The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-09-05
WHAT WILBUR YOUNG MEN Do.

A friend came into the Constltu-
tion office few days ago and said -
My son has just flushed college; /
want to get him into business, and l
want you to help me. / have plenty
+ Of land, but farming don't pay, and
nv son prefers some other business.
The professions are overcrowded. and
l think it he can get situation ia
some business house he will do bet.
ter. He is a steady boy, willing to
4 work and has no bad habits. have
no money to get him up in business,
on his own account, and besides, I
prefer to let him learn something
''bout it before l risk any money, as
SO many fail in BUSINESS" There is
no doubt that halftlle farmers in this
State who have sons jast starting ia
life make the same mistake. Apv
man that has 500 acres of lard in
Georgia TO give his son is able to
Ieave him in better fix for living
han If lie had $4,000 in bank stock;
railroad stock OF money to give him.
Not one man in twenty five succeeds
in profession; not one in twenty
succeeds az a merchant or trader
No man WHO sticks to his business
and attends to it fails at farming
when We has the land to begin With.
We know no better mission for an
energetic, well educated young man
| than to take 500 acres Of land IN
Georgia and make it do its best. Let
him start out With the determination
TO sucr ed, let him work and see
that every one around him works;
let him continue from day to day,
from week tn week, and month To-
month, to add improvements to his
ianu; keep out of debt, and all he
makes more than u support let him
add to this land 10 permanent i'm.
Iprovements. He will find in ten or
fifteen years, as he begins to gather
Il family around him, that his land
has increased in value--that' be is
interested 10 his home, 10 his farm,
in his stock--that his children are
healthy and Independent and happy
in short, that Ire is a successful citi--
zen who has made himself comforta-
HE and added immensely to the
nr6sperity of his State. The hope
ofsou State is that the large farmers
wilfaslivi.e up their plantations
among their children (not forgetting
= g'oaseaueation, for that is just as
important for farmer as for a pro.
essional man, that their children
VIII keep ny with the progress of the
age in improving their places-stick-
ing with great fidelity to one fact,
and that is make everything they can
'"r home use. and buy only such
things as are absolutely necessary
j
and which they cannot make them.
selves. There is no greater faIlacy
than that embodieh ID the idea that
farming does not pay. F fly years
ag, it took one hushel OF co q to buy
II pound Of nails, now it will buy 20
pounds. Fifty years ago il took 80,
oze, eggs to buy a pound of salt,
now one dozen eggs will buy bush
ell of salt. in 1876 it required Ga
bushels of barley to buy one yard of
broadcloth, now five is large price
to pay for,it, with all the protection
OF our present tariff. Then 1T took
husheI of wheat to buy ward Of cal
leo, now you can buy 80 yards
Then l. took the price Of = cow to
''uy pair of wooden blankets, now
sou can get 20 pairs superior in eve
nv way for the price of good COW.
The purchasing power Of the pro.
ducts of our soil has increased enor-
mously and this increase is in every
direction. 1t demonstrates, beyond
louhtsthat there is money in farm
ing properly. A man must exercise
be industrious aud eco.
n"mical to succeed. but ifh he cannot
Ito this lie will fail in anything. It
is the duty of every land owner in
this State to instill into his children
he necessity of looking alone to his
land for living. II is the most re-
liable; paaics may come but they
"i'' not affect the Industrious farmer
no is out Of debt with good house
!" I've IN. Tier. is no happier man
IN our Stste to day than an industri.
Gus, economical, contenteti, educated
farmer. The great Creators idea Of
i,appiaesS for man was the Garden Of
Eden. And all the evils that follow.
Ell are the result OF desire to i'm
prove on what God then made per-
feet, and from that day to this mans
|happiest days were spent at home on
IA farm that he had beautifiel with
his cwn labor, eating his own bread
nn'ter his own vine an, f., tree. Let
our Young men who are looking for a
situation after g'lng through college
make up their minds to take the land
their father is willing to give. bet
him resolve to make living on it,
and to add the surplus each year to
its Improvement. Diversity the
| rrons in it, selpct that m,;h