The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-09-26
Working for Money.


The statement that Z" the laborer is worthy
of his hire is not only trite, says the Pbre-
noZogicaL Journal but it is also scriptural;
and he who ignores this principle is not only
anJrise but UNJUST. If " the wages of sin is
death, the wages of honest toll is bread
and life. Money simply represents labor
performed, or property of some sort. He
who produces nothing and earns nothing,
does no good in the world he simply lives
on the earnings of others is worse than
drone in the great human hive. Any insti-
tuition or order of society which stigmatizes
honest labor as degrading, or as something
to be avoided, carries its own curse with it.
For this we commanded you, that if any
would not work, neither should he eat" So
said st Paul There are idle and disorderIy
persons among US who "work not at all but
are busybodies." Such sonld be exhorted
and induced to earn their own living. 1t is
energiz5ng and ennoOling to earn the where
with to develop our faculties, clothe our
bodies, contribute to the unfortunate, build
school-houses, churches, public libraries, in
dustrial Institutes, asylumns, hospitals, and
the ike. For every dollar man invests in
any Of these he feels the richer in al the at
tributes Of true and noble manhood. Oh, the
blessing of giving And the way to obtain
the blessing is to earn it. The poor weak
willed. self indulgent do-nothings never have
anything to give, except what they beg from
the more industrious and enterprising They
don't know, poor things, what they were
created for So far, to them, life has been in
vain They wait for some thrifty person to
take them up and carry them into sweet
Elysian fields, where they may dwell in lux
urious idleness. What husbands and fathers,
what wives and mothers, such worthless
creatures makel
Reader, do you remember the first dime
or dollar you ever earned ? Wig do you
remember it? Because of the satisfaction
it produced. You earned H. 1t was the
result of your own personal exertion. 1t
was yours, and a part of you. 1t was your
first taste of liberty, independence, power.
What luxury What a stimulartI How
all-engaging The idea of wealth becomes
absorbing. Is there no short road to riches ?
Tell, o tell me how to make money quickly !!
All, here is the danger If the parent failed
to teach his child something Of the true asses
of money; if he permitted him to become a
warped money lover for its own sake-a
money orshipper-through inOrdinate ac-
qu1sitiveness, he will just as certainly be-
come a mean, selfish, sordid miser, a gamb-
Ter, or a thief Money is to be desired only
as means, and it is so much better to earn
than to inherit it. Easily obtained, as
easily lost" is the rule.
Begging comes of poverty and low natures.
A dignifed, manly man would rather starve
than beg" while imported paupers take to
! begging as ducks take to water. They are
| born to it. 1t is tue result of monarchical
institutions, wherein the few own all the
! land, monopolize all the water, rule and
control the labor 1t is cruel slavery, under
another name-su ubjects-and produces the
class" denominated peasants.
Here, in America, we grow no human
fungus. Those we have are either imported
direct, or they are the immediate offspring
of such. They compose our whisky rings
our q Dead Rabbits" Short Boys" Plug
Uglys," and other villainous, vagabOnd class
es. Our dance houses, streets, pOOr-houses
and prisons swarm with them. They are
human wharf rats, baggage smashers, thieves
burglars, robbers, murderers. They worl
from compulsion-never from choice. II
their own country they we're kept at the
point of starvation, having no hopeful pros
poets to encourage them, and they became
the poor creatures we see Here they MAJ
earn money, accumulate competency, and
with industry and temperate habits &c
ahead in the world And they do. Conside
the millions of dollars sent by laborers from
America, to relatives in the Old Country.
Here they can make and save money. Herr
they can secure houses of their own, AM
put their children in a way to he educated
elevated, and placed on a rising scale lie
whisky and tobacco alone; buy good book
and read them; join a temperance society
come under religious influences; and th
course of each one viii be "onward and uE
ward"
But there are higher considerations thar
/ working for money. Riches do not seeur