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Editorial
April 27, 1786
Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Editorial advises on curing 'hard times' through calculating income, avoiding fashions, ignoring complainers, living within means, and accepting taxes for independence. Emphasizes industry, economy, and virtue, ending with a sermon on scarcity fostering happiness.
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Miscellanies.
An infallible CURE for HARD TIMES.
1. Calculate your income, and be sure you do not let your expenses be quite so much--lay by some for a rainy day.
2. Never follow fashions--but let the fashions follow you--that is, direct your business, and expenses, by your own judgment, not by the custom of fools, who spend more than their income.
3. Never listen to the tales of complainers, who spend their breath in crying 'hard times,' and do nothing to mend them.
4. It is a truth, which every one ought to know and realize that every man, (those only excepted who are not able to support themselves in any community) may live within his income, and thereby preserve his independence.--If a man is poor, his taxes are small, unless he holds an estate which he cannot pay for.--In such case, he does not own it, and therefore ought to let the owner take it.
Industry and oeconomy, will forever triumph over hard times, and disappoint poverty. Therefore the general cry 'that we cannot pay the taxes and live,' is absolutely false.
It is true, we feel, and we ought to feel, some difficulties in paying for the glorious prize of independence, the taxes will be but temporary, but the prize immortal.--And he is unworthy of freedom; who grumbles at paying his money, when so many patriots and heroes paid down their lives to purchase it for their country.
I shall conclude with an extract from a sermon, preached by a sound divine.
"The scarcity of money, is the only thing that will save this people--this alone can produce industry and oeconomy, without which no people can be virtuous and happy. This is an universal truth, applicable to all people in every country.--It is impossible to be happy, without industry, oeconomy and virtue, and as experience evinces that these are produced by what we call hard times, or the scarcity of money, we certainly ought to be thankful when we see the causes of publick happiness operating.--Therefore let this circumstance, excite in us gratitude to a kind providence, for connecting future prosperity, with present scarcity: -And so ordering causes and events, that good shall come out of evil, and necessity produce reformation, and hard times, good times."
An infallible CURE for HARD TIMES.
1. Calculate your income, and be sure you do not let your expenses be quite so much--lay by some for a rainy day.
2. Never follow fashions--but let the fashions follow you--that is, direct your business, and expenses, by your own judgment, not by the custom of fools, who spend more than their income.
3. Never listen to the tales of complainers, who spend their breath in crying 'hard times,' and do nothing to mend them.
4. It is a truth, which every one ought to know and realize that every man, (those only excepted who are not able to support themselves in any community) may live within his income, and thereby preserve his independence.--If a man is poor, his taxes are small, unless he holds an estate which he cannot pay for.--In such case, he does not own it, and therefore ought to let the owner take it.
Industry and oeconomy, will forever triumph over hard times, and disappoint poverty. Therefore the general cry 'that we cannot pay the taxes and live,' is absolutely false.
It is true, we feel, and we ought to feel, some difficulties in paying for the glorious prize of independence, the taxes will be but temporary, but the prize immortal.--And he is unworthy of freedom; who grumbles at paying his money, when so many patriots and heroes paid down their lives to purchase it for their country.
I shall conclude with an extract from a sermon, preached by a sound divine.
"The scarcity of money, is the only thing that will save this people--this alone can produce industry and oeconomy, without which no people can be virtuous and happy. This is an universal truth, applicable to all people in every country.--It is impossible to be happy, without industry, oeconomy and virtue, and as experience evinces that these are produced by what we call hard times, or the scarcity of money, we certainly ought to be thankful when we see the causes of publick happiness operating.--Therefore let this circumstance, excite in us gratitude to a kind providence, for connecting future prosperity, with present scarcity: -And so ordering causes and events, that good shall come out of evil, and necessity produce reformation, and hard times, good times."
What sub-type of article is it?
Economic Policy
Moral Or Religious
What keywords are associated?
Hard Times
Industry
Oeconomy
Taxes
Independence
Scarcity Of Money
Virtue
Publick Happiness
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Cure For Hard Times Through Industry And Economy
Stance / Tone
Encouraging Acceptance Of Taxes And Promotion Of Virtue
Key Arguments
Calculate Income And Keep Expenses Below It To Save For Emergencies
Avoid Following Fashions And Base Spending On Personal Judgment
Ignore Complainers Who Do Nothing To Improve Hard Times
Every Able Person Can Live Within Their Income To Maintain Independence
Poor Have Small Taxes; Relinquish Unaffordable Estates
Industry And Economy Overcome Hard Times And Prevent Poverty
Claim Of Inability To Pay Taxes And Live Is False
Taxes For Independence Are Temporary But Prize Is Eternal
Grumbling At Taxes Dishonors Patriots Who Died For Freedom
Scarcity Of Money Promotes Industry, Economy, And Virtue Leading To Happiness