The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-02
DON'T GO FROM THE FARM.

bred upon and trained to the farm
to abandon farming and go into the
towns and cities is one of the alarm
ing features Of the times. It is not
only an augury of evil to the future
of our country, but it is a grand
mistake upon the part OF our young
men. They conceive the idea that
farming will not pay, that it is the
road to continued poverty, and thai
going into business in town or cit.
les as hirelings puts them into for.
tunes channel. Nor are they
wholly to blame for this course, fol
this idea is impressed upon them
by the farm management and
preaching of their fathers. Here is
where the great mistake in the lives
OF many young men are made. The
young man on the farm secs the
city clerks wearing good clothes
working in the shade and hears Of
the good wages paid them, and con-
cludes at once that the town boys
have an easy time and that there is
stream of financial plenty pouring
into the pockets of the clerks all the
time, that will soon make them rich.
This is the bright side of the picture.
But they do not see that those good
clothes, the demands of fashion. of
social etiquette and of society, be-
sides demands from various other
sources are continually drawing
from the city clerks every dollar
that their labors command. They
dc not see that the clerks liberties.
like those of a Gagged bird, are in the
hands of others-they do not see
that the clerks are confined to their
business prison from early morn till
dewy eve for three hundred anu
thirteen days in every year; they
do not realize the fact that very few
town hirelings ever accumulate
much above bare living, but re-
main, as a general thing, "hewers of
wood and drawers of water" as it
were, for those who dictate to them
how and when they must work.
Now with fifteen years experience
on the farm and with twenty-five
years experience in other vocations,
which are to the inexperienced
seemingly easy and profitable, we
say to the young men of the coun-
try (and we say it for their good
and for their life happiness, don't &C
from the farm to hunt, with the ex.
pectation of finding better, easier
and more profitable vocations in the
city. The calls and demands fol
your money and the temptations tc
spend it are five times as MANY anC
as great in the city as in the coun
try, while the gross income on q
general average is no more, where
the young farmer works so constant
ly as the city hireling.
Don't go to the city and become
the servant of another; but stay Oh
the farm where you can have more
freedom, more liberties, more indie.
pendence, more self-reliance, more
real contentment, more of the luxu.
ries and true joys of home, and
where you can save more money
from your labors.
That young man who will husband
the resources of his farm, and who
will devote as many days work du.
ring each year to his farm as the
city clerk is required to devote &c
his business, will not only have the
joys Of home and the real comforts
of life around him all the time, but
will accumulate a sufficiency before
old age comes upon him to support
him at ease through his declining
years. There is not now, there
never was a hasty fortune in farm.
ing, but to that economical young
man who gives study, close atten.
ton, and constant work to his farm
there is plenty, contentment, anC
gradual accumulation through his
vigorous manhood and competen.
cy for old age. Young man, take in
this truth, digest it, act upon it.
and then when you shall have reach.
cd the hilltop of life, you will look
back with pleasure and not with re.