The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-01-21
Wealth and How to Obtain 1t.

The following remark on the
above subject, which we take from
the Manufacturer and Builder, we
commend to our readers:
There is one important practical
truth connected with this subject,
and one that can never be told too
often, as upon it depends the CON-
fort of the great mass of our peo.
pie. 1t is this: that in order to be
wealthy, that is, to have such COM
petencc as secures independence
and comfort, men must save.
Would that it might be written a
hundred times upon this page, and
each one of the hundred read O
hundred times. To save, is the
practical point of the subject, and
the one that should never De insis-
ted on. It matters rot what may
be the theory of political ccono-
mists rs to wealth and the means
of production, unless it be one
which can be practiced by the
great mass of the laboring people.
The products of labor or wealth
are constantly changing, constant
ly being consumed in use, and must
be constantly renewed; therefore
man may as well accept, without a
murmur, the fact that Ii must lead
life of labor, and not of play. 1t
is unwise, and in the main useless
for the majority of the active men
of to-day to seek for large fortunes,
that is to become millionaries, sim
ply because it is impossible. But
on the other hand, there is no reas-
ons why our industrious, laborers,
of all sorts, should not become
possessed of sufficient for comfort.
The great trouble lies in the fact
that young men do not begin to
save. while they are young. All
who will begin early by saving will
find happy surprise in a few
years, in the verifcation of the
Scotchman's proverb, that "many a
little makes a micklc." Put two
dollars in the savings bank at the
age of twenty and continue to do
so each week until fifty, and there
will be snug little fortune for man
and wife; fail to do this, and there
will be nothing. Begin. by small
savings rather than not begin at all,
for. the finest showers often begin
With a. few gentle. drops. One
great cause of the poverty to-day is,
the failure of common people to
appreciate small things. They feel
that if they cannot.save large sums
they will not save anything. They
do not realize how a daily addition
be it ever SO small, will soon make
a large pile. IF the young men
and young women of to-day will
only begin now, to save a little
from their earnings, and plant it
i'll the soil of some good savings
bank, and weekly or monthly add
their mite, they will wear a happy
smile of competence and indepen-
dence when thay reach middle life.
Not only the pile will itself increase
but the desire and the ability to
increase it will also grow. Let
clerk and tradesman, laborer and
artisan, make now and at once, a
beginning. Store up some of your
youthful force and vigor for future
contingency. Let children teach
their children to begin early to save.
Begin at the fountain-head to con-
troll the stream of extravaganza,
and the world will be easy. Choose
between poverty and riches. Let
our youth 60 on in habits OF ex-
travagance for fifty years to come,
as they lave for fifty years past,
and we shall see a nation. of beg
rgars, with a moneyed ,aristocracy.
Let3a generation of such as save
in small sums be reared, and we
shall be free from all want. Do
not be ambitious for extravagant
fortunes, butto seek thaR which is
the duty of every one to obtain
independence and a comfortable
home.--Wealth and enough of it
is in reach Of them all: It is OBJ
tainable by one process, and by one
only-Sauing." "
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