The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-04
HOW ro' GROW RIGA
Estner Ciarkson Delivers q Pointed To-.
ture on True Economy

rather CIarkson Delivers q PoInted
ture on True Economy.
In early life we recollect hearino
young man inquire of venerable pen.
tleman. who had accumulated a LARGO
estate, what the secret of his success
was. He said it was: .When Won
earn seventy-five cents per day, spend
only fifty cents of it and keep ont ot
debt. That information, simple as il
was, has had an important influence
upon life's transactions. And if il
were lived up to by large mass OF
laborers. mechanics and all classes NJ
wage-workers the world would ba
great blessing. The rapidly increas-
ing riches and consequent willful and
wicked extravaganza of large class
OF our population is corrupting the
minds and misleading the practices q,
the great mass of workers. Whilst
the riches are increasing. paupers are
multiplying much faster. There are
twice as many. according to pom.
latiOn, of those who ask and pa.
ceive aid now as did fifty vears
ago. And yet the wage-worker
receives twice as much now "a
then. The articles of food cost No
more, and clothing not half as much "a
then. Wage workers of all classes
both male and female, are not prosper.
ing as formerly. They are not weekly
monthly and yearly laying up Dor.
ton OF their wages as then. Thew live
more extravagantly, spend more reck.
lessly, and foolishly ape their neigh.
bors in fashionable follies. Mechanics
appear, at least Largo proportion OF
them, not to attempt to make any pro-
vision for the future. When thew make
SO or $lS per week, instead of Der
manently investing at least one-third
Jf the amount, they spend it all. Then.
If work fails, or the man is taken sick
or any member of his family, so as TO
keep him from work, the family at
once becomes an object of charity, the
rents are unpaid. the butchers bin
neglected. The man becomes discour.
aged at the accumulated debts, until he
begins to debate with himself whether
ne ought to try to pay the old debts.
So soon as he does that-when he be-
gins to study how to forfeit his honor,
repudiate his obligations, he is gone.
He no longer has that keen sense of
honor which teaches him to regard as
sacred his debts. Then he is no longera
man. His pride. his ambition, and all of
the impulses which nerve and sustain
ID man in life's conflicts, are gone. He
has not confidence in himself and
his neighbOrs have less. But ! a man
lives by rule, uses the plain neces-
saries of life, and scorns to ape the
follies and corrupt practices of the
growing cussedness of the world, and
lays up carefully at least one-third of
what he earns. soon he will see there
are better days for him. A little
weekly and annually saved, the in
creasing accumulation of interest, the
increasing ambition, and the renewed
energy will soon build or buy house
Then the expense of living decreases,
and the saving can be more, until i'm
perceptibly the man with his family
ind themselves in comfortable circum-
stances, respected by the world. his
tinan cial credit established, and he is
enabled to enter other enterprises than
as day laborer.
We have seen these things worked
out and demonstrated all about us for
the last sixty-five years. The man
who spends as he goes soon has moth
ing to spend, but is broken down in
spirit, credit and character; but the
man who weekly saves a portion of
lis earnings, economies in his bust
less. soon places himself among the
honored and respected, 1t is as GER
tain as the revolution Of the spheres.
But the man who saves nothing sinks
over in spirit, enterprise and charac-
ter. He soon becomes too indolent to
work and not too proud to beg And
he goes down as fast as gravitation VIII
AXE him. Trust no man who does not
'egularly save and lay up certain per
.ent. of his wages. There is no hope
or him. He will become sour, abuse
hose who prosper by saving and will
live miserable life, hating the pros
)erous and dying beggar "lf you
arn seventy-five cents per day, spend
only fifty cents of it.''-Iowa State
Register.