The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-09-24
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ono of the questions suggested by the pre-.
sent movement in Chicago on the part of the
lum bermen and brickmakers to secure higher
remuneration for their labors, ia the duty OF
parents and guardians in choosing profession
OF calling for their young men and boys. The
strike during the past week has brought to
artizans and skilled laborers belong to the
foreign born population and this fact has set
US thinking. 1t reminds us that the Yankees
and native Americans generally are like that
Mr. O'Brady who confessed 10 Lever that he
hadn't the Janus for work" Not that they
lack the disposition to employ themselves at
some paying amusement or other-for no other
people III The world more busily do nothing
and make money; but they have a constitu-
tional objection to engaging in any employ
ment thai involves even n moderate share of
bodily laboi. They even recognize that disin-
clination for hard work in their children, aud
the result is, the latter are either permitted to
grow mp without having acquired any useful
calling, and left to live on their wits as sharp
practitioners as wellas they can, or they arr
-" educated" into SONS of the learned profes.
SONS Hence, We scarcely ever meet full
grown American who is not lawyer, or ply
sicap, OF o broker, or o real estate agent. or o
bounty jumper, or some other professional"
who declines to earn lis bread IN the sweat of
his brow.
And we regret to see that so many of our
people, who acquire u competence 10 this
country, attempt to follow in the footsteps of
these people with regard to the disposition of
their children. We, as q people, are possessed
VI DO 5GEOuR b uAnkSTlDR AFTER 'T6Spt CI6Ol'lGY
as the Americans are could be, and we, too
often crafty it at our children's expense. We
would not be understood as advising parents to
withhold from their children any particular
training or education simply because it might
tend to elevate them in the social scale, aud
raise them above what "snobs" absurdly call
their ''ststion in life" On the contrary, moth.
ing is more gratifying than the sight of poor
man struggling to provide good educaton for
his son 10 tit him for some of the learned pro- |
fessions-providedt the boys natural tastes and
talents incline that way. What we do object |
to ID, that disposition on the part of fathers |
and mothers to force their childTen's minds into |
for which they are wholly untitled by |
natural inclination-to make clergymen, doc
tors aud lawy ers of boys who possess the ply
steal conformation and mental q ualities that
eminently fit them for successful shoemakers,
carpenters and brIcklayers Every parent, rich
or poor should study carefully the natural en-
do wments and inClluations of his children, and
should make q blacksmith of him who sho an
inclination to WELD hammer, and lawyer of
The cunning young rogue who manifests a pro
1ensiJy to cheat his brothers and sisters. If
people would the result of the opposite
course, they have only to study professional
ife in any of our large cities where the briefess
)srristers and unemployed surgeons who
struggle through genteel" existence a
mailer income than that of q common laborer
'utnnmber those who have been moderately
uccessiul by hundred to one. There is no
object, to our mind, more pitiable than out
.t-elbow lawyer or physician who is unable to
ind work for his hands or his head, and not
veil fitted to do duty either way.-WesteTn
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