Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-02-08

Apprentices.-The Mechanic Arts.-lf
we should have desire to counterfeit the
pernicous influence of Trades Unions and
radicals from abroad we must teach our
sons the Mechanic Arts and bind more
Of them rs apprentices to substantial and
profitable employments than we are now in
the habit of doing. We are all wrong in
undertaking the value of mechanical &C.
cupations-we are all wrong in making our
sons doctors, lawyers, and merchants.-
Some branches of the family should be
mechanics, and if when they are out Of
time, we can give them some moneyto CON-
mence business with, we at once set them
on the road to independence-to solid in
dependence, weight and influence. EN-
ployment-labor, healthy, refreshing, con-
slant labor is the grand secret to keep boys
correct and moral, to keep them out of vice
of 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 one hundred to one hundred and
! fifty dollars per annum, and have steady
employment. This is more profitable IN
every respect than running about the streets
after soldiers or fire engines.
We have often wondered that so few sons
of gentlemen of fortune offer as appren.
tees to some mechanical pursuit, for ex.
ample to the Printing busness-a business
which is light and agreeable and combines
so many advantages. may be asked wha
are the benefits of this branch of the Me
chanc Arts. The sons Of persons in easy
circumstances who can board and lodge
them without cost until they are out ofthei
times-who will superintend their comfor
and morals; and feel, as they ought to feel
an interest in their advancement may
realize the following advantages
LIST. They learn business which ranks
high in the cultivation of the human mind;
business by which they at once becom
familiar with the moral and political condi
ton of the countryside advancement O
the mechanical arts-the progress OF IN
ternal improvements business whc
made DR.. Franklin the greatest man he
allowed by the whole world to have been.
I'd. The Printing business includes
knowledge of good reading, some acquain
lance with the art of paper making-and j
, newspaper office where boy is intelli
gent, quick, ambitious to excel, he become
familiar with editorial pursuits-and whe
out of his time, becomes proprietor or pa
proprietor Of city or country paper, an
if prudent, temperate and industrious, ma
fill any of the high Offices Of the countr,
as we see at present beholding Printers
Senators in Congress, and Members oft
House of Representatives. So much f
, our profession, but there are many mob
, mechanical pursuits, which should be Gu
, tivated by young men of good family an
education.
3 The builder, which includes the beautif
. science of architecture, the ship builder !;
. first rate and respectable calling. Wor
ers in gold, silver, copper and other metal
Cabinet Making. In short VIC could nan
fifty occupatons--more valuable--mo
enduring-more healthy; more positive
:, Independent, than the range of profession
= caIlings and sickly, poverty stricken lab
y of the midnight lamp. =.
e BY this course we shall bring into the Ii
y y of mechanics an intelligent, well educate
y highly respectable class of American Ct
e zens, free from radicalism, combination
. unjust extortions or disputable association
NJ -New York Epening Star.