The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-03-14

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side loaded to the touch hole. They
are elncorruptible men, and they are the |
fewamen who are to save the.eitv and |
save the land. Meanwhile. my adj |
vicesis TO all people to keep out of
politics unless Won are invulnerable
TO this style of temptation. Indeed, |
II you are naturally strong, you need
religious buttressing. Nothins but
the grace OF God can sustain ourpub-
lie men and make them what we
wish. ] wish that there might come an
old fashioned revival of religion, that
it 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 if the greater in author
ity, then certainly the less.
BRIBERY BEGINS AT HOME.
My charge also 10 parents is, re-
member that this evil of bribery often
begins in the homo circle and in the
nursery. Do not bribe your children.
Teach them to do that which is right,
and not because of the ten cents or
the orange you will give them. There
is great difference between reward
ing virtue and making the profits
thereof the impelling motive. That
man who is honest merely because
ahonesty is the best policy is already
a moral bankrupt.
My charge is to you, in all depart
ments of life, steer clear of bribery,
all of you. Every man and woman at
some time will be tempted to do wrong
for compensation. The bribe may not
be offered in money 1t may be of
fered in social position Let us re-
member that there is a day coming
when the most secret transaction Of
private life and of public life will come
up for public reprehension. We can
not bribe death. we cannot bribe sick
ness, we cannot bribe the grave, we
cannot bribe the judgments of that
God who thunde4s against this sin.
"Fiel" said Cardinal Beaufort, 'fiel
can't death be hired2 is money moth
ing2 must / die, and so rich2 If the
owning of the whole realm would save
me, / 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 their
chief sorrows is that they have to
leave their money [ break that de-
lusion. tell that bribe taker that he
will take his money with him. God
will wrap it 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, but
there it will lie, hot metal, burn
ing and consuming your hand forever.
| Or, if there be enough of it for chain,
then it will fall from the wrist clank-
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 O kiss.
Looking up you viii find ii to be
Judas, who took thirty pieces Of silver
as bribe 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 during the course of his life, on
| o larger or smaller scale, has the prop
erty of others committed to his keep
ing. He is SO far safety deposit, he
is an administrator, and holds in his
| hand the interest of the family of de-
| II f,,,a l. ,, nt4
and through his custody goes the pay
the collector for q business house
| which compensates him for the rsspon-
sibility; or he is q treasurer for chari
| table 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. It's as solemn trust as God
can make it, tits concentred and null
| tiplied condolences. On that man de-
| pends the support of a bereft house
| hold, or the morals of dependents, or
the right movement of thousand
| wheels of social mechanism. A man
Inay dc what he will with his own,
but he who abuses trust funds, in that
one act commits theft, falsehood, per-
4 jury and becomes, in all the intensity
of the word, miscreant. How many
widows and orphans there are with
nothing between them and starvation
out sewing machine, or held up out
of tho vortex of destruction simply by
1 the thread of a needle, red with their
| own hearts blood, who little while
7 ago had, by father and husband, left
them a competency. What is the mat
ter2 Tho administrators or the exeeu-
tors have sacrificed it-running risks
with it that they would not have
dared to encounter in their own pri
vate affairs How often it is that man
will earn a livelihood by the sweat oi
his brow, and then die, and within 6
few months all the estate goes into the
stock gambling rapids of Wall street
How often it is that you have known
tho man TO whom trust funds wert
committed taking them out of the say
ings bank and from trust companies
and administrators, turning old home
steads into hard cash, and then put
ting the entire estate into the vorte'
of speculation. Embezzlement is al
easy word to pronounce, but it has tel
thousand qualifications of horror,
Il ABUSE OF TRUST FUNDS.
i There is not city that has not suf
fered from the abuse of trust funds
Where is the court house, or the cit,
hall, or the Jail, or the postofiice, o
| tile hospital, that in the building of
has not had political joba
Long before the new court house Il
New York city was completed, 1T cos
Il over $4,000, 900. Five millions 81.
hundred and si2ty-three thousan
dollars for furniture! For plas
. tering and repairs, $2,31o, ,00O
For plumbing and gas works
. 81, ,231, ,S17. For awnings, $23
55s The bills for three months com
ing TO the nice little sum of $13, Isl,
/, 19S.39. There was not an honest brick
p or stone, or lath, or pail. or foot c
1 plumbing, or inch of splastering, Q
ink stand, or door knob in tho Who'll
establishment
That bad example was followed i
!; many of the cities, which did not stes
= quito so much because there was ne
y so much 10 steal There ought to be
!, closer inspection and there ought I
= be less opportunity for embezzlemen
I. Lest man Suail lahe u i've cent pee
Q that does not belong to him, the cor
= dtictor on the city horse car mu'
. sound his bell at every payment, an
we are very cautious about small o
y fenses, but give plenty of opportunit
= \ for Sinners ON n large scale to escap'
Z For boy who steals a loaf OF brea
= from q corner grocer to keep his m'
= ther from starving to death, prisot
! but for defrauders who abseond wit
A. | h,lf "A miller, nf .1n1lax.s n ssasfla q