Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Give the Boys a Trade. [ARTICLE]

Give the Boys a Trade.

Go where you will, you will find youths entering manhood without any equipment for the struggle be-

fore them. Tens of thousands of them hope to become merchants, when they have no aptitude whatever for commercial affairs, and are doomed to lives of bitter toil and grinding poverty. This ought not to be. Everybody in America is justly entitled to a trade, aDd be ought to have the chance to master one. Many sons of poor parents and many orphan boys are compelled to forego the Inestimable benefits of apprenticeship, and these ought to be assisted by wise philanthropy; but very many more fall to improve the great opportunity of becoming skilled workers, and so drift into the laboring army, to become helpless victims of poverty all their lives Boys in town or country, learn a trade. It will be your surest and best friend through life. Parents, in whatever else you come short, don’t fail to see to this matter. You will be insuring the happiness and comfort of your sons, the welfare of those who come after them, and discharging a solemn duty you owe to society and the country.—Farm and Fireside.