Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-24

divorces, and in the New England Of
steady habits, , 113. In one county OF
Illinois $50 divorce suits were begun IN
one year, and in many places it seems as
if a new arrangement had been made OF
the commandments, and instead of ten
there were only nine, the seventh com
mandment having been left out. When
you see how many husbands and wives
are parted by law, and know of SO many
who would like to dissolve conjugal
partnership, do YOU not come to the con
~clusion that Satan Is engaged in mighty
industries?
TAN IN TIE FACTORY.
Another route that Satan is apt to take
in his active travels is the factories and
other establishments where capital sits in
the Office of counting room and a good
many hands Of laborers are busy among
wheels and splndles and fabrics. On this
visit he will first step INTO the manu-
facturer's Office ard finding the owner
and proprietor of the great establishment
all alone with his correspondence and his
account books, says to him: You are
not making as much money az you ought.
You furnished all the brains. Were it
not for your W enterprise this estab-
lishment would not be in existence.
These men and women in your employ
are of very common mould. Their ap-
petite is coarscr and they 90 not need the
Injuries you require. Their comfort and
happiness are Of very little importance.
Put them down on the very verge of
starvation and take all the profits into
your W possession, 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: You
work too many hours and you do your
work better than it needs to be done.
You are serving a bloated bond holder
anyhow. He has no right to have any
more than you have. Why should be
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 a large order to fill by con
tract ana then he cannot help himself.
Go all together, without a moments
warning, and tell him you are going to
stop. If he has more resources than you
know Of and persists in going on and
getting new men, give them a volley of
brickbats 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 some
where. What is it? The night is cold
and Satan has made a big bonfire Of that
factory to warm himself by. The capital
list has lost heavily and the wCrkmen and
their families are without bread and
clothing. Whence contest thou, Satan?"
From going TO and fro among employers
and employees and from walking up and
down among them. Ha! Tia, / was the
only one who made anything out Of that
strike. What a splendid fire and lots of
smokel Hal Ha, like smoke
SATAN IN II ToR
Another route Satan is apt to take in
his active travels is through the mercan-
tile establishments. IIesteps in and says
TO the clerks: How much salary do
you get? Is that all? Why, you can't
live on that! You have a right 10 enough
for a livelihood. A few quarters out Of
the money drawer will never be missed,
or here and there is a rcmnant 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 a naught and that figure five
a three, and if you do not feel exactly
right about doing that you can some day
pay il back, which you can do perfectly
easy. Don't feel like running the risk?
We'll then you cant 60 to the theater and
you can't go on that roundw with the
boys and you will haveto wear that plain
coat whereas you could have your over
coat fur lined, and take board at a tip
top place and walk amid plushand tapes
tries positively Oriental. While you are
making up your mind | will just GO
through the different parts of this great
commercial establishment and try every
one from the wealthy firm down to the
errand boys" The result of that Satanic
visit is that one Of the partners has drawn
to much out Of the concern that the
whole business is crippled and a bright
and promising boy is sent home to his
mother in disgrace and a young maj is in
Jail for embeZzlement. Three lives ruin
ed and three eternitles. Whence CONTEST
thou, Satan? Prom going to and fro
among mercantile houses and from walk
ing up and down among them. like to
ruin splendid fellows and blast parental
hopes, and of al the liquors that ] ever
tasted fill my glass with a brewing of
agonizing tears. Come. let US click to-
gether the rims of our glasses and drink
TO the overthrow of the fifty thousand
young men | ruined last year. Huzza!'
Satan would rather nave one young man
thar twenty old ones. If he would win
the septuagenarians and the octogenar-
ians he could do but little harm with
them. But he says: "Give me a young
man, especially if he be bright and gen
erous and social" He sees that young
men have for good or bad been the
mightiest influence in this world. Her
nando Cortes conquered Mexico at
thirty-two. Gustavus Adolphus became
immortal in history 50 early that he died
at thirty-eight. Raphael, the most fam
Gus of painters died at thirty-sevcn.
" lillian Pitt was Prime Minister of Eng
land at twenty-four. Jesus Christ com
pleted his earthly life at thirty-three.
Five years in q young mans life are of
more power for good or evil than the last
fifteen of an old mans life. So Satan is
especial greedy for young men, and in
going to and fro in the earth he has
especial temptation for them.
+ THE DEsPOnER OF SOULS.
Another route that Satan on his active
tr&vels is apt 10 take is for the despoil-
ing Of the peoples souls. 1t does not pay
him merely to destroy the bodies of men