The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-10-13
WORE.


all sorts of people except lazy people,
and they don't deserve to be got along
with.
They can hardly get along with
themselves.
No matter whether rich or poor, no
man has right to live in this world
or 10. living in it-who doesn't
work: l-A1 -s' - Z
That is to say, if he can work.
If he can't, so much the worse for
the rest of US, as well as for himself.
But the man who can work, and
won't work, ought to be made to
work.
Lazy people are everywhere nuf-
sance, and nuisance that ought to be
promptly abated. 1.-''' 'i'- -
They not only don't work. them
selves, but they do all they can to
keep others from working.
In other words, they are always
and everlastingly in the way.
Their idea of Paradise seems to be
a world of loafers. <--A-l - ---i
And this is our idea of a Pandemo-
MUM.
Their chief occupation is to "kill
time" as they call it.
But the fact is that time is all the
while kindly and considerately-
though rather too slowly-killing
them.
There is no more unseemly object
than one of these lazy people, on the
face of the earth.
He is as diagreeable to the sight as
dead tree in the orchard, or a dead
sheep on the common.
He is in discord with everything
that is alive and growing about him.
He is at peace, therefore, neither
with himself nor with the world, nor
with Nature, who abhors him as she
abhors vacuum.
One reason why there are SO many
lazy people in the world is, thatslabor
manual labor in particular-is too
generally despised.
And the laborer, too,
Wealth and Incidence, and empty
headed vanity, are worshipped.
Labor worships them among the
rest, and is apt to despise itself.
And labor is generally poor as well
as degraded.
1t earns all that is earned in the
world, and ought to have larger
share of its earnings. Il
No laborer should want, and no
idler should enjoy.
And no man has right to be idle.
He may be for all as, but not for all
himself. .r4.f,a .,..1.,eI ..,F.--}y
Z He owes it to himself to earn his
bread, and to earn it by useful labor,
and not useless-much less mischiev-
ious labor, as too many get it by, now.
Further, as ne man has q right to be
idle and live on the earnings of 9TH
ers, so no man ought to be obliged to
support the idle, or to labor much, if
any, beyond what is necessary for the
support of himself. -'''' '-o''' : '-'''' r,
There ought, of course, to be labor
enough done on the earth to support
all its inhabitants richly, and if it were
properly shared, no one would need
do more, and no one would do less.
Men have no right to overwork
themselves if they can help. it.
1t is in derogation of glorious hu-
man nature to overwork, and more
grossly SO to have it slothful or idle,
and basely live on the unrequited toll
l.of others. .19iIJDE1Wtn.
Every one owes it to himself, as
we'll as to his otherwise overburdened
and injured neighbor to do labor
enough to earn the bread he consumes,
and all his support. 'ii'"
He must earn it himself, or. some
body else must earn it for him, which
is clearly wrong.
| /" If every man worked as Ihe ought
to nobody would be forced to work
more than he ought to, which would
be mighty amelioration Of human
/ condition and character. z57.gsf > q
There need not man .oYertoil him
self to turn all earth into paradise
fit abode for the godsroo
And these god-like creatures would
exhibit it. .-..r ,..,.,-.=..a.,a a,fr
A man can't be happy without
work, any more than a bird can with
out a chance to sing or fly.
y Everybody in the country, who has
shealth enough to work with his hands
and chance to get at the soil, should
4 earn his bread, if possible, by ground
Flabor.
/ To say nothing of the healthfulness
of such labor, and the. enjoyment il
affords, there is an independence
about it, and certainty of renumera
Il ton, which neither human injustice
nor folly can defeat.
4 Toward work on the farm, then
let the young ambition Of Americs
4 be directed, and7let the idle vacation:
go take their place behind it.laoW
Then labor would be sought instead
of summed, as it nowlis, and would
4 no longer be thought degrading an6
!, fit only for slaves!ilI 9IdGI
~ Moreover, manhood would then b.
=. everywhere provided for andthe dea
old mother earth, would be all of
I blossom, like rejoicing young appl
tran in tho .SDpipU