The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-05-25
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ASuErafIOns TO be Rich.

\ Youth writes u a. iolluws-and his case y
ike that of - many others that We treat II thus
publicly. supprcSsinS his name.
Dear Sir: 1 am n poor hoy. l would like
II .rat rich. Now what shall do? lwould ike
IA Quit this section. | don't want 10 remain on
NV fathers farm. Please give me the best al
vice YOU can. and ojligc, Yours, G.. G. ;
A>swrs-Thc aspiration to be rich-though
hv no means the highest that can inpel a career
is. in our view. wholesome and laudable. The
vcuth who saws. :. Let me be rich any h01r, and
before all other considerations. l. very likely 10
bring up in some State Prison; but he who con-
siStcntIv SAYS. =. Let me first Ice Just, honest.
moral. ~dilli-ent. useful then rich,' i ON the
right road. Every boy ought to aspire 10 he rich,
provided he can be without uuiaithfulness TO
social Obligation or TO moral principle.
But how shall he set about getting rich We
would conciScly say
/. FIRMLY reSoire nerer 10 ore a debt. 1t 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 hy them
selves. Ii every youth OF Is 10 p Years were
to-day offered 10000 for ten years NJ seven per
cent. interest. two-thirdS of them would eagerly
accept it when the probable consequence is that
three-fourths of them would die bankrupts and
paupers. Boys do not need money half - much
a. they need TO know how 70 earn ami save 1t
The boy who, at the close of his first wear of III
dependence, has earned and savel Sl00. and in
vested or loaned it where ii viii pay him six OF
seven per cent, will almost surely become rich If
lac lives while he who closes his first year of re
sponsibility in debt, will probably live and die in
debt. There i no greater mistake made by our
American youth than that OF choosing to pay in
terest rather than receive it. Interest devours Us
when we are sleep: it absorbs our profits and az
graVates our losses. Let q young man 1T twenty
five have Il 900 loaned ON bond and mortgage or
invested in public securities, and lac will rarely
want money thereafter III fact that : 900, IN
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rich before he is sixty. There is no rule more
important or wholesome for our boys than that
which teaches them to go through life receiving
interest rather than paying IT. OF the tornents
which affiict this mortal sphere, the first rank is
held by Crime the second by Debt.
ii. Acquire promptly and Thoroughly Same use
FIJI calling. Some pursuits are moIe lucrative,
some more respectable, some more agreeable,
than others; but a chimney-swecp's IL far better
than none at all. No matter how rich his par
ents may be, a boy should learn Il trade no mat
ter how poor he may be, a boy may learn some
trade if he Will. This city Is full to-day Of young
(and old) men who have been clerks. bOOk-kCep-
ers, pOrters, etc, etc, Yet can find nothing u do,
and are starving because their foolish parents did
not give them trades. \ trade is an estate. and
almost Il productive one. \ good. efficient
farm-laborer can generally find paying work if he
does not insist in looking for it in 4 city where it
cannot well be: while many Il college graduate
furnished because nobody wants the only work he
knows how to do. Let nothing prevent your ac-
quiring skill in some branch Of productive indus
try.
III. ResOlUe not 10 be a rorer. a rolling
stone gathers no moss. > but is constantly thumbed
and Knocked, and often shivered TO pieces. If
you are honest and Industrious, you must be con-
stantly making reputation. which. if Won remain
in one place, helps you along the road to fortune.
Even Il hod-carrier or s~treet-sweeper who has
proved that his promise To appear on a given day
and hour and go to work may be trusted, has Il
property in the confidence thus created. If YOU
cannot find yeur work where YOU now are. mi
CRATE but do it once for all. When you have
stuck your stake, stand by it.
". Comprehend that there as lCOrk almost erGY-
'cheTe for lam that can do a.. An Italian named
Bianconi settled in Ireland some sixty years ago,
and got very rich there by gradually establishing
lines OF passenger conveyanccs all over that island.
Almost any man would have said that lie who
went 10 Ireland 10 make his fortune must be mad.
lie who knows how, and Will work, can get rich
growing potatoes in New England, though he
hasn't Il fvc-ccnt stamp To begin with. There i
work that will pay for a million more people on
the soil of Connecticut alone There are millions
of Unproductive acres within 4 days ride of this
that might be bought and rendered largely
fruitful ut a clear profit of 800 or more per acre.
y man in Niles, Michigan. declined 70 90 gold
hunting in the Rocky Mountains because there
more gold in Niles than he could get hold of.
Inc reason was a good one. and it applies almost
everywhere. If you can find nothing To do where
you are. 1t Is generally because You can do nothing.
Y. Reai-e fhqt he ch0 earns sirpence per daV
more hhGn he spends must get rich, rhiie h. uho
'yatdS SiFye1tce more then he earns must become
D0or. This is n very hackneyed truth but we
hail never be done needing it repetition. Hun
ireds Of thousands are not only poor but wretch;
ii to-day, simply because they fail u comprehend
n will not heed it. We Americans are not ONLY
IN extravagant but an ostentatious people. We
labitually spend too much on our own stonachS
md our neigIbOrs' eyes. We are continually in
not because we cannot live in comfort
IN our means. but because we persist i'm spending
more than we need or can afford. Our youth
qUander in extra food and drinks. in frolic and
dissipation, which does them harm instead OF
rood, the means which should be the ncst-crg of
heir future competence. When cares and chill
cluster about them. they grumble at their
lard-fortune ~forgetlul that they wasted the years
nd the means which might and should have saved
hem from present and future poverty.
All these are very trite. homely truths. All
ur boys have heard them again and again but
.ow many have laid them to heart We assure
!. g. 5, and every other youth. that each may
,ecome rich if he will-that - 10 be or not to be-
entirely with himself; and that his very first
asson is to distrust and shun b~y-paths and short
uts. and keep straight along the broad, obvious,
eaten highway.