The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-02-04
Wanted a Sensible Young Man.

We take the following sensible advice
from the Chicago Post. A seven years
residence in large cities has confirmed
the statement here made.
| WANTED-SALESMAN- young man. from 1e
to u years Of age No previous experience required
Call at Puffnen Blowmen's cor Alapaca and l;ons-
1 bazine street Plat City ILL.,,
The simultaneous publication of the
above advertisement in the daily press of
this state would Immediately start some
hundreds of youth on a pilgramage-no
matter how wearisome it might promise
to be-to find the delectable city Of Plat
But if Mr.. 2. w. Gates, of Chicago,
were to advertise for young man to
become machinist, he would not be
troubled with applications. lie states
in communication upon the proposed
amendments to the Apprentice law,
that more than three -fourths OF the skill
led laboreIs in the fcundries and machine
shops of the country are foreigners
| Our American youth are so impatient
| of restraint, and so averse to everything
| like labor, that they seek the overcrowded
avenues Of the non-productiye employ
ments greatly to their own detriment
and to that of society Whenever there
are more middle men between the pro-
ducer and consumer than are needed to
| make exchanges = that is, when there
are more merchants, book keepers por
ters, bankers, railroad conductors, freight
agents, and we may ado, lawyers, doctors,
ETC.. than a preservation of the conditions
OF the highest attainable productiveness
admits; some of them must retire and
adopt other modes of livelihood, or else
| live dishonesty by imposing an addition
al tax upon society Young men : you
who live in the country..with your parents
| upon farms, where the air is pure, the
pralries broad, the soil rich. men honest,
| women natural. children innocent, and
where a competence awaits yon, stay
from the city Were you to come here
| and obtain clerk-ship, the chances are
hundred to one you would spend all
your salary each year, and if you should
succeed In running the gauntlet Of whis-
key shops, houses of ill-fame gambling
hells, and should not turn out a thief,
that you would not become a member of
the firm whose confidence you might win
but II you were to even reach this goal
which, like an ever-retreating tgnis Jatatus
has lured thousands upon thousands
like you far past scores OF opportunities
never again to be in reach, the chances
are still many that you would have at
tanned, after all, to a life of painful un-
certalntles and hazards in calling where
success is the exception-bankruptcy the
rule. If, though you must come to the
city do not come to swell its great throng
OF consumers; come to enter It's work
shops, pave its streets, dig it's sewers
do anything, rather than seek to elbow
your way into placesyou can never fill, or to
enter the contest for bread with the
crowds of briefess barristers and patient
less doctors that burrow here in all sorts
OF dingy dens. But we say do not
come at ALL The soil is the best and
most generous friend; cultivate It's
friendship and it will reward you with
health, plenty and peace. What more
can reasonable mortals ask? No man
need be poor while our richest lands are
SO cheap. Young man, if you are out
of the city, keep out; if you are in it
and have nothing useful to do get out!