The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-03-22

| thousand wheels OF social mechanism.
man mny do whit lie will with his own, but
lie who abuses trust funds in that one act
commits THEFT: fnlsrhood, perjury, aud be-
comes, in all tho intensity of tho word. u
miscrrant. How many widows and orphans
| there are with nothing between them and
starvation but sewing.machinc. or held up
out Of the vortex Of destruction simply by
the tlrcnd of n needle: red with their own
heart y hood, who II little while ago, had,
by fatl,er nn.l husband. let them II com
potency. What is the matter? TIL, admin.
| istrntors or cxcrut Org have sncrifccdit --run.
ming risks with it that they would not have
| dared to encounter in their own private nj.
| fairs. How often it il that man will earn
| Il livelihood by the sweat of his brow and
! then die. md within n few months all the
| estate goes INTO the stock gambling rapids
of Wall street. How often Is it that YOU
have known the maj. TO whom trust
| funds were committed taking them out of
the savings bank and from trust companies
aud administrators. turning old homcs,rn,ls
into hard cash, and then putting Tho entire
estate into the vortex of speculation. Em-
brzzlemcnt Is I'M easy word to pronounce
but it has 10000 ramiications Of horror.
There lis not II city that has not suffered
from the abuse Oftrnst funds. Where il tho
court house or the city hall, rtl'e jail, or the
ing of it has no, had loitirnl job:
Long before the new courthouse in New
York city was completed il cost over $l2,-
100000. Five millions Nix hundred and six
ty three thousnnidollnis tor furniture. For
rlastcring and repairs, S23I0.OO0. For
awnings, s23.o5a. The hills for three
mont tbs coming to the nice littlesnm of $13,-
| 15l .19S.39. There was not an honest brick
or stone or lnth or foot of plumming or
inch of clustering or ink.stund or door-knob
! in the whole establishment.
Tint bad example was followed in many
of the cities. which did not steal quite ~
much because there was not so much To
Stenl. There ought tn he Il closer inspnr
tion and there ought to ba less opportunity
Tor cmbezzemcnt. Lest man shall
| take Il Scent piece that does not belong to
him the conductor ON the city horse ear
must sound his bell at every payment aud
We AT. very cautious about small oiftnscs,
but give plenty of opportunity forsinners on
a large scale to escape. For a boy who
steals II loaf of bread from Il corner grocery
to keep his mother from starving to DEATH
| prison; hut for defraudcrs WHO abscond
with S5OO.O0O II castle on the Rhine, or
whiting until the offensc Is forgotten, then II
castle on the Hudson.
Another remark needs ia lie made. and
that is that people ought not to go into
places, into business. or into positions where
the temptation is mighter than their char
acter. IL there be large sums of money to
own integrity you have no right To run nn
unScaworthv craft into an curoclylon. 4
| man can tell by the sense OF weakness or
strength in The presence of II had opportun-
itv whether he is in Il snfr place. How many
parents make an awful mistake when they
put their boys in hanking-ho,iscs and stores
| ;,h'l shops and victories ana places of solemn
trusts without onre discussing whether they
can endure the temptation. iou give the
boy plenty OF money and have no account
| of il and make til" way down become very
easy, and you may put upon him Il pressure
that lie can not stand. There are men who
20 into positions full of tempt ations rnnsi,i-
cring only the one fact that they are lurr;,-
tive rositions. say 10 the young people
here this morning. dishonesty will not pay
in this world or the world to come.
An Abbot wanted to buy u pierre ofground
and he owner would not soil il. hut the
owner finally consented to let it to him I'M.
til he could raise one crop. and the abbot
sowed n,Orns, n crop of 300 years. And !
tell you. young man. the tlishnne.,tcs whirh
You plant in yOur heart and life will seem to
he very insignificant. hut they will grow np
until they ovcrshadow YOU with horrible
darkness, overslia,low all time and all etrr-
nifty. 1t will not he IL crop for 200 years,
hut II crop ofcvcras,ing ages.
stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. 1t is II compliment to
yom that you have been so entrusted. but
charge yon in I he presence God and the
world brcalefnl: he as careful 81 the property
OF Others us you IRE careful of your own.
Above all keep your own private account
mt the bank separate from yonr account rs
trustee of an estate or tructee of an inStitn-
ton. That is the point ut which thousands
OF people make shipwrcck. They get the
property Of others mixed up with their own
away 1t all goes. and they can not return
that which they borrowed. Then comes tile
explosion and the money market is shaken
and the press t,enounccs and the
church thuniers expulsion. You have no
right to uso the property OF Others except
for their advantage. nor without consent,
unless they are mirrors. Ii with their con-
sent you invest their property as wellas you
can and it is all lost Won are not to blame,
yOu did the best you could. hut did not
come into he ,lclusion which has ruined so
many men OF thinking because II thing is in
their possession therefore it is theirs. You
have n solemn trust thut God has given you.
who have misappropratrtltrust funds. Put
them back, or il YOU have SD hOpelcsly in
vulvcd them that You cannot put them back
confess the whole thing to those whom you
have wronged and you will sleep better
nights aud YOU will lave the better chance
for your soul. What II sad thingit would be
if. after you are dead. your administrator
should find out from the account books or
from the lack of vouchers that you were
not only bankrupt in estate that You lost
your soul. II all the trust funds that have
heen misapproniiated should suddenly go
l,nck to their owners and all the property
that has teen purninetl should suddenly go
back to it's owners it would crash into ruins
every city yin Amelica.
A clustering young man arrived at n no.
tel in the west and saw IL man on the side
walk, and in IL rough way, as no man has n
right to address II labomr, said TO him:
Garry this trunk upstairs" The man ear
ricd the trunk upstairs and came down and
hen the young man gave him IL quarter of
Il dollar which was marked, and instead OF
heing % cents it was worth only 20 cents.
Then the young man gave his card to tile
laborer. and sll: "You take. this up to
Gov. Grimes: want to see him. ".All.'
said the aborer. II am Gov Crimes "Ol,'
said the young man. ''you-l-aycuse me.
Then the governor said: 81 was much inn
pressed by the letter you wrote me asking
for II certain office in my gift and had made
up my mind yon should have it, buta young
man who would cheat II laborer out offs
cents would swindle til" government of the
state il he got his hands on it, don't want
YOU. Good morning, SIR II never pays.
Neither in this world nor in the world To
come will it pay.
do not suppose there ever was Il better
specimen Of honesty than was found in the
uuke M NPllt1lTloH. Ilt IililTclfU WIN hin
army all over the French frontier and the
army was suffering anu he hardly knew how
| to get along Plenty of plumber all about,
hut he commanded none Of the plumber to
he taken. He writes home these remarkable
| words: I've are overwhelmed with debts,
and can scarcely stir out of my house on
account Of public creditors waiting to de-
mand what il due them. Yet ut that very
| time the French Jrasantry We're bringing
their valuable, to him 10 keep. \ Accelerated
writer says of the transactions: "Notliing
can he grnnder or more molly original than
this admission. The old soldier. after thirty
years service this iron man and victorious
general. established in an enemy 4 county at
the head of an immense army. is afraid OF
his creditors! This is 81 kind of fear that has
| seldom troubled eOnqurrers and invaders,
| and doubt if the annals of wnrpresent any
thing comparable to its sublime simplicity.
oh! is it not high time thn, We preached
the morals Of the gospel, right beside tn.
fnith Of the gospel: Mr.. Froulr. the cele-
bratetl English historian. has written of his
! own count ~ these remarkable words: From
the great house i'll the city of London to the
village grocer, the commercial life OF Eng
land has ben saturated with fraud. So
deep has it gone that IL strictly honest
trtdcsmnn can hardly hold his own against
competition. You can no longer trust that
any article YOU buy is the thing which il
prrtcnds To im. We have false Hrigllts. ft.lsc
measures cheating. and sho''dy everywhere
And yet the clergy have seen all this grow
up in absolute iliillrrcnrc. Many hundreds