The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-05-10
ipossible.a .aAnd thus their mental ener-
gies are sapped.

indulgence in pleasure whets their appe
tite for more. They throw off the yok
Of restraint. Temptations crowd o
leyery hand. Sin is gilded with tinse
covering. It's Nervousness disappear
with familiarity. Opportunities stan'
ready saddled. Desire is eager to mount
Conscience grows weaker and less sting
ing, until Its warnings almost cease. In
moral sense is blunted-scarred BY tn
smooth, yet hot iron of pleasure, Al
| this is not true, Of course. of every ricl
young man. Many appreciate the priv
lleges conferred upon them BY wealth
and make use Of them to develop them
selves physically, mentally, morally
But still the tendency of riches upon
young man, is as I have desribed.
The poor young man, on. the contrary
has no money on which to rely, often NJ
friends to help him, and SO he is throwr
back upon himself and compelled t.
place his reliance there. If he evel
accomplishes anything it must be by hi
own effort. If ambition seizes him, as
often it does, it inspires him to raise
himself upon an equality, men.
tally, socially, financially, with 9TH
ems around him. He is not content
to remain forever down. So he struggles.
He will do anything that is honest to
help himself. He is not afraid of work,
nor nor ashamed of it. He believes in the
dignity oflabor. He has hard time at
first, perhaps. But the very struggle
strengthens him. It strengthens him
physically. His daily labor gives him
muscle and bone. as we'll as meat and
bread. 1t strengthens him mentally.
Thrown upon himself, with no artificial
prop, he realizes the need Of study. At
school, at college, if he is so fortunate as
to get there, he is apt to lead his classes.
He takes every opportunity for self.
cultivation. He reads. He thinks. He
develops an originality the rich seldom
possess. His mind must be his capital
and he strives to increase his stock in
trade. He has no time to fritter away in
pleasures, which only weaken the intel
5lect. This very struggle strengthens also
his moral nature. Temptations, like the
world and sleep, their ready visits pay
where fortune smiles; the poor they for.
sake. Vice to him is robbed of much Of
It's attractiveness. Virtue offers herself
as the only guide to fortune and success.
Under her magic wand his character
grows stronger and more beautiful. All
this, Of course, is not true with every
poor young man, But I am speaking
specially Of the ambitious one. And with
him the tendency Of the struggles he is
compelled to undergo,is to develop his
physical, mental and moral muscles, and
to make q new man out of him. Its a
mistake to suppose that to have trials in
youth is a misfortune. Ifthe young man
has anything in him and the trials are
withstood those very trials prove a help.
He who has q hard time in youth, if he
does not succumb under mis- burdens will
have an easy time in after life. But he
who has an easy time at FIRST, will be apt
to have q hard time afterward.
The best way to ruin a boy is to give
him a pony aud q dog and q gun, and
let him understand that he has plenty OF
money back Of him. If izdaapes not ride
that pony down hill all the way, until he
reaches the dogs at last, and then per.
hsps turn the gun upon himself, twill
be because he is q remarkable boy, OF
because something radical has occurred
to check him in his downward course.
The presumption is always against q boy
on pony, and especially if be has q gun
on his shoulder, and a dog following
behind.
The best way, on the contrary, to make
a nan out of a boy-not thing on two
feet WHICH you can hardly tell from a
peacock to throw him upon his own.
resources, With just enough help to keep
his head above water; or at least TO give
him hard, earnest work to do. This, as
I said, develops his manhood. he
becomes really superior, in body, in mind,
in character, in moral worth, in every.
thing that goes to make true manhood,
to the man who started rich and failed to
develop what was in him. The world,
quick to discover and every ready to
admire man, is glad to lend him q
helping hand. People feel too that he is
one Of them, while the rich young man
is apt to be more or less exclusive, proud,
arrogant. But the poor one finds tide
Of popular sympathy and favor to assist
him in his aspirations. Positions of
honor and trust open before him. Filling
these well, he receives still greater. AHd
so he goes up. Standing at the bottom,
indeed, he has no way to go but up,
while therich young man, starting at the
top, has no way to go but down. Balance
is hard to preserve. Retrogression is
easier than equilibrium. So he is apt.
sooner or later, to 60 down. Even in
his own golden circle the poor boy often
surpasses him, the poor getting rich, and
the rich poor. And as the poor boy
ascends from one hill to another of fame
of honor, Of usefulness, or of wealth, hi
ambition rises and his horizon broadens
He has the foundation of health, O.
mind, of character, of popular favor OF
which to build, and so he easily occupies
each height Of opportunity as he reaches
it, and climbs to another.
Letno one suppose from all this that
am making TRADE against wealth.
am not. Such is very far from m.
| purpose. Money is good thing-Juse'