The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-07-26

ana Georgia shaving shops pTONl-
ded a worse fate does not speedily |
overtake them.
The truth is, the whole country |
has become one common counting
room and huge gambling shop.
What we once did with the axe
and the hoe, the piowshare and
the reaping hook, we now seek to
accomplish by strategy and
chance, credit and speculatiOn!f
And we must, sooner or later,
come back to first principles, or
we must perish. We have too
many able bodied young men in
shady places; too much tape-cut-
ting and pin-selling and too little
cotton chopping and hay-curing;
too many yards sticks thrown
around loose on smOoth-top cOun-
tiers and not enough hoe-handles
and plowstocks, too many law
books and lager beer barrels in
proportion to the rail-splittinga and
dltch-digging; too much foolish
fashion an foppery, and not
enough sledge-hammers and saw
horses-in "a word, too much
acholesaLe idLeRess. Georgia has
to-day, buried in the rich bosom
of her varied soil and precious
minerals beds, greater wealth and
grander results than can ever be
worked out by canal projects or
Congressional enterprises. And
how is it to be done9 Not by
dreamy theories and mythical
plans, but in talking corn instead
of canals-in diversifying and de-
veloping our own vast resources
in writing more about home
effort and less about foreign i'm
migration-in planting less cot
ton and manufacturing more
yarns. In this and this only, lies
the great secret of Georgia sue
cess-agricultural as well as fl
nancial and commercial. We are
immensely rich in resources, but
miserably poor i'll the handling of
them. What we want is aoOrk-
honest, hard-fsted, intelligent,
well directed toll, labor and ap-
plication developing and utilizing
what we have here at home rather
than so many sposmodic efforts to
bring from abroad that which
we should not buy. Our poverty,
like our pride, is the result of mis-.
apprehensionS and mistaken ideas
of ourselves, of our country and
of each other. The abolition OF
slavery in the South has develop.
ed vast world of sickly senti
mental, lazy, INDECENT, stupefied,
inert and unapt population
population of young and middle
aged men, some of whom have
known better days. These men
put Oh old store clothes, hung
around dirty grogshops and
dingy hotels, smoke cheap cigars
and drink mean whisky, affect old
habits and anti-war style, talk
politics a little and curse destiny
and free negroes more. fret and
rume over the result of the
late war, write and sim up mort
gage liens an their cotton crop:
, before they are planted, pay tive
per cent. interest on money fOl
, nine months in the year and theI
! promise to pay annually in til,
fall more money per acre for com
mercial manures to scatter owe
t their lands than some of then
originally cost.
And, finally, when inattentiol
to business and general bad polio,
and miSgoyernment have brough
: them and their State TO tin
extremity of desperatiOn-whel
! ruin and bankruptcy stare us al
t in the face-we issue proclama
g tons, call public meetings, invit
!, distinguished gentlemen frou
!, abroad to come here and sympa
! thize with us. We meet in ban
: quet halls, drink much chan
l payne aud discharge more ga
over the great and absorbing
questions of canal schemes, Cor
]; gresSionai aid and cheap tranSpOl
I, tatiOn, than was ever expende
a by our forefatherS in diScussin
e the Declaration of American IndC
C pendence. And what does
d availa VIII these idle and extra,
y agant demonstration ever wor
/ out the great problem of Georgi
y independence MOI Never unit
y labor becomes popular will none
it get easy. Never, until we fee
ltI fancy less, and learn to fatte
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