Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1876 — Live Within Your Means. [ARTICLE]

Live Within Your Means.

Live within your means. This is a good rule for office-holders and business men generally. When the man of moderate income endeavors to live as expensively as a man ot wealth his future can be easily written: a little enjoyment, periods of anxiety, burdensome debts, a desperate struggle to keep up appearances, ultimate bankruptcy, and a red flag to notify the neighbors that the sheriff is master of the situation. One-half the dishonesty of the present age springs from this foolish practice of imitating the style of others. The man of a thousand a year wants to live equal to the one who receives five, he in turn aspires to make as big a show as the one who receives ten, and the receiver of ten labors to keep pace with the one who counts his income among the fifty thousands. Is it any wonder that so many fail in business or forfeit by their misconduct the confidence of friends? We must come back to our old-fashioned way of living, and this can be done only by obeying that injunction, Live within your means. Life is altogether too short to destroy its enjoyments by taxing soul and body to keep up false appearances. Contentment comeß with moderation; mental suffering and keen anguish with extravagance. To the young man Just starting in life, we say, live within your means. To the man or business pursuing success, we say, live within your means. To the office-holder who hopes through honorable conduct to merit promotion and distinction, we say, live within your means. To all who labor for honor or profit we commend the motto as a safe and sensible one, and one that will pay compound interest in the end. A faithful adherence to it by old and young, rich and poor, will restore confidence in business and official circles, and fill the land with happy homes, from which will emanate a spirit of purity essential to the maintenance of public virtue.— Republic Magazine.

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