The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-10-25
CITY AND COUNTRY,


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The poetic dictum that God made
the country and man the town, will
find few disc pies, il taken in the
sense which its author intended. -
The day too is past when English
lfa,liaments, reasoning from the
tact that an enlargement Of the
heart dcrauges oil ihe functions OF
the human body, will draw the
analogy that tho increase OF Lon
don ought to be checked, Man is
a lregarious animal, and great ad-
vantages, as well as natural in.
stincts, bring large cities into exis-
tenco
Yet there are aspects in which
the rapid C ncentration of our pop
ulation is to be deplored. Let any
one compare the census reports from
the beginning Of the present centu
Try to the annual enrolment oflS60,
and he will find that many of the
villages of the Eastern States, and
also entire counties, have decreased
in population.
Emigration to the moro fertile
West, will account for this in part,
but not wholly. There has been
a continual and constantly increas-
ing rush OF young men to the bust
ness and manufacturing centers.
The records of tho last two cen
'sus, will show that the same pro-
cess is going on in Ohio nd the
older Western States. Tho loss
has been better supplied by immi-
grafton, than at the East, still it is
a well known fact that few country
born young men sock employment
at home. There are often good
reasons for their removal, aud no
sentimental attachment to ones
birth place should outweigh an ad-
vantageous change of residence,
but in many cases the removal is
made Tor the worse.
The country boy should think
twice before making the city his
abode. Ii he wishes to pursue
certain employments, it is undoubt-
Iedly the best place. What are
called the lighter kinds of bust
ness offer more openings than in
the country, yet, light work brings.
light pay, and tho additional eX-
ponses OF city life, eat deeply into
ones pockets. Supply and de-
mand are words which are lit
tie understood by the young man
who has grown up amid the fruit
ful crops and quiet life Of the farm.
The city clerk, or mechanic, on the
other hand, has their meaning m5st
painfully impressed on him, when
money is scarce and labor abund-
ant.
The desire of every thoughtful
young man is to attain that station
in life when he can be his own
master. Fully to attain that posi-.
tion he must have capital, The
savings of The most unwearied in
dustry in mechanical pursuits, in
these days When machinery has SO
concentrated manufactures Of all
kinds within a few hands, seldom
permit the workmen b. become in.
dependent within a reasonable time
and comparatively few clerks grow
into employers. Then, too, the
proportion Of successful merchants
to those who make financial ship
wreck is very small. In view of
these undesirable truths, only de-
cided ability for the branches above
enumerated should induce the
young man to engage in them. In
the professions of law and medi-
cine the case is even worse. There
are more lawyers than clients, and
more doctors than patients; at east
a few Of the former absorb all the
latter.
vi LuS uliusotl1 NO w nv sPVah3
for its chief reward is the con
sci0usness of doing good. The
clergyman has little concern with
money. Ii young man is deter
mired to enter upon any OF the
foregoing pursuits we bid him God
speed; yet if his mind he not made
up, and the cares OF country life
are familiar 10 him, surer means
OF wealth and Independence lie in
another direction. aitoo
We shall not refer to the Land
Office reports to find exactly how
many acres Of soil lie ready for free
occupation we need not tell what
Iall know, that even our older States
are not half cultivated that every
lAmerican farmer leaves untoucheol
lground enough for the support of
more than one European family !;
we need not repeat the praises of
rural lifs, which have been reheal,-
sed by the wisest thinkers for cen
lturies back. Our only purpose is