The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-02-11
The Uses of Adversely.

Did it ever dawn on you what con-
summate fraud Shakespeare was? How
could he ever sit down and write, "Sweet
are the uses of adversity?" The uses of
adversity are not sweet at all. Adversely
has driven more men to the mad house
and more women to the devil than any.
thing in the world. Bread and cheese
and kisses are good for awhile, but the
bread begins to be tasteless without but
ter, the cheese grows moldy, while a
constant diet of kisses does pail on one.
I don't believe poverty is ennobling,
and that is the reason why I have an i'm
mense amount of respect for men who
work themselyeo out of it and get the
good things of life.
think it is in the power of every man
who has got even half of brain to get
rich if be wants to. What is there en-.
nobling in seeing your children want for
things that some other peoples children
have2 What is there ennobling in
wishing for books to improve yourself, in
comforts to make yourself stronger, and
in all the beautiful things that money
will get to make you better and happier? ?
don't say money will get everything.
don't believe it will, but it will 90 a
very long way towards it.
I tell you it is not:easy to sit down
and be poor, and I don't care if / shock
every reader of the divine William all
over creation, I say it with intense en-
phasis, and with two lines under it, that
she was an absolute fool' when he wrote
about the uses of adversity being sweet
If be liked it, is pity he didn't live for.
ever and enjoy it; nobody else wanted it.
In play now being presented in New
York the rich man asks the workingmen
not to strike because of his daughter, and
there she stands beside him, sweet.faced,
gentle hammered and refined.
One of the men who is asking for
more wages throws open a door leading
into the mill and calls to his daughter.
She comes out, delicate, ill-clad, gaspiDg
for breath, with headache that never
ends, and asks with fear if she is going
to be discharged, and the man says:
"Look at my daughter; 1 must care for
her,"
And then you remember that this is
labor and capital facing each other in the
form of two women. am not upholding
the so called shouting labor man. I am
just saying in my own way that it is not
nice to be poor.
1t is your girl who is sick and delicate,
and OF whom the doctors says she must
be sent where it is warmer, and you have
not got the money to send her. How do
you like the uses of adversely?
1t is your boy who has gone through all
the free schools, and whose great desire
is to go to College, that he may become
great man some day, and you haven't the
money to send him. How do you like the
uses of adversely?
1t is your wife, who, long after the
days work is done, is mending over the
old clothes, freshening up the best ones
and trying to see what may be turned, so
that the girls will not be ashamed to go
among their friends. You think how
we'll she would look in new gown; you
remember how pretty she was before the
cares of daily life made the wrinkles
come on her face, and you wish, how you
wish, that you could get her fine warm
coat for the winter days, but you haven't
the money. How do you like the uses of
adversity7
Is your baby sick, weak, crying, max
ing q pitiful moan because it does not
have the proper food. Before it was born
it's mother was not we'll nourished and
cared for; you hadn't the money 70 do it.
How do you like the uses of adyersity?