The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-06-08
Our BOYS.
vHszsr SHALL THEY RE?-rHE GREAT
TRADES.

H6yDa intend to take up trade, or go
iiinis store, or try life on a railroad or
enp 6e sea?
These questions you will find pre-
;xe1asd TO you, sooner or later. Some
MP sbhged to answer them early in life,
ssswe they know exactly what the ques.
1irss mean, and before they have a
rrlMpce to look round and find out what
iss Ms best thing for them to do. Others
susser the question quickly, and take
suy, be first thing that offers, whether it
N HE best thing or not. Every young
rnssg is veyy sure of one things GER
saxia that he wants to make money in
usAssevef trade he tries What do they
xxy m that shop? How much can
:msfe in this trade? What wages does
zlus railroad line or this steam boat line
yngs
He asks these questions. and thsn Sc
3sxss the business that seems to pay the
hghest wages with very little thought
~ 10 whether the business will pay him
sAE best wages or not.
Row we will look at this thing. You
Nzgt money; thousands Of men all about
yss have plenty of it, and yet not one
5a sAem will pay you a dollar month;
sps will need a good many dollars
.nwrth as long as you live; how, then, are
SsE going to get it? How did these get
tiesr money? They dug it out OF the
.zssand; they got it from the soil or the
sra, OF they paid some one to get it for
Ekem..
'fhi, makes the whole matter very
iKnple. To get wealth, property or
lneney YOU must compel some man to
1--WE you part of his or you must dig it up
m field, or you must fish it out OF the
n@s. You could go to some man and
lass his money, but somehow ali the
rrsa seemed to have combined and
zssas laws, and appointed policemen
zu,S I'll that sort of thing, and the first
sllizg YOU would find would be lively
ESaSs rial in court and four prison walls
axpzxsd you.
What man has is his right, and So
sxis4r backs him up in his right, whether
NE ewns ten cents or ten millions. Now,
alass, can you compel any man to give
gnu part of his money? Simply, by do
.ME something for him that he wants to
n Sone. If he wants his potatoes hoed,
TAs wants his goods sold, or his ships
Eg engines guided, you can do these
sAEEs and compel him to pay you for
- work.
10 It comes to this: You must work
aar money. There is no other way:
Huse, honest boys must work, work
Tr 40 disgrace to dig your money even
m1 Of the earth. 1t ID there, and 1t
pxn you as good living as it does any
nz,er man. Go to work, then, at once,
mi With q will. Work: the way to labor;
Jour Shoulder to tha. snhsut and hap
aEwss it brings you.
Money is never made by loafng about
abs street corners, or darting, during
nuS1lng hours, out of evening entertain
nsesss, of, mayhap, questionable char.
zufts, and into this saloon or that billiard
1urbr one hundred per cent. lower
x1 more degraded than when you
szkEsed. Look, there is a boy of per-
tnss some fifteen or sixteen years, or it
nyy be that manhood Tor more properly
@pgity) has set its weight of twenty.
E years upon his broad, strong shout
ia1s, lurking about the corners and pub
In squares, lazily putting the filthy
sus&e Of q cheap cigar which he has
sGifass picked up from the dirty side
WzaA or been given him by some equally
ww1Aless companion from his mouth,
W3Ss4 looks - If soap and water and
zh brush were nonenities in his world
N zimless existence. Fie! Shame
Bs1 these worthless tramps. for all
3Aar high-sounding titles and attributes
1ay chiseled down amount to this,
vdD sit or lounge about from morning
aB night, with their hands idly thrust
1.nD the wornout pockets Of their
8ussdbare pants, dependent upon the
1uss old gray-haired, dim-eyed father,
an6s1 and bent with the weight of his
d1Dssscore years, who must toll all day
HB2 perhaps far into the night that the
GARD darling of the curb may have
4R1 to eat and . roof to shelter him.
Wbsn tired out with his days tramping
n szeeps in an hour after midnight
ma his breath strongly scented with
1non whisky, and innocent as to
SArzher he is upon his head or feet.
1bDorrow he rises ct midday and re-
puas yesterdays round of occupation,
"a, perhaps, this night in the station
bone by way of variety. Oh! shame,
51Ane TO you who have brought tears to
1hr aged eyes and bowed in heart
auszking sorrow the white heads Of
EU tender, loving mothers, whose
Aspiness and peaoe should have been
snr fret care. your first consideration,
- your first great incentive to life of
hnDw and usefulness. But "suficient
Afbe day 10 the evil thereof" and you
- % better If you will. You can make