The morning news., 1889-03-11

unless YOU are lnvulnerable to this style OF
temptation. Indeed, if you are naturally
strong, you need religious buttresslng.
Nothing but the grace of God can sus ain
our pulic men and make them what We
wish. | wish that there might come an Old
fashioned revival Of religion, that 1t might
break out in congress, and IN the legls-
latures aud bring many Of the leading re-
publicans and democrats down on the
anxious seat of repentance. That day VIII
come, or something better, for the Bltle de-
clares that kings and queens shall become
nursing fathers and tuothers to the church,
and if the greater in authority then GER
tainly the less.
NV charge also to parents is, remember
that this evil of bribery often begins in the
home circle and in the nursery. DO not
hrite your children. Teach them to do
that " hich is right, and not because OF the
ten cents or the orange you will give them.
There is a great difference between reward
ing virtue and max ng toe profits thereof
the impelling motive. That mau VINO Is
honest merely because honesty is the best
policy" is already a moral bankrupt.
MY charge is 70 you, in all departments
of life, steer clear Of bribery, al OF you.
Every man and woman at some time will
be tempted do wrong for compensation.
The bribe NAV not be offered in moaey. 1t
may be offered IN social position. Lei us
remember mat there is day coming when
the most secret transaction Of private life
and Of Iublic life viii come up for public
repreAension. We cannot hriba death, we
cannot bribe sickness, We caunot bllbe TIE
grave, we canrot bribe the judgments Of
that God who hundsis against lis sin.
''F1eW said Cardinal Beaufort, "tiel can't
death be red is money n0thingt mIst /
diesand so richl If the owning of the whole
realm would save ne, could get it by
policy or by prrchase-by money" No
death would lot be hired then; he viii not
be hired nov. Men Of the world often re-
gret that they have 70 leave their money
here when they go away from the
world. You can tel from what they
say in their last hours that one of their
chief sorrows is that they have to
leave their money. I break that delusion.
l tell that bribe taker tHat he will take his
money with him. God will wrap it up in
your shroud, or put 1t in the palm Of vour
hand in resurrection, and there 1t will lie,
not the cool, bright, shining gold as il
was on the day when YOU sod y'ur vote
and your moral principle, but there
it will lie, a hot metal. burning
and consuming Your hand forever.
Or, if there be enough of it for chain,
then it will fall from the wrist ciank-
ing the fetters of an eternal captivity. The
bribe is an everlasting possession. You
take it for time, you take it for eternity.
Some day in the next world when you are
longing for sympathy, you will feel on
your cheek kiss Looking up, you will
find it to be Judas, who took thirty pieces
of silver as briAe agd finished the bar
gain by putting an Infamous kiss on the
pure cheek Of his divine Master.
Another wro use Of money is seen in
the abuse of trust funds. Every man dur
ing the course of his life, on a larger or
smaller scale, has the property of others
4.rl - e..
safety deposit, he is an administrator, and
holds in his hand the interest of the family
of a deceased friend. Or he is All attor-
ney, and through his custody goes the pay
ment from debtor to creditor, or he is
the collector fer business house
which compensates him for the respon-
sibility; or he is q treasurer for a charita-
BILE institution and he holds aims con.
tributed for the suffering; or he is An
official OF the city or the state or the nation,
and taxes, and subsidies, and salaries, and
supplies are in his keeping. 1t is as solemn
a trust as God can make it. 1t is concentered
and multiplied condolences. On that man
depends the support Of bereft household,
or the morals of dependents, or the right
movement of thousand wheels of social
mechanism. A man may do what he will
with his own, but he who abuses trust
funds, in that ono act commits
theft, falsehood, perjury and be-
comes, i'll all the intensity
of the word, a miscreant. How many
widows and orphans there are with nothing
between them and starvation but sewing
machine, or held up out of the vortex of
destruction simply by the thread Of a
needle, red with their own hearts blood,
who little while ago had, by father d
husband, left them competency. What is
the matter3 The administrators or the ex-
ecutors have sacrificed drumming risk
with it that they would not have
dared to encounter in their own private
affairs How often it is that a man will
earn livelihood by the sweat of his brow,
and then die, and within few months All
the estate goes into the stock gambling
rapids of " all street How often it is that
you have known the man TO whom tru,t
funds were committed taking them out Of
the savings bank and from trust CONF anies,
and administrators, turning old homesteads
into bard cash, and then putting the entire
estate into the vortex of speculation. En-.
bczzlement is an easy word to pronounce,
but it has ten thousand ramifications Of
horror.
There is not a city that has not suffered
from the abuse of trust funds Where is
the court house, or the city hall, or the jail,
OF the postoffice, or the hospital, that in
the building Of it has not had political
joba
Long before the new court house in New
York city was completed, it cost over $l2,-
O00 900. Five millions six hundred and six
ty-three thousand dollars for furniturel For
plastering and repairs, s.. $40, ,0OO. For plumb
ing and gas works, 81 ,23l.Sl7 For avn
ings, $23, ,553. i he bills for three months
coming to the nice little sum of $l3, l51,-
19S SO. There was not an honest brick, OF
stone, OF lath. or nail, or foot of plumbing,
or inch of plasteriug, or ink stand, or door
knob III the whole establishment.
That bad example was followed in many
Of the cities, which did not steal quite so
much because there was not so much to
steal. There ought to be a closer inspection
and there ought to be less opportunity for
embezz!ement. Lest a man shall take five
cent piece that does not belong t. linn, the
conductor on the city horse car mus sound
his bell at every payment and we are very
cautious about small ofreuses but give
plenty of opportu lity for sinners on a large
scale TO escape. For by who steals loaf
Of bread from a corner grocer 70 keep his
mo- her from starving to death, a prison;
but for defrauders who abscond with half
mill on Of dollars, a stle on the Rhine, or,
waiting until the o.fense is forgotten, then
a castle on the Hudson
Another remark nee Is to be made, and
that is that people ought not t. 20 into
places, into business, or into positions, where
the temptation is mightier than their char
acter. If tGere be large sums OF money to
be handled and the man is not sure II his
own integrity you have no right 10 run an