The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-30
from Oxford, on a visit to Atlanta. he
has the following:

in number, had been to Atlanta 70 hay
their photographs taken in group, ant
that they were all interviewed by
reporter as to what they intended 20 on
after their graduation Thirteen wer'
going to practice law and zine practic'
medicine and six 60 to preaching ant
four become merchants and one wa
going TO be a mechanic and one wa,
going to farming. Can this be true
Only two out of thirty-nine who intene
to produce anything to add 10 the
common stock. Will the rest be con
sumersH Is this TO be the result OF al
collegiate edrcations in the SOUTH MAY
the good Lord have mercy upon US ano
preserve our people from sucn
calamity.
Apps prayer is one that might well be
reiterated all through our broad land
if prayers were effectual in removing
the evil that Arp deplores. The
tendency of our times is to ease
and luxury. There is a growing dis
like for anything like manual labor.
Everybody would like an easy position
out of the heat of the sun, and the cold
blasts of winter. Some occupation IS
desired that is compatible with soft
white hands, Unframed face, and the
wearing of fine clothes; with a growing
inclination to dudish patterns. Hence
we have tens of thousands OF young
men-aye. hundreds of thousands OF
young men, educated in our colleges.
academies and universities. that rush
into the professions, and finding the
supply already in those walks OF life in
excess Of the demand, they seek posi-
tons as clerks, statesmen, copyists,
auctioneers, preachers of dead
theology in which they themselves have
no faith-snything in Gods world
that will enable them to wear good
clothes, part their hair in the middle,
go sweetly scented and escape the dust
and and sweat and brain work of real
life. Young men are sent to institu-
tons of learning, they become &C
quainted With the sciences, classics
and literature, but they are taught no
species of handicraft that will always
be a genuine resource TO them. They
are brought into contact with the
pleasures and luxuries of city life, with
ali the strength of their allurements and
and life on the frontiers,
Dr. the farms, or in the workshops be- !
comes 3 dread to them. We became
acquainted with an instance IN our own !
Territory that will illustrate the
point IN hand. A He.l-to do |
armer sent his son to attend |
, hish school in one OF our
principal towns. The youth made
air progress in his studies, bu, had |
plenty OF time to niingle in society, and |
became attached to city life. At the
md of two years the former desired his
ION to return to the farm, but tn quiet |
ife at he farm home had lost all its
harms for him, and he told his father
he could no longer support him at
chool he intended to seek some occu- |
'ation that would Civ b m city life
With its constan. whiri of Pleasures.
The father offered him farm that he |
/ d recently purchase for three thous-
nd dollars, and proposed to give him |
be deed to it on the con sition that he
Fould live on it and work it. But the |
Dung man had contracted such |
n aversion for manual labor
Fhile attending school. that he rejected |
be offer; and accepted q position 10 |
own at sixty-five dollars q month. 1t
nay not be altogether an elegant eK-
'ression, especially for the Sabbath
morning, but involuntsrily one eI-
laimed: what id fooll"
The evils growing out OF this aversion
o manual labor coupled with love for
he Injuries and pleasures of life are in
A young man is working
or q salary of from fifty to a hundred
lollars a month. with no prospects Of
Increasing it, as the class of labor he is
hired to do can always be pur-
:hased for that price. The young
nan moves about in society. he
attends the balls. the operas and the
tires; and this. with keeping up his ap-
,earanoe in the way Of clothing and |
,arber bills. ETC.. devours all he earns. !
By and by that desire to marry which
s common to all men. comes over him
,ut be is appalled, at the prospect be-
ore him. His salary is barely enough !
o keep him up, to say nothing Of sus-
aiming wife. Our fathers were con-
e1t to start in life in . log cabin which
heir own hands had erected, and with
urniture largely of their own make.
But now the idea is getting a foothoid
ven In Utah. that . young man. when
lie gets married. must have as fine
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