The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-08-16

A mob of half starved men Is pltluy
sight; mob of idle, vicious men is q SAD
commentary on our civilization, and In al
our large cities we are frequently 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 which came
10 the surface last week as to the number
of people out of employment were appall-
ing, but will they prevent one young man
from the country from carrying out ms pet
scheme of coming to the city, Will one
farmers boy, with good home and plenty
to do, read of the great masses VINO nave
bad homes, little to eat and nothing TO DO.
and be deferred from coming TO the cltyf
Not one. The rush will continue, and our
cities will continue to be burdened with
more people than can find employment
in their borders
Boys and girls born and 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 lie
in the country seems always dull ana
prosy. and city life always charming and
OflRuts 1nGy 1naf3AAly eAAO ~ = W SNo~-@ -
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
encourage dislike for what is in their
possession, and cultivate an insatiate long
! ing for what their fancy makes existence
in the city.
| A hoy hesitates to round out his life on
4 the farm. 1t IS in some way beneath him
| and he goes to the CITY to realize his am
| bilious schemes and becomes clerk in
/ drug goods store, or labOrer in some man
1 ufacfory, or driver of street-car, or
brak eman on railroad. He comes from
a home where he was, in certain sense
master of his own movements, ard enters
business where he works harder, wher,
he lives less comfortably, and where he i
always in subordinate position. H'
4 comes from the farm, where his living i
assured, and enters field where a posi-
ton, ever so humble, is difficult to secur
and hard to retain; where he takes grea
chances of being thrown out OF employ
mcnt under most embarrassing and dis
tressing circumstances. He comes from
locality where there are no beggars, nj
poverty stricken people, no men presum
J ing to dictate as to when he SHALL labor
and where and how, and enters callings il
( which he ceases to be master OF his owl
action.
The boy that does this sort of thing
J indefinitely multiplied, and he keeps dc
: ing it all the time. In nine cases out o
! ten he is disappointed; but he never &C
!, knowledges this, and other boys, know
ing nothing of the disappointments, an
, trusting only the boys exaggerated state
I men.s, manufactured to hide his real fee
| ing. follow in his footsteps.
i Let the boys and girls, the young me
/ and young women remain in the country
3 patiently and thankfully. Let them dis
abuse their minds of the false notion
they have formed of city life and look
facts.
A young man employed on farm ha
: to work hard. He would have to wor
a harder in nearly any occupation in tn
!. CITY. He has to work in the hot sun an
$ in the rain and snow, it may be. In III
city he would work in the dirty, smok
atmosphere of some mandatory, Q
+ would be exposed to just as inclemel
/, weather as on the farm. A farmland
a getting eighteen dollars per month an
a his board, is making more money than |
afla ii the leiiX at cf9yig sd9ltarsa uRRI
G dant, and clamoring for work in evel
y department of business
Q In addition to this influx from rur,
q districts, cities receive the larger share
Immigrants from other countries. I'll
poorer classes cluster together in squali
localities, where there is little comfort an
little to do, when outside of the cities al
] broad farms, where there is much con
: fort and much to do, OF new lands invitin
q them to possibilities of ownership. Viii
r every department Of labor in the cities
h overstocked, thousands of acres of publ
= lands await owners and occupants.
e People have perversely looked in on
7 direction for employment. They mu
| adopt different rule, ard look in all d
rections. They have expected to find en-
. ployment where laborers are most abur
dant; they should look for it where labol
$ ers are scarcest. - Chicago Inter Ocean.