This fact cannot be too strongly or repeatedly impressed upon parents and
children.
Warden Haynes, of the Massachusetts State Prison, lately uttered these
emphatic and significant words, which are worthy to be written in letters
of gold: "Eight out of every ten come here by liquor; and a great curse
is, not learning a trade. Young men get the notion that it is not genteel
to learn a trade; they idle away their time, get into saloons, acquire the
habits of drinking, and then gambling, and then they are ready for any
crime." How many young men we see every day who are in the pathway to this
end. Fathers and mothers who hold the dangerous view that it is not
genteel for their children to learn a trade, can see where such ideas
lead. The words of wisdom quoted above are full of weighty import for both
parents and children.