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A talk with Young Men,


nder this heading the N. Y. Tri-
= has some sound and logical re-
{"5 portion Of which we extract
.'t benefit of that class of our rea.
der., to whom they are particularly
directed. Read


ssIt is common and most ruinous
presumption that simple industry
never leads To competence, and that
wealth is necessarily the product Of
Trade, and generally Of fraud and
crime. The young Mechanic Or Art
izan says, 80, it is no use for me to try
to save any thing out of my five or ten
dollars week in the city, or my ten
10 twenty dollars month (beside
boafd) in the country, as the case may
be-no body ever got rich in that
way" Now it is true that a colossal
fortune was never realized from the
savings SIMPLE and straight. forward
labor, and probably never will be.
But it is great mistake to suppose
that competence may not (by most
men) he realized from naked down.
right labor, or that men are not cen.





stantly doing this. All around Boston
Lowell, and almost every city are the
comfortable dwellings Of mechanics
'sao commenced without dollar, and


or made q good bargain in their
but have bought lot, built a
,eu E, and live independently thereon,
on the savings Of ten or twenty years
honest labor. Say if you please, that
they ought to have received and laid
up still more in the tiUe, and we shall
not contradict you; we are as strenu
Gus as you can be in asserting that la.
Dor can be IN asserting that labor can


u
be and should be secured fuller re-
ward. But do not cling to the fatal
mistake that industry is never pros
persd. 5


sLook hack over the career OF
nine.tenths Of the rich men among US,
and you will find they commenced
life as poor men, and laid the founda.
tions Of their fortunes by saving . por.
ton Of the scanty proceeds OF their
daily toll. .Aderward, they we're ena-
bled /. accumulate property more ra.
pidly BY the help of that they had ac.
quired, but they began with little sa-
wings, and could never have succeeded
otherwise. We are not holding up
these men as models Of fimitation-we
regard the ambition to heap up riches
a. grovelling and despicable. But
few men can truly independent or
greatly useful without sv.- .ro,e,tv
and no man can innocently take ups..
himself the responsibilities Of hus,
band and father without striving to