Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-20

Charlie Goodwin speculates ON the
Changes Soon 10 Take Place in
America.

Changes Soon to Take Place ia
America.
The Salt Lake Tribune publishes the an,
nexed sensible peep into the future from
the pen Of Charlie Goodwin, known to all
old-timers in Eureka: "Men in the United
States should think when they see a baby
in its crib, that when that baby becomes
twenty-five years Of age, there will be l00,-
900, 900 people struggling in competition
for food, for clothing, for fortunes and po-
sitions in the United States. The public
land of any value will all be absorbed, the
mines will about all be discovered and APP
propriated; the working force Of the Ma
ton through steam will be quadrupled and
the baby Of to-day, when he reaches mans
estate, and turns his face toward the world
from which he must wrest a livelihood.
will find it a harsh world, peopled thick
with eager men and calculating women,
and unless a fortune is given him at the
start, it will be a rough encounter which
he will meet. The mere laborer will then
have a rough time indeed. By that time
electric engines Of one man power will
10 iot bdic iOE u bDuEt aho thO SOSt
Of running them is infinitely less than to
give a poor map simple bread and water.
The work which steam engines can do now
is simply terrible, but their field of action
is being extended daily, daily they are
closing up avenues Of labor against the
poor, daily the circle in which the poor
find opportunities to make a livelihood is
being reduced. Our free schools are doing
a world Of good, but they are not fully
preparing the children Of to-day for what
awaits them, when the work falls from
the hands that are performing it now, and
they take it up. No schools can make
that preparation, but the present modes
can be wonderfully improved upon. The
parents and guardians Of this generation
have responsibilities greater than ever fell
on parents and guardians before in this
Each one of them should study
the child or children in his care and de-
termine, be the child rich or poor, that he
shall go out into the world fully pre-
pared, though his knowledge of how to
perform some useful thing, to wrest
an honest livelihood from the sharp
competition which will surround him.
There is no other safe way, and where
there is an aptness for any particular oc-
cupation, this should be encouraged. IL
possibly the field Of industry should be
extended. There are too many book
keepers, too many clerks, any not enough
And then there should not be
such a shrinking from the less pretentio
em%ployments Of life. 1t is not what a man
does but how he does it that should be es-
timated. When. fifty years hence, the
stranger in New York city visits the Cooper
and estimates all the good it has
done in the past and is to do in the future,
and then goes ont to see where the bones
Of the founders are buried ; if he remem-
bers that the earnest and great-hearted
men whose dust is beneath the sods before
him, commenced life by boiling the hoofs
Of animals and making glue from them,
it will not be looked back upon as a re-
but rather as an honor to him.
The thought which must be impressed
more than ever is that capable and intelli-
gent work and a knowledge OF how to per-
form it is the only insurance which q man
can have in life.