The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-12-13

suits were begun in one year, and in
many places it seems as if a new arrange
ment had been made of the command
ments, and instead of ten there were only
nine, the seventh commandment having
been left out. When you see how many
husbands and wives are parted by law
aud know of so many who would like to
dissolve conjugal partnership, do you not
come to the conclusion that Satan is en-
gagged in mighty industries?
Another route that Satan is apt to take
in his active travels is the factories and
other establishments where capital sits
in the Office or counting room and a good
macy hands of laborers are busy among
Wheels and spindles, and fabrics On
this visit he VII first step into the m anu
facturer's Office, and finding the owner
and proprietor OF the great establishment
all alone with his correspondence and
account books, says to him: "You are not
maxim, as much money as you ought.
You furnish all the brains. Were it not
for your enterprise this establishment
would not be in existence. These men
and women in your employ are Of very
common mold. Their appetite is coarser
and they do not need the luxuries you re-
quire. Their comfort and happiness are
of very little Importance. Put them
down on the very verge of starvation and
take all the profit into your own possess
sion, and if they do not like it tell them
to go where they can do better" Having
done his work in the counting-room Satan
steps right out among the workmen. He
says: 'sYou work too many hours and
you do your work better than it needs to
be done. You are serving bloated
bondholder anyhow. He has no
right to have any more than you
have. Why should he ride and you walk?
Why should he have tenderloin steak
and you salt pork? Capital is the enemy
of labor. Let labor be the sworn foe of
capital. Why don't you strike and bring
him to terms? Wait until he has large
order to fill by contract, and then he can
not help himself. Go all together, with
out moments warning, and tell him
you are going to stop. If he has more re-
sources than you know of and persists in
going on and getting new men, give them
volley of brlckbats or put a little
dynamite IN his Office and blow
him and his factory all up
with the same explosion" Look
out there on the night sky! Great fire
somewhere. What is it? The night is
cold and Satan has made big bonfire of
that factory to warm himself by. The
capitalist has lost heavily and the work
men and their families are without bread
and clio thing. "Whence CONTEST thou,
Satan?' From going to aud FRO among
employers and employees and from walk.
ing up and down among them. Ha! ha!
7 he nIu ho 10 !,
out of that strike. What splendid fire
and lots of smoke! Ha! Hal / like
smoke.o
Another route Satan is apt to take in
his II avels is through the mercantile es-
Establishments. He steps in and says to
the clerks: How much salary do you
get? Is that all? Why, you can't live on
that! You have right to enough for a
livelihood. A few quarters out of the
money drawer will never be missed, or
here and there is remnant of goods you
could take home without being found out;
or you could change those account books
a little, and you could make that figure
eight q naught aud that figure five q
three. and If you do not feel exactly right
about doing that you can some day pay it
back, which you can do perfectly easy
Don't feel like running the risk? Well, ther
you can't go to the theater, and you can't
go on that round with the boys, and you
will have to wear that plain coat, whereas
you could have your overcoat fur lined
and take board at a tip-top place, and
walk amid plush and tapestries positively
Oriental. While you are making up your
mind will just go through the different
parts of this great commercial establish.
meut and try every one from the wealthy
firm down to the errand boy" The result
OF that Satanic visit is that one of the
partners has drawn so much out of the
concern that the whole business is Grip
pied, and bright and promising boy is
sent home to his mother in disgracs and
young man is in Jail for embezzlem emit.
Three lives ruined and three eternities.
Whence contest thou. Satan? From GO
ing to and fro among mercantile houses
and from walking up and down among
them. l like TO ruin splendid fellows and
blast parental hopes, aud of all the Iiq-
uors that ever tasted fill my glass with
brewing of agonizing tears. Come le t
US click together the rims of our glasses
and drink to the overflow of fifty thou
sand young men ruined last yearl Huz-
Ao' NseoA Wouiu IdtucE nave one young
man than twenty old ones If he wou Id
win the septuagenarlans and the octoge :
narlans he could do but little harm with
them. But he says: "Give me
the young man, especially if
he be bright and generous and
social" He sees that young men
have for good or bad been the mightiest
influence in this world. Hern ando Cortes
conquered Mexico at thirty-two. Gus
tavus Adolphus became immortal in his :
tory so early that he died at thirty. eight
Raphael, the most famous of painters,
died at thirty seven. William Pitt was
Prime Minister of England at twenty
four. Jesus Christ completed his earthly
life at thirty three. Five years of q
young mans life are of more power for
good or evil than the last fifteen of an old
mans lii 9. So Satan is especial greedy
for young men, and in going to and fro in
the earth he has especial temptation for
them.
Another route that Satan on his active
travels is apt to take is for the despoiling
OF the peoples souls. 1t does not pay
him merely to destroy the bodies of men
and women. Those bodies would soon be
done any how: but great treasures are
involved In this Satanic excursion. On
this route he meets a man who is aroused
by something he has seen in the Bible.
and Satan says: snow / can settle all