The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1856-01-03
Don't Depend on Father.

Stand up here, young man, and let u,
talk to you you have trusted alone to the
! contents Of Gathers purse" on his fair
fame for your influence Of success in bus.
mess. Think you that "father" has at.
tanned to eminence in his profession, but
by unwearied industry; or that he has
amassed fortune honestly, without en-.
ergy and activity? Yon should know
that the faculty requisite for acquiring
fame or fortune, is essential to, nay insep.
arabic from the retaining ofeitber Of these
Suppose father" has the "rocks" in q.
bundance; if you never earned anything
for him, you have no more business With
these "rocks" than gosling has with q
tortoise and if be allows you to meddle
with them till you own industry, he per.
petrates untold mischief. And if the old
gentleman is lavish Of his cash toward you,
while he allows you to while away your
time. you ID better leave him; yes, run a.
way sooner than be an imbecile. or some.
thing worse, through SO corrupting an in.
duence. Sooner or later you must learn
To rely on your own resorces, or you will
not be anybody.
Hyou have become idle, il you have
eaten fathers bread and butter. and smo.
ked fathers cigars, cut swell in fathers
buggy, and tried to put on fathers infu.
ence and reputation, you might far better
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 poor half starved motherless
calf! Miserable objects you are. that
depend entirely on parents, playing gen.
tlemen (dandy loafers What in the
name of common sense are you thinking
Of? Wake up there! Go to work with
either your hands or your brains, or both,
and be something! Don't merely have i.
to boast Of that you have grown in "fath.
er's" house--that you have vegetated as
other green horns but let folks know that
you count one
Come, of with your coat, clinch the
saw, the plough handles. the sythe. AKA,
the pick-axe, the spsde-anything that
will enable you to stir your blood Fly
around and tear your jacket, rather than
be the passive recipient ofthe old gentle.
mans bounty. Sooner than play the dan.
dy at dads expense, hire yourself out to
some potato patch let yourself when en-.
titeled to resting spell; do it on your
own hook If you have no other means
ofhaying fun ofyour own, buy with your
earnings an empty barrel and put your
head into it and rol down hill don't for
PHYS sake make the old gentleman fur,
nish everything, and you live at your ease.
Look about you, you well-dressed,
smooth-faced, do nothing drones. Who
are they that have worth and influence in
society? Are they those that have de-
pended alone on the old gentleman's
purse? or are they those that have climb
ed their way to their position by their
own industry and energy? True, the
old gentleman S funds, or personal inAu
ence, may secure you the forms ofrespect,
but let him lose his property, or die, and
what are you? A miserable fedgling--
bunch of flesh and bones that needs to
be taken care Of
Again we say, wake up-get up in the
morning-turn round at least twice be.
fore breakfast-help the old man--givs
him now and then generous lift in bust.
ness-learn how to take the lead, and not
depend forever 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 new atmosphere,
possess a new frame, tread new earth.
wake to a new destiny-and then you
msy begin to aspire to manhood. Take
off, then, that ring from your lily finger,
break yonr cane, shave your upper lip.
wipe your nose. hold up your head, and
BY all means not depend on "father."