GO ON THE LAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 27, 25 September 1912, Page 8

GO ON THE LAND.

ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. Tims the Waihi (Taranaki) oorres pondent of the Taranaki Herald satin cally writes: — Like the Rev. Henry Howard, various other reverend gentlemen, city i editors, politicians, land agents and many others who toast their toes at a warm tiro, when they are not touring the country in motor cars, and don’t go themselves, I say, “Young man, go west,” the land is calling you; if you want to hand down your name to posterity; if you want to accumulate untold wealth—go to where the cows are a-calling you; where the calves and the pigs will bid you welcome; where land can be had for the asking, plus anything from ten to fifty pounds an acre, plus sundry other charges; and where you can have as much work as daylight provides for, why hanker after a city life with its fleeting, gaudy fascinations, its hard and dry pavements, its fellowship and companionship? Envy not the strenuous life of the parson, the moneylenders, the land agents and their work of toil. While they are toiling in their offices smoking cigars and totalling up their eight or ten per cents, you can have the pleasure of consigning them to theii tasks by a pleasure jaunt of a fev. years into the country. There yom wives and families will be saved fron the sin and allurements of idleness; there you can wear out all your ok*, clothes—possibly from the sufficient reason you won’t have anything else to wear. After a time your arithmeti cal education will become improved by adding up your manure accounts profit and loss conundrums will bo a? nothing. The experience gained In totalling up interest at five, eight o: ton per cent will qualify you for ; bank manager’s position. Drawing up petitions to have the mud road you have been paying taxes on for ton 01 twenty years slightly improved wil. give you standing as a draughtsman ■while negotiating sundry loans wil enable you to take over the position of Minister of Finance when the tiim comes for your promotion. In fact there is nothing in the wide world you will not bo able to, learn. Unles you are a philanthropist or a patriot, and work for the good of your country, to gother with your wife and children next time you are advised by a parson, a, plausible land agent, or any carpet slipper toiler, to go on the land, especially to become a cow spanker, ad vise him to invest in a pair of dungarees and go himself. The chances ari ho won’t. He knows when he is well off.