New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-29

Danish able bodied Pauperism, with its attend.
ant train Of hideOus vices and sufierings, from
tic civilized world. SO long as children shall
be allowed to grow up in idleness must our =
country. vith most other countries, be oyerruB
with beggars, thieves, and miserable wrecks Of
manhood as well as Of wQmanhOod
Every child should be trained to dexterity in
some useful branch of Productive Industry,
not in order that he shall certainly follow that
pursuit, but that he may at all events be able
| to do so in case he shall fail in the more in.
telectual or artificial calling which he may
prefer to it. Let him seek to be doctor,
lawyer, preacher, poet, if he will; tut lot him
not stake his all on success in that pursuit
| but have second line to fall back upon il
| driven from his first. Let him be so reared
and trained that he may enter, if he will, upon
some intellectual calling in the sustaining con.
seriousness that no need not debase himself, OF
do violence to his convictions, in order 10
achieve success therein, since he can live and
thrive in another Gf yoG choose, humbleT
vocation, il driven from that on his choice. This
buttress to Integrity this assurance OF Sell
Respect, is to be found in a universal l.Salning
| to efficiency in Productive Labor.
| The world is full Of instruction and waste;
but all the calamities and losses endured by
mankind through frost, drouth blight, hail,
fires, earthquakes, foundations, are as nothing
| to those habitually suffered by them through
human idleness and ineliciency, mainly caused
(or excused) by lack Of industrial training. 1t
| is quite within the truth to estimate that one.
tenth of our people, in the average, are habitu-
ally idle because (as they say they can
find no employment They look for work where
| it cannot be had. They seem to be, or they are,
unable to do such as abundanty confronts and
sOlicits them. Suppose these to average but
One Million able bodied persons, and that their
work is worth but one dollar each per day: our
loss by involuntary idleness cannot be less
than $3O0,0OO,0OO per annum. judge that II
| is actually $50O,000,000. Many who stand wait
ing TO be hired could earn 81 to IS per day
had they been properly trained to work. There
{" is plenty of room higher up" said Daniel
Webster in response to an inquiry as to the
prospects of a young man just entering upon
the practice of law; and there is never
dearth of employment for men or women OF
signal capacity or skill. In THIS city,
ten thousand women are always dolag
needlewOrk for less than fifty cents per
day, finding themselves; yet twice their number
of capable, skillful seamstresses could find
steady employment and good living in wealthy
| families at not less than 81 per day over and
above board and lodging. He who is good
blacksmith, q fair mill-wright, tOlerabe wagon
maker and can chop timber, make fence, and
manage a small farm if required, is always
sure Of work and fair recOmpense; while he
| or she who can keep books or teach music fairly,
| but knows how to do nothing else, is in con-
slant danger of falling into involuntary idle
| ness and consequent beggary. II is broad,
general truth that no boy was ever yet Injured
| to daily, systematic, productive labor in field
or shop throughout the latter half of his minor
| ity, who did not prove useful man, and was
not able to find work whenever he wished it,
Yet to the ample and constant employment
of whole community one prerequisite Is IN
dispensable-that a variety of pursuits shall
| have been created or naturalized therein.
people who have but single source Of
profit are uniformly poOr-not because that
vocation is necessarily ill-chosen, but because
no single calling can employ and reward
the varied capacities of male and female,
young and old, robust and feeble. Thus q
numbering or fishing region with us is apt to
have a large proportion of needy inhabitants I;
and the same is true of region exclusively
devoted to cotton growing or gold-mining. A
diversity of pursuits is indispensable to gen.
eral activity and enduring prosperity. Sixty OF
seventy years ago, what was then the District
and is now the State of Maine was prOverb
in New-England for the poverty of its people,
mainly because they were so largely engaged
in Underwriting. The great grain-growng,
wheat-expOrting districts of the Russian en-
pire have a poor and rude people, for like
reason. Thus the industry of Massachusetts, is
! immensely more productive per head than that
| of North Carolina or even that of Indiana, rs
! it will cease TO be whenever manufactures shall
| have been Giffused over our whole country,
rs they must and will be. In Massachusetts,
half the women and nearly half the children
add by their daily labor to the aggregate OF
realized wealth; in North Carolina and in In
diana, little wealth is produced save by the
! labor of men, including boys of fifteen or up
ward When this disparity shall have ceased,
! its consequence will also disappear
And. though Man is first impclcd 70 labor by
the spur of material want, the movement ont
lasts the impulse in which it originated. Tie
miser tolls, and schemes, and saves, with an eye
single to his own profit or ACKNOWLEDGMENT;
but commodious public halls, grand hotels
breezy parks, vast libraries, noble colleges, are
often endowed in his viii and founded on his
wealth. Whatever the past has bequeathed
for our instruction, civilization, refinement OF
comfort, was created Tor Us by the saving,
thrifty, provident minority of vanished gene
rations, many of whom were despised and re-
viled through life as absorbed in selishness
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