Litchfield enquirer., 1855-01-11
AMBITION.

The farmers boy who lives in the midst
| of plenty, well-fed, warmly clad, with the
advantage of the District school, and the
District school library, in his approaching
manhood, when he is told by his parents
that he musr make his own way in the
world by his own industry, is almost sure
TO reply swell, any thing but farmers life
for me. 1t is work, work, work, through
the whole year work, and yet the farmers
do not become rich. They may lay aside a
little for wintry day, but you never see
money amongst them. They toll from day.
light to dark, through the whole year, and
yet grow no richer. / am tired of working
on farm, where the utmost industry gives
the smallest return of profits. People who
live in cities, amass fortunes, where farm
ers only exist. Besides, am tired of daily
hard work, and want to seek my fortune
elsewhere, where men get suddenly rich
without labor--and won't be a farmer"
Well, the young man is not farmer as
he intended to be. He is only half-star-
we'd attorney at law, in very wilderness o:
attorneys at law. He is only an NJ. D.,
with practice that scarcely keeps him on
speaking terms with his washerwoman, and
whose life is a constant trick to battle the
opportunities of his landlady. His life is a
life of shifts and expedients. Energies
which, if well directed, might secure to
him success in his calling, are actually
wasted and thrown away, and if the old
country homestead still remains, how glad
is he to avuil himself of its shelter, only de-
ploring that he ever left its protecting roof.
1t is equally so with the mechanic from
the country. He may not always find en-
ployment there commensurate with his de-
s;res, or perhaps his necessities. He be-
comes advised of the higher prices which
labor demands in our great cities, and he
leaves the snug village where he had en-
p!oyment enough to keep himself and those
around him in comfortable circumstances,
for the great cities where the magic temp
tation of high wages invites him.
If thoroughly successful, he finds at the
end of the year, that his expenses have en-
ceeded his income, and that he is not half as
well of as when he left his quiet country
home and if unsuccessful, how much worse
off it is difficult to say.
| In the hest of times, our large cities are
overburdened by our country friends who
come here in search of employment. The
few who may be SO lucky as to obtain it.,
write to their country friends, informing
them Of their good fortune, and the many
who do not obtain it are too proud to allow
their friends in the rural districts to know
Of their failures. And this game of decep-
ton still leads, and will continue to lead
those whose pursuits are and should be,
purely agricultural, to throng our great pub
lie marts.
Is it possible to force this idea into the
minds Of our country friendsl Destitution
and suffering, gaunt poverty, approaching
starvation, sit at the heartli-stones of many
an honest man, and from day to day the
story becomes more sad and appalling
Farmers, in the quiet and comfort of your
homes, think Of these things. and let your
boys ..liEk Of thcm when Tie wild thought
chases through their minds that they work
too hard at home, and must come to the city
for easy lives and plenty of MONEY.