The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-21
COLT NLBIA.
saturday lIornI5ng. Nov. q, LEE.
% wlsh I Had capLtaI.,,

"T Wish i Had Capitnl.'' ~ sif
The following remarks, taken from
on exchange, are peculiarly applica-
BILE tsto numbers of able. bodied,
healthy and robust men, who are
loafng and lounging about this city,
complaining that they cannot get
anything to do, or have no capital to
engage in anything, bnt who are
really too lazy to endeavor to get
work. There is labor for every one,
if he will look for it; our farmers
want help, and would as willingly
employ white labor as any, other, if
they could get it. Don't linger about
thescity, young gentlemen, but go
out In the country cut wood, dig
ditches, pillow. feed hogs aud cattle
everything helps; and when man is
at work, he is healthy, happy aud
contenteds Let the numbers of
young men now in the city who are
waiting for 'fsomething to turn up"
so that they may get a situation as
clerk or salesman, commence the new.
yearly engaging themselves to farm
ers for twelve months, and the pros
perity of South Carolina will soon
return, and peace and plenty will
once more be our portion. Try it:
'sI wish I had capital" So we
heard o great strapping young man
exclaim the other day in our Office.
We did want to give him u piece of
our mind SO bad; and we'll just write
to him. You want capital, do you?
And suppose you had what you call
capital, what wonld you do with it?
You want capital? Haven't you hands
and feet, and muscle and bone, and
brains, and don't you call them capi-
talP as"Oh, but they are not money"
say yoh. But they are more than
money, and nobody can take them
from you. Don't you know how to
use them? Ii you don't, it's time
you were learning. Take hold of the
tirst,plough, or hoe, or iack-plane, or
broad-axe ycu can find, and go to
work. Your capital will soon yield
you o large interest. All, but there's
the rub! You don't want to work;
you want Iaoney or credit, that YOU
may play gentleman and speculate,
and end by playing the vagabond.
Oryou Bantla plantation with plenty
OF hirelings on it to do the work,
whileiyou rnn-oyer the country and
dissipate; or You, yson5 to marry some
rich girl who n1ay be foolish enough
to take .yop for good. looks, that she
may support you. y
q Shame on you, young man. Go
to work with the capital you have.
and you will soon make interest
enough npon it to give you as much
money as you want, and make you
feel like o man. If you can't make
money on what capital you have you
could not make it if you had million
dollars in money. IF you don't know
how TO use, bone and muscle and
brains, you would not know how to
use gold. If you let what capital YOU
have lie idle and waste and rust out.
it would beithe same thing with YOU
if you adsgold; you only know how
to waste it.
Then don't stand about idle, a
great helpless child, waiting for some-
body to come and feed you, but 20
to work. Take the first work YOU
find, no matter what it is, SO long as
you do it well. Yes. whatever you
undertake, do il we'll; always do your
best. Hyou manage the capital you
already have, you will soon have
plenty more to manage; but if you
can't or won't manage the capital
God has given you. you will never
have any other TO manage.
OFFIoIAL VorE OF SoUru CARROLL