Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-03-15

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Bank ri l--I n. aaisiIr 1915: Bank of
Pare '2"a, Iijl; Hal- of Ans rdam,
lC.3; Bapk OF Hamburg. founded 1919, its
circulation laseI on great ST yer bars kept
in the vaults; Bank of Ens land, started
by William Patterson in 1912,
mp 10 this dav managing the
stupendous debt of England; Bank
Of Scotland, founded in 1886; Bank
Of Ireland, 1888: Bank Of North America,
planned by Robert Norris, III, without
whose financial help all the bravery of
our gTandtatHers would nothave achieved
American Independence. But now we
have banks in al our cities and towns,
thou ands ani thousands. On their
should ers are the interests of private in
diViduals and great corporations. In
them are the great arteries through which
run the currents of the Nations life. They
have been the resources of the thousands
OF hnanciers il. days of business exigency.
They stand for accommodate on, for
AGILITY, for Individual, State and Ma
tional relief. AT their head and in their
management there is a much interest
and moral worth as in any class or men
perhaps more. How nefarious, then, the
behavior of those who bring disrepute
upon this venerable, benignant and God.
nOnOred institution.
Il 1
because they fly in the face of that divine
goodness which seems determined to bless
this land. We are having the ighth year
of unexampled National harvest. The
wheat gamblers get hold of the wheat,
and the corn gamblers get hold of the
corn. The full tide of Gods mercy toward
this land is put back by those great bikes
Of dishonest resistance. When God pro.
vidos enough food and clothing to feed
and appar / this whole Nation like princes,
The scrabble o. di honest men to get more
ehan their share a.G e it at eli hazards.
keeps ever thi. liking " ith uncer-
anfv and eva~v b3dv asking, what
next? Every Haa, makes new rev.
atiOps. low uaay more bank
presidents AMI bank cashiers have
been Specializing with other peoples |
money, and how many bank directors are |
IN imbecile silence letting the perfidy go |
on, the great and patient God only knows |
Ny opinion is that we have got near the |
bottom. The wind has been pricked from |
the great bubble of American speculation. |
The men who thought that the Judgment |
day was at least five thousand years off,
found it in 1888, 1887, 1886; and this Nation
has been taught that men must keep
their hands out of other peoples pockets.
Great businesses built on borrowed capital |
have been elaborated and men who had
nothing have lost all they had. 1 believe
we are started on higher career of pros.
psrity than this land has ever seen, if,
and if, end if.
If the first mon, and especially Christian
men, viii learn never to speculate upon
borrowed capital. IL you have a mind to
take your own money and turn it all into
kites, to fly them over every commons in
the United States, you do society no
wrong, except when you tumble your
helpless children into the poor house for
the public TO take care of. But you have
no right to take the money of others and
turn it into kites. There is one word that
has deluded more people into bankruptcy
and State prison and perdition than any
other word in commerce al life, and that is
5ua word borrow; that one word is re-
3DOusibe for all the defalcations, and
snbgz Elements, and financial consternaA
lions of the last twenty years. When
executors conclude to speculate with the
,unds of an estate committed to their
charge, they do not pur DIN, they say
hey only borrow; when q banker makes
IN oveTdraft upon his institution, he
Ices not commit a theft, he only borrows.
When the officer of company,
,v flaming advertisement, in some
eiigious papers, and gilt cer-
itCate Of stock, gets a multitude
IF country people to put their small earn
ugs into an enterprise for carrying on
ome undeveloped nothing, he does not
raUdulently take their money, he only
)oJrows. When a young man with easy
.ccess to his employers money drawer,
" the confidential clerk by cl ose propin-
ruty to the account books, takes few
Loliars for Wall street excursion, he ex.
,ects to put it back; he will put it all
back; he will put it all back very soon.
Ie only borrows. What is needed is
ONE man Of gigantic limb to take his
,lace at the curbstone in front of Trinity
'hurch, and when that word borrow
comes bounding along, kick it clean
through to Wall Street ferry boat, and if,
TT liking on that, it bounds clear over till
strikes Brooklyn heights or Brooklyn
i'm, it will lie well for the City of
Churches.
WHY, when you are going to do wrong,
rr.nCuuce 50 long word as borrow, a
,ord Of sx letters, when Won can get
ro.fer word more descriptive OF the
ca ty. a word of only five letters, the
word steal?
There are times when we all borrow
nd borrow leeitimaie.v, and borrow with
be- divine hl,s sing, for Christ in his ser.
non on the mount eaions "from him
hat would borrow Of thee turn not thou
way" A young man rightly borrows
louev to get his education. Purchasing
house and not able 70 nav all down in
ash, the purchaser rightly borrows it on
lOIt care. Crises come in business when
would be wrong for q man not to Dor.
1w But I roll this warning through all
hese a sleS, over the backs of all these
evvs. never borrow 10 speculate;
OF q dollar, not a cent, not farthing.
-Oung men, Young men, | warn you by
our worldly prospects and the value of
our immortal souls, d not do it. There
re breakers distinguished for their ship
-racks-the Hanways. the Needles, the
asEsts, the D NV ers, the Anderlos, the
kerries-and many craft has gone to
iecas on those rocks: bat l have to tell
on that all the Hanways, and the
eedIes, and the Caskets, and the Skier.
les are as nothing compared with the
1ng line of breakers which bound the
ceau Of commercial life north, south,
9st and west. with the white foam of
heir despair and the dirge of their dam.
breakers OF borrow.
Ii I had only a worldly weapon to use
!, Lis sr,hiact I vnnld give Won the fact. |