The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-10-31
CHARDON GEAUGA COUNTY OHIO. FRIDAY OCTOBER 81 1862
independence.

Let your first care be- then, Independence.
Without pecuniary Independence YOU arc
not even intellectually free; with indie
pendence. even though IL bo gained through
some occupation which YOU endure rs a
drudgery. still, out of tho twenty four hours,
there will always bo somo hours for the oc.
cUpation In which you delight
SAVE MORE THAN you sPrND.
Independence Independence the right
and tho power 10 follow tho bont Of your
genius. without fear of tho baiifr and dun,
should ho your first inf, xb!o uim. To
attain Independence. so apportion your OK
! pcnditure us to spend less than you havo
or you oarn. Mako this rulo imperative.
| know Of none bcttor. Lay by something q
every year. If il DC bot shilling. A shilling
laid by, not and clear from debt, is re.
ceipt in full of oil claims Ia tho past. and
you GO on with light foot aud light heart
to the future, How am to save and lay
by :" saith the author. or any other man
Of wants more largo than his means. The
answer 10 obvious--"If you cannon increase
your means. then you must diminish you,
wantb.' Every skilled laborer of fair reput,
eau earn enough not to siarvo. and u sur
plus beyond that baro suflicieucy Ye
many skilled lh50rer suffers moro from
positive privaiion than tho unskilcd rurs
peasant. Why: Because be encourage,
wants in excess of his means. II,
who has saved for ono ycar finds tho sccu
rity, pleasure and prido in il LUXURY sr
great that his invention will be quickaned
to keep it. LIy by lay by! What makes
tho capital of nations; Savings; nothing
else. Neither nations nor men are safe
| hny
system bv which they savo moro than thcy
spond. When that system is once estab
lIshed, at what ratio capital accumulatos
What resources tho system gradually do
| volops In that one maxim is tho srcrot o'
Eneland's greatness Do you think i
moan to save more than you spend w,
do in that what alone gives your country IL
rank in the universe. Tho systemso gran,
Tor an empire cannot no mean for n citizen
Well. We have now added another rule /,
tho canons prescribed to tho managomon
If money Save moro HAT you spend
Whatever your means DO. 40 appo.ticl
your wants that your means may oxcecc
them. Every man who earns but los
week can DO this if lie plenscs, whatever h.
may say to the contrary; for, II he can iv
upon los. week. no can 1.-Two upon o.. Iii
In this rulo mark tho emphatic distinction
between poverty and neediness. POycrt
is relative, aud therefore not ignoblo; need
iuess is positive degradation. II | hav
only fl00 year. am rich as compare,
with tho majority of my coun,rymen. II
have $4,000 year, may 10 poor compares
with the majority of my associates an,
very poor compared to my next door neigh
Dor: With either of these incomes | ma
be positively FREQ from needinccs VIII
tho El00 II yoar may nnnl no .r"n'a holp
= ! may ut least have my crust ct broad an
liberty" Bot with 50 coo o year l Ua
drrnd a ring at my boil: | may have IN
, tyrranical masters in servants whose wag,
| cannot pay; mv exile may bo at the ia
, of the long suffering man who enters
judgment against nc; for the flesh that lie
ncarest to my heart some Shylock may b
busting his scales and whetting his knif,
Nor is this an rKaggcraiion. Some OF ih
necdest mon eyer knew bavo q nomini
e E5 600 year. Evory man is needy wi,
n spends moro than ho has no man is need
who sperds loss. I NAV so i'll manage III
money that with f5 COO year purcha.
q tho worst evils of povorty-terror at
d shame | NAV so well manage my mono
,. that with fl0O year purchase the be
Z, blessings of wealth-safuty and respect.
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