The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-08-23
Boys Stick to the Country.

A mob OF half-stsrved men is a pitt
full sight; mob of idle, vicious men is
a sad commentary on our civilization.
and in all our large cities we are fire.
quentiy called upon to contemplate both
pictures.
That such condition Of affairs exists
is not the fault of the cities or of the
public at large. There are more people
in the cities than can find employment,
and these people are in Chicago and
other cities by their own choice. The
facts that came to the surface last week
as to the number Of people out of enr-
ployment were appalling, but will they
prevent one young man from the eoun-
try from carrying out his pet scheme Of
coming to the cityP VIII one farmers
boy, with good home and plenty to
do, read of the great masses who have
bad homes, little to eat, and nothing to-
do, and be deferred from coming to the
city, Not one. The rush viii continue,
and our cities will continue to be bur
dened with more people than can find
employment in their borders.
Boys and girls raised in the country
have an insane desire to live in towns.
They dwell on the bright side of city life
. so much that their own life in the coun-
try seems dull and prosy, and city life
always charming and bright. They
magnify the drawbacks on one side and
exaggerate the pleasures on the other
They drone over the dizziness of country
life, and decline to see the dark side of
city life at all In this way they en-
courage a dislike for what is in their
possession, and cultivate an insatiate
longing for what their fancy makes ex-
istence in the city.
A bot hesitates to round out his life
on the farm. IL is in some way beneath
him, and he goes to the city to realize
his ambitious schemes and becomes s.
clerk in a dry goods store, or laborer
in some mandatory, or a driver OF n
street ear, or a brakeman on a railroad.
He comes from home where he was,i
a certain sense, master of his own move
rasnts, and enters business where
he wofks harder, where he lives
less comfortably, and where
he is always in subordinate position
7 He comes from the farm, where his liy-
1 ing is assured, and enters a field where
I q position, ever so humble, is difficult to
secure aad hard to retain; where he
takes great chances of being thrown out
of employment under most embarrassing
and distressing circumstances. He
comes from locality where there are
1 no Beggars, no poverty-stricken people,
4 no man presuming to dictate as to when
4 he shall labor, and where and how, and
enters callings in which he ceases to be
master of his own action.
The boy that does this sort of thing is
indefinitely multiplied, and he keeps do
]. ing it all the time. In nine cases out OF
ten he is disappointed, but he never ae-
knowledges this, and other boys, know
ing nothing of the disappointments, and
trusting only the boys exaggerated
statements, manufactured to hide his
real feeling, follow in his footsteps.
Let the boys and girls, the young mel
and Young women remain in the eoun
try, patiently and thankfully. Let then
. disabuse their minds of the false notions
tllCy have formed of city life and look a
, facts.
A Young man employed on farm
has to work hard. He would have to
! work harder in nearly any occupation IL
the city. He has to work in the no
sun and in the rain and snow, it may be
In the city he would work in the dirt.
smoky atmosphere of some manutacto
nv, or would be exposed to Just as in
; element weather as on the farm.
farmland getting SIS per month an'
: his board, is making more money thai
he would in the city at $40 per month
. And vet. while farm-hands are scarce
+. laborers in the city are ever abundant
4 and clamorlng for work in every de
partment of business.
In addition to the influx from rura
!, districts, cities receive the larger shar
; of immigrants from other countries
/ The poorer classes cluster in squalid 10
; calities where there is little comfort ant
o little to do, when outside of the cite
: are broad farms where there is muel
= comfort and much to do, or new land
I; inviting them to the possibilities OF own
q ership. While every department o
0 labor in the city is overstoeked, thou
a sands of acres of public lands avail
owners and occupants.
Q People have psrversely looked in on
direction for employment. They mus
= adopt different rule, and lock in all d
A rections. They have expected to fin
v employment where labOrers are mos
/ sbundant; they should look for it wher
+. laborers are scarcest.-Chtcdgo Inter
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