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

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Swiudia." n--t was:
Whose trust -. be Z SPIDERS we0--,oD
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d.. Ta'ma said: The two most skill
fui ereL.lec.s Ia all the world are the bee
and the spider. The one puts up o sugar
mauulaclDly aud the other builds a
slaug-tg.-LgEss for flies. On a bright
summer morning, when The sun comes out
and shines upon the SPIDERS web, bedeck-
ed with dew, he gossamer structure
seems brigl. enough for a suspension
brid TOP supernatural beings to cross
on. But alas for the poor fly which, in
the latter part Of thu very day, ventures
on t. and IS caught and dungeoned and
destrCEat. Gle e. as informed that Il
was free lrdge & id would cost moth
ing, but at tile Othe. end of the bridge
the toll pal WAS its own life. The next
there comes down a strong wind, and
away goes the web and the marauding
spider aal the victimzed fly. So delicate
are the iEen threads of the SPIDERS
wed that many thousands of them
are put together before they
become visible 10 the human eye, and it
takes z, sl l9J of them to make q thread as
large as .la human hair Most cruel as well
as most .u ouioUs is the spider A prisoner
IN tho 8asl-g, France, had one so trained
that the sound Of a violin it every day
cane for rs meal Of flies. Job, the author
Of my tex. and the leading scientist of
his day, had no doubt watched the vorac-
ious process OF this one insect with an
other, and saw spider and fly swept down
with the same broom or scattered by the
same wind Alas, that the world has so
many designing spiders and victimized
flies.
There has not been a time when the
utter and black responsibility of many
men having the financial interests Of
others IN charge, has been more evident
than n hose last few years.
The r of banks and disappear
,hc. o. a"r...i .t.atgrs with the fund o.
IA &c and tie sorder amid post
office acc and deficits amid United
states .l al have made pestil encg OF
CRIME that muizes every thoughtful
man aud woman, and leads every philan-
throp and Christian to ask: What
shall a9 done ID stay the plague? There
is monsoon abroad, a typhoon, a sirocco.
lsomstlmgs ash, myself if it would not be
better for mon making wills to bequeath
the property directly to the executors
and officers 81 he court, and appoint the
widow and orphans a committee to see
that tho former got all that did not be-
long 90 Them. The simple fact is that
there on. ar~g number of men sailing
yacht. and living fast horses, and mem
bsrs g.. eEga usiye club houses and con-
trCl iu country seats who are not worth
dollar IL laly return to others their just
rights. Under some sudden reverse
they fail, and with afflicted air seem
to retire from the world, and seem almost
ready for nouastic life, when in two or
three years tl. y blossom out again, hav-
ing com. r0liseJ with their creditors, that
is, pa them nothing butregrets and the
only IL renee between the second chap
ter Of prosperity and the first. is that
their p lures arc Uurillos instead Of Ken
sets ana taoir horses go a mile in twenty
second less han their predecessors, and
instead 6 one country seat they have
three. nave watched and have noticed
tLot nine a.. of ,en of those who fail in
wha. e. ign life have more means
after l.uu before the failure, and in any
of the cases failure j. only a stratagem { 0
escape t.a pa m3nt of honest debts, and
put THE world OH the track While they
pracaig @ large swindle. There is some
thing woa.a Iy wrong in the fact that
these thing are possible.
First OF all, j charge the blame on care
less, Indifferent bank directors and boards
having ID charge great financial institu-
tons. Lt ought NOS to be possible for
presideuL %. q cashier, or prominent Of
fee Of banking institution 10 swindle
il year ai.lr year without detection. l
will undertake To say that if these frauds
are carried ON for two or three years with
out de cotton, either the directors are
partner ia the inlamy and pocketed part
of the theft or they are guilty of a cul-
pab.e neglect Of duty, for which God will
hold them as responsible as he holds the
ackn0wIed g2d defrauders. What right
have prominent business men to allow
their names 10 Do published as directors
in a financial institution, so that uuso-
phistiCated people are thereby induced |
TO deposit their money in or buy the |
scrip thereof, when they, the pub
lished direcI ors, are doing nothing
for tho safety of the institution? 1t |
is a ca OF deception most reprehensible. |
Many people with a surplus of money, |
not ne do8 Tor immediate use, although it |
may BE- q l-lC further on Indispensable, /
are V Huat friends competent to advise |
them E.. .naT are Guided solely by the /
char She men whose names are
assoc alaL with the institution. When /
the crash came, and with the overthrow /.
of IN hanks .nr the small earnings and /.
limit If widows and orphans, |
and .Ha sly aged, the dircc. ors /
stoo# u iE.tc stare, AID To the III /.
quily u tue lreuz ed deroSitors aud /
stock lla.s who had lost their all. and /
to tn, ar. air uWoIt OF an indignant pub |
lie had no,al.g 90 saw except:
s'Na ,aou Lg &c was all right. We did |
not ow .asra was any thing wrong 60
ing on.'
1t was th. duty to know. They stood
in a position vi hich delud d the people /
with taa laa shat they were carefully .
obselyaul Calling themselve directors,
they "a uotaIrecr. They had opportuni-
ty Of Gua.ru- accounts and inspecting
the b ass. u time to do so: Then thew
had no hu ness to accept the position.
1t seem &. .aa pride of some monied
men to us 5. IS IN a great many in
stitutiguE, and all they know is whether
or not they &c. their dividends regularly,
and their names are used as decoy-ducks
to bring u.-ars near enough to be made
game Of That first of all is needed is
that Ave tAgg and bank directors and in
surauCe company directors resign or at
tend to tlair business as directors. The
busness vot VII be full of fraud just
as long f.aud is easy. When you ar
rest the pr. dent and secretary of bank
for an euabozZ.ament carried on for many
years, have plenty Of sheriifs out the same