The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-04-09
SEEKING CITY EMPLOYMENT.

who have congrcgated there II
search Of employment. The bull
'of them are planters sons, who
have left comfortable homes anC
opportunities for pecuniary al
vancement which they DO not ap
prcciate, and vaiuly seek n com
mercial life in the city.
Poor boys! dhey do not kno"
that a merchants life is the most
hazardous and annoying upon
which they could cntor-that, tax
ing city merchants rs a class, not
more than one in every hundred
actually succeeds in business, and
when death calls them hence, are
able to even leave their families
comfortable.
We really believe that lack OF
prosperity in our Southern country,
since the war, is more attributable
than anything else to OvcrcrOwdcd
cities and the large number of non
producers, who seek to make a live
lihood from the exertions of the
few who labor. AS a people we
cannot disobcy the Divine com
mand to earn our bread by the
sweat of our brows, without being
punished therefor.
Yonng men, whose fathers have
a surplus Of land, most certainly
commit a grave error when they
leave home and seek employment
in the city, Even granting (Which
is not the easel that all who thus
go to the trade centers, have an
ambition to become merchants
themselves, instead OF mere clerks,
still the chances Of promotion are
so uncertain, that no young man
who has land of his own, which he
might cultivate to advantage, can
afford to waste bis best energies
and the most precious period of
his life, seeking such delusions.
The cause OF these false steps
lies in the fact that labor has not
yet been properly dignifed, and
young men of spirit think they will
be more respected as merchants
than as cultivatOrs of the SOIL
This is foolish vanity. All how
many there are of the city-bred
people who would be only too glad
to escape from the slavery of city
life, where even the most trihIng
necessity requires money to pur.
chase it, and come to the country
to work the soil, pillow and hoe, if
they only had the means to get
here with their families and estab-
lish themselves. They appreciate
the advantages of country life, and
often express surprise that young
men should leave behind such op-
portunities as they really all pos,
sesS at home, and seek the very po-
wherein many have grown
gray in service, and yet we're never
lble to advance themselves peCuni.
lrily, because of the growing wants
If their families.
W. oursolf are country-born, al
a resident Of cities most Of
he time since boyhood, and we
inOw the truth of the above asser-
ions. Going to cities is O serious
mistake ofyoung men, and parents
hould do all in their power to pre-
'ent 1t. 1t is damaging, in most
asses, both pecuniarily, physically
nd morally.
How much better, if the young
zen would make up their minds to
o manfully to work, enclose a
iece of idle land, plant it, cult.
ate thoroughly, plant fruit trees
very year, raise the best Of stocks
ultivate a variety of. crops, be.
ome q real farmer, with neat build
lgs, good fences and every com.
'rt of a thrifty planter. The hap,
mess of such u life would by far
lceed city renown, if q good, in.
1strious and cheerful wife be
llled in to preside over the econo. !
les Of the household.
IMPORTANT To ST. JANDpy