The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05
Don't be Afraid Of Work.

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next place false idea that 1t is moi
genteel is ut the base of all our troubles
More especially is this true in reference
to farm work. There is not q tramp
in the country but what could obtain
work ON a farm and gain good honest
living from honest labor. There is
not young man amongst our "gen
teel" citizenship but who could get
employment either in the country as
manager for those able to employ and
there are many such, If they were will
ling to work and do their duty for q
salary that the business would justify
instead of bending their whole energy
in prising for money to spend in riotous
neglect of their employers affairs. Or
they could find employment amongst
white families who do their own labor,
if they would DO their duty and not be-
come nuisance in the family circle
The demaud in commercial pursuits
have limit which limit is fixed or
regulated in unalterable ratio to agri-
cultural prosperity. Goods cannot be
sold without customers, and customers
must originally come from the farms
who must start the wheels OF progress.
Don't be afraid of work, and don't be
afraid Of finding it; there is plenty to
do. You expect too much for too little
service and are too choice about what
you will do We think we are as good
rs any body, and if necessary in our
business we would wheel dirt in a
wheelbarrow along the streets of Can
ton without blush of shame mantling
our cheeks. We have been a worker
all our lives and have never been
ashamed of it. Stephen Girard the
millionaire merchant and banker OF
early times in Philadelphia, and who
built fine college for boys that we
have been in, and that stands to-day
as a monument to his generosity, and
whose fortune was made in legitimate
commerce and not by wreckinS rail
roads or on Wall Street, was once visit
ed by q member Of the firm of Barring
Bros, bankers in London, which firm
has existed ever since, and played such
an important part in South American
finances few years ago. The visiting
banker not finding Mr.. Girard at his
bank in the city was informed that he
was out on his farm in the suburbs; his
business being urgent he drove out to
the farm to see Mr.. 3irard. and pass
ing near squad of hands loading hay
into wagon, he inquired for the
banker. Ono hay fork was lowered to
answer the query, and Mr.. Girard him
self told the proud Britton just to drive.
on down to the farm h ouse and wait
when he would soon be there; adding
that the dairy maid would give him
some of the best milk he ever drank in
his life. This same man with a big
purse and big heart AS evidenced by
many other benefactions, once con-
tracted for clerk whom he had never
seen and who was to come to Philadel-
phis in . certain boat. MIR. Gerard
thought he would meet him; the youth
leaped upon the shore and began at
once to inquire for a porter to carry his
valice. Mr.. Girard who never set
much store by dress, being near at
hand offered to carry it, and followed
along behind the nice young man, I'M
til they reached his great store houses,
when he paid the porter for his services
and asked for Mr.. Girard. You can
imagine his chsgrin, besides he did
not secure the situation. We repeat
and want to emphasize with Herculean
power that the greatest evil and him
drance to-day to all prosperity. in6i.
vidual, national, financial and political
il due to the avoidance of honest, pa
tient, successful labor, and its slow
but sure and enduring prosperity, and
= feverish haste "by ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain" to get
the money to crafty their laziness
and vicious srpetites. This is not in
tended to be sweeping utterance but
is qualified by the fact that few of
are excepted and do their full
duty all round, and they are the salt of
the earth-have always been and al.
ways will be the cohesive power that
holds the whole fabric of organized so.
siety together. "Ye are the salt of the
earth; but il the salt have lost its
SAVIOR. wherewith shall II be salted."