The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-04
ORLEANS, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1874.
THE DAWN OF A BETTER DAY.
Hints that Ought to he Laid to Heart by
Canal street LOungers -What Our
Young Men Nlust Do-Hsw to c M
meMce Business.

The unexampled depression in almost
every kind of business has told sadly upon the
young men of the country. Such has assured
ly been the effect in every city and town in the
South. There are, probably, from five hun
dred to one thousand young men ont of EN-
ployment. This is no fault of their
own, but has resulted from success
siol of misfortunes which have forced
their emp loyers to curtail expenses to save
themselves from ruin.
poor young man ont of employment has
to pass through a terrible ordeal, but if he
possesses courage and philosophy, like An
t;eus, he will spring from the ground with
renewed strength, and pass through adversi-
ty and rise to new efforts and new triunpls.
In mistortunes there is nothing like vgor,
courage, the persistency which always Sc
cures its end.
| YOUNG MEN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT
should feel that
| d" The only real element of luck
Is genuine, solid. Id Teu,onic pluck"
The misfortune with young men is, they
never abandoned their accustomed ayoca-
tons until constrained to do so by hunger
and rags. Young men out of employment
should not scruple as to the kind of work
offered them Mawkish, senseess senti-
mentality should not restrain Them
Why those who accumulate fortunes in
the West by manual labor are to be respect
ed there and scorned if they attempt the
same here, we cannot exactly comprehend
in a country SO thoroughly democratic, nor
have we any sympathy with sentiment
founded upon SO absurd a prejudice
THE KID-GLovE CHARLATAN,
the mushroom of a day, who has yet the
odor OF tallow about him, may affect to
despise the trade to which he is indebted for
the position in society which his money pur-
chased-and of which he is totally I'M
worthy-but the true gentleman, the man
Of innate nobility of soul, the born patri-
clan, is influenced by no such narrow senti-
mentalism. No, let our young men stay at
home and engage in any legitimate occupa-
ton that may insure competency, even
though the have to tax off their coats and
roll up their sleeves and go to work. Bet
ter this than roughing it in the West; bet
ter thousand told learn trade than sink
all selfrespect by becoming fawning syco-
plant at the footstool of power, and living
on hope deferred until the heart grows sick
in anxious expectancy o! a few crumbs of
official patronage. Anything, we repeat,
but this; for even though the coveted office
ha O1,t a na1 " af aconronoo 20 N tl,ara no @bo+
tomorrow You are not set aGlrift to make
place for one more obsequious than your
self.
THE WRITER OF THIS ARTICLE
has served as devil, carrier, pressman and
compositOr, and has the right to assure
others that there is no disgrace in any kind
Of honest work, great as the drudging may
be. The large number Of young men throws
out of employment will have one good effect.
1t will stop the rush of young men from the
country to the towns and cities. 1t will
teach parents the necessity of making their
children farmers or learning them some good
trade. Farmers can always find employment
and but few industrious mechanics are ever
out of employment.
| THE DAY HAS PASSED
when any class can turn their backs upon
mechanics for all are now laborers alike.
The time has come when the full perception
and development of this truth has impress
ed itself upon society. The old prejudice
which has hitherto fostered the pride of
professional pre-eminence and bloated mush-
/ ~, ~,
been battered down and oblterated, and
mechanical pursuits and the laboring classes
have received an impulse that has driven
them into the ascendent. Men have found
motives for making
| FEWER LAWYERS AND DOCTORS
out OF their children, and more farmers and
mechanics. The country wants the men
who can build up the nation, who can con-
vert the secret forces of nature into the
living working forces Of practical mechan-
ism, and the toll masses of the hills and
valleys who can subdue want and scatter
plenty all over the land. Whilst society
recognizes these facts and is adopting
them, and conforming its usages to them, a
corresponding duty presses upon
THE LABoRING CLASSES.
They have a new destiny before them,
and its first demands are cultivation-ele-
walton. It says to them: Throw your
| whole mind into your vocation improve it
by study, penetrate it By philosophy, and
make yourselves learned. Work, but You
will have ample time to store your minds
with knowledge that will not only render
you useful in your vacations, but will
dignity your calling, and place it still
higher in the respect Of mankind where
God first placed it, when he said: " In the
sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy
bread"
Leona Dare will appear at the Diamond
Ring matinee tO-day-Academy.