The Wilmington daily Republican., 1892-01-05
Fiocking to the city.

FIocking to the City.
Yesterday we met four young men
at two different times who came from
lower Delaware looking for work in
Wilmington. They were plainly clad
farmers sons, fine, healthy looking
young men OF unexceptionable char
acter. They did not leave home be-
cause they had to but bacause they
wanted to get out into the busy liv-
ing moving world. They had as good
an education as the country schools
could afford them but had no trade
except that of farming. They were
willing to take work In any kind of
mandatory or any store where they
could make themselves useful. They
had no distate for hard labor but they
were tired Of the drudgery Of farm
life and wanted to know something
more of the world and Its dolngs than
what they could see and learn in the
hundred in which they lived and want
ed to penetrate farther from homo
than the village post Office,
They applied to us to assist them to
get employment at any respectable
calling, after which they thought they
could work their way up. We regret
ted that we had to tell them that the
city was full of just such young men
from the country hunting work in the
city. Every avenue of labor was kept
crowded and hundreds OF workmen
were out of employment Our advice
them was that urfess they had
beans Of their own upon Which to de-
pend until opportunities for employ
ment offered, to go back to the farm
and try to make agriculture betterand
more productive. This might be a
slow way of making money but it
would be sure way of making a liv-
ing which was not always assured in
the city. We refer to this only to
show the tendency Of the young peo-
pie OF the country, and by the way
the very best class OF young people to
engage in manufacturing and mer-
chandizing.
They walck to becomes hip-builders,
4 cagshdiiders, machinists, mechanics,
81 Bome kind that would more eilec-
tually break the humdrum of year in
nd year out labor upon the farm
hey are attracted by the gaieties Of
a city life, the open avenues OF edu-
on and Information, the splendid
crhes If incllned.in that way, the
at orators and preachers, and they
? by scores and hundreds. 1t is
continual augmentation of the
forces in every city in the union
Expresses labor more than want
aor. II business is buoyant a
>rce of workmen Is taken on,
% rush gets over the force is
and then comes tho cry of
preston and hard times
ch a force of surplus labor
pt the doors OF our manu-
t is useless to demand OF
Increase OF wages. During
knsus decade Wilmington
D1howed an increase OF forty-theee per
cent. in her population, leading every
city in the East except Scranton, Pa
At the same time the rural hundreds
in the State where there were 10 large
towns showed decrease in popula
ton. The incident of the young men
solves the cause. Young men would
rather be manufacturers than farmers.
\ This being the tendency of the people
and the times, manufacturers should
be encouraged and fostersd, which
fortunately they are by protective laws
II Is strange that so many people arr
blind to their own personal interests
OF 30 bgoted In false political belief
that they cannot or will not SEE that
protected manufacturers ara not only
benefit to the laboring classes but Il
the farmers as well. The case OF thes,
-four young men who came to VII
Mington from Kent County to hunt
work illustrates how greatly manu-
featuring communities benefit the far
mer. Should they find employment
Iere they will add that number To tht
" population VT the farmer wi.
TO feed. The more Inanufaetorie
ore labor will 10 required AM
re meat, bread md fruit from
Inn will be required to feed til
hYoR RHoADs had an excellent rul
dealing with whiskey guzzliEg po
Eemen. 1t was TO discharge the gul
Ter on receipt of the charge and II
vestigate afterwards. The Mayor In
fiexibly carried out this rule until
few months before the close OF h.
term. Policemen who cannot kee
from guzzlIng had hettorresign hefol
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