The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-03-21
From the New York Tribune.
Greeley on Money Getting,

A youth writes as follows-and his case is
like so many Others that we treat it thus pub
licly, suppressing his name:
Dear Sir am poor boy. would like to get
rich. Now what shall dc? lwOud like to quit this
section. don't want to remain my father farm.
Please give me the best advice you can, and obhge,
Yours, G. @. s."
AnSwel,-The aspiration to become rich
though by no means the highest that can inn
pei career-is, in our view, wholesome and
laudable. The youth who says, Let me be
rich aRy h0lU, and before all olher considera-
tions, " is very likelyto bring up IN some State
Prison; but he who consistently says, Let me
be first Just, honest, moral, diligent, useful,
then rich,' is on the right road. Every boy
ought to aspire to be rich, provided he can be
without untaithfulness to social obligation or
to moral principle.
But how shall he set about getting rich p
We would concisely say
l. Firmly TeS0lUe neUer to 01Ce debit is the
| fundamental mistake OF most boys to suppose
| that they can get rich faster on money earned
| by others than on that earned respectively by
themselves Ii every youth OF III TO 20 years
were to-day offered l0,000for ten years at sew
en- per cent. interest, tWo-thirds OF them wo'd
eagerly accept it when the probable conse-
quence is that three fourths of them would die
| bankrupts and paupers. Boys do not need
money half so much as they needto know how
| to earn and save. The boy who, at the close
of his first year Of independence, has earned
and saved 500, and invested or loaned il
| where it will pay him six or seven per cent,
will almost surely become rich if he lives;-
| while he who closes his first year of RESPONSE
| bility III debt, will probably live and die i'll
| debt. There is no greater mistake made by
| our American youth than that OF choosing TO
| pay interest rather than receive. Interest de-
YOURS us while we sleep; it absorbs our profits
and aggravates our losses. Let young man
at twenty five have 81 900 loaned on bond and
mortgage or invested in public securities, and
he Will rarely want money thereafter: in fact
| that 81, 900 invested at seven per cent, will Of
| itself make him rich before he is sixty. There
is no rule more important or wholesome for
| our boys than that which teaches them to 20
through life receiving interest rather than pay
| ing it. Of the torments which atflict this NOR
| tai sphere, the first rank is held by Crime, the
second by Debt.
II. Acquire promptly and Thoroughly some use
| faI calling .-Some pursuits are more lucrative,
some more respectable, some more agreeable
than others; but a chimney-sweep's is far bet
ter than none at all. No matter how rich his
parents may be, boy may learn some trade if
he will. This city is full to-day Of young land
old men who have been clerks, book keepers,
porters, etc, ETC., yet can find nothing to do,
and are starving because their foolish parents
did not give them trades. a trade is an estate,
and almost always productive one. "A good,
efficient farm laborer can generally find pay
ING work, if he does not insist in looking Tor
it in a city where it cannot well be; while
many a college graduate tamishes because no
body wants the only work he knows how to
do. Let nothing prevent your acquiring skill
in some branch OF productive industry.
III. Resolve not TO be a TOUer.-'A rolling
stone gathers no moss,' but is constantly
thumped and knocked, and often shivered to
pieces. If you are honest and industrious, you
must be constantly making reputation, which
if you remain in one place, helps you on the
road to fortune. Even bod carrier or street
sweeper who has proved that his promise tC
appear on given day and hour and 60 to work
may be trusted, has property in the conf
dence thus created. If you can not find your
work where you are now, migrate; but do II
once for all. When you have stuck your stake
stand by it.
". Comprehend that there Is lcork almost eUe
TyIglere for him aDho can do it. An Italian
named Bianconi settled in Ireland some sixty
years ago, and got very rich there by establish
ing lines of passenger conveyances AL over
that island Almost any man would have
said that he who went to Ireland to make his
fortune must be mad He who knows how
: and viii work, can get rich growing potatoes
in New England, though he hasn't five cent
to begin with. There is work for million
more people on the soil of Connecticut alone
There are millions of unproductive acres with
, in day, ride of this city, that might be BOZ
and rendered largely fruitful at clear prOni
= Of S1UO or more per acre. q man IN Niles
/ Mich, declined to 90 gold hunting in the
Rocky Mountains because there was more g0iG
IL Niles than he could get hold OF. The reas
on was a good one and it applies almost eve
ryWhere. Ii you can find nothing to do where
t you are, it is generally because you can d.
nothing.
V Realize that he ao1so earns sirpercs per dag
more a lie spends mast gel flC, ggtiJe he tia
spends Sic pence more than he earns must GecOna
poor.-Ihls Is very hackneyed Truth, but We
shall never be done needing repetition. Hun
{ dreds OF thousands are not only poor bu
: wretched to-day, simply because they fail t.
1 comprehend or will not heed it. We Ameri