Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-01-16
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New York, have made candid and reliable state
ments on this subject worthy the attention Of the
whole community.
The fact is that the city OF New lork, and
indeed all the Northern cities are Overlooking
with peoples not with transient Nliors' though
there are an unusual number of those among us,
hut of persons who have taken up their permanent
abode in the cities. The chief source OF tins large
increase is the country Nor Is tins a sudden
thing; for the last twenty years the ude has oeen
setting IN rom the country TO the cuesi Wll
within the past three, the scarcely pfeceptible
current has grown INTO deep ana mpetuous
stream. This is partly the result OF the splendid
opportunities TO accumulate large fortunes without
effort which the city has Seemcd 20 Afford these last
few years. Almost every village ana hamlet has
known OF some person VINO came TO Wm-street
poor, and M few months rus repoteo 10 nave
made fabulous amount of wealth. rinse htvd-
reds rho, Jon ecry one thdt mas 0eeN sbc'cs9Ht,
mare btel irfetneraOy rHi"ea' are J"ggtiW OF
IT remembered Their mislorlunes are attributed 10
their own errors OF Judgment when the next
adyenturer is confident he will never ihl inio.-
The result has been TO lead many especially the
Young. TO leave villages ana farms Ior ciN NE
Formers hnd 81 difficult TO plant 'heir crops ana
sun more SO Go gather them IN travelling through
most of thc country districts OF New York or New
England seven farm households out OF ten wu
bee found composed chiefly OF the % ora people
follow business pursuits elsewhere
Until the population OF the United States is
numbered by hundreds OF millions, there will
continue 10 be room Ia the country for country
pursuits. life. Happiness, and conteutmont. Let
the trial be made to teach parents and children
that the city is not what fancy paints IL that
failure meets hundreds where success crowns one;
that wealth is not the object of life; that happiness
is not attached TO wealth: that there Il. more of
human Joy in the quiet country than in the noisy
CITY: and that the great object of every child when
setting ont in life. should be to do and to be good
as the surcst road To- contcntmcnt We are
inclined to think that the current may some day
change. and set from tie city to the country -
That men will become more steady and less rowing
In habits, and that agricultural pursuits will
In some older countries. There arc thousand. in
this city. male and female. who would be vastly
better Oft ID they were taken up to-day and set
down in remote country villages and among iarns
and compelled TO seek employment there. Here
they seek il ia vain, because the, insist ON having
only such employment as they wish Here the
employer requires the ahorer 60 be educated to
the work There are only certain lines of work.
and one seeking pay must know how to earn it,
In the country, every man or woman who has
hands and feet and health can find work which
requires no long apprenticeship. In time this
will become plain TO the aborug population who
now throng our great cities.-Americua NeSseii-