The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-07-13
The Honest Man the Only
True Citizen.

just balances, Just weights, Just |
ephah, and just hin, shall ye have
Leviticus 19, 36.
It is one of the peculiar and bril-
liant characteristics of our time and |
our country that the men at the fore
were, twenty or thirty years ago, in
possession of nothing but their pov-
erty and their ambition.
No nation affords such opportuni
ties as this and no people can use op-
portunity to greater advantage. The
youngster faces thousand possibili
ties and begins life with the conscious
ness that everything depends on him
self.
There are, however, different kinds
of success, some with logical result
tant of personal happiness and the
respect of the community, and some
marked by the lack of the one or Of
the other or of both. In other words,
the policy of honesty in aquisition,
which includes duties to your follows
as well as benefits to yourself, con
tains the clements of the only sue
cess that is worth having
The verdict of the people after the
announcement of maa's death is
generally fair and just. Their admi
ration is securely based on the drift,
the tenor and the moral quality of
the character they criticise. Their
condemnation is not the result of
prejudice, but is an impartial deduc-
ton from the facts.
The highest praise ever given to a
citizen is the sorrow of the commu-
nifty when he takes his departure
The most awful stigma that can at
tach to his name is public indiffer-
ence, or, worse still, the public sense
of relief When Peter Cooper ''put
on Immortality" he left behind him q
long life radiant with noble deeds
a memory which will grow brighter
and brighter unto the perfect day.
When George Peabody died, after
amassing millions, he remembered
his native land, left large portion
of his wealth for the education of th'
poor, and laid the whole natior
under obligation to his suprem
generosity.
The crucial test of character is
= mans willingness to have the verdic
of the multitude inscribed on hi
tombstone. It sometimes happen
that the bald and naked truth is th
one thing to be concealed after deatl
and the courtesy of the crowd n
strains them from saying what the
think.
, The statement that one can't g
on in this world without sacriicin
: his honor is unutterably false. Sue
theory is born of the densest ign'
1 rance and is not to be tolerated.
8 The methods of business are, as
whole, honorable commercial tran
y actions involving fortunes are co
e Quoted on the basis of unswervir
honesty; the word of our merchant
e as a general thing, involves no I'll
: : on the part of him who takes
hundred of thousand of mon
4 4 change hands every day with
It other security save the reputation
" the man who delivers and the m
ID who receives.
We have wealthy citizens by
score whose records are without ST
K. or blemish. They make with @
q hand and give with the other.
or do not begrudge them their good f
tunes or their wealth but are pro
OF their enterprise and their opulen
ly They furnish enthusiasm for the n
generation. They set stint for
boys who are just emerging fr
St their teens, and they prove beyc
es.
oh the possibility of doubt that