. Vi They that make haste 10 be rich,
can hardly be innocent. The only real
and sstisfqclary gains which, an honest
man acquires. are for services rendered
insome, way or form; uhtoogiRe moons
shine, and ntakoigold; totrafic in their
necessities, and wiring our profits out Of
their weaknesses, their folly, and their
miseries, these are The dollars that, will
make a.heayy conscience atthe last, and
bring down the red bolt ofruin.a ''@sharii'
About this whole mailer Of gold too.
there is grand raisconception. t. The
:, discovery of the gold mines of California
and Australia has dane some good, but
.enfold more evil For men drink the
! cup TOO eagerly Cola is alcoholic II
! seis the world on FIRE, Il stimulates trade
? too much. introduces gambling on .
u stupendous scale. ID diversn thousands
> from the real productive labors Of agricul'
ture, and manufactures, TO digging ore
And when dug, gold is after all but q
medium of exchange, like bpaper, like
stocks. Very little, comparatively, is
: really used in the arts, or in any praci-
J J cal way, except to be packed away in
I coin and bullion in French, English, AM
= American bank vaults. h,wouh verify
have been better if it had remained in
those original vaults constructed BY The
; hand Of the Creator in the hills and ra.
: vines of, The FIJI Dorados Of the Pacific
. Every country that has had anything to
u do with gold and silvermines. has been
in the end weakened and impoverished
I by them. 1t would not be SO if men used
3 moderation. But they thirst, and they
, drink to intoxicatiou, Gold, indeed, is 9
, blessing to be thankfully received, obu
civilization can safely takei it only in no
y meopa,hic doses. Not all gain, then, art
2 these ship loads of treasure" so,called
They cheaper money, they make ever.
= dollar we had before worth only, half a
.uI much, They pamper luxury and greed
: They stimulate importations beyond ou
4 wants. They exasperate passions 70
: wealth already too strong, and divert III
: new class Of manhood, just ready g fgh
LA good. fight for The plQgress Of heircoun
= try, .oahs gold fields, todg,bto, gamble
h to barbarize, and TO lose what civilizatio
. they had before:g Efeeps hundred vic
- y, lent deaths. murders and manslaughter
: y ip one Ysarin California. telbus what sol
q Of society il is that gold and ils tacCpI
y sed thirst" create even inthe sons Of Pu
Y ritanism, and Repubhcanism. The en-
- - is,Rot yet.l.N National virtue is depreciats
y by such CAUSES The. curepcY mayub
al gold, but the chsrasser,is is Pinchbeck.a A
i1 the great nations have, stumbled and ilalls
= over luxury, swealtlbsHice. rThe gold
(. the West has therefore castaa milfstot
y weight into the scale of oursnational ~
~ pertinent, and imadeit all the harder e
sl us 10 be- moral and God loving ,peqpl
Y Mammon worship owasi strong before
- but IL is ten times stronger nov, ,taSti
y we mustbe masters even Of this evil, an
I. say ITO gold ,lSBe not our God, boaO'
~ servant" bns ono aldyn 81 joSido ed'i
ae, Again, we add 70 ,our1 false prriincipll
nj and notions in everyday life, false met
a DDS orpfaclise,t la7m"9i9mFia9 eti "a
= 3TAass,, 3sIsJ oSsrlta,as. We,g9 tooS !
u. gerly into The mercantile. walks sndnt'
lBeii sparsely into the productive and isboril
be vocations. We have too many betyee
sl'' ers, tooamanyp agents, speculatOis, aar
he moths between the products oflhe cart
on or the articles Of manufacture, and Tho
az who use then, Our -four; our meat Q
me vegetables are 50 dear before they rea