The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-21
The Laborsr..
Hor,iculture.

We hear more or less gr,imbling, this
Spring, as usual, on account Of the Diff
Guilty. it is said, of getting employment.
We are tired of these complaints, in nine
cases out of ten they are unfounded.--
There is very little difficulty now in get.
ting such employment as the applicant IL
able to do. aud to do faithfully and well.
But when young man aspires to situa-
tion for which he is not qualified, to
business for which he has ne natural ap-
titude, to place where the pay is large
aud the services required very snail. he
always find difficulty in procuring such
employment.
But We repeat, there is enough now on
hand and in immediate prospect, il each
man in the community would take his
proper place, for all hands to do. While,
however, we have men of stalwart forms,
but puny minds. consenting to measure
tape and ribbons, "a business which
should be done exclusively by females.
whom these men defraud Of q rightful
and fit occupation, to the neglect of the
earth and the treasures which she would
yield to well directed efforts. nothing can
be more certain, that very many hereaf-
ter, as heretofore, must be out of employ
ment.
We have no patience with the over.
grown loafer who throng our city during
the spring and fall months, trying to
monopolize the light occupations which
the Almighty never meant that the mails
sex should fill, while at the same time,
for want of hands TO carry on agriculture
and horticulture. our marketmen charge
us from 35 to SO per cent. more for the
product of the farm and the garden than
they might be sold for and leave good
profit for the husbandman. . s
Everybody knows that horticulture,
in the vicinity of our large cities. if con.
Quoted with the requisite amount of sim
ew and brains, pays--and pays better.
far better. than the time, capital, and la-
Dor devoted to a retail business in our
cities; and yet the country boys, who
have been brought up to the most digni-
fed labor that Providence ever conferred
upon man-that of subduing the earth
must crowd into our cities and try, year
after year, to get some kind OF an occu.
patton where they can exc out q wretch.
ed, shiftless existence in doing as near
nothing as possible, and getting about tie
same amount of pay for their services.
They may dress well and fashionsbly.
lounge about the doors of our hotels,
twirl their senseless apologies for canes.
and cultivate as senseless noastaches, be
laughed at by the sex whose eifeminacy
they ape and take tha. lsughter, made IN
derision, for compliment to their distin-
que appearance but the questioa-with
whose money are these frivolities sup
ported! would reveal phase Of city
life which would make every sensible
young man shun such bipeds and the
pseudo occupations which contribute to
make them Khat they are.
Young men! Your sisters are suffering
for the light employments which you en-,
gross. Leave the yard stick and scissors
to the hands to which they belong HE
yourselves to the woods, TO the farm, to
the garden, and by your manly efforts in
producing something which the conmun-.
ity needs, vindicate yourtitle TO manhood,
or at least, try to make some decent apoi.
ogy for your existence. This you cam
not do, in the light avocations which VOC
are now pursuing, 70 the debilitation Of
your physical and the destruction of your
mental powers. GO all of you who have
energy enough left, and cultivate the
earth. There is room enough for ali Of
you, and when you have embraced an
occupstion for which you are destined by
nature, then there will be chance for
the needy women and effeminate men Of
our cities to procure such employment as
they are qualified to perform.-BOstO.
Herald.