The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-29
lizard Times.

close, no one will deny; different theo-
rics rs to their cause only isa mocted
question. Let the cause be what il
may, the result is the same. Men who
are out of debt and have money ahead
can get along about as usual, but the
man who is in debt and the one who
depends on his daily labor for living
is the one in the most Straitenned cir
cumstances. Men who have money
are slow to let it loose; few invest
ments and no improvements are being
made, yet people want to live as they
did ten years ago, when money was
easier to get; here is where they miss
it. Every man who depends on his
daily labor for living should be up
with the lark and try to earn his wa
ges, if he earns little more it is bet
ter than being out ofa job and get
ting nothing.
den who have fixing up about the
house or barn to do complain that it
is difficult to get trustworthy help and
some claim that they leave work I'M
done that they would like to do, from
the fact that it is so difficult to get
the average laborers to do work as 1t
should be done. People have listened
to political speeches till many have
come to the conclusion that this coun-
try is all wrong and hope for the legis-
lature or congress to help them and in
the general discomfort they go at a
Job of work as if it was beneath the
dignity of an american citizen to per-
form manuel labor. work is Sighted
and the man who pays for it is dissat-
iSfed and refuses to improve his place
because he cannot get it done to suit
him, thus keeping many Il dollar
boarded that would otherwise be in
circulation and the poor mans family
be bettsr fed and clothed thereby.
Laborers must get out of the idea
that the legislature can do them any
material good. There is plenty of
work to do and plentyof money to pay
for it if the monied men could be in
duced to branch out and invest their
money in property and improve what
they have. If you get a job to do,
don't be in too big bury to get it
done and get the pay, but do it well
and deserve another; if the same
man don't need you, he will recon-
mend you to some one else. Don't
be afraid to work at any kind of hon
orablc employment just as your par
ents before you did. They were not
dsgraced by trying to please their
employers, neither will you be and if
you work for a dollar a day don't
spend two dollars and agree to pay 1T
out Of your wages; you can't do it and
the merchants soon brand you n. G..
and then when a run of bad luck over
takes you, your family is liable to
suffer because you have no credit. If
you work for low wages, don't try to
have everything in Jour house he has
in his, "eyen if you do have to owe for
it," In short, live within your income
and get up and hustle and make the
income as large as possible. Don't
get it into your head that the mer-
Giant or banker has so much easier
time than you have; your work ends
at sun down and his never; while you
are sleeping he is worrying about some
bill that is due and must be met and
perhaps if you would pay HIM your
little mite and a score Of other fellows
do the same he could meet it and save
his credit. In short, try and get bet
ter satisfied with your lot and get up
and hustle. Suppose the legislature
passes the maximum freight bill, you
have nothing to ship; suppose they cut
the legal rate of printing in two, you
have nothing to print; suppose they
reduce railroad fare to two cents per
mile, you have 40 place to go; suppose
they create dozen new and useless
boards of inquiry, they will arrange
to get all the places and you are not
competent TO fill the place anyway;
in short the fellow who has been gull
ed into waiting for the government to
give him place, will get left. Make
up your mind right now that the gov
eminent never intended to support
you and your family, but must receive
some support from you and for this
has agreed to protect you, as an Amer
lean citizen anywhere on earth. Then
offlwith your coat and go to work;
politicians are the only fellows who
get anything out of politics and nine
teen-twentieths of them come ont
poorer than when they went in.