Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-02-23
STAY HERE YOUNG MAN.

Too many Of your young men get
the notion into their heads that they
can succeed better in the struggle OF
life elsewhere than at home, many
eyi iently believing that the work
they may engage in will be lighter
and easier, that hours will be shorter
and that the pay for work done will be
for better than here, and they wand
er away, many to distant lands, cities
or towns. When they secure and
settle down to work, they many
times lind that there, as here, the
work is just as hard, the hours much
longer and that the pay they receive
is only just sufficient to keep them
in the necessaries Of life with but
little if any probability Of ever ac-
cumalating anything for the proven
bal rany day ahead.
Whilst we have had, have now
and always will have a lot of croakers
who are everlastingly decrying their
home, declaring upon all occasions
that there is but little opportunity
and but scarcely any chance for a
young man here to get ahead, we
know that these birds Of i'll omen who
are ever befuling their nest are
false prophets: we know that they
are failures 10 life, that they have not
had the courage, nor the industry to
undertake anything that would place
them on higher financial or social
scale, and that they would rather
has G around bar rooms and other
questionable places of resort and
croak, and croak, and croak. we
know, as has been and is now being
proven right now in Charles and
other counties of Southern Maryland,
by men who are tillIng the soil with
systematic intelligence and industry
that there is no pace in this country
where better results can be attained
than right here if our young men
would stay home and work, work as
they are compelled to do, if they
get work in the cities, each and every
day Of the week We say stick,
stick, stick.
And this reminds US Of a story
Abraham Lincoln, had relative who
was of rowing disposi ion, never
long satisfied with the place where
located. Once he urged Lircoln to
help him move from Illinois to Mis-
souri, "Old Abe wrote him these
wise words; What can you do in
Missouri better than here Can you
there any more than. here, raise corn
and wheat without work d? Will any
one there, more than hire do your
work for you? Squirming ID craw-
ling about from place to place can do
you no good. II You intend to work
there is no better place than right
here where you are"
Problems relating to agricultural
development are being discussed and
solved by distinguished individuals
A skilled farmer in every agricultural
county in the United States main
tanned there by Federal and State
support equally divided, brings the
farmer in intimate touch with the
most scientific and practical data, and
this is expected to greatly increase
production, preseye soil efficiency,
and reduce the cost of productions
The producer does not advance in
proportion with the consumer and
the demand for food will lessen.-I
We therefore say TO our young
men, if you intend to work, there is
no better place than right here where
you are. The all important thing is
to stick. Stick young man, stick
to your pillow, attend to your farm
work, keep away from the bar rooms
and just 50 surely as you live success
will crown your efforts, croakers,
knockers and kickers to the contrary
Notwithstanding