The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-03-16
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1t has been fsmsrked-And b nope pore
certainly and clearly than thcsef Wh6, IS
journalists, are daily in the habit of seeing
the result of advertising-that the applicants
Tor skaatsens in stores, Offices, counting
houses, as clerks, book keepers, etc, or to
learn to become such, are twenty times as
numerous as applications of youths and their
parents to learn trades. Let q man adver-
tise for clerk, or youth to become one, and
he may make what copditons he plesses,
and he will have responses by wholesale. But
let q man advertise for q youth to learn
trade, and he will rarely get reply. Clerks
it is supposed, are better dressed, can keep
their hands clean, sit at desk, and have
more leisure and be more genteel. Blinded
by snowy advantages, like these, young
people and sometimes their parents, lose
sight of the more solid advantages OF GER
tain independence and sure foundation for
fortune. But without thorough knowl-
edge of business by which q man can, if
needful, procure living through something
made by his own hands, he is hardly ever
safe from reverse OF fortune. Especially is
this the case where he has no capital OF
much extent to begin with.
The Israelites always used to bring up
their sons, however learned or wealthy, to
some handicraft business or trade, by which,
in case ofa reverse they coald support them.
selves, Paul. the Apostle, born at Tarsus--
a city at the foot of the hills Of
Celicis and Taurus-hills famous for
breed Of wild goats, whose skins
made tents celebrated at once for their com,
parative lightness of transportation, durabili-
ty and Strengthens brought up a tent mak-
sr, developing thus the peculiar native ad-
vantages Of his birth.plac Sent, after
wards to Jerusalem, instructed by Gamsliel,
Pharisee of the Pharisees, learned as a
rahn, and in favor with the highest OF the
Jewish priesthood, he yet never lost the ad.
vantages Of this early source OF independ>
ence. And when, from aleve of right and
truth, he lost every old friend or influence
that could support him, it was this that ena-
bled him to preserve that noble independence
OF character as a man, philosopher and
Christian leader, which has influenced all
coming time by bis labor and his, writings.
That such man as Elihu Burfitt, the learned
blacksmith, should attract so much attention
IN one day, proves nothing so much as how
hele the character and sxeeilenees Of ST.
Pauls life have been appreciated. These
hands he says, /" have. -ministsred to my
necessities and TO them that were with me. .
Night and day be wrought that he might not
be chargeable to any, and wrought, too, as a
tept>msker. And the fourteen letters of this
robust tent maker, are more influential at the
end. of two thousand years, than all the wis
dom Of the Mars Hill sophists or the power
of Roman armies and orators.
A man must be independent of the world
in order to benefit it. 1t was Franklin, the
printer, whose philosophy won friends for his
country in the Court of France. Many
years ago merchant of great hnan.
cial abilities sat in his store
waiting for business, which was slow in com
ing. He had an expensive family, such small
means and SO many idle hours that he feared
being broken up las many others then were)
before his business coald be established.
"What shall do" asked he, con6dentially, !
of a friend. " Make something" was the
only reply These two words saved him.
After much reflection he thought of an arti
Gle of great general convenience, then only
made in Europe, and manufactured It himself.
The demand grew, became great. and gave
him hope, energy and ready money until his
own business was established. After many
years he was able TO retire on comfortable
independence, besides selling the right to
manufacture this article for a considerable
sum.
Let boys learn to f" make something Let
them learn trades which they know 10 the bots
tom, and thus become independent, instead
Of dangling after clerkships, or worse still,
seeking public life and public favor, through
all sorts Of corruption and intrigue, care and
disappointment. In city like this-the
greatest manufacturing city of the Union,
naturally, and supplied most easily with Sbal
and iron and food-what We chiefly want IN
all departments is, that our boys Should leAr9
trades and become efficient and perfectly
skilled, each in his own branch of business.
This is the sure foundation of independence. |
All the rest will flow naturally from that
wealth to the individual, and prosperity to
this great city. Philadelphia Home Beekly, !