Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20

Whether it is wholly chargeable to the
lavshness begotten of the war times, when
all industry lost its head in the wild belief
that more methods had come in, or whether
Young men have become inoculated with Il
sort of insanity in spending as fast as they
earn, it is pretty certain that their ways
are not calculated to lead to the success
which was won by their grandfathers, but
on the contrary will carry them along
only short distance in life and land
them on rocks where they will have moth
ing to leave but their skeletons. Unless
every rule of thrift and prosperity is sus-
pended, this proud disdain of the frugal
habit which fully vindicates itself by its re-
suits is us sure to end in poverty and woe
rs II due respect for it is sure to work out
solid trumphs. To note the manner in
which young fellows who are Just earning
their first money throw it about them is
anything but encouraging to those who
hope to see the natives of the country its
real master. Not to put too fine a point
on it, nor yet to lapse into moraIlzing
strain, it excites the most lamentable re-
Elections 10 witness the lordly Indifference
of the most of our young clerks TO the
value of money, ut the very time when
they are capable of earning so little. One
can tell ut IL glance that all they have got
is in their pockets though they flirt their
bank notes and jingle their silver like old
bank Presidents. They deceive nobody,
not even one another; the very men who
take their money understand that they are
spending all that they earn, and pledgng
the future whenever they can. There is
no fraud practised except on themselves,
and their first disappointment tells them
how badly they have been cheated,
There is no royal road 10 success of any
kind, but every one must travel it for him
self and step by step; and in the simple
habit of using money prudently and prac-
Using self denial is involved pretty much
the whole problem. That habit secretly
stimulates virtues to "a growth in the char.
acter that soon give it firmness of shape
and enduring quality. 10 see lavishness
in those who as yet have nothing what eyel
to lavish, suggest but too plainly what the
end will be and how soon it will come
Let the first serious obstacle throw these
Young men out of their accustomed EN-
ployment, and they are obliged to fall back
on their parents, if they have any, aite
having contracted spendlhrift habits whiel
incapacitate them for either shaping O
/, executing any plan of life thereafter
Something is in the times, some fatuity il
the young nature, that seems to inculcat,
scorn Of the old methods by which sue
| cess has always been won, and to sprea'
| the hollow belief that the world is not t.
be conquered by system but by II rush 0
luck, and that the way to make fortunes i
to act us if they were already in hand
And this wild notion prevails, too, at
time when business is consuming its oapi
; tai, and money earns the very lowest in
terest, and debt and taxation act like
paralysis on the nation. The manner O
doing business may be much change
from former days, but n true knowedg
of the uses of money is just as indispensa
BILE as it ever was. Where this is lacking
the first step toward success has not ye
been taken, and its primary condition ha
been disregarded. The fact that the rela
tions of employer and employed have S
greatly changed only makes more necessa
ry the saving habit on the part of the lat
ter which now seems TO be among youn
mems discarded virtues.-BoStoB Posi-.