New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-22

another party's good name, or by borrow
ing. Some men have singularly graceful
kRack at either of these things They run
up bills at the bakers, the butchers, the
shoemaker's, the grocer's, or the hotel,
everywhere bat the railroad depot, with a
felicity of manner that would work won
ders in a good cause, and that astonishes
an honest man. While he is harassed al
most to death, in these hare times, to pro-
vide things honest in the sight of all men,
these gentlemen with nothing a year seem
to have few anxieties. He is almost
tempted to try the same game, could he
only learn the happy secret. But we ad-
wise cur friend to be content. Let him not
envy these gentlemen, their dainties, or their
bliss. There is a worm gnawing at the root,
and by and by the green bay tree will come
down. Soener or later payday comes to
every man, to every nation. If they have
lived too fast and drawn upon the future,
that future will have its retributions. 1t
will at last appear, and that's what we are
driving at-that they who live on nothing
a year live on somebody else's something a
gear. Somebody must earn the money.
Somebody must meet the condition, "By
the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat
bread" And that somebody will at length
discover that he has been sweating for him
self and another man toe, and he won't
stand it any longer He demands q reck-
oning. Then comes revolution in affairs.
The account is looked into, and woe to
that man-that community which has
been trying to live on nothing year.
Has not just this been the ruin of the
rowed capital not ON this year, but the
next; and what is this but living on nothing
a year? Multitudes who, if an instant
settlement had been demanded would have
been bankrupt, because living on the year
to come-always a year ahead Of their
means-were accustomed to indulge in lux
ury aud extravaganza of every kind.
They would smoke the best cigars,
drink the most costly wines, eat
the most EunptHous dinners,
wear the handsomest boots, sport
the dainsiezt gloves, be crowned with the
most exquisite hat, and drive the fastest
horses, as if they were made of gold. How
the waters and bootblacks adored them.
How the ladies worshiped them-they
we're such glorious fellows. Flush with
their money, they despised the Yankee who
could not forget his grocer, and tried to
keep within his means. And yet these
magnificent fellows were living on nothing
year. Does not the present exhausted,
prostrate, bankrupt condition Of the South
prove it? The payday has come, and there
is nothing to pay, The future having been
drawn upon to exhaustion refuses to answer
any more demands. The fearful truth has
come to light-these people were living on
nothing a year for what else can we call
living on that which one can not truly call
his own. The only remedy is to turn over
new leaf. The old game can not be re-
peated. Nobody will trust these men.
Capital shuns them. They must conform
to the stern exigencies Of the times. They
must live within their means, live upon
their own means, their present means, and
not borrow from the future. If they can
not run large plantation, let them sell
of what they can not work, and try
their fortune upon small farm, which they
can oversee themselves. The trouble has
been too many consumers, too few pro.
dueers. Reverse the order. Multiply pro-
dueers. Let every man go to work and
earn something. Don't let him try to live
on nothing year. 1t is hazardous bust
ness The old system has brought disaster
and ruin. The new system faithfully car
ried out Will bring prosperity.
Let The young men especially take to
heart the sound advice Of one of their own
number, nearly year ago, 0. the thirty
nth anniversary of DOlbear Commercial
college: This is an age requiring work,
hard work, and he is most useful to his fel-
low man who is not ashamed to labor, and
endeavors to develop the resonrces of our
section"