Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28
SAM JONES' LETTER.
He Writes for the Struggling
 Young Man and Woman.
Live Inside Your Income, Keep Externally at It and Fortune Will Smile-The Final Reckoning in the
 World Beyond.

vote bnlS leLter ,W1In K1nu WlSn to the thousands of struggling young men in our country who have never commit ted crime and who will never be crimi- nals ssao. @A aU Aes
 There are hundreds and thousands of young men incur country with ambi- tion and energy. who are struggling against wind and tide in atheirefforts to rise. There are thousands of noble girls, toiling by day and studying by night how they can rise in. therworld.
 It is of this class I would write. received letter this week from 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. He wrote that 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. -'ssss sA- assH
 When there are half a dozen appli- cations for every job that carries with it respectable salary; when in all the realms of commercial and industrial life the places are overfl1ed 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..g erse a3r
 In all the industrial pursuits salaries have been cut; stenographers, telegra- phers, bookkeepers, 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 that the salary does not cover expenses 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
 
 outlook to them is almost without promise, and to this class both boys and girls, men and women, I 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 to you.a sffe
 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 whip over human slave. It 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 d ping without the things that he was obliged to have" sa.ss. sa
 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 I have mingled with men and gathered the life history of those who have risen to opulence I have found that the economy they practiced in the beginning of their career was the basis of the fortune which they afterwards accumulated. ss..z @ iss.
 We can afford to live hard when young and strong that we may live in ease when gray hairs and wrinkles and old age come. Better this a thousand times than to live through work and worry from the cradle to the grave.
 It will not do, young men and young ladies, to growl and fuss with the con- dition of things It does not pay to worry. A calm, wise view of the sit uation of things and a determination to preserve character and maintain manhood at all cost is the only thing that will win at last I will conquer the difficulties in my pathway, will overcome the obstacles, will resist temptation, will succeed. These ut terances made and stuck to will enable a boy to swim any river, cross any desert, climb any mountain that may lay in his pathway from babydom to genuine manhood. y4'4 'so ss
 It is hard indeed for young man to do his work in the best way and come constantly in contact with the avarice and greed of those who have already risen in the world.
 helped 8 young man some time ago to procure position with one of our large corporations. I said to him: "Now, when you enter upon your duties are you willing to be kicked and cursed and bossed?"a He said: ''I don't know that am." Then, said I: "You had better not take the position" said I. "The way to do is to go in and let them kick and curse you; make your