Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-09-12
CLEARFIELD, PA, "WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER l9

who IS hypoorte, lives constant lie
All the time he is pretending to be on,
thing and is actually entirely different
Many men who have been considered
most religious and ceremonious Of mer
In church matters, get exposed in the
newspapers, and then we find all the
time that they have been practicine
most wicked things.
| The Great Master teaches that nc
man can be superior who does such
things. l hope you will excuse my
quoting so much out Of teaching Of
Great Master, but want to show that
even il Christians would obey teaching
Of Confucius closely, even then, they
would be better than they are, and that
1t is because we try to follow his teach
ing, we have morality quite as good as
morality in Christian countries. And
this is not because Christian teaching
is not high and beautiful but because
christians laugh at their own teaching,
therefore VIC cunnot respect them, and
We feel that they have no right to call
us barbarous and uncivilized, until they
try to follow their moral teaching, at
least as well as we follow ours.
This is what Confucius says about
hypocritcs. "That which is called rec
tifying the motives is this do not de-
ceivc yourself hate vice as you do an
offensive smell love virtue as you love
beauty This is called self.enjoyment
Hence the superior man will carefully
watch over his secret movements. The
worthless man, when in secret, practi-
ces wee nay, there is no length Of
wickedness to which he does not pro-
coed, but when he observes the superi-
or man, he attempts TO conceal his vices,
and puts on the appearance Of virtue.
Men who observe see, as il were, his
heart and reins. What, then, does he
profit himsell2 This is what is meant
by the adage, What is really within
shows itself without Hence the su-
perior man must be careful over bis
conduct, when no eye sees him" This
is why | think it would be very diff
cult for superior man, if he was on New
York stock exchange, to become quick
ly rich.
When japanese first came in contact
with Western countries, Immediately
we began to have financial affairs with
them. Then at once we found ourselves
badly cheated. First, came currency
question in Japan, when all the mer-
chants applied under all kinds Of differ
ent names, not their own, for silver, so
as to escape the rule Of the treaty. AT
ter losing great deal of money, we fin
ally got that settled then Americans
sold Japanese government bad steam
crs, for great deal more than they were
worth, and again we were cheated.
Thcn people came from England to
persuade Japanese government to make
large loan then we did not under
stand foreign principle ofemitting loan,
and again in London we were cheated.
Finally, | determined to study financi-
al matters myself, first in London, then,
in New York. Then found financial
men in London cheat on different sys-
tenn from New York. | don't know
which cheat worst. ] will not now
try and explain where the difference
exactly is, but | will try and explain
what | have discovered about New
Turk ~ otOu. Pvi JapanvSo 10 40 -~.y
difficult TO understand all about stock
exchange, and "bull' men and "bear"
men, and railway and steamboat and
telegraph and other companies, and so,
even yet, feel very ignorent on such
questions. Nevertheless, very soon |
discovered that first thing ! must un-
dersand is, what is "ring," and how
"ring" can be made. For long time
no one would clearly explain this TO
me. AT last ! found true reason why
even clever financial men would not
explain it. Generally, they are very
so called pious kind Of men, and "ring"
is a sort of secret society among quite
few most smart men to cheat other
men who are not so smart, also TO cheat
the whole public which is generally
rather foolish. Therefore, pretending
pious financial men would not explain /;
only, finally, found financial man
not at all pious, also very smart he
explained all to me thoroughly and |
saw most plainly il was most wicked
thing, exactly opposed to teaching in
Bible, and also TO teaching of Confn-
cius, but ! have not space here to quote
his teaching on this point.
Therefore, Immediately thought it
must be duty of every clergyman, be-
fore he takes money from so.callcd pious
financial man, to ask, first, this import.
ant question, "Are you in any ring ?"
As | was studying moral question, i'm
mediately when thought this, l called
on n Clergyman, rather celebrated man,
and asked him, "Do you always ask
this question p Then he got rather
angry. lie said, not possible to ask such
questions, financial man would imme-
diately answer "mind your own bust
nessm Therefore, ho could not ask.
Then replied, in the words of Confu-
cus, what was duty of moral teacher
like him; because Confucus explains
very fully on this point lie says, su-
perior man must "examine very mar
rowly inferior man who prctends to be
SUPERIOR" hut clergyman Immediately
answered, "Confucius is only heathon
teacher Since that time, have not
talked with Clergyman on religious sub.
jects. Only ] study Bible then |
compare with it their practice. After
great financial panic came in New
York, | made very accurate moral
study concerning il, and inquired mar
rowly about the principal men who
failed because newspapers were call.
ing some ofthom thieves, and every one,
indeed, was abusing them very much,
because many people had lost money
by them. Then found nearly all were
so-called pious financial men so then |
inquired why so many financial men
must be pious, and one even founded
Theological seminary" who was most
celebrated in "rings.' Then my friend,
who did not pretend to be religious, OK
planned how, for many reasons, il was
great assistance in financial operations
to profess religion. Only he said he
himself was too honest; nevertheless,
he admitted that he made great for
tunes by cheating people. Even yet |
could not understand this matter