The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-06-28


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Gtxtt0f ndm n0mim8 ~ making bust
ness in the shape Of hunting, fehing,
lcsfd. ing 6ofn6 a ne t!fcus a the
Ethedtef, Nhiliag a1ay their h0qr9 q the
fyo&shoD, a3tending . hnrse-face. pethaps
| yisfllnf tke dsos Of noothrnA1 infamy -rl
for the fun df It. In these and the like
9l5s, they have What thea call . good
Hi6e.n Yet they have no purpose In their
hearts and 10 praetice IL their livLs above
the low level OF mere animal. Their
qualifications and pleasures take the type
0f theft moral characters. Animal selfish
ness is the supreme law OF their whole
beihg.
Woman, in her way generally more
delicate and less offensive, is sometimes
arnenahle to tho same charge. There are
SOME gold fOf nothing women, as we'll as
mem too many Of them for the credit of
the sex, with lives practically Is useless
IS they are airnIess- They can manipu-
late the little punctflios Of what they re-
gard as fashionable life. They Know how
to spend money. No one can beat them
in using an opera4glass or in laying plans
for empty and prohtless amusement. In
the MISTER Of mere show they me dnished
experts. And this q about all that they
are good for-indeed, all that they pro
pose. 10 life they productivity contrib
ute nothing. They never did anything
and never expect to do anything that has
the value of q dollar to humanity The
world Is in 10 sense richer Or wiser or bet
ter for their presence in it. They were
born with a free ticket of exemption from
all the Responsibilities OF an earthly ex.
istence. Splendid receivers they are, and
just as poor producers. They are feminine
illers, taxing the world Tor their subsist-
ehce, but returning nothing to 1t.
Estimating all such persons, OF both
sexes, at their true valuation, We 90 them
no injustice IN saying that they are not
really worth the garments they wear or the
bread that it takes TO feed them. The
wonder il that the sun Will consent to
Shine upon them. Theirs is the mere
mockery OF human life. they are guilty
ahusers Of their own powers and as guilty
mistisers and MASTERS OF time. They are
as Indifferent about the value OF time, It's
improvement, its duties, the claims OF the
world present and those OF the world
future, as they could be II no such ideas
had ever been heard Of on the globe.
Theft total violation OF the two great
principles of utility and obligation they
seem to regard as one OF the fine arts. Not
belonging to the vulgar crowd that must
practically work IN order to live, they
parade their idleness as if it were letter
of credit to the first class In cociety The
world loses nothing by their death, since
1t has fewer paupers to support.
| Existence thus conducted IS gross
fraud upon humanity. The very least
that one can honorablv think OF doing is
to return to life as much value as It takes
to carry him Through It. Everyone ought
to give guid pro quo for the privilege OF
domiciling amid the habitalions OF men.
He ought to pay the expenses OF his own
existence. II he does less than this he
will die an insolvent debtor to mankind
by all the difference between his con-
sumption and production. Society is
reallya compact OF mutual dependencies
and services, living and thriving upon the
toll of its integral parts, in which all re-
ceive something, and, hence, IN which all
are bound to give back to it at least as
much as they take from it, The law OF
usef,,l labor binds all; and condemns the
practice OF voluntary Incidence In all,
whether it be genteel or vulgar. 1t in
diets every idler as guilty being, excus-
ing none bur those VINO are proyldentlaily
destitute of the working ability.
Let us not forget that life-the Nora
life of man as denizen of the earth
is always an intense and exciting emer
gency, full OF duty, full OF opportunity
ever ringing with the call to action, brle1
In its period, yet everlasting In its results
1t is succession OF emphatic notes
every one of which should impress the
heart. The things that are to be done
that may be done and that should be
done form the provldential oratory by
which. God loudest calls, and which eartl
should be anxious to hear. Life morally
photographs eternity upon time. In pro
ductive power time Is eternity. 1t Il
really more solemn thing to live than te
die. Some people reserve their anxietiei
and tears for death. Did they spend then
oh life, they would have less occasion FOL
them in death
The merest glance at these hints is quite
sufficient to rebuke life's oilers with {
mosteyithering frown. As compared
with tA men OF diligent and earnest &C
ton, animated by high and noble aims
the men WHO see what life, Is, and fol
| what it was given, who load its fleetinG