Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1886 — “If I Only Had Capital.” [ARTICLE]

“If I Only Had Capital.”

In all sections of all lands we find a class of people, mostly young men, who are good talkers, but very poor workers. They are constantly bemoaning their lot in life, and grieve because they were not born .with a silver spoon in their mouth. stand on the street corners or loaf in the billiard and pool rooms, and, like Micawber, are constantly waiting for something to turn up, never themselves putting forth the first effort to turn anything up. “Oh, if I had capital, I’d show you how to make money. I would invest in this enterprise or that industry, and, soon it would be bringing me in handsome returns, and then I would be living, and not dragging out a mere existence; but this getting along without money is what I never could do, and I never expect to know how. ” Such is the soliloquy of many young men who reside not a thousand miles from Portsmouth. t To all such, should they peruse these lines, we would say: “You are the architect of your own fortune,” and you are and can be just exactly what you want to be, and what you are willing to work to attain unto. Money is not all the capital that is necessary as a stepping-stone to success. Any young man who has his bodily and mental health, and a mind of at least some culture, has capital that many of the moneyed men never possessed, and if he will only utilize this God-given capital with vim, force, and push, he will thereby be enabled, under ordinary circumstances, to lay up for himself some of that other kind of capital which is so essential to one’s happ ness and comfort in everyday life. What our young men of to-day need is not so much money as it is the push and energy to earn it. Then when it comes in the reward of their own labors, they will appreciate its value more and know how to save it, and by assiduous toil perhaps some day they may have the capital the lack of which they so much bemoan at the present day. Then, young man, go to work, cease loafing on the street corners and public saloons, and use the God-given capital you have at your command, and this may be a means to a desirable end. At. any rate, don’t forever stand crying, “If I had capital,” when all the talents you have are depreciating in value for the want of proper exercise.—Portsmouth (Fa.) Times.

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