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Hint the cities a ro llllod with tlioso out of
employment, Unit professions are over
stocked and that pay is inadequate.
Many persons, finding that the way to tlie
calling, for which they are by nature in
tended, is I)' no means devoid of dilllcul
ties, supinely succumb, and either fritter
away their time in some calling for which
they possess neilher ability nor enthusi
asm, or they sink still lower and gel along
in the easiest manner possible. These
complaints aie assigned as an extenuation
of idleness, and are productive thereof.
Now, with respect to the first, we ask:
is there any real need of flocking to lli
city, simply because of the allurements
it holds out, and these often fallacious?
It is too often the ambition of the young
man to go to the city and get a place
as the employee of some business firm, re
jecting the prospects of humbler yet oflcn
er more solid advantages to be attained in
the country. Asa natural result, the re
spective growih of country and city is dis
proportionate. In the latter, the crowds
of competitors force compensation to a
very low level, and, when business suH'ers,
a general stringency is the consequence.
The recent plague of tramps, to which we
have already alluded, was owing to this
cause.
Now, much of Ibis can be avoided.
Let the young man about to start in life
carefully examine the comparative ad
vantages of com.M-y and city before
he yields to the alluring glamour of
the latter, lie will then find that the for
mer holds out more and better openings
for ,h im than the latter, we have refer,
ence chiefly to the large city. If he d.:es
not like the neighborhood in which he
has been placed, let him remove to anoth
er, yet he need not necessarily go to the
verge of civilization. There is a demand,
in most puts of our country, for people
to settle in them and develop still farther
their resources, for, as yet, they arc by no
means exhausted.
Now, is to the second complaint, (hat
the professions arc overstocked, it is only
a few thai are in this condition. If nine
tenths of our collegiates, instead of rush
ing to the; bar, regardless of the eternal
Illness of things, would turn to oilier pro
fessions, and such there are, that stand
in need of diligent and faithful persons,
wo would hear less of this cry. There is
no need of yielding to t lie allurements of
a few overstocked professions, while oth
ers, just as honorable W not always so luc
rative, await one. The complaint of in
sullleient reward is dependent on the two
causes just given, and the romec'y for all
these would go hand in hand.
For the crowds of idlers from principle,
which we everywhere find, the remedy
lies only in a proper education of the
young which involves a due observance
of the Hebrew maxim.
It is a curious us well as noteworthy
fact in Hie history of ilie Hungarian city
of Debro.in, that previous to the Hunga
rian revolt, it did not contain a single
beggar in its population of fifty thousand
while none were rich and none it It the
slings of poverty. This singular prosper
ity was attributed to an old law which
forbade that any citizen should own more
than one hundred and sixty acres of land.
The facts that we have considered teach
us the instructive lesson, 'hat were all
parts of the body politic expanded in a
more due proportion, were a proper judg
incut exercised in the choice of a calling,
and were the young habituated more to
habits of industry and sobriety, and the
necessity of early choosing an honest call
ing, idleness could be almost entirely
avoidid.
Scripture aiid reason alike condemn it;
the former everywhere extols and enjoins
honest industry, while reason and experi
ence tell us that agreeable employment of
body and mind is in the highest degree
beneficial to both. There is occupation
and room for all, wore a little pains taken
to ilnd them. M.
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