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Here let me offer thought as to how we can
better our condition. 1t is said by our opposers,
that we are ignorant and degraded class of peo-
pie, and they seldom make any exceptions, altho'
there are MANY worthy exceptions, and the op-
pressions we have received from the very persons
who make the greatest elamor against US, have
caused no small portion of our degradation. Let
US try then to dspe the mist of ignorance from be-
fore our eyes, and instead of wasting the precious
time, which God has given us to improve, not to
abuse, in places of amusement. let each young man
devote portion of his evenings to the study OF
some useful book, and remember that 6 knowledge
is power"


Let us think less of dress this is great evil
with US; love for Dress and striving to follow
the fashions of the day, tend to keep us as our op
posers would have US be, pennyless. So long an
we continue in this practice we iniure ourselves.
In the first place, what money we spend moro
than would clothe us in arespectable and comfort-
able manner, we should lay aside for the purpose
of commencing in some kind of business, which
would be more profitable than being a waiter or a
daily laborer In the city. How many young men
among us have spent unnecessarily for dress, mon
ey enough to buy themselves good farms Now
as dress has not the tendency to make us respect
ed, why should we continue the practice to such
extremes /? | hope the day is not far distant when
young men will think less of dress and more Of
cultivating their minds.


u RH