Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-24
COMPLAINING.

There are some people who are always COM
planning. The past, to these persons, has been
full of misery the present is not attended
with many comforts, and dreadful forebodings
loom up in the future. We heard of an old
man who, when asked by friend for his
health, invariably replied in sickly, whin-
ing tone: II am not quite so we'll as was
yesterday" There are many such individu-
ais in this world. Day by day, they get a
little worse. They never see bright spot on
anything. Everything is dark and gloomy.
Complaining, with such persons, is either nat.
ural, or habit strong and controlling. In
either case, it covers their faces with frown,
fills their lives with misery, and instead of en-
listing the sympathies of others, is sure to
beget disgust and contempt
Not only single individuals, but whole COM
munities of people, contract the habit of COM
planning. To some extent this is our condi-
ton at present 1t is most readily admitted
that there are many things with which we
cannot be satisfied. More than this is admit
ted. There are many things connected with
our recent past history and with our present
state of things, with which we ought not to be
satisfied. With strict regard, however, to
truth, it must be confessed that there are
many things which give encouraging indica-
tions of prosperous state of affairs. 1t has
been long time since provisions of all kinds
we're so generally plenty. In every section
of the South, where corn was planted last
year in sufficient amount, the cribs and barns
are not empty yet !; and many of them will
not be empty when corn natures in the fields.
This simple fact has commenced a revolution
all over the country. The ground has been
better prepared for planting than in any pre-
vious year in long period. The rfowman,
instead of going to the field sad and depressed
on account of the scarcity of bread for his
family and the want of food for his domestic
animals, goes whistling to his plow. The
fields everywhere testify to the fact that there
is plenty of corn. The ground has been
plowed this spring-we do not say as it should
have been-but we will say this, it has been
plowed as it has never been before in this
country. Any individual can see at glance
that grand revolution has been inaugurated
in the mode Of blowing. The old fogy notions
of our fathers are fast ceasing to be practiced.
Another favorable symptom of prosperity
is that there are more laborers and fewer
idlers than heretofore. Idlers hang dead
weight upon society. One of the real causes
of complaint which has always existed in the
South, is that there is a class of persons who
style themselves gentlemen of leisure. This
class of individuals exercise baneful infu-
ence upon society. Their condition has the
effect of making the laborer peevish and fret
full. In one word, their digni6ed ease has
the ruinous tendency of instilling into the
minds of the masses, that idleness is honora-
BILE and laboring disreputable. The number
of this class is fast decreasing. The opposite
and the correct theory on this subject has been
adopted, and is becoming universally popular.
It is no longer undigni6ed to work, and an
idle vagabond has ceased to be regarded as
belonging to the better class of citizens.
Among the first questions that are asked re-
specting any one is, "will he work" Indus,
try is now beginning to be an elementary
principle of a good character. These are
some of the manifest symptoms Of recovery.
They are, with all due respect and reverence
for the venerable past, symptoms of better