Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-03-17

reputation.
The president of the American con
gress during the American revolution,
Gen. Reed, was offered ten thousand
guineas by foreign commissioners if
he would betray this country. He re-
piled: Gentlemen, | am a very poor
man, but tell your king he is not
rich enough to buy me-" But why go
SO far, when you and l, If we move in
honorable society, know men and
women who by all the concentrated
force of earth and nell could not be
bribed. They would n more be
bribed than you would think Of tempt
ing an angel Of light to exchange
heaven for the pit To offer a bride is
villainy, but it is q very poor compli-
ment TO the man to whom it is offered.
have not much faith in those peo-
pie who go about Dragging how much
they could get If they would only sell
out. Those women who complain
that they are very often insulted need
to understand that there is something
in their carriage TO invite insult.
There are men at Albany and at Har-
risburg and az Washington who would
no more be approached by bride than
a pirate boat with q few cutlasses
would dare to attack a British man-of-
war with two banks of guns on each
side loaded TO the touch hole. They
are incorruptible men, and they are the
few men who are TO save the city and
save the land. Meanwhile, my adj
vice is to all people to keep out of
politics unless you are invulnerable
to this style Of temptation. Indeed,
if you are naturally strong, you need
religious b~uttressing. Nothing but
the grace of God can sustain our pub
Lie men and make them what we
wish. i wish that there might come an
old fashioned revival of religion, that
il might break out in congress and in
the legislatures and bring many of the
leading Republicans and Democrats
down on the anxious seat of repent
ance. That day will come, or some
thing better, for the Bible declares
that kings and queens shall become
nursing fathers and mothers to the
church, and il the greater in author.
ity, then certainly the less.
BRIBERY BEGINS AT HOME.
Ny charge also to parents is, re
member hat this evil OF bribery often
begins in the home circle and in the
nursery. Do not bride your children.
Teach them TO do that which is right,
and not because of the ten cents OF
the orange you will give them. There
is q great difference between reward.
ing virtue and making the profits
thereof the impelling motive. That
man who is honest merely because
honesty is the best policy" is already
q moral bankrupt
Ny charge is to you, in all depart
ments of life, steer clear Of bribery,
all Of you. Every man and woman al
some time will be tempted to do wrong
for compensation. The bride may moi
be offered in money. Il may be Of
fered in social position. Let US re
member that there is O day coming
when the most secret transaction O.
private life and of public life will come
up for public apprehension. We can
not bride death, we cannot bride sick.
ness, we cannot bride the grave, we
cannot bride the judgments of that
God who thunders against this sin.
'Fiei' said Cardinal Beaufort, ''ie
can't death be hiredl is money moth.
ingl must / die, and so rich2 if the
owning of the whole realm would save
me, l could get it by policy or by pur.
chase-by money" No, death would
not be hired then; he will not be hired
now. Men Of the world often regret
that they have TO leave their money
here when they go away from the
world. You can tell from what they
say in their last hours that one Of theiI
chief SORROWS is hal they have 70
leave their money. ! break that de.
fusion. i tell that bride taker that he
will take his money with him. God
will wrap il up in your shroud, or put
it in the palm Of your hand in resur,
rection, and there it will lie, not the
cool, bright, shining gold as it was on
the day when you sold your vote
and your moral principle, bu,
there 1t will lie, a hot metal, burn
ing and consuming your hand forever
Or, il there be enough of il fort chain
then it will fall from the wrist clank
ing the letters Of an eternal captivity
The bride is an everlasting possession
You take il for time, you take it fol
eternity. Some day in the next world,
when YOU are longing for sympathy,
you will feel on your check q kiss
Looking up you will find it to be
Judas, who took thirty pieces Of silver
as a bride and finished the bargain BY
putting an infamous kiss on the pure
cheek Of his divine Master.
Another wrong use of money! is seer
in the abuse Of trust funds. Every
man during tho course of his life, OF
a larger or smaller scale, has the prop
erty Of others committed TO his keep
ing. He is SO far q safety deposit, hC
is an administrator, and holds in his
hand the interest Of the family of a de
ceased friend. Or he is an attorney
and through his custody goes the pay
ment from debtor 10 creditor, or he i
the collector for a business hous,
which compensates him for the respon
sibility or he is a treasurer for q chair
table institution and he holds aim
contributed for the suffering; or he j
an official OF the city or the state OF
the nation, and taxes, and subsidies
and salaries, and supplies are in hi
keeping. Its as solemn a trust as Goo
can make il. It's concentred and null
tiplied condolences. On that man de
ponds the support Of a bereft house
hold, Or the morals Of dependents, OF
the right movement Of a thousand
wheels Of social mechanism. A maj.