Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-27
THRIFT.


The True Gospel OF Ei,sancial Salvation.
It may be doubted whether DR.. Frank.
Inns services in the. fields of seieace and
politics were of so much importalsse to
mankind as his precepts and practie =
thrift and economy. His life isa most
impressive illustration of VIII may be
accomplished by systematic ndustry,
self-denial and proper care for earn
ings.
Franklin was never meall. stingy nor
misery. On the contrary he was q
philanthropist who spent time and
money freely for the advantage of his
fellow men, and whose beneyoleneSswas
attested by many gifts. What he sd.d
and what he taught others to do, was
to live frugally and temperate5v. work
diligently and waste no money in un-
necessary purchases. His hom,gs pro-
verbs have passed into the o95mmoa
speech of the people. How MANY hun-
Sdreds of thousands of dollars are saved
from foolish expenditure in this country
every year by the remembrance Of
Frankiin's advice to never buy thing
you don need bee lase it is cheap?'
A good many young men and some
old ones are chiefly ambitious to be
calleI good fellows - They like the
reputation of being ..open handed. y
They are willing to sacrifice 1.-THE or
it may be. a quarter OF their income
every week for the sake of what they
call "a good time and the dub,ous APP
proyal of parcel OF other men as lool-
ish as themselves.
Thrift should be sort of everyday
religion with persons of small means or
ninety y-nine-hundredtbs of the men in
Detroit 1t inelues nearly every man
who works with his hands; nearly eyers
person engaged in teaching of ans
kind; ninetcen-twcntieths of those EN-;
ployed in stores and o.her mercantile
establishments; three-quariers at least
of those who are in the professions
calle '.learnel;' nearly every one who
gess his living by newspaper work or
other literary or quasi literary pursuit;
articles almost without exception, and,
indeed. the great bulk of our popula-
ton. There is possibly one per cent. OF
our people who have either by their
own exertions, or by good luck. or by
some other means, come into thfsown-
ership of sufficient property to render
exhertation to economical habits 1nnec-
essary for them, and besides they are for
the most part sufficiently iaclined to save
their pennies without encouragement
from others; but how many of the nine
ty-and-nine live as carefully as they
ought?
| Some of those men who spend every
| cent they make month after month and
year after year have unthrifty wives. and
for them, if for anybody, the recording
angel ought to drop tear upon ths
evil entry and blot it out; but most o
those who scatter as they 60 have no
body to blame but them elves. The de
! sire to dress in style. to make show o
generous living and display of costl,
| hospitality: to inlulge in expensive ar
1 ticles of food and drink; in a word, tn,
| temptation to live beyond ones mean
is the cause of more domestic misery
more disappointment, more life-failure
/ and more WEAKNESS that ends in deatl
than any other single danger to which
! people of general respeetability are ex
| posed.
Except in case of sickness or extraor
binary calamity it is the duty of ever,
man in early or middle life, who has em
i ployment of any kind, to lay up some
thing out of what he makes. He ma,
be able to set apart fifty dollars 4 week
or only one, but something should 90 il
store for tie future. A husband, if h'
is worth having. will aim 10 make con
stant additions 10 a permanent famil,
fund, and tie wife, il she is worth hav
ing, will help him.
A tlTiftless habit oaght to be reck
oned disgfa e. and among sensible
| people it Is II Is manifestation o
selfishness- -self-ndulgence OF possi
bly, pervei.t Il good-heartedness. which
is always To be condemned In tn
| lorg run two l. i hardship upon th
off.nter's friends n well as upon him
self. Ii is sure to bring unhappiness 4
his own home. S mple habits. mex
pensiye tastes. cautious expenditures o
money. will do moreto bring prosperit
ID real enjoyment into a Household
i than all other mat.rial IL; n ages com
bined Tne do.tsins OF thrift is til
true gospel of financial salvation with
out which no life can b. al its best 0
happiest. Detroa fosl.