The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-26
IFS.

If the hard times will only make some OF
our people who are annually in the habit of
running off to distant places to spend the
money made here and needed here stay at
home, WHY the times will not be so hard after
all.
If our ladies' who have their dresses made
abroad or at expensive dress making estab-
lishments here, would only give the work to
those poor women who are actually starving
around them for want of something to do
the world would seem brighter and lovelier
place to many now despairing family.
If those of our young men who are idling
around the city doing nothing, and cursing
their luck and the hard times, would throw of
their broadcloth coats and put their dainty
hands TO some honest labor wherein they might
make the money required to buy the salt and
food that maintains them in elegant laziness,
they might achieve not only the good opinion
of their fellow-men but even fortune.
A young fellow dressed in broadcloath and
ornamented with q handsome beaver came
into our sanctum on Tuesday and asked us
most piteously for just ten cents to buy loaf
of bread withal And yet that young man
had braved death an hundred times during
the war, had starved with the rest of us, and
cheerfully borne the trials and hardships of
soldiers life. How is it that now, the war
being over. he shrinks from labor and stoops
to beg. One would think that in pre-
ference he would choose to wear his hands,
his very life, away rather than accept aims.
It is a tough battle, we know, it is incompar-
ably harder to struggle with that most unre-
lenting and savage of all foes, poverty, than
to march amid the blare of trumpets and roar
of cannon to meet grim death itself; but it
must be done, and those young and really
gallant fellows who have been equal to the
one must not shrink from the other. They
must remember that any sort of honest
labor is elevating, and that a gentleman is
none the less such because his clothes
are soiled and his hands begrimed. Labor
dignifies and ennobles; while wilfull idleness
debases and makes of man thing almost be-
meath contempt. If clerkships do not offer,
there are other avenues; if the city be too full
of book keepers and other accountants, the
country needs other kinds of laborers; if the
political offices are all filled there are plows
lying idle in our fields. There are
of course some exceptions, but as q
rule all the unemployed young men
in New Orleans can find employment
if they choose to-not just such employment
as they would select, perhaps, or as would be
most congenial to their cultivated tastes, but
such as would enable them to earn what they
need and what they consume. Glossy bea-
vers, kid gloves, broadcloth, and idleness will
bankrupt any community.
If Superintendent Loan goes forward man
fully and zealously in the path he has marked
out for himself-if, in other words, he sue
ceeds in Kidding decent neighborhoods Of
and lewd women and houses, con-
fines the demi-monde to their legitimate locali-
ties; smashes bunko into dim memory Of
the past, and makes thieves like Matt Hogan
and others exceedingly scarce, he will deserve
the thanks of the entire community. As he
has begun so let him continue, and it will not
be very long before the police will beregarded
IS protection instead Of nuisance.
If frightened billy goat with tin can
lied to his curiously curled caudal appendage,
were to dash at full speed down Carondelet |
street one of these dull and sweltering days, |
The brokers would no doubt get up purse |
for the wicked youth who should originate |
The brilliant idea. 1t would serve to break |
the dreadful monotony and give the street |
to talk about.
If, while trying to reduce the amount to be |
paid to every outside city creditor, the city |
officials would take reasonable slice out of |
their own rather toppy salaries, after the man
ner proposed by Administrator Burke, the
creditors might feel more cheerful. We be-
ieve the Administrators draw their salaries |
monthly in cash. Now, how often do the |
school teachers draw theirs, and how about |
hose poor fellows who hold labor certificates |
Il charity begins at home, likewise should |
IT there were more summer cars there |
would be more travel ON our street and subur-
ban railroads. We join the Times in praying
or them.
Humors and sores of long standing are in
'allibly cured by Marsden's Zarsaparilla.
Ask your grocer for Paragon yeast powders.
City Scrip