The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-08-29
A Lecture to Loafers.

Stand up here, You lazy rascaIs, and
let US reason about your daily voca
ton. Hold up your sheepish. head,
and say why sentence Of the most IN
qualified condemnation should not be
passed upon your conduct. How can
! you possibly have the impudence to
streach your lazy bones on store box
es, or block up the post Office eool
with your carcasses, to no small
annoyance to busy working people
who are engaged in some useful occu-
patton How can you be contented
to "pass away the time" in lounging
around the streets, only shifting to
avoid the rays of the sun, in the com
pany of your equally lazy and useless
companions, the dogs, perchance, once
and a while setting your canine
friends to fighting, for the sake OF
grati6ng your brutal love of fun
And how can you have the unblush-
ing impertinence to gaze under every
lady's bonnet who is compelled to pass
by, and just before she is quite out of
hearing indulg your vulgar propensi-
ties by remarking what a gait"
''what big feet"'or "what stuck up
air. and turning to one of your COM
panions, inquiring of him, chow he'd
like to hitch horses with feminine
for life 2" You poor fools, don't you
know that her stuck up air was caused
by having to pass such crowd Of hu-
man brutes And don't you know
that instead of criticising lady's
"gait" yon ought to be at home
mending your garden gate And
that no sensible feminine will hitch
horses with you as long as you pursne
your present business
Do You suppose that yon were
made for no other purpose than to
loaf and hinder industrious people
by asking questions or standing in
their way ? And do you think it de-
cidedly sharp when you hail a gentle
man who is hurrying about his BUSH
Mss, and ask him if he is walking for
wagers, and you are loafng for wsg-
es that you viii get some day if you
don't mend your ways, i. e. free board
ing in the poor house, or yon may be
promoted to the high rank of private,
in the penitentiary Time may hang
heavily with you now, but you may
hang heavily in time if you do not be-
stir yourself and be useful
Do you imagine you were created
to do nothing, and that brains were
put into your great pumpkin heads
for the poor use you make of them ?
Do you think it onorable for yon to
do nothing because your fathers have
enough to support you, when you
know what they have got they got it
by industry? And do you suppose
your mothers and sisters were sent
into the world to cook meals and
wash shirts for such worthless beings
as you are
And then when night comes what
do we see you at2 Why about the
grocery and liquor stores of course
Then you post yourself and make it q
rule to ask any working man who
may chance to come in and who earn
ed few shillings in the conrse of the
day, to treat, y at the same time mr.
cling as reason that he is the only
man in the crowd that is making any
money. And then, after you have
sponged enough Of a clever fellow. to
make night hidious with beastly shonts
you finally lay down in some gutter
with your equally respectable com
panioDs, the hogs.
Now, amt yon beautiful set of
fellows? Felons we ought to call
you Your faces ought to be cover
ed with shame at the idea of degrad-
ing poor human nature in this manner,
especially when you acknowledge that
it is an awful burden to do so. Then
go to work like men, or else take arse
mic and make yourselves of some use,
by giving the printers chance to
publish yonr departure under the head
of suicide. That's so.