The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-01-19

va NA1St' tHNuiJ uu1 hutu you l3he
sixty-Hye daysy' Perhaps the entire tire
payment is to be made at the end of a
Iyear, when you DO not know but that by
i.dJ time you will be penniless. Give
all men their due, if you would hold be-
neucent influence over them. Do not
he TOO rough in pulling out the weeds,
lest you uprOOt also the maTigOldS and
NeTOenaS. In the Stock Exchange there
are some of the most conscientious, up,
right, Christian men of our cities-men
VINO would scOrn a lie or a uhtertuge.
Indeed, there are men i'll the. Boards
VINO might, IN some respects, teach a
lesson OF morality to other commercial
circles. Will not deny that there are
SpeclaI temptations connected with this
business, even when carried on Iegiti-
mately. So there are dangers to theen-
glneer ON railroad. He does not know
| What night he may dash into the coal
| traln. But engines must be run and
stocks must be sold. A nervous, excita-
bic man ought to be very slow to under
take either the engine or the Stock Ex-
change. clever young man of TWEEN
ty-hye years of age bought ten shares
in the Pennsylvania Central Railroad.
The stock went up So per share, and he
made 500 by the operation. His mother,
| knowing his temperament, said to him:
| II wish you had lost it," Rut, encOur-
aged, he entered another operation, and
took ten shares i'll another railroad, and
made $500 By this time he was ready
for the widest schemes He lost in
three years $4,000, ruined his health.
broke his wife's heart, and was sup
ported by his father. Such a man as
this Is unit for this commercial sphere.
| lie would have been unfit for Il pilot,
unit for military command, unfit for
any place that demands steady nerves,
cool brain and well-balanced temper
ament.
But while there is legitimate sphere
for the broker and operator, there are
transactions every day underta ken in
our cities that can only be character
lZed as superb outrage and Ylllainy:
ana Ihere are members of Christian
churches who have been guilty of spec
ulatlOns that on the last day will blanch
their cheek and thunder them down to
everlasting cOmpaniOnship with the
lowest gamblers that ever pitched pen
MES for drink. 1t is not necessary
that | should draw the difficult line be-
tween honorable and dishonOrable spec-
ulatiOn. God has drawn ii through ey-
cry mans conscience. The broker
guilty of cOTneTing as well knows that
he Is SHINING against God and man as
though the flames of Mount Sinai singed
his eyebrows. He hears that a brother
broker has sold short, and Immediately
goes about with a wise look, saving:
"StOck is going down, stock is going
down; prepare for it," Immediately
the people begin to sell; he buys up the
stock, mOnOpOlizes the whole affair,
dragS down the man who sold short
makes largely, pockets the gain, and
thanks the Lord for great prosperity in
business. You call il "cOTneTing.' [
call it gambling, theft, highway rob
berry, Villainy, accursed. 1t is astOnish-
ing how some men who are kind in
their families, useful in the church,
charitable to the poor, are utterly trans
formed OF the devil as soon as they en-
ter the Stock Exchange. When | was
living in Philadelphia a respectable
: member of one of the churches of that
! city went into a brokers' office and said: :
{ Get me one hundred shares of Reading,
} and carry it; l will leave a margin of
$500" Instead of going up, according
to anticipation, the stock fell. Every
- few days the operator called to ask the
= broker what success. The stock still
!. declined. The operator was so terribly
e excited that the broker asked him what
6 was the matter. He replied: "IO tell
t you the truth, | borrowed that $500 that
D | lost, and in anticipation of what was
S sure | was going to get by the operation
1 | made very large subscription to the
[ | Missionary Society,"" The nation has
e astOnishment is excited thereby. The
t public conscience has for many years
T. been utterly debauched by what have
a.! been called fancy stocks, mOrus multi
S caulis, western city enterprises and
| new England development. If a man
g finds on his farm something as large as
the head of pin that in a strong sun
3 light spaTkles a little Gold Company
5 is formed, books are opened, working
3 capital is declared, select number go
in on the ground floor" and the estates
! of widows and orphans are swept into
: the vortex. Very little discTedit is con-
, nected with any such transaction if it
is only on a large scale. We can not
!; bear small and insignificant dishOnes-
ties, but take off our hats and bow al
most to the ground in the presence of
the man who has made 100000 by one
Swindle. A woman was arrested in the
streets of one of our cities for selling
mOlasses candy on Sunday. She was
: tried, condemned and imprisoned
| Coming out of the prison she went into
} the same business and sold mOlaSses
{ candy on Sunday. Again she was ar
: rested, condemned and imprisoned. On
: coming out showing the total deprav-
ity of a wOman'S heart-she again went
+ into the same business and sold mOlas-
1 ses candy on Sunday, wheTeupOn the pO-
= lice, the Mayor and the public senti-
#; menJ OF Jne city rose up ana declared
9 that, though the heavens fell, no woman
5 should be allowed to sell mOlasses can
D dy on Sunday. Yet the law puts it's
hands behind its back and walks up
1 and down in the presence of a thousand
I denominations and daTes not whisper.
D There are scores of men to-day on the
. streets whose costly family waTdrobes,
8 whose rose wood furniture, whose
4 splendid turn-Outs, whose stately man
g siOns, are made out of the distresses of
\ sewing women, whose money they
t gathered up in a stock swindle. There
a is human sweat in the golden tankards.
/, There is human blood in the crimson
: plush. There are the bones of unre-
t Quilted toll in the pearly keys of the
e piano, There is the curse of an in
n censed God lowering over all their mag
: nificence. Some night the man will not
q be able to rest. He will rise up in be-
s wilderment and look about him, crying
a "WhO is there?" Those whom he has
}, wrOnged will thrust their skinny arms
d under the tapestry and touch his brow
e and feel for his heart, and blow their
J, sepulchral breath into his face, crying: