Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-20
Head Work and Hand Work.

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essential prerequisites to the health
full organization Of the body polite,
as much SO as in the proper devel-
opment of the moral and physical
powers of man. This self-evident
axiom is firmly grounded in natures
laws and sustained by the logic OF
events. No man or set Of men can
venture to ignore it without incur
ring the consequences which follow
fast in the paths of a degrading
inferiority.
This concurrence of known laws
with the experience and examples
of the past being conceded, fur
nishes ample data on which to base
few practical suggestions touching
the necessities of the hour.
The people of the South have
suffered severely and lost heavily
from the war, yet they still retain
much of their former energy, which
cannot fail OF being stimulated into
healthy action by the circumstances
of necessity. There's life in the
old land yet" and what we hdye to
see to is, that the energies We pos
sess may be directed into proper
channels whose sources begin at the
fountain head of wisdom, prudence
and intelligence and whose currents
run into the clear and open sea OF
prosperity and contentment.
Old homes are to be refitted and
new ones secured and built up. I'm
provements of almost every descrip-
ton are needed to place us once
more in the van of progress. Lie
who causes two blades of grass to
grow where only one grew before,
is to that extent a benefactor of his
species. Education not Of the i'll
tellect alone, but of the heart, to
inluse goodness as we'll as Smartncss
into the rising generation, is one OF
the paramount duties which con-
Germs us all. Let us have good
schools and plenty of them in the
hands of none but good moral men
and women. Let us leave politics
in the future more to statesmen than
to tricksters, and let US see that we
are not deceived any more by that
spurious sort of craftsmanship which
works for self-aggrandizement to the
injury and destruction OF the body
polite. Trust no man for any posi-
ton of honor or profit, who cannot
show clean hands and clean heart
-undefled by the impress of dis
honor, injustice or oppression to-
wards his fellow-man. We may then
hope for the enactment ofsrighteous
laws administered and executed by
honest men. Every one should
strive to do his part in the great
work of recovery, and what is
more, to improve upon the old
patterns as they existed before the
war. Men of wealth, who have
succeeded not only in preserving
their former means, but who, in
numerous instances, have grown
richer from speculations INDUCED in
during the war, owe it to the people
to manifest more interest than has
hitherto characterized them in help
ing to benefit the less fortunate and
| to promote the general welfare of the
| South. Many Of those men We're
previous to the war an absolute
| drawback to the country. With all
their wealth, they lacked public
spirit, and lived only for the sake Of
misery gain. No wonder that our
| communities We're kept so long in the
background of enterprise with such
sordid and graspipg spectators bat
tening on the very life-blood Of the
| people and never launching forth a
single dollar to help the poor indus
trious man along or give for
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