870 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



and true success consists of being happy. In former times it was con- 

 sidered successful to get ricii but fortunately there is a new generation 

 of people who find opportunities thick as weeds for doing something 

 nobler than becoming rich. A great drawback with many of the young 

 men of today is they are not taught to work while young. They are 

 sent to school as soon as old enough and are not trained to any manual 

 Jabor or given any responsibility thinking that education will carry them 

 through life without any further effort, and education in the true sense 

 of the word will, for the real meaning of education is development. It 

 is not simply instruction communicated by the teacher, but is is a waking 

 up to the latent powers. Education has reference to the whole man, the 

 mind the body and the heart. Education, strictly speaking, covers the 

 whole area of life. Education accomplishes wonders in fitting a man 

 for success, but we forget sometimes that it is better to have the mind 

 well disciplined rather than so richly stored. A young man seeking a 

 position today is not ask'ed what college he came from but what he can 

 do. It is special training that is wanted. Most of the men at the head 

 of great firms have been promoted step by step from the bottom. Some 

 young men get the idea that it is not respectable to work and imagine 

 there is some disgrace belonging to toil. No greater mistake could be 

 made. Labor may be a chastisement but it is also an honor and a glory. 

 All that is valuable and precious to man is acquired only through labor. 

 Without it civilization would soon relapse into barbarism. Young men 

 should also be educated in true economy, as this is the grand element 

 of success in acquiring property. But to pratice this, one requires great 

 resolutinon and self-denial, but it must be done or poverty will accompany 

 you through life. Young men who are just starting out in life should 

 make it an invariable rule to lay aside a certain proportion of their income 

 whatever that income may be. In early life it should be the pride of 

 young men to see how little they can spend on dress and yet present that 

 neat and tasteful appearance which is desirable. To judge from the 

 actions of many young men one would suppose that dress was their 

 highest aim in life. It is not only dress that young men spend so much 

 in, but in foolish little things that they could well do without. Not; long 

 since I heard one boasting that he had sixty good neckties and that he 

 spent ten dollars each month in candy and other confectionaries. Now 

 no one has any use for so many neckties any more than a dog has for so 

 many tails. And as for candy, his health would be better without, but 

 he was probably trying to buy some girls affections with the candy. 

 Premit me to tell you that a girl that can be bought with candy is not a 

 very valuable investment, and he is liable to wish before many years 

 that he had never invested. It is all right for people of means to have 

 such things if they choose, but I am speaking from the stand point of 

 the average farm boy, as that is what your committee wished me to 

 speak from. I venture to say there is not a well-to-do, prosperous man 

 In Harrison county but has made his start by economy, industry and self 

 denial, for, if a man has means left him, unless he practices these virtues 

 he will soon learn that his fortune has slipped away from him. 



