Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-05-22
SPURIOUS cENTILiTY.

There is no danger Of oyerstocking the market
lor productive labor, the essence OF all capital.
Inc wealth OF the world is in proportion 10 what
the worlds labor produces, and unless there is
cheating somewhere, a" who participate in ad-
ding to production share In tie addition, in the
ratios OF their respective contributions.
Notwithsta 1dng FL that we have henrd, ri
that has been written about industrial schools,
practical education, polytechnic education, the
average American parent, the average Americeu
boy, seems to have kind of superstitious abhor-
renee of industrial lsbor; they scorn the working
mans jacket, and all the marks, conditions and
appurtenances OF labor and direct productive in
dustry. This Is one OF the barbarisms of our ad-
vanced "civlzation," and it must be purged AWAY
before society can brighten sud bloom in the
dawn Of true progress. 1t is bs.barism that
entails in its track much desolation and misery
| as war, or famine, or pestilence.
uur greatest trouble is that we have too few
workers and too much gentity, so called
large proportion of American boys are brourht
up Wih view TO the leained professions or TO
trade. What is the result. There are mnlti.
tudbs OF men that become greater as scboinstic
education is more difiusrd, who are not wanted.
and cannot obtain employment in those profess
slons or occupations, and who become untitled
physically, mentally, and morally, for turning
! their hands 10 occupations in which they ara
waited. Unfortunately these human supereui
| ties are drawn by some fatal fascination ,nto our
great cities. Nature, which never betrays The
heart that trusts her, Nature in her rural aspcct
| "oVio ahc uoet ieNcGi5 HeT generous Charms has
Tor them no attraction And SO they swarm iuto
| the binding glare OF our great cities
hat Is this redundant mass of manufactured
gentllity to do, Take the UNEMPLOYED rle,t Go.
example. lie is only a medium consenue,iI,,
| he cannot say, as Daniel Webster said when tnI3
| The bar was oyercrowded, There Is room ~ ~
| top lie can make out bills and invoices md
| Keep books after a fashion, But he can d,,
nothing else, except it be to keep up gsnteel an
pearances as long as his money or his credit W IN
hoh out. Employers know this. and KNOWN,
that the market ior this sort OF service ia over
stocked largely, naturally take advantage of thesa
iacts III they were to advertise for a clerk M no
| more than lily dollars month, they vould b,ye
hundreds OF applications, and many of the applI
cants, with families TO support would be pIad M
the situation ut even less. Yet this il the 1isa,a
bic prospect that lies before the large maioritv ot
clerks. He has but slim prospect OF rising 10 -
manly independence, and is but little less than n
bound slave to spurious gentilily.
II he had good trade, and was indnstrians
and sober, he could make 81 or Is dav and
ma ke IL free from that i1ghtiul tax which lsa,,s
HIM and his manhood down, in the mama M =
J genteel appearance.
As it is, what Is 10 become of him. his rca1i,.
painful TO think 1t would be charity to wish tha,
his late might be no worse than a blank let ne
nope that The false education and barbarous social
ieolventlonaiism9 to which he owes his existanca
ton OF his class P'ieA-
, Let Us unite in impressing upon parepts will
| children who will ultimately hays 10 tght thai.
way in the world, that il is better to train thu
in the mysteries of respectable mechanical call
ing thah to educate them for clerkships and OH
7 et oversloeked occupations aud proies sions :
/ Philadelphia Teie1Iaph.