The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-05-30
Get Money.

From the New York Ledgcr.
a good deal Of cant is written and spo-
ken respecting the zeal Of mankind to make
money 1t is also stated very often, and ac
cepted as a self-evident truth, that we, the
people of United States, are more devoted
to money-making than any other people
in the world. Very well suppose we are.
1t is only another way of saying that we
surpass the rest of mankind il the virtues
of energy and industry. We hold it to
be the duty, as it is the instinct, of every
man to make all the money he honestly
can, and to save all the money he can
properly afford to save.
The birds build their nests Of sticks and
straw, with much toll and instructive skill.
Every creature must have its nest, its lair, its
den, and all creatures are endowed with the
kind of abode that is suited to them. The
nest constructing instinct is given to man
also, and all of us, as soon as we are pre-
pared to leave the parental nest, begin to
think of getting one for ourselves. But
man being the most ingenious and capaciouS
Of all animals, Graves a residence fitted to
his greatness and his dignity. Mans nest
is brown-stone house, three or four sto-
ries high, elegantly furnished, provided
with all the requisites of decency and la
bor-saving convenience or, it is a large,
commodious farmhouse, with hundred
acres Of land adjoining. In the present
imperfect state of the arts and of social
science, all men cannot have such nests
as these but all well developed and
healthy minded men and women want
such, feel they could adorn such, know
that such would enhance their happiness.
To trv for such nest is natural, right,
and praiseworthy.
All the honest industry of man is di-
rected to three objects, namely; getting
nest, improving the nest, and keeping
the nest safe for old age. Who shall
presume to call in question an in
stinct fixed IN the nature Of man by his
creator
Wealth is said to corrupt our species.
We do not believe it. Wealth is one of
the great civilizers of man. Wealth cor
rupts when it is suddenly got, or unjustly
distributed; when, owing to monopolies
or entails, or some other barbarous system,
it is prevented from diffusing itself natu-
rally and justly Two of the over-rich
families in community of povertystrick-
en- wretches-that is indeed most corrup-
ting it corrupts equally those who have
wealth and those who have not. But
where all have an equal chance where
all start nearly even where all have a
certain degree of instruction to begin with,
where superior skill and virtue alone give
one man an advantage over another, there
wealth is an unmixed blessing. In such
communities (and there are many such in
these States,) nearly every man has an
abode suitable to his character, and that
abode is safe.
We ought to rejoice that the desire of
wealth is so universal and SO strong. 1t
keeps the vast machinery OF the world
going. 1t has suggested the most beneGz
cent enterprises and the most useful i'm
provements. We owe to it, the dramas of
Shakespeare, the steam engine cf Watt,
Fulson's steamboat, and nearly every 9th
er great and good thing we possess. We
owe to it the gratifying fact, that a man
who can earn one dollar day can be bet
ter lodged, better clothed, better taught,
than kings and mobiles could five hundred
years ago.
Sir Walter Scott truly says that saving,
not getting, is the mother of riches. This
winter has taught many young fellow hat
capital thingi it is to have hundred dollars
in the Savings Bank. a hundred dollars
is wealth to young journeyman or clerk
TIe who has such sum is man lie who
has no provision for the future is . SER,
lie must submit or starve. And everything
that may be said of the advantages of a
young man possessing that hundred dol
lars, applies with equal force to his employ
er's thousands, nay, with greater force, for
on the right use, and safe possession, and
proper increase ofthose thousands, depends
the livelihood of many families.
Our advice to young man entering
life would be this; Preserve your integri-
ty and self-respect. though you live all
YOUR life in howell Next to that make
money and save it, for with money comes
independence with money men build