The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-05-21
WHAT is A sPEEDTHRIFT9
(COHcluded.)


And here let US leave the sickening
subject of the prodigal, and pass Oh to
consider the second class:
The SpendeT, or the man 1CiO spends
all he earns, though he might, aOith trU-
gdIity, SAGE hdLf oft. This class is gen
orally composed of young men not mar
ried, earning a thousand or more dollars
every year, in cities, and six or eight
hundred in the country. If they only
received half the sum, still they would
live on it well enough. They hdoe done
IL before, and can do IL again. Yet they
will forever go on arguing and persist
ing that they cannot save cent Fool
ish fellows! They will not see their own
advantage. They are blind to the
means of rising in the world. They keep
on vaguely hoping that something will
make them rich one day. They remind
us of the mule, in the fable, that persist
ed in going over the precipice in spite of
his masters efforts. Reader! you and |
know a score of such youths, but if you
are one of them, you will hardly ac-
knowledge it. WU you2
Observation has shown that with such
people, as fast as their salery increases,
so will their expenses also. Even if they
rise to be partners in firm, still the
habit of spending goes up there with
them, too, and they never get rich.
When reverses come, away they go to
the dogs. The habit of saving is a diff
cult one to attain, unless acquired in
early life, But whenever adopted, it
leads up to fortune, and to hOnors
amongst men.
Third The NOn-SdOerS or men 3ChO
simply do nat Sdoe, because it really
seems as If they cnuId rot And here is
a woeful picture of human existence, if
it is as it seems to the eyes of many. But
think il is not so. In the third class
we may place hearty the whole laboring
population of the country, who have
nothing ahead. But l do sincerely be-
lieve that there is not one family out of
every thousand in the land, that could
not if they would, save something cv. nv
week. The trouble is, every body seems
to have been trying, bg dress diIH siyLe
Of HDiHg, to lift themselves 10 "A station
in society above their own. To lift our
selves in the world, really. is highly
commrndable. But to seem to do il j.
not. Recause, hy S'srInilg 60 he richer
than W. are, SO inoiisily spend all we
earn. This is Iipf r:rising ourselves, in
the world. at all II i doing just the
opposite thing precisely. OHiy by mise
iy deHyiHg DHrNeiccS. ia TIE present ran
fre L0g dy TIE means gf' riNing in the
future This is Frucality. This is Health,
This Is Maulood, This j. Temperance!
This is Wealth, This is Honor amongst
meDi
,iugnr wc not TO call every ni:rr Spend
thrift who sp'iidS;lli he gets, lIhyHSH
Who can br "a sprn,iihrift, il not the
man who spends all hr gets. To br
sure, a man may -p,Ild mere than his
own money, 10y taking other peoples,
and spending that, too. i-e is IL thief,
because lac takes what Is not his own,
with no prospect of r.. turning il ever
Now. dear reader. do not deceiye your
self any longer. Are you Spendthrift!
Have you anything saved from earnings
to prove your. elf Eol - SpeLdthriftt II
not. why does not the upprobrious term
lit your caSrl Excuses avail nothing
The man who avoids Il wrong never
u.,.,S to make .s..s,l.s... Only tlasS..
,.Ncii-e Themselves Whu fail to do what
th,y ungit
BE not angry AT these hard arr umcnt:'.
But be convinced, lie who has no
friend Ia tell him his faults las no friend
at all.
No matter what your case may he,
you can save something, be- it only ten
cents week. That amount, if it is saved
regular, will redeem you from being n
Sprndthrift. FoI 80 man is a Spend
thrift who regularly sayes, he il ever 80
small "A SUN.
4.
the support 0f others Theirs is a hard
struggle in life, from yourh up. They
are pinehed often. They stasger uII-
der the loa.l They grow weary sick at
heart, and faint often 10y the way But,
reader, my observation has shown that
these are the very men who rise in the
world. They are the men who SGre-
the men who toll 10y midnight lambs
the men who work on INCREASING. and win
at last.
Excuses for mold cling thing which We
know should he done are the veriest
trash in the world. Fool yourselves with
them no longer Away with them for
ever, There Is nothing but peril in an
excuse.
Aud now, reader. you have patiently
heard me through. Have | spoken the
truth. Have | ovPr-colored the picture
any. Have yop moi found me true
American. earnestly pleading for his
country'S futurel For be assured, that
only upon the basis of individual pros
perity can any country ever rise to last
ing greatness. Whenthp many foolishly
spend ali they earn, ireGiM fOlrs into
the cgfeTS gf the JeIr. And this means
disruption TO the State. But 1rhen all
The people Ndre, then all The people are
prosperous And the kindly blessing of
Heaven rests upon tliat land.
Let every eye now perusing these lines
b." turned inward al self. Let every man
candidIy look back upon the past eight
years aud LET the question be fairly put
"iIuw far have | myself departed from
the middle point of Frugality betwixt
the extremes of tli- MiSrr and the Spend
thrift How much VIII canaor compel
me To admit myself Spendthrift"
And in the d+grer that the iuquiring
mind lies open to self condemnation. just
in that same measure is there hoTe fni
HAT mans future. Truly your liitnd.
UNCLE BFN.'