The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-09-03

DoN'r DEPEND ON "FATHER."-Stand up
here Young man, and let us talk to you; you
have trusted alone to the contents of your
{" fathers purse" OF his fair fame, for your
influence or success in business. Think you
that Gather has attained to eminence in his
profession, but by unwearied industry For that
he has amassed a fortune honestly without
energy and activity {? You should know that
the faculty requisite for the acquiring of flame
or fortune is essential to, nay, inseparable from
the retaining of either of these ! Suppose
"fatherv has the crooks" in abundance; if you
never earned anything for him, you have no
more business with these "rocks" than a goslin
has with a tortoise |! and if he allows you to
NEEDLE with them until you have gained them
by your own industry, he perpetrates untold
mischief. And if the old gentleman is lavish
of cash towards you, while he allows you to
while away your time, you'd better leave him;
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 anybody.
If YOU have become idle. if you have eaten
fathers bread and butter, and smoked fathers
cigars, cut a well in fathers buggy, and tried
to put on fathers influence and repute ton,
you might far better have been a poor canal
boy, the son of a chimney sweep or a boot
black, and, indeed, we would not swap with
you the situation of a poor, half-starved, mo-
therless calf! Miserable objects you are, that
depend entirely on parent, playing gentleman
dandy loafer.) What in the name of common
sense are you thinking of! Wake up there!
Go to work with your hands, or your brains,
and be something! Don't merely have it to
boast of that you have grown IN Gathers
house." that you have vegetated as other
greenhorns! but let folks know that you
count one!
Come, off with your coat, clinch the plough
handles, the scythe, the axe, the pick-axe, the
spade anything that will enable you to stir
your blood! Fly rornd and tear your shirt,
rather than be the passive recipient of the old
gentleman's bounty! Sooner than play the
dandy at dads expense, hire youself out to
some potato patch, get yourself entitled to a
resting spell, do it on your own hook. If you
have no other means of having fun of your
own, buy with your earnings an empty barrel.
and put your head into it and holloa, OF get
into it and roll down hill; don't for PHYS sake
make the old gentleman furnish everything,
and you live at your ease.
Look about you, you welldressed, smodeh
faced do nothing drones. Who are they that
have worth and influence in society Are
they those that have depended alone on the old
gentleman's purses or are they those that
have climbed their way by their own industry
and energy? True, the old getleman's funds
or pesonal influence may secure you the forms
of respect, but let him lose his property, or
die, and what are you2 A miserable fedgling
"a bunch of flesh and bones that needs to be
taken care of!
Again we say wake up-get up in the morn
ing turn round at least twice before breakfast;
help the old man-give him now and then a
generous lift in business-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 a new atmosphere,
possess a new frame, tread a new earth, make
new destiny, and then you may begin to aspire
to manhood. Take off, then, that ring from
your little finger, break your cane, shave your
upper lip, wipe your nose, hold up your head,
and by all means, do not depend on father.