The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-04-19
CHE sNarietta 9ournal.
Marietta. Georgia, April 10, 1872.
ECONOMY MEN AND WOMEN
ONLY HOPE.

ana interest aOoVc all ctncfS 10 Inc
working classes, that word is econo-
my. II there be word in the Lam
guage, the cmbodiments of which
we would urge, yea, force upon the
attention of workingmen and women
"a word which We would surcharge
with vitality and load with an ab-
sorbing interest--a word which we
would make luminous, and give a
voice which should speak comfort,
and safety, and hope and good cheer
to the laborcr, that word would he
economy. We would write it on the
heart and brain Of the rank and file
of society, and would hang it in let
tiers of gold in every house. We
would emblazon it everywhere, so
that every worker, whichever way
he looked, should see this inscrip
ton of salvation from want, from de-
pendcnces, from slavery.
Economy is more than making
ends meet. 1t is making ends meet
and haUiag something fJt 1t is
Striking bottom"-getting down to
"the hard-pan" in the affairs of eat
ing and drinking, and warming and
wearing. Here is no poetry, but
fact. No Aladdin, but the Fatcs. -
No one is rich enough to ignore these
things. A man who had an income
of seven thousand dollars day, died
in the aims house. Many who are
now living on charity have been
through fortune, or rather for
tune has been through them. How
many people are like an old sieve
that lets everything through.
Wealth begins, not in getting
money, but in keeping it after you
get it. This is the keynote, the
great secret Of prosperity, which
every man, woman and child should
wear as phylactery, SO as to keep it
in continual remembrance.
Wealth and not competence begin
in saving-in net spending all you
get; in making expenses less than
income. The man who saves two
dollars week is ON the high road to
independence. IF there was moth
ing to pay out, there would be no in
digence no poverty. The wolf that
comes to the door of the poor, then,
is this expense of living. Too much
going out, too little coming in. This
improvideuce gives rise to charita-
BILE societies and the construction of
aims houses.
How many families are continual
" in shot water" and driven from
pillar to post" by little debts and
angry creditors, simply by paying a
dollar and a half week more than
their income.
The laborer is constantly expect
ing better times, and that somehow,
sometime in the future he is going to
get something ahead" This is all
an illusion. The time to save some
thing is nOw-this week. If a wo-
man cannot, except under extraor-
binary circumstances, save some
thing from an income of twelve dol
lars a week, they would not save
anything if their income was twenty;
the extra eight would go for
eatablcs, and drinkabler, and wear
ables, and a little more style. The
present is all we have if we cannot
get anything out of it, we can get
nothing and never shall. 1t is
the pluck of to-day which wins. and
not the pluck to come.
No one should allow his stomach
and back to monopolize his whole
labor. AS though man should put
his whole energies of mind and body
against voracious stomach and a
proud back If working men and
women would look more into their
own pockets and less into their
neie hor's house, their neighbours
dress, and their neighbor's table,
they would come out very much bet
ter at the end of the year.
Workingmen and women is the
strictest economy beneath your no
tice7 Is independence of SO little
value as not to be worth purchasing
at the expense of some self-denial
and diligent frugalityY Economy,
reasonably psacticcd, even with a
small income, will surely lead to
comfort and competence. 1t is ut
terly useless for any one to even
think of "being above board" with
out a persistent determination, at
whatever cost, to practice a rigid
economy and look shargly after the