Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-08-03
misrrllanrous.
Don't "Dcpend ON Father"

Don't Depend ON Father"
Stand up here, young man, and let US
talk TO you-you have trusted alone to the
contents of Gathers purse, on bis fair fame
for your influence or success in business
Think you that father has attained to emf
nence in his profession, but by unwearied
Industry? Or that he has amassed for
tune honestly, without energy and activity ?
You should know that the faculty requisite
for the acquiring fame or fortune, is es-
seniiiaii 20, nay inseparable from the retain
inc Of either of these. Suppose "father"
has the crooks" in a0uii::11ance; if you never
earned any thing for him, You have no 5s.c: sc c.a
business with these "rocks'' than gosling
has with tortoisel and if be allows you to
meddle with them till you acquire some by
your own industry, he perpetratcs mischief.
And If the old gentleman is lavish OF his
cash toward you, while be allows you TO
while away time, you'd better leave; yes,
run away, sooner than be an imbecile or
something worse through so corrupting an
Influence. Sooner or later you must learn
TO rely on your own resources, or you will
not be any body. If you have become idle.
| if you have eaten fathers bread aud butter,
and smoked fathers cigars, cut a swell in
fathers buggy, and tried to put on fathers
influence and reputation, you might far bet
ter have been poor canal boy, the son of
chimney sweep or boot black-and in
deed, we would not swap with you the sit
uation Of a poor, balf-starved motherless
calf Miserable objects you are, that de-
pend entirely on your parents playing gen.
tlemen, (dandy loafers.) What in the name
of common sense are you thinking OFF,
Wake up there! Go TO work with either
your hands or your brains or both, and be
something! Don't merely have it to boast
of that you have grown in fathers house
that you have vegetated as other green
horns! but let folks know that you count
one! Come, off with your coat, clinch the
saw, the plow-hsndles, the scythe, the axe
the pickaxe. the spade-any thing that will
enable you to stir your blood! Fly around
and tear your jacket rather than be the
passive recipient of the old gentleman's
bounty. Sooner than play the dandy at
dads expense, hire yourself out 10 some po-
tato patch, let yourself to stop hog holes, or
watch the bars, and when you think your
self entitled to resting spell, do it on your
own hook. Ifyou have no other means OF
having fun of your own, buy with your
earnings an empty barrel, and put your
head into it and hollcr, or get into it and
roll down hill; don't for PHYS sake make
the old gentleman furnish every thing and
you live al your ease.
Look about you, you smooth-faced, we'll
dressed, do-nothing drones. Who are they
that have worth and influence in society
Are they those who have depended alone
on the old genteman's purse? Or are they
those who have climbed their way TO their
present position by their own industry and
energy? True, the old gentleman's funds
or personal influence, may secure you the
forms of respect, but let him lose his prop
erty, or die, and what are you? A miser
able hedgling-a bunch of flesh and bones,
that needs 10 be taken care of!
Again we say, wake up-get up in the
morning-turn round at least twice before
breakfast-help the old man-give him now
and then a generous lift in busness-learn
how to take the lead, and not depend for
ever on being led, and you have no idea
how the discipline will benefit you. Do
this, and our word for it, you will seem to
breathe a new atmosphere, possess new
frame, tread a new earth, wake to new
destiuy-and then you may begin to aspire
to manhood. Take of, then that ring from
your lily finger break your cane, shave your
upper lip, wipe your nose, hold up your
head, and by all means never again eat the
bread of idleness, NOR DEPEND ON FATHER.