The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1870-04-01


are almost - plentiful in all parts Of
The United States as m osquitocs in .
Missouri marsh. They arc emphat.
ieally people who have "notbing to
do" they "toil not neither do the,
spin, yet Solomon in all his glory
was not arrsyed like" some of them,
while others care nothing for thei,
appearance, providing the indiffsr.
ence entails no labor as one of its
sequences.
In some parts Of the world there
are those who have nothing to do but
while away the tedious hours in pur-
suit Of pleasure. but they are not tho
class of American loafers Of whom
We wriss-and sometimes mourn. -
They live thus because the govern
ments in which they live are SO con-
stituted that the laboring classes are
their "hewers Of wood and drawers
Of wator" but in this country to be
: "do nothing" to find nothing to do
toward improving ones locality and
aiding to develop the general wealth
is in the highest degree, unworthy of
m American citisen.
From the grades of tho learned
professions, down through the entire
range Of useful labor, there is not one
but that is more reputable than that
Of the do-nothings who lounge away
their time on the street corners, at
hotels, saloons. billiard tables and
other places Of resort, or in the Of
fees, and counting rooms, stores, or
shops Of their employed acqnaint-
anccs.
IN our rounds for items We have
uniformly met the same persons,
young and old, day after day, and
month after month, year after year
in some favorite place of resort, en-
gagged in the highly rcmunerative oc-
oupation Of "doiug" some one out of
the drinks and sponging his tobacco
At the same time, or else for hours
absorbed with playing some one of
the very Intellectual games played
with cards. Of this class We have
often wondered whether they ever 60
home to eat, drink, sleep, or wash
their useless hands.
This class of people is not peculiar
to Crcsco alone. Every town, vii.
lags or city we have visited abounds
with them, and in every neighbor-
hood Of farmers even may be found
aspecimen Of tie species. Among
farmers this obno xious class Of loaf
crs exc out an existence by hunting
and fishing. and supply general de-
fciencies in their larder by loaning,
(and seldom returning to the lender }
-four, meat, sugar. tea, and the many
etcetcras Of luxury their tact or i'm
pudsnce enables them to obtain.
This class Of Universal loafcrs, in
country, town, village or city Say
they have nothing to do, that luck is
sgainst them, that they may as we'll
play as work, it is al the same to
them. The excuse is false. Luck is
not against them, but they are
against work. The truth is they will
do nothing, therefore they find plenty
Of time to loaf, and attend to loaf
srish amusements.
We are aware that industrious and
worthy men are sometimes out of en-
ployment. and when they have fami-
lies to support and nothing but the
labor Of their heads or hands to sup
port them, their ease appeals to the
sympathy Of the generous and kindly.
But such men are not loafers, nor
even willing oilers, like th. class un-
der consideration. Some Of the class
alluded to affect breeding that is
above soiling their hands with hon
est toll; they look down on the in
dustrious mechanic. and turn up their
noses 1t the man whose brain will
not allow him to stand still, but must
find something for head and hands to
be busy about. They would not Ia
Dor twelve hours out Of twenty -four,
like horse, for any man. But they
DO : great deal worse. They live
like parasltee on their relations and
friends and eat up the bread they arc
too indolent to earn. They forget
that nature detcsts idleness as much
as she does vacuum. There is no
empty space in nature. Even the
hog earns his grub" for he "roots
for it, and the dog stands ready to
do all hs can for the hand that feeds
him. The dro ncs in hive are good
naturally allowed part and lot with
the industrious workers and, if