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Show TitYl.VJ TO LtVJE 'WITHOUT HEAL work. The following from tho pou of Horaco Ureeloy is true, and applicable ap-plicable to this day; "Our people aro too widely inclined to shun the quiet ways of productive labor and try to live and Uirivo iu the crooked paths of speculation and needless traffic. Wo havodeplorahly few boys learning trades, with ten times too, many anxious to 'get Into business,' :hat is to duviso some scheme where by tbey may live without work. Ol tho journeymen mechanics now at work in this city, wo judge two tliiitls were born in Kurope; and thg din-parity din-parity is alewliiy augmenting. One million families aro trying to live by Helling liquors, lobaoco, candy, otn. etc., in our cities, who could bo t pared bhorofrom without the slightest public detriment; and if these wero transferred trans-ferred to tho soil, and set to growing grain, meat, wool, etc., or employed in Btnolting tho metals, or weaving the fabrics for whieh wu aro still running run-ning into dobt in Europe, our country wnuld increase its wealth at least twice as fast as now, and Ihoro would bo far leas complaint of 'dull trady' and 'hard times.' " |