Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-11-03
ROOM AT THE TOP.

II cannot possibly have your VILE
shoes done till next week. said The
proprietor Of fashionable shoe hous,
of this city the other day. The fac
is the man who is doing them is sick
and we'll have to wait till he gets 1
little better"
"What have you to wait on ON,
man why don't you take them to an
othcrm to maker Shoemakero ought
to be plenty enough these times"
"Now, that's Just whore you arC
wrong. OF course there are plenty oi
inferior shocmakcrs, the cities are over
run with them, and they arc glad
enough to get any work they can
But really first-class shoemakers are
very scarce, do not believe there
are dozen what shall call first-class
makers of ladies' shoes in the two cities
and these dozen just get all the work
they can do and name their own prices
for it. They are so independent that
they will take their own time whether
you like II or not, and IL they get n
little sick, you just hare to wait till
they get well"
ayes, and this is not the worst of it,
either" pursued the speaker. "These
dozen or so OF good shoemakcrs are al!
old chaps gray-hcaded, and as one by
one they drop off there seems to be
nobody 10 take their places. There
are few or no young men learning the
trade as they learned il. They have
not the patience, sir, or they find clerk
ing or something of that sort more TO
their taste. In few years do not
really know what we shall do. The
demand for this sort of work is steadily
increasing as more and more women
gradually learn that it is cheaper TO
pay six, seven and eight dollars for
good shoes than two and three dollars
for flimsy ones, but the supply of work.
men who can make a really first-class
honest shoe appears to be falling stead
lily behind"
SO then, H. time when thousands
on thousa DIS of men are thrown out
of employment, in all the various
walks Of lite when all that so many
ablc-bodicd men ask for is the privilege
of working, when the extra clerk is
dismissed in order 10 "cut down ex-
pcnscs' and the superfuous machinist
Is told that "till times are bctter' his
services will not be needed at such
time we hear that in one quite com
mon branch Of industry, skilled work.
men have all, and more than all, that
they can do, at the higcst prices, and
employers arc mourning because in
few years skilled labor in that depart
mont will fall far short of the demand
We strongly suspect, too, that what is
true Of shocmakng is true of a good
many other departments of industry.
The best work Is in steady demand In
the dullest times. Said Daniel Web
stcr, when young man told him he
wanted to study law, but had heard
that profession was crowded. dyes,
IL Is crowded in the lower ranks, but
there is plenty Of room Mt the top,
young man plenty Of room at the
top"
The moral is obvious enough. The
young man in any profession or field
Of labor, il he strive for and achieve
ercciience therein need not fear that
any business prostration viii deprive
him Of n livelihood. There is plenty
Of room at the top, and especially In
those trades, from which foolish and
contemplate false pride has removed
so many competitors, who would rather
be a starved scribbler than a well.fed
Pittsburgh Leader.