The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-04

almost 10 the ground in the presence of the man
who has made $4,000 by one swindle
The New York Gold-rOom, which, durngFthe
war, was the scene of such unparalleled DIS
grace had for its President minister who was
formerly President of college. and there are
scores of men in the STREETS Today, on their
way to church, whose costly family wardrobes
anu splendid "turn-OutsD are made ont of the
distresses of the sewing women, whose money
goes INTO stock swndles. There is human
sweat in their golden tankaTds-there is human
blood IN their crimson plush-there are the
bones of Impoverished labor in the nearly KEYS
OF their pianos-there Is the curse Of an IN
censed God lowering over all their magpi6cence.
Some night he will not be able To rest. no will
rise up IN bewilderment and look abont crving
'Who's thGrep And the lony sktnnv arSs Of
the wrOnged and distressed will be thrust nnder
the curtain OF tapestry and touch his brow, and
feel for his heart, and slow their sepulchraI
breath into his face saying, Come to iildement
MAN CONE TO JUDGMENT ~
Where Is the Church OF God, that she allows in
her membership such gigantic abominatous?
Is Sin 10 be excused because il is as high as
heaven and deep as hell? The man who allows
his name to 90 as President or Director in con
nectlon with an enterprise that ne knows is to
result in the sale OF twenty thousand shares Of
an undeveloped nothing-God will tear off the
cloak OF hls hypocrisy, and in the last day show
HIM 10 the universe a brazen.laced gambler
coos anathemas will fash in his chandeliers
ana rumble IN his bowling alley, and rattle i'm
the swift hoots of his ''silyer-bittedn prevs If
he who steals a dollar from a IL noney.drawer Is
thiei, then he who by dishonesty gets $500. 000
is five hundred thousand times more of a thief;
and so the judgment will reveal.
To the young / turn with hone and utter n
warning that | would might reach not onlv
them, but, through these gentlemen of the press
might also reach tie absent. While you are
determined to be active business men, resolve
at the very threshold that you viii have nothing
to do with stock gambling. You will be solicited
to enter wilder schemes, lead and gold and sill
ver-minng companies, founded on nobody
lypo hot fp vyhot L..
There will be more mutual consuming coal com.
panIes who, not satisfied with the prices of the
ordinary coal dealers, will resolve themselves
into consuming associations, where the thing
consumed is not the coal but themselves. The
companies that were TO be Immaculate and
pledged 10 furnish coal absolutely at cost. set
ting the whole community TO playing, Whose
got the moneyw Stand aloOf from all doubtful
enterprises.
The stock gamblers life is wretehedly un-
happy. It, makes the nerves shake, and the
BRAN hot land the heart drycGnd lite disquetcd.
There is a man in this city, near seventy years
of age, worth well on towards q million, who is
stlll eaten up by stocks, torn in an inquisition
Of stocks, rode by nightmare OF stocks, and
with the earnestness of drowning man, rushes
into the brokers' shop, crying, "Did you gee me
those shares yo
But 1t destroys the soul. The day will come
wheh the worthless scrip will fail out On the
clutches OF the stock gambler. Satan will play
upon nlm the ''corneringn game which, down
on Third street, he played upon a felloW-oDera-
tor Now he would be glad to exchange all his
interest in Venango county for one share in the
Christians prospect OF heaven. Hopeless, he
falls back in his last sickness. His delrium is
filled with senseless talk about percentage and
commissions, ana buyer sixty days, and stocks
up and stocks down. The physician who feels
his pulse makes him feel that he is stealing his
Board book He starts up at midnight say.
ing:-"l000 shares in Reading at ll65! Take
it," Falls back deadi No more DIVIDENDS
Swindled out of heaven! Stocks down!