Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1859 — “A WORD TO THE WISE.” [ARTICLE]

“A WORD TO THE WISE.”

[For the Rensselaer Gazette.

Mr. I) ivies: I h ive often wand Ted whether it ever e i e e I the n > I Iles of s mie o ks”, that physicians and pi inters need occ i ion 1 ly something to eat, that soul and body might be kept together, and something to we i that they might be shield'd from the.cold blasts of winter. If 'he public do think tli.it. the doctors and printers hiv • such • tin l ine necessities, they must also have a t abiding belief th it the winds of Heaven will minister to such wVbnts. ll.is PqSyidencei Mr. E liter, blest y tar hearth-stoii'e with the”little responsibilities” of matrimonial life! Is your heart ever made to aclm, w ien, from the miserable lankness ol your slab-sided purse, you are compelled to deny them . ome little comfort enjoyed by all your neighbors’children ! And you, Mr. Doctor, do ail the warm feelings of a lath j w 11 up into y.tur thrj.it, whe iy hi see your little boy with his coat out at the elbows, an I pants .at the knees, and his bare feet pressing the hard wintry ground, his wh de Irani • shaking with the cold as h? hugs aro.und him, his scanty protection against the wintry winds? Are you not at such tun smile t > feel t'r.it the public is a hard master, and that doctors and printers are indeed tii ide t> mourn!” Permit the to ask, who ire those in community, who minister more to physical and mental wlunts —who more faith ttlly, in season or out of season, seek to promote the comfort and happiness of the people, than the physician and the printer! Norte! Wio are so poorly paid! None! Who sacrifices so much' for the good of others as the physician! Who ms himself so thoroughly of tide endearments of his own hearthstone! Who so often btiffets the pelting storm —enduring fatigue, exposing life in the driving rains and muddy to ids as the faithful, cons ientious physician! None! When disease is abroad in our land, and grini-visaged death is hovering among the dear ones of home, then will he be found combatting the approach of the stern monster, and oftentimes saving from his grasp a loved father or mother—some dearly cherished brother or sister. Do hot his devotion to the duties of his profession, bis services so freely rendered, his sacrifices, deserve tit the hand of ttie public a generous 1 reward ! new year has just commenced—may it be a new ye ,r of good and generous resolves, and just acts. May the people remember that doctors and printers must eat to liv , and that their wives and little ones must have their names also in the pot, and t tat they must have wherewith tl to clothe themselves. Let it be a new year of even-han led justice. Let the doctor and printer be paid. So shall you be blest with good crops, and your days shill be long in tie land, and many shall arise and call you blessed.

SENEX.