The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-23
Thu Farmers Calling.

That farming is as sure, staple,
honorable and remunerative a bus
mess as one can enter upon has
been asserted and proved over and
over again. 1t ID true that other
kinds of business-trade, com
MERGE, and some kinds of manufac-
turlng-that speculations OF varl-
Gus kinds-banking and joint stock
Communicative, especially OF late
years, attracted much attention, and
have been popular with dashlng
and mbitious young men; still, IN
the experience of few past years,
the statistics of business disasters
and failures, the moral wreck OF
character, and the crash and ruin
Of men who were reputed rich, have
proven that farming Is an industry
less fuctAting, less depressed by
hard times, less subject to failure
a pursuit in which temptation to
dishonesty has had less influence
and in which men have pursued the
even tenor of their way with less
anxiety and with less exposure to
financial ruin and wreck of moral
character than any other kind of
business. That colossal fortunes
have been, here and there, now and
then, built up by speculation, sharp
practices, gambling in stock, spot
lation of labor. and by indirect and
direct robbery, we cannot deny;
but those fortunes, however, large
and glittering, dc rot stand up
as monments of public honor,
of patient industry, of painstaking,
honest labor, but they tower rather
as beacons, warning men to beware
of the hidden rocks and treacherous
Quicksands on which SO many of
life's voyagers have been wrecked.
These fortunes have no, solid founda-
tions to rest upon, and when the
floods come and the winds blow
they fall like the house built upon
the sand. Farming is q business
that rests upon sure foundation.
It demands honest work. 1t is not
up by the spoilatioa Of others. Its
gains, though they be small, are le=
ultimate and horably earned.
There is more capital invested to-
day in agricultural pursuits than in
all other industries combined. 1t
pays more for the support of gov
ernment and receives less protec-
ton AID consideration from govern
ment than any other interest.
In looking at farming in the
broad, full light of practical utility,
of safe Investments, of sure divi-
deRds and of the best public service,
we cannot help commencing it, and
urging it upon the yenng as pur-
suit upon the whole more satisfy
ing, less hazardous, more useful,
| honorable and remunerative than
other business. 1t gives = scope to
the intellect, a play to the magma
ton, 3 range to the affections, a
field to the inventive powers, q
work for hand and heart which no
other industry supplies.
But for any adequate realization
Of the advantages, the remunera-
tons and the satistactions of farm
ing, there must be among our pa
irons and farmers a high education,
a better culture and larger appre-
ciation of and devotion to their own
peculiar calling. They must see
and feel its Importance in its fnan-
cial, social, moral and industrial
bearings, and prepare themselves
with as much zeal and sarnestpess
by careful experiment, close obser-
walton and persevering study as
those who propose to enter
the learned professions, or the
paths of science, or study and the
practice of the arts.