The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-06-27
TRADES FOR AMERICANS.

From the New York Tribunc,1

From the New York Tribune,1
Two or three weeks ago n careful In
quiry WAS instituted in Philadelphia, the
largest manufacturing city in the cotin-
try, as to the relative number Of fOr-
eigncrs and native Americans engaged
in trades and as skilled handicraltsmcn
of every kind Ybr result was startling.
Foreigners, especially the Germans and
Scotch Irishmcn, Ind shouldered orr
Own people altogether olit Of almost
every such occupation. The American
boys could he counted on the fingers
who were lcNrnnGshc trade Of weaving
in the great wooden and carpet factories.
Tho same story WAS told in the cotton
mills, at the stocking looms. Yet the
wages paid to these skilled worI,mcn are
high and steady. The Scotchman OF
North irishmm earns from $lS to $40
per week in Philadelphia, owns his com
Portable dwelling and brings mp his son
to the same trade which his own father,
most probably, followed in Glasgow or
Londonderry. The American boy has
not learned This sure, slow road TO com
fort from his father. There was the
same report from manufacturers Of pa.
i,nilors cn,Ior, oyory ;nI,s,rr /,
'Lo"t h,, ,ma MIA a ,;,,,,'i ~, -
lhe ci,ss Wick dols ' ,nt ontc ~, ,h "' n, W
t"s.;on. 10 mo-. sornJ in Cbo tr,i.s .' n r'g
10 hcconse no ;s IorrrJ onl NV tho tr"J l~
3;riovs hut noro lnc,rsc h. Joos mot
,ranso 70 ON into thcm ia rhis uonc,ol
rmIn ,hoy, orc Low,yor t,yo notalIo ov'
c"m,;nns. ryintino onj m,ch;ne sLons
Eiu"L ~, thaaa ,s,j.s IL orc,y,Icd .ui,l,
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Now bore :. significant hint If M.
I ,;nr'l cLarcnt.w Wo oro nornotroIl,
tolJ that IN. Amcr;con Iod 81 ibo mo,..
,;nIiv ed,,'ia1 GLASS rcfuS"a ~ loorn q
,roIc onJ Incomes n salesman or cIrl'
m n miserable salary from, tLr snnl,li.L
vul"nr dosirc to Inc rnusiJcrcd a oontln'
man yct thc somc youno srllow in ,
nr;ni;uo.n ,ica ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS wnr,..
harder and comes nnt n, Lis doily
Irudccry moro oriuv and sl,olhv ibnn
ANY, othrr mechanic
r. is NO ambition for ocntili,v thot
moves him io t,Y,e rursuits Bnt thcv
oncn 70 him, nossihlr short roads to su:.
crss. tbrv o,vc his inventive forrltics
soma NAV II j. onlv ono mon in - INN.
drr6 Who ont of fine CONFUSING or nrcss-
Room Locmmcs ,ditor ar nuLlisbnr, mr.
who ,urns ont ,n Lc , ucl,r Harrison nr
W;n,ms in iLa machine. shm
INF each how is confident that he will
ho tl,,t man When hn s,rocs into bna.
nossr no soIoen.n az e. NOR wool, l.,
Lnows bo will enn,c dow ho mn Acton, or ,
! stewart Whnn no cncs ont ~ Colnr,dn
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,;vn '' ahorn ",, Im",icom ,nnI ,f oorn
;no, ,n ni, aan,, ,r;n" money in LnIL vii,
mn 2 ho lrnuoht to nloi and snyc orJ
, 'vi ,; Uo I ,,rn"vworth NJ " t;mc I).,
his rm"o,con ncirhhor who WINS nu
horn nrnsncntiyn hair 10 a orcot cstarc
A cnr,ain aro5r os onr skilled trodcs will
olwovs remain il is nrobobIc in ,L,
hands If forn;onors
Inf one lesson onr American lod mns
learn before he Succeeds and as Inc iscy
ceptionolly sharp he generally does Learn
il when he finds he does not succeed
without il. That is stcadiness of aim.
Instability is our national defect The
American Of twenty. fnur who Inns made
mn his mind rs 70 his business his nol.
ties and his relioion who nbidrs Inv ILrm
for the novt Ton yoor, ie - markell AMI
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