Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-20
ABOUT TRYING TO LIVE.
The F0lly Of TSlklng About Haste 30
Grow Rich The Great Difficulty ef
0btsining Employ meht.
our Haysbness To 7hose who HoneatIy
stek ~ The Nesd Of sJDpathy--A
Plea for Kindness.

] Ivy vi htn Htict duu buIOupHOuJ ClVlilI9
tion, indeed, would be delighted to ge,
rich, and would use their utmost en-.
deavor to that end If they had the slight.
est prospect of becoming so. But they
have no more expectation or thought OF
acquiring wealth than they have OF scaling
the skies. Those who are aiming ut i
large fortune, or have any definite object
of the kind, are not one In a hundred
| perhaps not one In thousand. The great
mass OF people, even in this new and
promising land, where every one has a
chance, are absorbed in earning their
! daily bread, and are content when they
| earn II. Any number of these are unable.
| through temperament, clIcumstanc, s, un.
| intelligence or misconduct, 80 keep on a
financial level with the word. They are
always slipping down, and many Of them
never get fairly aud squarely up. They
manage to live by shifts aud turns, chiefly
| by credit so that they are actually sup.
ported by the community, although they
would angrily deray this, and resent the
most delicate offer Of aught like charity.
They never 90 well; butlhey always thin k
they shall, neglected to-day and leaning
on Tomorrow.
host Of persons FnbSist on what they
| do not earn, aud depend on the earnings
of their fellows, without any conscious
ness OF Independence. They VINO have
any intent to pay tEeir debts are apt To
consider them us paid, for their anticipa-
lions wholly outrun performance. But
most OF them who habitually incur debt
become Indifferent to II, often forgetting
II altogether, and have no scruples about
increasing IL 10 any extent. But both
ala NJ d,4t,
In arreais, and death, In such cases, usu-
ally ends all obligation. So Tar Is wealth,
or any approach 10 it, beyond the multi
tude that facts and figures would unques-
| lionabIy show that the majority of men
20 out OF life not moHetarily even with il
No one caa get rich, save by manifest
fraud, without settling his accounts. The
rich may be sordid, rap0cluus, Cypress
i've, inscriptions, hut they cannot
escape ordinary Indebtedness; nor do
they lry TO, for they know that it would
be contrary TO their interest. Itis impos-
sib.e 10 build up big fortune and hold it
without establis hing credit, and the first
step toward its establishment Is liauida-
ZION
Tle poor, that Ia the very poor, are
obliged 10 lie honeSt. Their cIrcunl-
stsl ces are so desperate as to prevent
credit, except Of petty kind When
they have no money they are likely TO suf-
Ter; thtlr hands are Lver lighting against
! starvation. They must not only depend
u lbtir LABOR, but ON their opportunity
TO laDOr; and IL Ia his which makes the
get pest tragedy Of oNistruce. IGis con.
slantly said, and generally believed, that
the man who is willing to work can always
get WORK TO do. a greater or more mis-
chleVous error can scarcely be imagined.
put me mass OF people give 1t credence
III lhe lace Of inceSsant contradiction
When man applies for work, which IL
the best evidence of mis- desire and deter
mlnallon to work, he Is generally turned
away, ana his words regarded as an as
stump ion The fact that he is MEM
pioyed Is construed against him. If he
were industrious, sober, honest. com
pettnt, II is reasoned he would not be
Idle. ldleness Is nierentially a crime In
the minds of the community, as it /, on
the statute books Men are sent to prls.
on as warrants because they have no via
iolc means OF support Frequently, per-
maps generally, IL may be their fault; but
mere must be many cases where il is
their misfortune. Think of the inconsis-
tehcy! man tries hard to obtain en-
pioyment, suffering in body and in mind
because he fails In his attempt; and then
Is liable 10 punishment for his failure.
III olher words, the law demands of him
What Is beyond his control, aud in addi-
tloh to all that he is obliged to endure
from refusal, makes him pay a penalty
ior winch the injustice of his fellows is
ahsweraole. This is slngularly like
shocking man down without provoca-
tion ana kicking him for falling. / have
hearu great deal OF men who would not
Work When wages were offered them. But
| nave never seen such in any parts Of the
noIiu nave visited. can hardly doubt
.nat some professional mendicants and
ramps scoIn labor so long as they can
Ses Ut steai put suspect that they have
utou ulINeh 10 this unnatural condition,
~ ~, tie hrst place, by inability 30 get work.
Their applications and entreatles were.
prooaOy, so loug and uniformly re-
lected that they grew morose and misan-
shroplc' Nothing will make man mare
bitter and inhuman than the confirmed
Withholding from him OF his ,ight 10
WORK, which Is equivalent 10 Insisting ON
MS duty to sarye, Men who have moi
oeen wronged ny the world are unlikelv
10 turn away from a chance TO earn their
Vlthu' Ihey VIII perseveIe In being men
uul'i tAelr mauhood has been crushed by
steauy opposition TO their instincts, and
inc overthrow Of their proper pride and
seltesteem. The LATEST class in the
world are reputed to be tile Neapolitan
iahaaroni. They viii make no ext rtion
lof any pFcuniary inducement, il IL often
salui unless they are hungry. IL f. NOT
tlue; ihey are full Of tricks and false.
moods, 0nt they will not decline an oppor-
tuhily TO earn Ira when the emporium. |
ny Is presented to them. have nut them
70 me test repeatedly; they were always
ready ana glad TO exchange labor for coin
me general proposition is sound-all
men wlll work for the reward of work
. nut 10 how many OF them il Is deniedY
mere are W this city, and in eyerv b,a
cltNtnonsands, to-day and every day, who
cannot nnd employment, urge ana seek
rs thty may. The marscl ~ Thar INN
ureus DO not die from famine. despair.
suicide, every twenty-four hours The
TACT That they do not Is proof that tho I'm.
man family Is not so hard and cruel az n
seems The world does not need
lecnns nali so much as IL needs under.
Standing, rejection, freedom from falls.
s =, ana untenable beliefs. n some
VI y, tnose who think any deceat. worthy
nah can GET employment BY cilisent saets
,ug should try the experim uni NAV x,,s',id
learn now bitterly false their oninlor ~
thelr experience would insure some ne,