The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-10-24
THE QUESTION.

off every one who has money or the of
raising money, goes into trade and speculation
thereon, who will be left to pay the expected
profits The old supply of Cotton and Tobacco
will soon all be in market and the proceeds in
vested in some wayMthere isvery littlespf these
products cultivated this year, so that the influx
of money will cease after little while, until
another years crop shall be ready for market.
1t would be well for people to look to these facts
and in time avoid difficulties
We copy the above appropriate and timely
suggestions from the Standard, aud commend
them to the thoughtful consideration of our
readers. The same ideas have forced them
selves upon our minds repeatedly, as we passed
along the streets aud saw the immense amounts
of goods now crowGing the stores, and ''the cry
is, still they come" We think this over ankle
ty to be merchants, very short-sigEtcd policy,
and fear very many will have to rue it.
There is here now, in this town. great demand
for houses of size that will be within the reach
of persons of small means, the rent for which
would realize larger profit than the same
amount in merchandise and would be far safer
investment. There is lack of mechanical en-
terprise, and until it is supplied, the town will
not receive any permanent and solid growth.
Merchants take money away, and thereby im-
poverish country, mechanics retain it, and fac
tories bring 1t among u.s. Ii is self evident,
thatif we expect to attain high state of prosperi
ty, We must diversity our emp!oyments and in
vestments.
1t is much more respectable to be an indus
trious, enterprising and thriving mechanic, than
a lazy, lounging retailer, or briefess lawyer.
We are informed by the papers, that Of the
great English capitalists tour of inspec-
ton, to the growing West, was a journeyman
hole
per day, (about sixty cents.) BY his energy
and industry he has accumulated millions, and
raised himself SO high, that the whole sections
Of country turn out to welcome him, and cities
feast him on the fat of the land.
Instead Of buying calicoes, &c, some enter
prising man should erect factory for making
cottage furniture or farming implements, or
water buckets-or dozen ether things any one
of which would pay more for the capital invest
ed than any merchant or professional man is
making What strange idea it is to think
that it is more respectable to feel pulse or
make pills than it is to build house or make a
pillow. We have very queer ideas of what con-
sttutes responsibility, aud the shake
them off the better Pope says, worth makes
the man, the want of it the fellow" aud from
our heart say too. MANY parents, under
the dominion OF this false notion, send their
sons nto what Is in common parlance, called
the learned professions, to starve exc out
prccarious existence-while if they had taught
them some mechanical trade, they might have
become rich, leaders in society-and useful to
the community. Educate the youths by all
means and then let them learn some useful
trade. The better educated they arc, the better
citizens they become, and the more likely they
are to succeed in whatever avocation destiny
may call them 1t is great mistake to think
because boy is intended for farmer or me-
chanic, that therefore he has no need of books.
The only reasons why professions Of Law, &c +,
had in times gone by been considered the road
to distinction and responsibility, is because the
Licentiates have been men Of education aud of
that refinement which is the result in great
degree Of culture. 1t is clear therefore that it
is mind and education, and not the vocation
that couters distinction and rcspecta5ilify-o
rather sentility. Let our readers reflect on
these crude suggestions, patroajze the schools
and then afterwards have their sons taught some
useful occupation, and our word for it, they will
find in the end we are right in saying that it is
mind properly trained and developed, and not
the profession that lead to greatness and to for
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