Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-02-17
DON'T DEFEND ON FATHER.


Stand up here, young man. and let us talk to
ysu- Yoa have trusted alone to the contents
of your father purse, or to his fair fame for
your influence or success in business. Think
yod that - father :" has attained to eminence in
his profession but by unwearied industry? or
2 that he has amassed fortune honestly without
energy or activity? You should know that the
faculty requisite for the acquiring of fame and
fortune is essential to, nay, inseperable from,
the retaining of either of these. Suppose
.. father" has the "rocks in abundance if
you never earned anything from him, you have
no more business with those rocks than a
xosling has with tortoise, and if he allows
you to meddle with them till you have learned
their value by your own industry, he perpe-
trates untold mischief And if the old gentle
lnaan is lavish of his cash towards you, while he
allows you to idle away your time, you had
better leave him; yes, run away, sooner than
be made an imbecile or scoundrel through so
corrupting an influence. Sooner or later you
must be thrown upon your own resources, or
you will not be anybody. If you have ever
helped yourself at all, if you have become idle,
If you have enten fathers bread and butter and
smoked fathers cigars, cut swell in father s
buggy, and tried to put on fathers influence
and reputation, you might far better have been
poor canal boy, the son of a chimney sweep,
or q boot black-and indeed we would not swap
with you the situation of poor, half-starved
motheriess calf Miserable objects you are,
that depend entirely upon your parents,
playing gentlemen (alias dandy loafer). What
in the name of common sense are you thinking
Oft Wake up there! Go to work with either
your hands your brains, or both, and do
something Don't merely have it to boast
that you have grown in fathers house-that
you vegetated as other greenhorns but let
folks know that you count one.
Come, off with your coat, clinch the saw, the
pillow handles, the scythe, the axe, the pick-axe.
the spade-any thing that will enable You to stir
your blood g Fly round and tear your jacket.
rather than he the recipient of the old gentle
mans bounty. Sooner than play the dandy at
dads expcnsc hire yourself ont to some pota-
toe patch, let yourself to stop log holes, OF
watch the bars ; and when you think yourself
entitled to resting spell, do it on your own
hook. If sou have no other means of having
fun of your own but with your fathers earnings
get an empty barrel, and put your head into il
ana hOIicr, OF get luIO iuii uO"H
Don't make the old gentleman do 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 depended alone on the old gen
tleman's PURSE or are they those that have
climbed their way to their position by their in
dustry and cnergy9 True, the old gentleman
funds or personal influence, may secure you
theforms of respect, but let him lose his prop
erty, or die, and what are you! A miserable
fiedvling-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 now and then gen
erous Ii # in business--Iearn how to take the
lead, and not depend forever on being led ant
you have no idea how the discipline will benef
you. Do this. and our word for it, you viii
sseem to breathe atmosphere, posses
new destiny and you may then begin to aspir'
to manhood Take off. then, that ring from
from your lilly finger, break your cane, shaw
your upper lip, wipe your nose, hold up you
head, and by all means, never again eat tn
bread of idleness, NOR DEPEND ON FATHER