Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-14
Poverty a. a ni,eipIiue.
rl TrEL,rE DIR = C. HOLLAND.


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We often hear It sand of man thai h-
has had gr'a 1dv"n'ages We have
mean, BY tins simpl, the advantage
which W, allh could buy-unIversity train
ing, travel, high Gle y, unlimited hooks.
&c il rot often we hear poverty
>pok, OF a an advantage, yet we betievr
At 10 he demonstrabl, true that Of all III,
advantages which comes 10 auV young
man this is be greatest The young man
who is saved from the effort of making hrs
own way in the world and the necessity
OF establishing his own position, is denied
the most powerful stimulus TO labor and
development. The young men who are
coming every year out Of the colleges and
tks ,,,,,,s..;ona, .cnoa,s .s III III s,sp,rv'
and starting into active life. will win sue
cess or sink into failure mainly IN accord
ance with the ,arnount OF stimulus under
which their education has been acquired.
If they have been obliged to labor until
they have learned the value OF money; II
they have been forced into those econOm-
les, and learned, also, how difficult it is to
keep it; if they have grown up with the
consciousness upon them that everything
they hope for in the world must be won
by their own unaided force with industry;
if they have acquired thrifty habits and
self helpfulness and self.trcst,- they enter
life with great and most assuring advant-
ages. No amount of wealth given to .
young man can possibly give him so good
a prospect of true success as poverty that
has secured such advantages as these.
Twice within the easy memory of this
generation man who started at the low
est extreme of the social scale has risen to
be President of the United States, Abra-
ham Lincoln rose from his nest of leaves
in a western log-cabin to be twice the
elected ruler of the nation, at a most
momentous period of the national history,
traversing in the passage every degree of
the social scale. The poor frontiersman's
child, the flat. .boatman, the day-laborer,
the INDECENT student, the humble country
lawyer, the politician, the stump-speaker,
the legislator, the statesman, the president,
and chief of one of the greatest armies the
world has ever seen,-who believes for q
moment that, had be been rich at the start,
he would have ended where he did? II
was the discipline of poverty that made
him what he was. 1t gave him a profound
sympathy with the people, most of whom
are engaged in a struggle with poverty
from tbs cradle to the grave. 1t stimula-
ted and trained his powers to their highest
development, and it helped him to form
those habits of industry and economy that
are essential to the best success.
James 4. Garfield, whom we have Just
| laid in the tomb with tears of atlectiouate
T. verencr, was another instance of the
Bon, ticent influences Of poverty. He rose
| from as low II place rs Lincoln, and took
even higher flight than he The most
/ brilliant man who ever occupied the
presidential chair and rapidly becoming
! t.c mos. admired and hest beloved ruler
lnn world, he was mOurGod when, in
/ Gazing &c If the many condolences
/ -aa cxi.t,d between his life and that OF
/ lincoln, he WI. murdered by n assassin,
Ia uIan Was never luou ned bcio 6. Ii s
u.rv,ioHs nccomp' ,huuonts and pow 7
50 10, him t..r pee. OF the Z ,ea, and
. Nmp.j4t NItlLur Uln1l- dle " to unl
H.. h. heart, Dl Ar so d.
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r-.Iyi "a mae ines "a q. ten, the bes'
tlu- tn4 cIl happen 80 "a young man l.
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