The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-25

his appearance was q country boy. l
took him for a central New Yorker and
asked him if I was right.
Eyes, you are he said. ''I'm from
Herkimer county. Ny father had a
farm up there and has it yet. He's an
old man now, but he's the most con-
tented man know of. His farm was paid
for 20 years ago. I helped pay for it by
working on it till was 81 Then got
gay and came to town. -
You wish now that you hadn't?''
queried.
Eyes, do. OF course I've got job
that I won't lose as long as behave
myself, no matter how hard the times
are. But suppose I'd staid on the farm
with my father and been content with
the country. Why, say, he lives like a
king up there. He has his horses and
carriage; he is independent as a man
can be; he's town clerk and SO is count
ed somebody by his neighbors. He has.
to work hard in the summer, but in
the winter he takes it easy. I'm saving
my money, and some day I'm going
back there and have farm of my own.
They may say all they want to about
farming not paying. It's good enough
for me. The farmer doesn't have as
much money maybe as the city man,
either. He doesn't have q chance to do
such big things, and so he finds fault
sometimes, but he forgets or never
knew that risks in town are hundred
times greater than they are on the farm
Young men have as good a chance, too,
think, as they ever did had a better
chance than my father did. but WASH t
willing to work as hard as he did to
benefit by it. =
Rev. Robert CO1Iyer Is Sanguine.
White haired Dr.. Collyer, famous as
a pulpit orator alike III Chicago and
New York, was the next man to whom
I put my queries
1.-The present is hardly the time, - he
replied, ''to ask these questions. But
when the hard times have passed away,
and they are but temporary, believe
the young man of today who is in ear
nest and sincere and willing to work
will have a much better opportunity to
make his way in the world than had the
young man of 90 years ago. The young
man of today, even though his Oppor-
tunities for schooling were limited, is
much better trained young man than
his father was before him. I know it is
often urged that there are fewer oppOr-
tunities now for young men to go into
business in a small way and win mod
crate successes, because Of the cOncen-
tration of so many lines of business in
the hands of, comparatively speaking,
few large corporations But this condi-
ton does not affect what have said. The
young man of ability and earnestness
can make his way in connection with
the corporations. They are hungering
for men of capacity. young men who
are able to do their work, and very often
they are quite unable to get them. They
are willing to pay any price for the right
men, This talk that the age Of golden OPP
portunities for young men has passed is
nonsense -
Rev. DR.. Halls Belief
Rev. DR.. John Hall, like DR.. Collyer,
believes that young men have as good
chance now as they ever had Perhaps
the strongest cry that the young man
has no chance nowadays, he said,
''comes from the country 1t is a mis-
taken cry. The farmers son Of today
cannot get away from the farm quick
enough to suit him He hurries to the
city, there to enter into fierce competi-
ton with other farmers sons for a live
hhood- The cities are already congested
and are daily receiving recruits from
abroad The competition becomes toe
fierce, and the farmers son who might
have lived a useful, well ordered and
sane life in the country falls by the
wayside- I am more familiar with the
old country and its conditions in some
respects than with this, and 1 know OF
farms that have been abandoned there,
the men who should have worked them
having left to seek their fortunes in Lon
don or in America, while at che same
time London receives a large proportion
of its supply Of butter and eggs from