The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-01
ANOTHER TUMBLE.

He had been State Senator. He had
been volunteer patriot soldier during
the Rebellion. He had been respecta-
BILE shoemaker. He had been member
of the House Of Representatives OF Mas
sachusetts. He had been Police Justice
He had been Chairman Of the School
Committee. He had been prominent
communicate of an orthodox church.
He had been Grand iCe.Chancellor Of
the Order of the Knights of Pythias. He
had been the incumbent Of various minor
Offices - had the Honorable Newton
Morse, of Natick, Mass. A few years ago
he was intensely respectable. He is now
yagabond, having deserted his wife and
children and vanished into infinite space,
and leaving behind him a memory by
no means fragrant. All this wreck and
ruin and running away comes OF the
Honorable Newton Morse's passion Tor
mortal combat with the tiger. To gratilfy
his penchant for gambling he has swim
died his friends, cheated his children
out of money left them by their poor
dead aunts, pilfered public funds intrust-
ed to him, borrowed with no prospect OF
paying and thrown away whatever was
his own. 1t is rather curious fact that
he was the predecessor of the renowned,
reverend and Honorable E. D. Winslow
in the State Senate. Although minor
sinner, he is sinner of the same sort,
The breed to which he belongs seems to
be in no danger of extinction. 1t is not
confined to crowded cities. 1t blooms
and bolts in spite Of the moral influence
of the rural districts. There cannot be a
prettier place than Natick in which to
cultivate the most desirable virtues and
vet the.Honorable Newton Morse resided
and turned rascal in Natick, and from
Natick he ran away, on or about the 2Oth
inst.
Reflections on this lamentable case and
upon those like it are in order, although
they may not do much good. What first
suggests itself is the credulity Jf society.
Is there any good reason why Wlnslow
and Morse and the late respected jackson
of Boston, now in State Prison, should
not have been out long before the final
and fatal denouement The fact IS
morally mysterious, that such men should
be so successful before they succumb to
the inevitable catastrophe. The world
brides itself upon its aCuteness, and yet
the world, so far as these sharpers are
concerned, is an idiot. The church is
rather careful of its membership, and
vet it receives the Winslows and the
Morses. The town voter doesn't have
any passion for paying taxes, and yet he
trusts the town money to the least worthy
custodian possible. The Knights Of
Pythias black ball forty other candidates
and admit the Morses, and make them
e.ChanCellors, Queerly enough their
credit is always at the best, until 1t van
ishes altogether, They are made execu,,
tors, administrators and assignees, and
trustees. Widows rely upon them. Or
phans look up to them. Banks make
them directors. Scamps as they are, they
inspire confidence while the really good,
who have not such nice ways, are dis
trusted. Dishonorable, they are Hon
orable." Breakers of the law. they make
laws for others. False in every fiber,
they are reverenced as truth itself! 1t
NAV seem rather hard to blame poor,
plucked, pillaged society, and yet it has
only itself to thank whatever it has thus
egregiously taken in. In the first place,
it is r reckless respecting all public affairs !;
and in the second place, it has not the
moral courage to say" No" The Dishon-
orable Honorables takeit captive. Their
audacity charms it into drawing tie
doomed wallet. Under an inevitable spell
it writes its name across the back of a
promissory note. And so it goes on lend
ing and signing, until the day ofexposTre
has come. Then it puts on sackcloth and
powders itself with ashes and groans over
its departed ducats, So are they sigh
ing to-day in Natick, Mass, and vowing
to be more careful hereafter; and so they
will be until another Winslow or Morse
makes his appearance.