Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-14

gold watches made out of brass barfels OF
1ruit the biggest apples on the TOP. wife Mine
auulterated with strychnine, hosiery p"olly
with foreign labels. imported goods repre-
sented as rare and hard to get because LOT
eign exchange is so high. rolled out on the
deed! but from the factory in the next street.
A pattern already questionable and unsaia2lee 40 .
palmed of upon some country mercnant "ho
has come to town to make his first purchase OF OF
drygoods and going home with large STOCK Oh
goods warranted to keep.
Again, business men are often temple9 20
make the habits and customs OF other trauers
their law of rectitude. There are commercial
usages which will not stand the test OF tine last
day. Yet men in business are apt TO 90 as tnelr
neIghbors do. II the majority OF the traders
In any locality are lax In principle the comIneI-
cial code that community Will be spurious
and dishonest. 1t is hard thing to stand close
by the law of right when your next-door neigh
Dor by his looseness of dealing is enabled TO
sell goods at a cheaper rate and decoy your
customers. OF course you who promptly meet
all your business engagements, paying When
you promise to pay will find it hard TO compete
with that merchant who is hopelessly IN oept
to the importer for the goods purchased, and
to the landlord whose store he occupies, and to
the clerks who serve him.
There are hundred practices prevalent in
the world of traffic which ought never to be-
come the rule for honest men. Their wrong
does not make your right Sin never becomes
virtue by being multiplied and admitted at
brokers' board or merchants exchange. Be-
cause Others smuggle few things IN passenger
trunks, because Others take usury when men
are in tight places, because others deal in
fancy stocks because others palm on worth
less indors ements because others do nothing
but blow bubbles do not, therefore, be over
come of temptation.
HONESTY PAYS BEST.
Hollow pretension and fictitious credit, and
commercial gambling may awhile prosper, but
the day of reckoning cometh, and in addition
to the horror and condemnation of outraged
communities. the curse of God will come, blow
after blow. Gods will forever and forever is
the only standard of right and wrong, and not
commercial ethics. Young business man. avoid
the first business dishonor, and you will avoid
all the rest. The captain Of a vessel was walk
ing near the mouth Of river when the tide
was low, and there was long stout anchor
chain. into one of the great links of which
his foot slipped. and it began to swell and he
could not withdraw It. The tide began to rise.
The chain could not be loosened nor filed of in
time, and surgeon was called to amputate the
limb, but before the work could be done the
tide rolled over the victim, and his life was
gone. And l have to tell you, young man, that
Just one wrong into which you slip may be
link of long chain of circumstances from
which you cannot be extricated by any in
genuity of your own, or any help from others,
and the tides will roll over you as they have
over many. When Pompey, the warrior, wanted
to take possession of a city. and they would not
open the gates he persuaded them to admit a
sick soldier. But The sick soldier after awhile
got well and strong, and he threw open the
gates and let the devastating army come in.
One wrong admitted into the soul may gain in
strength until after awhile. it filings open all
the avenues of the immortal nature, and the
surrender is complete.
Again, business men are sometimes tempted
to throw off personal responsibility upon the
noneyed institution to which they belong. Di-
-QCfnrS hanks
sometimes shirk personal RESPONSE
Oility underneath the action of the corporation.
And how often, when some banking house OF
financial institution explodes through fraud
men in the Board of Directors say.
wi Ey. thought all was going on in an honest
way, and l am utterly confounded with this
The banks, and the fire and
ife and marine insurance companies, and the
-ailroad companies will not stand up for judg-
nent in the last day. but those who in them
lcted riChthously will receive, each for himself
/ reward, and those who acted the part of
neglect or trickery will, each for himself, re-
,eive condemnation.
UNLAWFUL DIVIDENDS
ire not clean before God because there are
hose associated with you who grab just as big
/ pile as you do. He who countenances the
dishonesty Of the firm. or of the corporation, or
If the association, takes upon himself all the
moral liabilities. If the financial institution
eSS-f
ions, he himself is gambler. If they need
essly embarrass creditor, he himself is
yuilty of cruelty. If they swindle the unin-
tiated, he himself is a defrauder. No finan- |
ial institution ever had a money vault strong |
nough, CT credit stanch enough, or dividends |
arge enough, or policy acute enough to hide
he individual sins of Its members. The old |
dage, that corporations have no souls, is mis- |
eading Every corporation has as many souls |
S 1t has members.
Apain huSiOpSg q W hop0 tom tad
o postpone their enjoyments and duties to |
uture season of entire leisure. What a seda- |
i've the Christian religion would be to all our |
BUSINESS men if. instead of postponing its uses |
tore or factory worldly engagements now! |
is folly to go amid the uncertainties of bus-
ess life with no God TO help. A merchant in
New England village was standing by horse
nd the horse lifted his foot TO stamp it in a
oOl of water; and the merchant, to escape the
plash, stepped into the door of an insurance |
gent, and the agent said: Il suppose you have
ONE to renew your fire insurance" "On," said
be merchant Il have forgotten that The
lsurance was renewed, and the next day the
ouse tnat had been insured was burned. Was
all accidental that the merchant to escape a |
plash from horses foot, stepped into the in
1rance office? No, it was prOvidential. And
hat mighty solace for a business man to feel
nat things are providential! What peace and
quilibrium in such a consideration and what
grand thing if all business men could
ealize it!
Many, although now comparatively straitened
worldly circumstances, have goodly estab-
shment in the future planned out. They have
Imagination built about 20 years ahead a
ouse in the country not difficult of access
-om the great town, for they will often have
usiness, or old accounts to settle and invest
ents to look after. The house is large enough
accommodate all their friends. The halls
re wlde and hung with pictures of hunting
,enes and branch of antlers and are COM
,rtable with chairs that can be rolled out on
veraQda when the weather is inviting sat- |
ut under some of the oaks that stand sentinel
bout the house, ard rustling in the cool breeze,
nd songful with the robins.
THE TIME TO SERVE GOD.
There is just land enough to keep them in
rested, and its crops of almost fabulous rich
ess springing up under application Of the best
leories to be found in the agricultural
urnals. The farm is well stocked with cattle
Id horses, and sheep that know the voice and
i've kindly bleat when one goes forth to look
them, In this blissful abode the children
i'll be instructed in art and science and re-
yion. This shall be the old homestead to
rs. and the bill on which the house stands
i'll be called Oakwood or Ivy Hill or Pleasant |
etreat or Eagle Eyrie. May the future have
II every business man here all that and more
.sidei But are you upostponing your happiness |
that time? Are YOU adjourning your Joys to
at consummation?
Suppose that you achieve all you expect
ID the vision mention is not up to the real |
Y. because the fountains will be brighter the
,use grander and the scenery more pictur-
que-the mistake is none the less fatal. |
hat charm will there be in rural quiet for a |
an who has 80 or 40 years been conforming
5 entire nature to the excitement of bust
SIS? Will focks and herds with their bleat
d moan be able to silence the Unsuitable
irit of acquisitiveness which has for wears
d full swing in the soul? Will tine hum of
e breeze soothe the man who now can find
only enjoyment in the stock market? Will
If and cloud and fountain charm the eve that
s for three-fourths of a lifetime found its
ief beauty in horsheads and bills of sale? |
i'll parents be competent to rear their chill
en- for high and holy purposes, if
eir infancy and boyhood and girlhood we're |
elected, when they are almost ready 20 enter
on the world and have all their habits fxed Z