The Osceola times., 1888-06-30
Quit Renting.

your own. lie free. Serve no man.
The rent system humiliates and dis.
courages children. "A boy brought
up under this system is educated
from infancy to manhood in the idea
that he is an inferior SOFT of being,
subject to the authority of a superior.
This feeling will cling to him through
life, dwarf his ambition, cripple his
aspirations, and unless thrown off by
a powerful effort, forever coniine him
to an underllng's station in life. The
rent system destroys society. Mans
social nature is a delicate plant, that
will not, can not, thrive when uproot.
ed and transplanted every year. And
yet it is the source whence we de-
rive our purest and highest enjoy
ment. Deprived Of society, we drop
into disconsolate and wearisome
existence but little above the beasts
of the field. Eating and sleeping
afford us our chief pleasures in the
absence of society, and even the
coarser enjoyments are often abridg-
ed, If not destroyed altogether, by
mental anxiety from which the low.
er ANIMALS are exempt. We can not
have the society our better nature
demands, under the rent system.
We are too much among strangers.
We have to move too often. The
renter feels this keenly. He may
not know exactly what is the matter.
but he is nevertheless conscious of
of an indefnalle feeling of restless
ness and dissatisfaction. If in one
year he forms friendships and asso.
Citations that begin to satisfy tine de.
mands of his starving social nature,
he has but few months Of enjoy.
ment with his new.found and much
loved friends till he must gather his
crop settle his rent and move to new
and entirely strange neighborhood.
The rent system is against nature
and in the face of Providence, in
that it utterly destroys the home idea.
God created man for a home and a
home for man. Phrenologists accu.
rately locate the home organ in ev.
cry we'll developed head. This ar.
gues the universality Of the home
idea. 1t is an essential part of our
nature. Under the rent system there
can be no such thing as a home in
the proper sense of that word. It's
at this point the rent is especially
crushing to women. Woman was
made to love and beautify home
next to love of children, is the DOM
inant faculty in every true woman.
And TO the extent that any woman
is lacking in love Of them she is de-
fective in true womanliness and
shorn of her sweetest grace anu high
est accomplishment. The rent sys-
TEN destroys their homes, crushes
out their enjoyment, and, after drag
ing them around few years in un-
tidy tenement houses, hurries them
into untimely graves. 1t is no com.
pliment to a woman to long endure
such Il system uncomplainingly.
Mans cOarser nature may tolerate
it, and the lower order of women may
not feel it so keenly, but to true
woman it is all her life is worth tc
compel her to drag out a miserable
existence without home. Churches
can never prosper under the rent
system. Preachers may have glori-
ous revivals during the summer, and
converts may be brought into the
church by the thousand, but without
permanent efficient organization and
leade rship churches can never thrive.
Such organization is impossible un.
der the rent system. Constant NOV.
ing destroys all organization, and
produces general social anarchy.
Society as well as churches must have
competent leaders IN every neigh.
borhood. Every community must
have its leaders. Such leaders are
not formally chosen and set apart to
their work, but by virtue Of their
res-lisr natural gifts, general con.