The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-06-10
GO, Buy a Farm.

now invaluable becomes money as
an adjuvant of labor. But money
itself is the least efficient of the ser.
yitors Of tireless industry. 1t is
worthless when ullused,. anu if used
is exceedingly apt to take wings Of
bankruptcy or fraud and fly away,
like bright deity, as misers deem
it. Therefore industry wisely seeks
the ownership of land, anu, after all,
this is the best possible property
A little farm is the choicest colabor-
er lab0rer can have. 1t cannot be
stolen. Thieves and swindlers are
impotent for mischief and no prop
erty owner is so nearly king as the
unindebted. farmer. Life assurance
is SO infinitely less trustworthy and
so ruinoas' to- the commonwealth,
promoting likeness and taking, from
the State the hardiearnedl gains of
the people for investment abroad,
that the law should prohibit the
operation and existence OF these for
eign corporations within the State.
There is no acquisition which so
blesses alike the individual and so.
cicty as that of a farm and house
and garden. A few acres are the
surest and best workers. Their la.
bors are tireless. They never rest
They have plenty when sickness and
age come upon US, themselves never
growing cid, and only more valua-
hle with age. BIT is not difficult to
become a land owner in Louisiana.
Steady industry IN any avocation
will soon enable the least capable,
where realty costs so little, to accom-
plish the purpose, and yet it grows,
in value, when cared for By indus.
try, with marvellous rapidity. The
poorest waif thrust upon the bosom
of this great commonwealth can
have farm almost for tho asking,
and yet multitudes of aimless wan
derers haunt the purlieus of cities
and towns and almost starve in list.
less idleness about whisky shops
waiting for "something to turn up,n
while trifiing sum will give to the
poorest a farm in Louisiana and the
States organic code interposcs and
no earthly power or misfortune can
deprive the owner of his homo. He
can render it inestimably valuable
and wife and daughters may make
it a very paradise, and yet while he
and they live this homestead is their
own. The law itself cannot eject
them. Every man and boy, under
the protecting laws of Louisiana,
should be land owner. "Every
head of family, or person having
mother or father, person or per.
sons dependent on him or her for
support" should own homestead
be bound to the soil by those indis-
soluble ties, which the trainers of the
new Constitution of Louisiana have
recognized as the sure basis of
patriotism. Where land cost so lit
tie and where it is the best security
for comfort in old age, where organ.
ic law pronounces it the surest guar
antee Of good citizenship and of pa
triotic action, there is surely every
possible inducement for each inhabi-
tant to become land owner.
No matter what the elements Of a
peoples greatness may be, no human
power can keep them from falling
into decay and sin without the pre-.
serving force of Christian virtue and
character. The old nations of the
world died for want of righteousness,
and so it will be with modern ma.
items that do not learn and profit by
all human experience.
We most respectfully stappest. tn