Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-15

IN loJfi ana up 10 tnlS Gay managing tne
stupendous debt of England. Bank Of Scot
land, founded 1895. Bank Of Ireland. 1888.
Bank Of North America, planned by Robert
Morris 1871, without whose financial help
all the bravery of our grandfatherS would
not have achieved American independence
Eut now We have banks in all our cities and
towns, thousands on thousands. On their
shoulders are the necessities Of private indi-
vidual and great corporation. In them ar
the great arteries through which run
The Currents of the Nations Life. .
They have been the rescuers of thousands
of ffnancierS in days of business exigency.
They stand for accommodation, for facility =
for individual, State and national relief. At
their head and in their management there is
as much integrity and moral worth as in
any class Of men and perhaps more. How
netarious then the behavior of those who
bring disrepute upon this venerable benig-
uent and God honored institution
We also deplore recent events because
they fly in the face of that divine goodness
which seems determined to bless this land
We are having the fourth year of unex-
ampled national harvests, the last loads Of
the greatest Of them Just passing the garner
The wheat gamblers get hold of the wheat
and the corn gamblers get hold OF the corn
and. the biggest excitement Of last week in
Wall street, am told, was in regard to this
latter crop, the fate of which will be de-
cided by the next weeks continued heat or
sudden frost. The full tide of Gods mercy
towards this land is put back by these great
1rl- pf Itch
provides enough food and clothing to feed
and apparel this whole nation like princes,
the scrabble Of dishonest men to get more
than their share and get at all hazards
keeps everything shaking with uncertainty
and everybody asking: What next? Every
week makes new revelations. How many
more bank presidents and bank cashiers
have been speculating with other people S
money and how many more bank director
are in imbecile silence,
Letting the Perfdy go on
the great and patient God only knows! Ny
opinion is that we have got near the bot
tom. This has been the most valuable
summer for ten years The wind has been
pricked from the great bubble OF American
speculation. The men who thought that
the Judgment day was at least 5000 years
of found it was in the summer Of 1894 and
this nation has been taught that men must
keep their hands ont of other peoples
pockets.
There is one word that has deluded more
people into bankruptcy and State prison
and perdition than any other word in com
mercial lite, and that is the word borrow.
That one word is responsible for all the de-
falcaiions and embeZzlemcnts and financial
considerations OF the last four months and
OF tie lasr forty Wien executors conclude
to speculate with the funds of an estate
committed to their charge they do not pur-
loin, they say, they only borrow When
banker makes an overdrsft upon his insti-
tuition he does not commit theft, he only
borrows. When the officer Of company
by flaming advertisements in some religious
paper and gilt certificate of stock, gets
multitude OF country people to put their
small earnings into an enterprise for carry
ing on some undeveloped nothing, he
does not fraudulently take their
money; he only borrows. When
young man with easy access to his
employers money drawer, or the confden-
tial clerk by close proximity to the account
books takes few dollars for Wall street
excursion, he expects to put it back; he
will put it all back; he will put it back,
very soon. He only borrows. Why, when
you are going to do wrong pronounce in
such hot weather so long word as borrow,
a word of six letters, when you can get
shorter word, a word more accurate, word
more descriptiptive of the reality, word of
only FIVE letters the word steal
There are times when we all borrow and
borrow legitimately, and borrow with the
divine blessing, for Christ in his sermon on
the Mount enjons from MIN that would
borrow of thee turn not thou away" A
young man
Rightly Borrows Money
to get bis education. Purchasing house
and not atle to pay all down in cash, the
purchaser rightly borrows it on mortgage.
Crises come in business when it would be
wrong for q man not to borrow. But
call this warning through all these sisles
and over the backs Of all these pews never
oorrow to speculate; not dollar, not 9
cent not farthing. Young man, as you
value your worldly prospects and as you
value your immortal soul, don't do it
Let US all
Reconstruct Our Business and Our Homes
by the principles of the Christian religion
Our religion ought to mean as much on
Saturday and Monday as on the day be-
tween, and not be mere periphrasis
of sanctity. II ought first to make
clean our heart and then make
clean our life. Religion is not as
many suppose, matter Of church
delectstion, sort of confectionery, a spirit
raj caramel or holy gumdrop or sanctifed
peppermint or theological anesthetic, but
an omnipotent principle, all-pervading, all
controlling, alEconquering. With some
thing short Of that you may deceive your
self but you cant deceive God and you
can't deceive the world. The keen man Of
the world puts on his spectacles and looks
clear through the back of your head and
knows whether your religion is fiction or
a fact. And you cannot hide the deceptions
of the samples of your sugar or coffee or
rice or tea with the cloth of a communion
table. All your prayers 60 for nothing.
as long as you misrepresent your banking
institution and put in your report Of its re-
port of its resources more specie and more
fractional currency and more clearing
house certificates, and more legal tender
notes, and more United STATES certificates
OF deposit, and more loans and discounts
than there really are, and among your ha-
bilities do not make proper mention Of div
idends unpaid snd national bank notes out
standing, and individual deposits and what
is due to State banks and bankers.
! have also
Word of Comfort
for sl who suffer from the mslfessance of
Others, and every honest man, woman and
child does suffer from what goes on in tin-
ancisl scampdom. Society is so bound to-
gether thar all the misfortunes which good
people suffer in business matters comes
from the misdeeds of others Bear up un-
der distress, strong in God. He will see
you through though your misfortunes should
be centupled Philosophers tel us that
column Of air IS miles in height rests on
every mans head and shoulders. Bat that
is nothing compared with the pressure that
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