| Show respectability of labor the following article from the pen of the editor of the golasa sun 13 worthy alio careful perusal of every man and woman who have an interest in the welfare of the rising generation era tion it there was some commotion in town the other day about ordering certain hueu out of town who had no visible means of support and alio had to resort to sundry meth consistent with morals to gain a livelihood we had not been among them enough to know much of them but some of them were pointed out to us it made our heart sick pale effeminate looking men boys who had been edu bated at the expense of alie state and whose fond parents biad instilled into them the idea that labor was in some degree degrading it must be fashionable to live by their wits and they must look out for something to which manual labor was ant attached we were sorry for these young men and would have taken them by the hand and have led them out of the difficulty if such a thing biad been possible they were boys we who have been educated i to look upon labor as not only hon afu ii i i t to realize the condition of a different education we were once talking to the late hon BB on this subject like ourselves he biad been brought up to labor and instead of being ashamed of labor we were always ashamed of idleness mr redding had been a warm friend of charley fairfax who waa a descendant of the lords of that name and biad been educated in a different school or rather in a different way of looking at a manual labor dont you know said mr redding that so far as my feelings would be concerned I 1 would rather carry sacks of potatoes off the deck of 0 steamboat than see charley fairfax do it if I 1 could not do better he continued 1 I would go as a deck hand on a steamboat and from her decks look the world squarely in the face but our education is getting to ct now the fond mother shrinks at the idea other buy her precious boy being aln bcd man if the boy could only know that no bread is so sweet aa that earned by the sweat of the brow he would try it god pronounced his judgment in that way and he amply rewards those who obey it we must hold out a different idea to our young men those of us who are past the meridian of life should do more to coco young men in their struggles we are all apt to pass a working boy by without we coald make it a rule to speak to and encourage boya we might do much towards decreasing the number who must be driven from town to town with never a to lay their heads in honor and in peace As one gang left collea the marshal was informed of another coming from the direction of woodland he met them and passed them on there wore boys in alie crowd ho over sixteen what is to become of tham aho vho is responsible for their condition it ia certainly not altogether themselves who of us can say that he is free from some responsibility |
