Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-02-05
CITY and Country.

Horace Greeley has long been re.
psr,itd as one of The greatest as wei
Ms one of the most practical Thinkers
of the 10Th century, and no man has
given more practical advice t" young
rsep. Much of what he has said and
written as advice To the young. has
fallen en- good ground, while in the
majority of cases 1t has been passed
by unhecded, aud the result to moi
vi,!uals has been ms predicted.
It las ever heen the aim Of the
great philosopher to induce young
men 10 seek homes in the country
where they may lac independent. aud
we have often wondered, when read
ing these earnest appeals, why men
will "eke-outn miserable existence
in the over worked tiles Of the east
when these bcundless prairies Of onis
only need to he "tickled with the hoe
10 laugh with a harvest and when
the unhroken lands of the west are
calling so loudly for cultivators.
In the last number of the New
York Independent, Mr.. Greeley has
written all able article on this subject
i'm which lie estimates that there are
Mt this moment half a million per.
sons within the sight of the steeples
of that city, who are hungry and
destitute because they have nothing
to do. lie further says, that certain
favorite pursuits are over stocked,
and that the demand for book keep.
ers. clerks, music teachers, copyists
and other vacations, ranked more in
telIectGal, is always far short of the
supply. Even ia the west DO we
find this 10 I've true. Labor is ineyi
tably degraded Ivy incessant scram
bic for places. No sooner is a situa-
ton, of five or six hundred dollars II
year, vacant, than there are forty APP
pIcauts for it. The trouble is that
more persons insist on living by trade,
10y literature, or i'm some other way,
that involves little manual effort
than il has pleased God to accord 10
humanity.
He asserts that the supposed excess
OF wages i'm cities is failacious, and
his own experience has convinced
him that only very able, very ener
getic, or very frugal persons save
money in a great city. Mr.. Greeley
closes his able article with this adj
dress:
Country friends, and especially
young men, give you facts az have
long observed and studied them.
tell You frankly that my interest in
your action thereon is partly selfish,
for my snul H. weary of these inces.
can't appeals for Something to do. "
or, that falling, for aims. There
must. there will he beggars; but
need you he beggars? Even If you
must. | wish il were in your hearts
10 stay where hoggars are not 20 en"r
mously superintendent as I.ere. |
often respond rudely, harshly, Ia
their solicitations. because cannot
help it. W0rn out by appeals t"
which am utterly unable 10 respond
denied opportunity I" earn my own
bread 10y this endless procession OF
bfggars--l often sneak more roughly
than | should, because my patience
il utterly exhausted. am not a.
poor as Lazarus. still less am | as
rich IA Dives: hut July sympa-
thizr with the latter in so far ~ lac is
represented as wishing in Hude- tn
scnd a messenger tn his brethren still
on earth, to entrent them not Ia
"cOme into this torment" More
favored than he, my PRAYER il not re-
fused; and this is MY message to my
brethren.