The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-30
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put up: ALLOW me to say 1 cannot enter
the ring on the money basis-first, because
i'm the main It Is wrong; and, secondly, j
have not and cannot get the money i
say i'm the main the use OF money Is wrong,
but for certain objects in political con-
test the use of some Is both right and In
dispensable With me, az with yourself,
this long struggle has been one Of great
pecuniary loss. l now distinctly say thls.
III you shall be appointed a delegate 70
Chicago l will furnish 800 to bear the eX-
penses of the trip"
No man was more generous with money
when he had II than Lincoln. IL meant
nothing to him save as means with which
to give pleasure and to accomplish end5'
and IL flowed from his pocket as freely
as good will did from his kindly heart.
His fathers family was one Of the frst
to profit all their lives by his generosity.
In fact It was due to him that Thomas
Lincoln kept his little home in Coles
county. Illinois, until his death, and that
his stepmother never knew want lie
could. however, be very stern with those
of his relations who he felt were shlit-
less and Sinking. No more sensible let
ters were ever written to a lazy and dis
contented man than those Lincoln wrote
to his stepbrother, John Johnston, a ne'er-
do-well. whom he had often assisted.
your request for $50" he wrote john
ston, who, as usual, was broke ana
waning help. Il do not think 1t best
TO comply with now. At the various
times when ! have helped you lttle
YOU have said to me- we can get along
very well now: but In a very short time 1
find YOU in the same difficulty again
Now, this can only happen by some de-
feet in your conduct. What that detect
is | think i know You are not lazy, ana
still YOU are an idler / doubt whether,
have "a
whole days York in any one day. You
do not very much dislike to work, and
still YOU do not work much, merely be-
cause it does not seem to you that you
could get much of 1t. This habit OF use
lessly wasting time is the whole dill
Guilty; it IS vastly important to you, and
still more so to your children, that you
should break the habit 1t is more i'm
portant to them, because they have longer
TO live and can keep out of an Idle habit
before they are in IL easier than they can
get out after they are in.
''You are in need Of some money, and
what / propose is, that you shall 80 10
work, tooth and nall for somebody who
will give you money for It. Let father ana
your boys take charge Of your things at
home prepare for a crop. and make the
CROP and you go to work for the best
money wages, or in discharge Of any debt
YOU owe. that you can get; and 10 secure
Won a fair reward for your labor, 1 now
promise you that for every dollar you Will
between this and the first Of May, get for
your own labor, either in money or as
your own Indebtedness, / Will then give
YOU one other dollar. BY this, II you
hireeyourself at ten dollars a month, from
me you viii get ten more, making twenty
dollars a month for your work. In this
do not mean you shall go Off to st. Louis,
or the lead mines, or the gold mines IN
California, but / mean for you to go at u
for the best wages you can get close 10
home In Coles county. Now, if you will
do this. you will be soon out OF debt ana
what is better, you viii have a habit
that will keep you from getting In debt
again But, II 1 should now clear you
out of debt next year you would be just
as deep in as ever. You say you would
almost give your place in heaven for so
or $50. Then you value your place in
heaven very cheap for / am sure you can,
with the offer l make, get the so or $50
for four or five months work. You say If
will furnish you the money you win deed
me the land, and, If you don't pay the
money back, you will deliver possession. /
Nonsense II you can't now live with the
land how viii youfthen live without itP
You have always been kind to me, and
/ do not mean to be unkind to you. On the
contrary, II you Will but follow my adj
vice you VIII find Il worth more than
eighty times eighty dollars TO you"
Again he wrote Johnston: Il learned