News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21

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widows and orphans there are with
nothing between them and starvation
out a sewing machine, or hsid up out of the
vortex of destruction simply by the thread
Of a needle, rel with their own hearts blood,
who little while ago had by father and
husband, left them competency What is
the matterl The administrators or the exc
"utors have sacrificed trimming 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 sweqt of his brow, and
then die, and within few months all the es-
tato goes into the stock gambling rapids of
Wall Street. How often IS 1t that you have
known the man to whom trust funds were
committed taking th,m 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 ramifcations of horror.
There is not city that has not suffered
from the abuse of trust funds. Where is the
court house, or the city hall, or the jail, or
the postoffice, or the hospital, that in the
building of it has not had a political jobs
Long before the new Court House in New
York city was completed, it cost over Sl2,
900, 600 Five millions six hundred and
sixty-three thousand dollars for furniture.
For plastering and repairs, $2,37O,O00.
For plumbing and gas works,
S1,23l,S For awnings, s23, 55S.
the nice little sum of S13, 5l19S.39 There
was not an honest brick, or stone, or lath, or
mai, or foot of plumbing, or inch of plaster
ing, or ink stand, or door knob in 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 embez-
Element Lest a 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 otfenSes,
but give plenty of opportunity for sinners on
A large scale to escape. For a boy who steals
a loaf of bread from a corner grocer to keep
his mother from starving to death. a prison:
but for defraudCrs who als"ond with half
million o dollars, q castle on the Rhine. or,
waiting untu the oUense IS forgotten, then a
castle on the Hudsorl
Another remark needs to te made. and
that Is that p2Op.e ought not to go into
places, into BUSINESS or into positions where
the temptation is mightier than their
character IL there be large sums of money
to be hacded and the man is not sure of his
own integrity you have no right to run an
unseawUrthy craft into an euroclydon. A
man can tell by the sense of weakness
or strength in tho presence of a bad oppor-
tun1ty whether he is in safe place. How
many parents mako an awful mistake when
they put their boys in banking houses and
stores aid shops and factories and places of
so'emn trusts, without once discussing
whether they Ca1 endure the temptation
You give the boy plenty of money and have
no account Of il, and make the way
down become very easy, and you
may put upon him pressure
then he cannot stand. There are men who
go into positions full of temptation, con-
sidering only the one fact that they are
lucrative positions. | say TO the young
people here this morning, dishonesty will
not pay in this world or il the world to
come.
An abbot wanted to buy piece of ground
and the owner would not sell it, but the
owner finally conserued to let it to him until
he could raise one CROP nld the abbot sowed
acorns, a crop of two hundred years
And tell you, young man, that the dis
heart an life will seem to be very insight
fcant, but they will grow up until they will
overshadow you with horrible darkness,
overShs dow all Tina aud all eternity. II
will not be a crop for two hundred years,
but crop for everlasting ages
| stand this morning before many who
have trusted funds. 1t is comp ilnent to
you that you have been so intrusted, but ]
charge you, in The presence of God and the
world, TO careful; be as careful or tns
property of others as you are careful
of your own Above all, keep your own
private account at the bank separate
from your account as trustee OF an
estate, or trustee of an institution
That is the point at which Thousands of pso-
pie make shiDwreck They get the property
OF others mixed up with their own operty,
they pat it in o investment, and away 1t all
EoHs, and they cannot return that which
they borrowed. Then comes the ex-
ploSion an the monay market IS shaken
AMI the press denoInces and the
church thEn lers expulsion. You have
no right to u Sc the property OF others except
for tGeir advantage, nor without cons mt,
unless they are minors If with their con-
sent you invest their property as well as you
can, AMI it IS III lost you are not to blame,
you dill the best you could; but do not coma
into the de,usion which has ruined SO
many men, OF thinking because
thing is in their possession. therefore
IL Is theirs. You have solemn trust
that Col has given you In this vast assem-
biage there may be some who have msap-
propr ated trust funds. Fus them back, or,
ii you have so hopaiessly involved them that
you cannot PIT them back, confess tbs whole
thing to those whom You have wrorged, antf
you wi | eep better nights, and You will
have the better chance for your soul. What
a sad thing it would be if, after you are
dead, your administrator should find
out from the account books, or from the lacS
of vouchers, that you were not only bankrupt
in esta e. but that you lost your soul IL all
thu trust fuui that have been misappro-
priated should SUI ldenly fly to their owners,
an all the property that has been purloined
SHOULD suddenly go back to its owners it
would crash into ruin every city in America.
ho.el in the West ami be saw man on the
sidewalk, and in rough way. as no man
has right to address a la borer, said to
him: Garry this trunk UPSTAIRS The man
carried the trunk upstairs and came down,
and then the youug man gave him quarter
of a d liar which was marked and instead
of being twenty five CENTS it was worth only
twenty cents. Then the young man gave
his card to the laborer AMI said: You take
this up to Governor Grimes; | want to see
him" 'Ah,n said the la5orer: II am
Governor Grimes ''Oh,n said the young
man, ''you--J-excuse me.n hen the Gov
ernor said: Il was much impressed by
the letter you wrote me asking for q
certain Office in my gift, an 1 had made up
my min you should have it; but young
m IN who will cheat laborer out of FIVE
cents would Swindle the Government of the
State il he got his hands on it. don't want
you Good morning, sir.n 1t never pays.
Mel her in this worlI nor in the world to
com, will it pay.
DO not suppose there ever was a better
specimen OF honesty than was found in the
Duke of Wellington. He marche with his
army over thu French frontier, and the army
was suffering, and he hardly knew how to
get along. Plenty Of plumber all about, but lie
conmaldel none of the plumber to
be taken. He writes home these re-
markaoie words: We are over
whemed with debts an1 | can scarcely stir
out of my house on account of public ere lit
Yet at that very time the French p:asantry
were bringing their valuables to him to keep.
a ce eorateI writer says of the trans
action Nothing can be grander or
more nobly original than tbs admis-
sion. Tn Old soldier, after thirty
years service this iron man and victorious
general, established in an enemy's country
at the head of an immense army, is afraid of
his creditorsl This is the kind of fear that
has ssido n troubled conquerors and invaders,
and l doubt if thu annals of war present
an thing comparable to its sublime SIM
rhcity.n
OH is it not high time that we preached
the morals of the Gospel, right beside the
faith of the 0osp3ls MIR. Ffoude, the cele-
DRAFTED English historian, has written of his
own country these remarkable words:
Frem the great house in the city of Lon
dol to the village grocer, the commercial
life of England has been saturated
with fraud. So deep has it
gone that a strictly honest tradesman
can hardly hold his ground against compel
ton. y GU can no longer trust that any ar
tice ytu buy is the thing which II pretends
TO be. "e have false weights, false mas
u Is, cheating, and shoddy everywhere. And
yet the clergy have seen all this grow up in
absolute Indifference. Many hundreds
of sermons have l heard il Eng
land, many dissertation on the
mysteries of the faith, on the
divine mission of the clergy, on bishops
and justification. and the theory of good
works, and verbal inspiration, and the
efficacy of the sacrdments; but, during all
these thirty wonderful years, never one that
l can reco.lect on common honesty"
Now. that may be an exaggerated state
ment of things in England, but am very
certain that in ali parts of the earth we need
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