New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-31

sons shall have 90 hard time" He doe
not reflect that the very hardships ant
trials have made him what he ie, and tina
the natural fitness of his sons for certain
occupations is essential to their success
therein. Suppose farmer were to put hi
hors. into a cage, and canary bird before
the cart! How we should laugh at bic in
congruity of idea. Yet this would De NJ
more absurd than to force young maj
into position for which he has no apti
tude. The pulpit is full OF men weo were
ordained to keep out OF 1t: Inc profession
are full of men who ought to be IN mecnan
zeal pursuits; and the trades and nercan
tile occupations of men who ought to bt
professional men or farmers. So whe
these great 1evulsions come in the world 0:
business, these men 60 down, down, anc
never rise again. How many men there
are out Of business, and therefore cUmber
ing society. They go home to their parents
orr to some good old aunt, and eat the
bread of idleness and dependence through
inability to battle with the world.
II it were not for the trust OF man IN mar
there could be no society, no trade, no IN
tercourse between nations. There is some
thing wonderful about this trust; it is not
the man whom you have seen that you trust
but the man Of whom you have heard. he
NAV be in London or Bombay or Hong
Kong, but YOU accept his check in exchange
of your merchandise, and thus the traffic OF
the world goes on. Thus it comes that one
Of the greatest wastes OF life Is talsehoOd
Man has more work to do on man than he
has on sea, or air, or land, or wood. or iron,
orscotton, or wool. Were all men honest
and true how easily would business be done.
| verify believe one-half the employees OF
our great establishments could be dispensed
with if it were not deemed necessary to
hire one set to watch the other In the
old times, when no mans life was safe, men
wore coats of mail under their garments.
How slowly they moved, and how weary
was the load. We do not wear mail, bnt
We do carry the heavy load OF distrust en-
gendered by dishonesty. radical recon
struction OF society is needed to purge out
these wasteful and burdensome elements.
Another great waste comes from the in
diligence OF mems appetites and passions.
The worst Of all forms of dissipation is that
by which men while young destroy their
nervous systems and make themselves old
at twenty five, and before they reach the
middle age 20 down in wreck, and we won
der what killed them. Men need strength
in just the place where dissipation weakens
them. Many a man says: II drink when
want to, and it is no business of yours"
But it is the business of every one in So
owes virtue, honor and sObriety TO society.
Another waste is the incubus Of old, worn
out laws, forms, institutions and cast-irOn
religions, weighing down society. Such
was the malaria Of slavery, which over
spread our country, for which peculiar
venera:;on was felt. Now, in the school,
when the scholars get beyond their b
abs. we put them in higher class. If an
institution is OutgrOwn, it must grow or he
discarded. Society changes, and men 60
on thinking that they are living along in
whole fabric has been changed. So laws are
kept in name, but ignored in practice. Be-
liets are adhered to in name, but they are
no more like the ancient beliefs than black
is like white.
The great burden and waste is war.
Combativeness and destructiveness have
allied themselves to every form Of civiliza-
ton. They give rise to sects in Christi
anity, to prosecutions in the name Of re-
ligion, and plunge society into cruel and
relentless war. Now l do not hold that
war is always culpable. If the race were
20 developed as to live in the upper part
of the brain, war would be wicked. But
men az yet live in the lower part of the
brain in great part, and whatever truth or
error there may be in Darwinism, there
can be no doubt that we live with the ami
mails ard carry them aroned in our ma
lures. Nothing proves this more than the
love of blood iHherent in human nature.
Not even the love of money will so unite
nation as the call to arms.
We had hoped that this Internal spirit
was quenched, though was not one of
those prophets who, twenty years ago,
went about proclaiming the approach of
universal peace, and found out their mis-
take when the Crimean, the AustrO-1talian,
the Prusso- Austrian, the rebellion, and the
Franco Prussian war became facts. Never,
in the history of the world, was so much
iron used for purposes of death as now;
never 80 much charcoal converted into
gunpowder: never the time when war was
so oppressive to industry. War burns up
everything; cannon waste, swords waste,
men waste, and of the debts Of the great
nations by far the heavier portion are war
debts. Occasionally. as in the old French
monarchy, when commerce, trade, and in
dustry were hampered by the crown and
even the farmers could not cut timbers on
their own lands, war may break the bonds
and give freedom, but ordinary dynastic
wars are absolute sheer waste.
The dangerous classes in the community
are another great waste, and represent dis
tinctly the top and the bottom classes, the
great middle class being the salvation Of
society. TIE lower class is dangerous, be-
cause animal and explosive; but the upper
class, while possessing higher qualities is
even more dangerous by holding itself
aloof from the great toiling masses. TIE
merchant is too busy, the lawyer too high,
the minister too good, to mingle IN politics,
and so they stand by and see the political
machinery controlled by the dangerous
classes" No treason to the State is COM
parable to this. As the man prospers So
he owes it TO the State to give his best en-
ergies to it's progress and benefit. He who
makes all that the commonwealth does for
him reason for selfshness and self indul-
gence is a traitor, and no treason is so dan
gerous as his.
Many brilliant points in the lecture were
rapturously applauded, and some hits pro-
duced roars of laughter, particularly when,
at one time, the applause coming rather
late and little undecided, Mr.. Beecher
remarked, in his quaint way, "that is very
well, as far as it goes" He held the vast
audience unclaimed for an hour ana half.
and all retired with EXPLANATIONS of de-
light.-N0tional Republican.
A Plea for Corsets.
The opening lecture of Mrs. Walter C.
Lynan's first course to ladies, was delivered
yesterday afternoon at Association Hall.
The lecturer, while advocating most of the
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