The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-06-26
Train up your Children 30 Work.

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political, nor religious, but which is not for {
eign, either to politics or religion, upon I
which we have often reflected and will now !
express our opinions; slseming the subject
one Of vital interest to the welfare OF all
parents and children, who read our Journal. |
Neighbor a., what do you expect VIII be- !
come of tia, son of yours, who is loafing
about town Do you intend that he shall
enter upon the great profession of loafing
(,he largest, BY far, in the United States.)
fso, You are taking the right way to learn
him that business thoroughly. Do yon
think il sufficient that he has learned to read
and write, acquired sulatteripg Of geogra-
ply and grammar and arithmetic, or learned
little lain. perchanre Do you call that
education You cannot commit more fa-
tai error your son, or year daughter, has
TO learn something infinitely mnre impor-
tant than any and all OF these things-and
that is, patient industry, steady application,
and business habits. Your child-every
child, has living to make. Remember
that No matter what honest pursuit your
child may be taught, or may follow through
life--ihat is of very little consequence, since
industry will afford competence in any bu-
siness he may folIow-the main thing is, to
put him in harness and learn him 10 srork.
Failing to teach him industry, you make
him a tirone and an inveterate loafer through
life. There are scores Of active, smart
bows and girls, in Saint Paul, who are grow
ing up in idleness and in Ignorance of any
way under heaven to make living, because
their parents are too proud TO pu. them to
trades, or because they think they are too
young and tender TO te put to work. There
10 not more miserable, worthless dog in
the world, than young man, raised in al
fiuence, without industry. without selt-reli-
ance, no matter what his know ledge o.
books may be, who is turned out into the
world to struggle for subsistence. 1t
would he just as sensible TO tie a boy in a
chair and feed him there, from his infancy,
to prepare him to run foot races at the age
of 81 years, as to raise him in ,dlcness, from
infancy, 20 prepare him to wrestie wi,hpov-
erfy and the hardships of lie, when he is
Of age. A Child that is cid enough 70 learn,
10 old enough to learn something useful
1t is only for want of being taught some
useful employment, thar boy ever learns
to play cards or billiards. Teach your chill
dren, (for they can understand you) the val
ne Of time and industry. Make them un-
derstand ho,O and ,chy, industry and frugal
icy are indispensable to their respectable
subsistence. Make your boy earn a hat or
pair of boots, by his own industry; and it
will be the best lesson you can teach him.
Learn lesson, by observing the helpless
ness Of scores of young men, adventures
from all parts, who land 10 Saint Paul, with
out experience or habits of Industry and
many Of whom, have grown up with feel
ing of contempt for manual labor. They
have come here, after leaving every other
place, with a vague, definite idea, amount
ing to hope, tba, something will "furn
up,. as Mr. Micawber says. Saint Paul is
agrowing place, and they expect somehow,
TO gre,c up with it. Ifyou look for them,
you may lock in the grocery, or the bar
room, where they are waiting for something
10 turn up. These young men, do not 60
and offer their services, to work, at what
ever business may offer, and at whatever
urice they can get. Now, how can such
Young men ever grou up with town, who
have not root and vigor enough to plant
. themselves in ito grapple with the labor
and the hard.hips and privations incident to
settlement in a new town! Parents Of St.
Paul, il you bring up Your children in idle
ness, depend upon it, that the same misera-
BILE fate which awaits these young men, who
are in Saint Paul, idling away their time, in
hopes that something wia turn up. awaits
your own offspring, who perchance, year:
hence, when you are dead, may wander
away to The young cities on the shores Of the
Pacific, and there wait, in like manner, fol
something 10 turn up, some patent avenue
or regal highway to wealth, nearer and east
er than The old beaten turnpike Of industr,
and frugality. They will look on, and wait
and see the children of indulgence and toll
the apprentices whom they used 10 despisc
reaping the harvest of golslcn wealth arouDs
them, while they remain poor and helpless
as Lazarus.
Gov. Alexander Ramsey.
The last American WING Review con
tains all admirable portrait Of this gentle
man. by the way, some trifiing fellew i
doing his hes. 10 abuse him through the col
umns fthe Jeffersonan. Where the Gov
ernor is known. such trash Is not read
where he is not known, the writer befray
soch unniistakable marks of rabidness, tina
one instinctively locks round TO see it ther'
is not mad dog somewhere IN the vicinity
The writer seems to hate an honest man
r.