Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23

street the moment they land. Take
the case of younger sons" A year
or so ago the English papers teemed
with correspondence from parents and
guardians on the question: What
shall we do with our boys?" and to
judge from appearances they seemed
to have solved the problem by sending
them to America
AS rule these Youngsters are abso-
lutely useless. Reared in comparative
luxury and fresh from some public
school, they are absolutely unable Co
''hustle" for themselves. They are edu-
Gated, truly, and can construe Virgil or
Homer like parish priest, but there
their worldly education ends. What
are they to dop Go into an officer
The offices are full of them, and there
are scores OF women out of employ
ment who can write better letters and
keep better books, and who, moreover,
will work at half the wages that they
will. Work with their hands as a la
borerp Let them ask any labor bureau
to employ them, and see how they will
be laughed at. Why, a tramp would
do more work for drink of whisky
than they could. Go West, young
manP Yes, and try and sit a bucking
broncho. No, they are no good any
where, and yet they are nice young
fellows and mean well, and some of
them do well, but it will be found that
those who do well are men who have
been accustomed to hustle for them
selves before they ever came here.
The English colonies used to be the
great place to send ''our boys" to, but
lately the colonies have been over
stocked, and things are worse there
than they are in America. The writer
had an amusing experience of this
some years ago, while on visit to Aus
tralia. He was called upon in Mel
bourne by the brother of a well-known
Scotch Baronet and when the writer
asked him how he was getting on he
replied: Things are awful bad here.
Do you know what am doing for a
living? | am chucking bricks from a
schooner to the quay. am not the
only swell at the game, for the man |
chuck the brick to for him to catch is
Lord -. a brother of the Marquis OF
-" This is fact, but manual la
Dor was not thought so little of in Aus
tralia as it is here, and society" was
not greatly shocked. For instance, a
/ young fellow of equally good birth as
the Baronets brother was obliged to
drive hanson cab in Melbourne for a
living. He had still the remains of the
swell outfit he had brought from En-
gland, among which was dress suit.
People knew very well who he was,
and sometimes he used to drive flare"
to ball and then, after hitching his
horse up somewhere, throw off his over
coat and appear at the ball in immacu-
late evening costume, looking every
inch the gentleman he was. One night
at ball in Melbourne the writer APP
preached friend, who was leaning up
against a pillar, looking bored and
tired, and asked him why he didn't 60
home. II would like to- was the re-
ply, "but that blamed cabby of mine
is engaged for two more Dances "
Think of this happening in demo
cratic America, where all men are
equal! What a howl there would be!
The fate of the clerk who comes here,
often with wife, is, if any thing,
worse than that of the younger son.
To come to this country he has proba'
bly, severed every connection in the
old, and could not, even if he would,
return. He must stay here and dc
what he can, and that is but little. As
rule, he joins the NOZZLE army of mer
to whom the sign of "book-agents
peddlers and canyassers OF all kinds
not admitted here has the same sig
: nifcance as ''man-traps and spring
| guns" has to the tramp.
What is the remedy for this and how
can assisted emigration be put {
sop TOP The answer is simple. There
, is no remedy and it can not b
stopped. just as long as there ART
, steamers to bear people who pay theil
fare across the ocean, and dry land fol
Q them to step upon when they arriv,
: here, just so long will people come tt
3 this country, tempted by its vastnes
0 and lured by the hope that their hand
9 will pluck the lucky bean from tn
t lottery bag. Pointing to the lon,
stretch of bleaching skeletons that Ii
: upon the track has no effect upol
Il them, so s'in God name, my masters
: cen let 'em come" The only thin,
g the press and public may do, even if
: should have no effect, is to point GU
! to them that they are coming to n
d FOOLS paradise, and that if they are t
starve they had much better starve il
e their own country, as six by two fee
S of land in the cemetery here is just a
= dear as it is in the old country.-Chtco
I go Neaos.