The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-27
Horace Greeley to the Kew y or.s COWS

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Boys.
Hon. Horace Greeley, editor OF the
New York Tribune, delivered an adj
dress to the New York Newsboys last
evening. The following abb
stract of it contains so much wholesome
advice that we give it n place for the
benefit of all the boys who read the IN
TELLIGE SCER.
After abiding to the good advice they
commonly received, Mr.. Greeley said
he wished to talk to them on something
out of the ordinary way. He would
commence by saying every one ought
because riches were means of doing
good in the world, and poverty was Oft
en- the cause of crime, subjecting them
to get rich. He advised them to get rich
to temptations which, If yielded to, re-
suited in ruin. AS the result of many
years experience he believed man
should not be poor all his lie, and I'M
less poverty was the result OF misfor-
tune it was injustitiable. BY riches he
meant enough to satisfy all proper
wants and guard against contingencies.
He believed every boy before him
could be rich and ought be rich. He cited
John Jacob Aston, who founded
the great Aston Library, as an
d
dustry and honesty succeeded in life.
Il was honesty and industry, said MIR.
Greeley, that gave Mr.. Aston his sue
cess, and it is the patient, plOdding,
careful, industrious men that succeed.
Stephen Girard, who had by his great
wealth left noble college to the cOun-
try, was another example of industry
to begin by saving ten cents, and adj
ding AS often as possible. and the boy
who should save 800 by the time he
was 81 years old would pretty surely
be II rich man, He told the boys men
got rich by doing right, and not by do
ing wrong. Men who sold rum or kept
gambling houses didn't often get rich,
and none of them were ever able IL
found library like Mr.. Astor, or en-
dow "A college like Girard. He believed
one thing essential in getting rich was
to he an honest man. The most of the
men who had become rich since he had
been in New York were honest. All
the thieves in New York had never ac'
quired as much wealth as John Jacob
Astor. Evil causes did not lead Ia
wealth although they might seem to do
so.
Another thing necessary in order to
get rich was TO be temperate. He mad
known many men with great abili-
ties and ine prospects to ihiI because
OF incompetence. If they resolved to
be rich they must stop drinking, or ii
they had not commenced, they must
not begin. They ought also to resolve
to bs Industrious, and when resolved
Oh that, make up their minds 10 learn
a trade. Mr.. Greeley spoke at length
on the evils of being without trade,
and related his own experience, and
his satisfaction with having followed
out an impulse which he formed at 10
years of age, to be a printer. He would
have every boy before him either learn
mended farming as healthy and hon.
orable employment, saying that If he
could have his life to live over again he
would be a farmer. He concluded by
speaking OF the grand opportunities
afforded in this country for mechanics
and especially for farmers, under the
Homestead law, and urged the boys tC
resolve to embrace those opportunities,
and while they sought to live in &C
cordance with the moral teachings they
received, to gain riches and honor, and
true manhood.