The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-07-20
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before, hav'nt you? The editor who
smokes ten cent cigars on salary of six
dollars q week or an income consisting
principally of potatoes and general mcr.
chandse always prcnchcs il to the farmers.
who could buy him out and afford to use
his type for fishing line sinkers whenever
politics arc too dull and the rotation of
crops too threadbare to give him an idcn.
The individual who is honored by bein.
your father has talked TO you about ii un-
til he has tired and you were sick, and
the grasping person who buys the bcnc-
that would be ridiculous if it was not
that the reason lie hires you instead Of
being hired himself is that he has ccono !.
mized. You've had economy thrown at
you in solid chunks ever since YOU we're
old enough to wear out the knees of your
trowscrs or dredge for minnows with your
new straw hat. You've been thrashcd rs
an economic measure at homo, and in
your walks abroad advantage has been
taken of your youth by some sccdy old
individual smelling like concentrated
with q high hat and broad-cloth clothes,
and they've beguiled yeu and thrown the
subject OF economy down your throat
You've been all along there, and its long
odds that you won't get below the head
ing of this present writing, if you are
anywhere between fifteen and twenty five.
You've become wary, and when ccono-
my crops out in print or talk. you've
learned to walk u long way around it..
You might have been trapped into read
ing this if something about,a girl or II
billiard match or soine of the other pro-
found subjects on which your intellect is
exercised had been in tho beginning.
But tho Daily Nc,cs doesn't propose to
take advantage of you.
It's pretty hard tina: n man can't enjoy
his youth without having somebody ever
lastingly preaching economy Mt him
We know that. Most of you work for
what you get, and there is no use work
ing unless you use what you make to
have some pleasure, and good clothes and
cigars; and billiards and night out
no:g and then are your pleasures. What's
the use Of living anyhow, if man has to
lose all tho enjoyment in life. That's
very sound philosophy; but look here {:
it the fool killor don't come along
and you don't have the delirum
tremens more than sig times you'll
probably live to DO about sixty years old.
When you got past thirty you've had
ten or fifteen years of u good time.
What about the thirty ahead? You
won't be Us young then as you were.
Most. of your crowd will have been
crowded out of the way, and younger
men about tho billiard rooms won't want
you standing around. The chances arc
t,n, 60
and II you are lucky enough to have n
chance to be working for somebody else
your wages won't be much more than
they are now. You've got thirty odd
years then to get through on, and you're
hSssDs Snk has iasr o issS a Day yoye sq nd e
amount to much after all, aud when
rents due, and men with bills are hunting
you around, and the man you work for
begins to talk of cutting down expenses
your hair will turn gray and you'll think
OF the big silver dollars you've invested
permanently with the bar rooms, cigar
stores, billiard table. men and poker par
ties. Then you'll feel like hiring some
body to kick You out to tho graveyard,
and hate all the good follows who helped
you in that ten years of fun with bitter
hatred, aud you'll call up your oldest
boy and talk economy to him until he's
stand then that your father, and the bald
headed man, and the seedy man had
brains under their hats.brains acquired
by experience. You'll realize for the
drst time that the first ten years of
mans life is his seed time, and whatever
crop he sows he'll reap in spite Of sun.
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