The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-12-06
SAM JONES' LETTER.
He Writes for the Struggling
Young Man and Woman.
Live inside Your Income, Keep Eternaily
at 1t and Fortune VIII Smile-The
Final Reckoning In the
World Beyond.


Last week the subject OF my letter
was crimes and criminals l would de-
vote tins letter with KIND wish to the
thousands OF struggling young men
in our country who have never coDmlt
ted crime and who will never be crimi-
nails,
There are hundreds and thousands of
young men in our country with ambi-
ton and energy who are struggling
against wind and tide in their efforts
TO rise. 1here are thousands OF noole
girls, tolllng oy Gay ana stuoylng py
night how they can rise In the world.
1t is of this class would write. |
received letter this week from a
young man in one of our southern
towns. He wrote how he was battling
against misfortune and bad luck, how
hard he has labored and how earnestly
he had tried, and yet, he says, fortune
is all against him. lie wrote chat he
could bear misfortune for himself, but
loved ones making their appeals to
him for help and his inability to meet
the demands of those who are depend
ent upon him well-nigh robbed him of
his reason.
When there are half dozen appli-
cations for every job that carries with
it a respectable salary; when in all the
realms of commercial and industrial
life the places are overhlled and the
unemployed on the outside clamor for
work and position it is this that runs
salaries down and brings hard times
with all the temptations that come
with hard times to the young men and
girls of our country.
In all the industrial pursuits salaries
have been cut; stenographers, telegra-
piers, boolxleepers, and so on, and so
on. have, amidst their tolls and hard
ships, seen their salaries dwindle until
to-day they are receiving about half
what they were paid for their service
ten years ago.
To work hard all day and then lie
down at night with the consciousness
and with creditors clamoring at the
door is almost enough to deprive one
of his reason, and yet this is true in
tens of thousands of cases. If hope could
see star then they wouldn't labor in
despair, but how they may extricate
themselves from the present embarrass-
ment they hardly know. Constant
toll does not relieve the situation, the
outlook to them is almost without
promise, and to this class both boys and
girls, men and women, | offer this
word of advice: Live within your in
come if it means bread and water, pay
as you can upon the debts already con-
tracted; sooner or later the clouds will
break away and the sunshine of pros
peritY will come you.
There can be no sunny days to you
amid the gloom that debt creates. No
man is free man who is in debt. Debt
is the hardest master that ever cracked
a whip over human slave. 1t works
him all day and worries him all night.
Cheap clothes, cheap living, is the
only way to meet this falling off of
salaries, and really many times we
should face the fact uttered by Pat
when he said; HE got rich by doing
without the things that he was obliged
to have"
A Chinaman would get rich by-and-
by ON the present salary of the. aver
age boy in this country In Europe
men live on much more meager salaries
than they do in America.
As | have mingled with men and
gathered the life history OF those who
have risen TO opulence nave found
that the economy they practiced In the
beginning OF their career was the basis
OF the fortune which they afterwards
acCuihuia'eu'
we can alroru 10 i've nara "hen
young anu sUroilg 'haV we may i've III
ease "hen gray mars anu wrinkles anu
Ola age come neV'er thlS Thousand
times IMAM 10 i've through WORK ana
worry from Une cradle 10 Che grave
1t Will not do, young men and young
ladies' TO crow ana russ with the con-
dltlon OF Things. IL does not pay to
worry "A calm' wise view OF the sit
uation OF things and determination
to preserve character and maintain
manhood at all cost is the only thing
that Will WIN at last. Will conquer
the dlf1cultles IN my pathway, will
overcome the obstacles, | will resist