Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-29

tnere " VIII ITO. a NOT Ue'ali DuThluE dh"
consuming your hand forever. Or, il there
be enough Of il for chain, then
it will fall from the wrist clank-
ing the letters OF an eternal captivity. The
hribe is an everlasting possession. You take
IL for time, you take it for eternity. Some
day in the next world. when YOU are long
Ing for sympathy, you will feel on your
cheek kiss. Looking up yOu will find 1t 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 seen in
the abuse of trust funds. Every man dur
ing the course of his life, on larger or
smaller scale, has the property of others
committed to his keeping. He is so far
a safety deposit he Is an administrator, AMI
holds in his hand the interest of the
family OF a deceased friend. Or he is an
attorney, AMI through his custody goes the
payment from debtor to creditor, or he is
the collector for business house
which compensates him for the response
biity: or he is a treasurer for a charitable
institution and he holds aims contributed 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 trust as Col
can make it. 1t is concentred and multi
piled condolences. On that man de-
ponds the support of bereft household, or the
morals of dependents or the right of move.
ment of a thousand wheels Of social mechan-
ism. A man may do what he will with his
own, but he who abuses trust funds, in that
one act commits theft, falsehood, per-
jury and becomes, in 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
| pf daatrnptiOO GiD1rIU hys fna fhrna1
of needle, red with their own hearts blood,
who little while ago had, by sather and
husband, left them a competency. What is
! the matterl The administrators or the exc
cutors have sacrificed it-running risks
with it that they would not have
dared to encounter in their own private af-
fairs How often it is that man will earn
a livelihood by the swe9t of his brow, and
| then die. and within few months all the es-
tate goes into the stock gambling rapids of
Wall Street. How often is it that you have
! known the man to whom trust funds were
committed taking them out of the savings
bank and from trust companies, and adj
illustrators, turning old homesteads into
hard cash, and then putting the entire estate
into the vortex of speculation. Embezzle-
ment 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
house, OF JD6 ClUf udll, VI UuO Itll Va
the postoffice, or the hospital, that in the
building of it has not had political job?
Long before the new Courthouse in New
York city was completed it cost over Sl2,-
100000 Five millions six hundred and
sixty-three thousand dollars for furniture.
For plastering and repairs, $2,37O,O00.
For Sa s1 plumbing FG and nRDDggs gas s W9F5s
The bills for three months coming to
the nice little sum of S13, Isl. 1889. There
was not an honest brick, or stone, or lath, or
nail, or foot of plumbing, or inch of plaster
ing, or ink stand, or door knob in the whole
establishment.
the cities, which did not steal quite so much
because there was not so much to steal.
There ought TO be closer inspection and
there ought to be less opportunity for EN- bez-
element. Lest man shall take five cent
piece that does not belong to him, the con
ductor of the city horse car must
sound his bell at every payment, and
we are very cautious about small oifenSes
but give plenty of opportunity for sinners or
a large sUaIe escape. TOT a BOY VINO SJea..
loaf of bread from corner grocer to KEEP
his mother from starving to death, a prison
but for defrauders who abscond with half 6
million of dollars, castle on the Rhine or
waiting until the offense is forgotten, then q
castle on the Hudson
Another remark needs to DO made, and
that is that people ought not to go int
places, into business, or into positions, where
the temptation is mightier than Their
character. If there be large sums of money
to be handled and the man is not sure of his
own integrity you have no right to run al
unseaworthy craft into an ouroclydon.
man can tell by the sense of weakness
or strength in the presence of a bad oppor'
tunty whether he is in a safe place. How
many parents make an awful mistake whei
they put their boys In banking houses ant
stores and shops and factories and places o.
solemn trusts, without once discussing
whether they can endure the temptation
You give the boy plenty of money and hav'
no account of it, and make the wa.
down become very easy, and yol
may put upon him pressur
then he cannot stand. There are men witt
sidering only the one fact that they ar
lucrative positions. | say to the youn
people here this morning, dishonesty Wi
not pay in this world or in the world t
come
An abbot wanted to buy a piece of groun
and the owner would not sell it, but tn
owner finally consented to let it to him unit
he could raise one crop, and the abbot sowe
acorns, a crop OF two hundred years
And | tell you, young man, that the di:
honesties which you plant in you
heart and life will seem to be very insight
fcant, but they will grow up until they wi
overshadow you with horrible darkness,
overshadow all time and all eternity.
will not be a crop for two hundred year,
but crop for everlasting ages.
| stand this morning before many VIII
have trusted funds. 1t is a compliment t
! you that you have been so intrusted, but
charge YOU, in the presence of God and I'll
world be careful; be as careful OF th
| property Of others as you are Garrett
of your own. Above all, keep your ow
private account at the bcnk sepaTat
| from your account as trustee OF a
estate or trustee of an institution
} That is the point at which thousands of pee
pie make shipwreck. They get the propert
of others mixed up with their own property
3 they put it into investment, and away it a
l goes, and they cannot return that whic
they borrowed. Then comes the e.
plosion and the money market is shake
and the press denounces and tn
u. church thunders expulsion. You hav
D no right to use the property Of others excer
, for their advantage, nor without consen
unless they are minors. Ii with their cor
+ sent you invest their properly as we'll as 20
can, and it is all lost, you are not to olam
O you did the best you could; but do not com
! into the delusion which has ruined S
/ many men, of thinking because
, thing is in their possession. therefor
= it is theirs You have a solemn tru'
Y Iudt bOu mas given yOu' III Ollio NooV 0o'Cli
blage there may be some who have misal
: proprated trust funds. Put them back, o.
q If you have so hopelessly involved them thf
4 you cannot put them back, confess the who
/ thing to those whom you have wronged, an
n you will sleep better nights aud You wi
! have the better chance for your soul. Wins
q a sad thing it would be if, after you al
Il dead, your administrator should fin
y out from the account books, or from the lac
q of vouchers that you were not only bankruI
. in estate, but that you lost your soul If a
. the trust funds that have been misapprC
priated should suddenly fly to their owners
r and all the property that has been purloine
q should suddenly go back to its owners
u would crash into ruin every city in America