The Shasta courier., 1872-02-03
BETTER MECHANICS.

fer statesmen and.otbers to- consider "nat
is-to become of our boys. Every man
who has been compelled to work for a Nv
ing, seeing that be is classed grade oe,o"
the clerk, beod.keerer or eenteel 'u'er
seeks some other occupation tor his sons-
He saves money from his bard earnings,
70 nav for the education of his boys, and
tn train them for some more, supposed
respectable calling gthan that OF mechanfc.
Tho result is that we have a large surplus
Of clerks already, and they are on the
increase. while, as mechanics die, there
are none, comparatively speaking. to 'hl
their places. For this there must be a
remedy, or we shall degenerate into weak,
alefaced nation of effemiuate males or
as Professor Fowler calls them, "female
wen,'' instead of strong, robust farmers
and mechanics.
THE man who will take pains to inquire,
will find that there are very few young
men now working at the heavier mechani-
cal operations; and the smaller the mum
her, the more young people and their par
epts 71s to avoid rntact with bard work.
This asa great evil, and if permitted TO
C. n ifue. in few ge, eIafonS we should
90 back to educated barbarisan for we
should have no one to Manufacture the
rticles fcivilzaticn, or stimulate progress
L. scientific attainments. !, cannot force
men to change their opinions, or boys to
resist tire will of their parents, for under
the circumstances they will continue to
agree as to the standard of respectability.
EmpLymeDt for boys and young men
nus be nladc ;tti;fct.e ii we would have
them excel at least, then occupation
must not lie retulsivc to item. To effect
This we must not Pull others down TO make
the man who ators al, equal with the man
who does not Before We tttnIt change
we must understand the cause of inequall
tv, if it really exists. That men do not
associate with each other IN .miliar every
day life, is not evidence of a difference III
respectab;liiy. Lawyers and doctors have
only passing acquaintance will, each
other Ministers Of different denonina
lions and the members of the various
churches, are not familiar associates. The
difference in occupation diminishes inter
course among men, though their education
be equal.
Virtue and vice are found among men
of equal educational attainment The pro-
fessional gambler aud prudent business
man may have graduated at the same col,
lege; and the gambler may have graduated
higher than his school-mate; their unlike
natural disposition has made the difference;
or training, after the diploma is issued.
may have turned their heads in different
directions Then it is not education that
always make the difference among men.
but the method of obtaining it, and the d.
recting the thouehts and aspirations after
the mind has beer impressed with the
rules of grammar, or the lines and figures
necessary 10 geometry. But education is
necessary for all occupations. So is the
plough necessary in breaking up the
ground for crop, but if no seed is sowu
and narrowed in there will be no harvest.
1t is not learning a trade that fixes the
status of responsibility, but it is being
mechanic without education that makes
the difference in our social standing. If
the trade and learning are euubi ed the
man is fit for any society; the one adm IS
him to the shop under favorable circums-
tances. while the other secures him admis.
sion to the parlor and to the society. If we
can teach The boy and make him as proud
of his trade as man is of his prute.si'
there will be no difference in the standing
OF the two. 1t educaed alike in The
branches of study necessary for the cccu
tion Of each, trade aud profession wonld
he sought with equal pride aud l.e sur.
according to the instructive leanin,- of h
mind or chronological deveiopus" OF the
brain
Four appointments of lacies to fir; class