Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-22
LOOK OUT.

With the pretty child he loved 90 we'll,
Were resting side by sIde.'
LOOK OUT.
Tho complimentary terms in which you
noticed our county banks, in paper before
last, while well timed, and no doubt deserv-
Ing Of everything you said, or more too,
might give great ofense to q considerable
number of people in our county. For some
time past there has been . pick and spite at
moneyed men and moneyed institutions.
at once he is spotted, rs it were, a. dishonest,
or . rascal, and q feeling Of prejudice engen-
dsred against him, from no other cause than
he has . little more than somebody else. He
ia to the world 40 . bad man, something
wrong about him, and this has been carried
on so long and to such q degree that SOM
otherwise very good men have become con-
taminated with the current c%ontagion to the
extent that they can see nothing good In .
man who, through his efforts to accumulate,
has managed to get . few more dollars than
bad taste, to say the least of 1t. Banks have
become indispensable to the commercial
world ; In fact the business of the world is
now done through banks, and we don't see
how we could dispense with them, and 1t
takes moueyed men to make moneyed banks,
hence both as a public beneficiary are para
mount. The writer is not Of this moneyed
class himself. never having been smiled
upon by dame fortune In his efforts,
but would prefer to engage In any business,
mercantile, professional or mechsn iOal, in a
community where every man was worth q
hundred thousand dollars, without q dollar
in his own pocket, than in one where no.
body had . dollar. While some who are
dishonest have through frauds, thefts or
public plumber amused fortunes. we should
not make Q wholesale sweep and say every
rich man is q rascal. Now, what Is the
aim OF every man in lief In any kind of
business he may choose, is not money and
its accumulation his object and main spring
to his action and energyl 1t certainly is. Is
not the hope Of reward or making of money
the grand motive, power and incentive to
almost every action? Who would build q
steamboat, q railroad, . ship, telegraph, or
undertake any great enterprise, were 1t not
the hope OF rewardy Who of the professional
or scientific class would labor for years and
spend both time and money to master their
chosen profession, were 1t not their expects.
ton to gain . competency therefrom2 Where
is the farmer who invests In land and strives
and tolls aud tills the ground that does not
hope after . while to have gained q suflcien-
cy to ease up from toll when old age comes?
Would not every man, engaged In whatever
pursuit OF life, become = millionalref We
think they would. Well then suppose
every man by economy. industry, we'll
dire ctsd energy and skill, or good luck, If
you please, as some might call 1t, within >
year or so become such, every one would be
the moneyed man, and we onine that every
one 80 fortunate would look, talk and act
very differently from what many do now,
and "blaated bondholdsr,' ''money aristo-
crat" aud other odious spithets would be
dropped of their daily calendar. 1t Is avery
good rule for q man to square his actions
toward others by "turning the tables" and
placing himself in the shoes at the other
things appear quite different in many in
stances from what they did before. Then
let's attend to our own business, and hush
abusing the moneyed man II we expect any
fsvors from nm. The poor man has rights;
and SO has the rich one. and In our great de-
sire to benefit and protect the one we should
not 80 far lose sight of the other as to allow
him none.
LOCALS SHORT AND SWEET,
Honey 20 cts. y pound.
Fresh, rect cider 10 selling here ut 81 cts.
= gallon.
A good deal of sorghum molasses was
made by the farmers in this~v vicinity, which
they are selling at 4O95O cents a gallon by
the quantity.
Maple sugar 80 cts. q pound, ut retail.
The town IS full of candy at 2O@40 cents q
pound, according to quality. sly lie and sweet
ness.
Some Of our youngsters had . sweet time
during the recent warm moonlight nights.
Mince pies are the pies here now.
The UNITED Sons OF Freedom" had an
other celebration last week. The programme
was about this way: Procession. through
the principal streets at nine O'Clock at night
with waving banners. flying tags and rib
bOns, ETC., tluttering in the breeze, all Dress
ed In snowy regslias, headed by the Lexing-
ton colored hand. who did their best blow.
ing marches, quicksteps, ETC., at SOS a night.
All hands finally closed in at the church,
where q festival was in waiting of good
sweet things, and YOU just ought to.have
seen them eat.
Married, near this place, Thursday even
Ing, January lath, BY Rev. w. NJ. Bewley,
MIR. Ambrose Kite to Miss LYDIA Eanmeter. |
Missouri beats the world for freak, and
extremes of weather. Who of the Oldest
Inhabitants ever saw such q winter as last
for could and this Que for warm.
The con tract to finish filling the biz gully
here, was let out or the l4th inst, on the
ground to the lowest bidder, and awarded
TO Geo. C. Adsmson, Of this place, at $3.50.