Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-03-24

OF such employment 25 years since2 But
this opens wide field Of remark. which
| shall resume, at future tlme.-Edstor
Free AmerieaA.
can editor of one of the Boston week
lies says he lately inserted two advertise
ments 10 his paper-one calling for a
young man to serve as clerk IN dry
goods Store; the other, for an apprentice
10 the Blacksmith trade. By the close OF
he week, when his next paper went TO
press, there had been .Jffy different appli-
cations for a situation In the tape and
calico store, and not one for chance in
the blacksmith shop. This case perhaps,
pretty well illustrates the gross mistake
which is committed by our young men
in seekihg for the most honorable en-
ployments for life. And why, pray, should
it be regarded as more fashionable, and
therefore more honorable. to ply the yard
stick and measure tape and buckram, than
to WELD the sledoe and hammer at
biacksmilh's anvil Is it more conducive
TO heallh2 No; on the contrary, want
Of exercise which shall call The functions
Of the body into exercise, is destructive of
health and life. Does it give the iDdivid-
ual more opportunity 10 exhibit hissttength,
agility and ingenuily2 No; for the du-
lies of the clerk at his writing desk or
counter requires little bodily effort, and
about as lluie real ingenuity. Does it
make the young man more useful to So
ciety and the world2 No; for the mere
waiter upon the demands of fashion, can
never compare, 10 point of actual useful
ness, to the ingenious and Industrious
mechanic. We repeat, wherefore then
is a situation as clerk in retail store more
! honorable, than a situation at the anvil,
the carpenters bench, or the farmers
4 plough! No reason in the world can be
given why itshould not be so and there
! fore, we decide that it is not and must moi
be deemed more fashionable than sturdy
labor. The world has too long been
wrong side up in this matter; it is time
it changed its position. ~sss"
i A good trade for young man at q
years of age, is worth more to him thar
i $1,000 given him as capital to begin witt
as merchant. That capital lqay-anc
the chance is that it aoiN,-,disappear un'
der the reverses OF fortune; but a trade
5 can never be taken from him by thieve:
or sherifs. By that he can olDays ge
his living, and good one, if he is indus
trious and honest. A trade which re-
; quires bodily exercise is conducive tc
health and cheerful spirits. tits free too
from the perplexities which attend life
of purchases aud sales and speculation.
A trade, therefore, is worth more than q
clerkship; and if what is tcort4 the most
should be regarded as the most desirable
and the most fashionable, we must insist
upon it, that the fifty young men who
applied for the situation before alluded to,
were very foolish in their preference.
!, We trust the time is coming, and is
even nov at the doors, when labor shall
be considered no disgrace; nay, when il
| will be respected as truly honorable; and
| when idleness and vice, though they may
strut in all the displays of false and
lpernicious fashion, will find their dis
reputable level far below the honest man
who earns his bread by the sweat Of his
brow. When this state of things shall
arrive, the tendency of our republican
institutions will be felt in the excellence
of their ultimate results.