Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-07-23
APPRENTICES.

APPRENTICES.
The MECHANIC ARTs.-If we would
desire to counteract the pernicious in
fluence of Trades Unions and Radio
ais from abroad, we must teach our
sons the Mechanic Arts, and bind
more of them as apprentices to sub
stantial and profitable employments
than we are now in the babit of doing.
We are all in undertaking the value
Of mechanical occupations-we are
all wrong in making all our Sons Doc
tors, Lawyers, Divines. and Mer-
chants. Some branches of the fam
iIy should be mechanics, and if when
they are out Of their time, we can
give them some money to commence
business with, we at once set them on
the road to independence-to solid
independence, weight, and influence.
employment-labour, healthy, refresh
ing, constant labour, is the grand Sc
cret to keep boys correct and moral,
to keep them out of vice in every
shape, to make good sons and good
citizens Of them.-There are many
poor widows with boys from ten to
thirteen years Of age, who are not
probably aware that if they are good
and industrious can earn from 100 to
100 and so dollars per annum, and
have steady employment. This is
much more profitable in every res
pect, than running about the streets
after soldiers or fire engines. We
have often wondered that so few sons
Of gentlemen of fortune offer as ap-
prentices to some mechanical pur-
suit, for example TO the Printing BUSH
ness-a business which is light and a.
greeable, and combines SO many ad-
vantages. 1t may be asked what are
the benefits of this branch Of the Me-
chanic Arts.-The sons OF persons in
easy circumstances who can board
ndlodge them without cost until they
are out Of their times-who will su-
perintend their comforts and morals:
and feel, as they ought to feel, an IN
terest in their advancement, may re-
alize the following advantages
1st. They learn a business which
ranks high in the cultivation of the
human mind-a business by which
they at once become familiar with
the moral and political condition of
the countryside advancement of the
mechanic arts-the progress of inter-
nal improvements business which
made Doctor Franklin the great man
he is by the whole world allowed to
have been.
Cd. The Printing business includes
a knowledge Of proof reading-some
acquaintance with the art Of paper
making-and in a newspaper office
where a boy is intelligent, quick, am
bilious to excel, he becomes familiar
with editorial pursuits-and when
out of his time becomes proprietor or
part proprietor of a city or country
paper, and ifprudent, temperate and
Industrious, may become a conspicu-
Gus politician, and fill any of the high
offices of the country, as we see at
present in beholding Printers Sena-
tors in Congress and members of the
House of Representatives. So much
for our own profession, but there are
many noble mechanical pursuits,
which should be cultivated by young
men Of good family and education.
The Builder, which includes the
beautiful science of architecture.
The Ship Builder, first rate and most
calling. Workers in gold,
silver, copper and other metals. Cab
met Making. In short we could name
fifty occupations-morc valuable
more enduring-moreh ealthy-more
positively independently the range
Of professional callings and the sick
ly, poverty stricken labour of the mid
night lamp.
BY this course we shall bring into
the line of Mechanics an intelligent,
well educated,highly respectable class
of American citizens, free from rad
icalism, combinations, unjust extor-
tons or disreputable associations.
The SINEws OF WAR.-The New
York Observer is publishing, in a Sc
ries Of numbers, sketches by the
Rev. DR.. Humphreys, of his tour in
Europe. Among other things descri-
bed is the celebrated ssWoolwich Ar
senal." The Doctor says: A glance
At the main arsenal, from the heights
On which the barracks stand, shows
you that it is an immense establish
nent; but so much Of it is concealed
nv the hioh wall a around II fhaf ro,, con