Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-11

4 Timely sunday-school Talk for the
Good MIR. Wanamaker.


New York Evening Post
II is seldom that a public instructor in
morals has so fruitful a theme for the en-
lightenmcnt of the youthful mind as Mr.
Nanamaker will have in the Keystone
Bank revelations when he takes his stand
before the bethany Sunday-school to-
morrow. He can proceed 70 unfold il
somewhat rs follows:
My dear children Those of you who are
able 70 read the newspapers have seen that
there has been q great deal in them during
tho past week about a very wicked man
named 3ardsler, and about bank called
the Keystone Bank Now ] am going 10
tell you in simple words the story of that
man and of that bank, and want you to
listen very closely. for / intend to make
the story an object lesson to You of the
wisdom Of carrying with You into life,
when YOU have grown into men and
women, those simple principles Of honesty.
truthlulness, and fair dealing which we
teach to yon every Sunday in our dear
Bethany school. | viii begin with the
bank for there was something the matter
with that before this man Bardsley's story
begins.
The Keystone Bank, dear children, was
for many years one Of tile best banks we
had in Philadelphia. Poor people as well
as rich put their money in il, knowing
that it would be guarded safely there by
good men who were willing to obey the
rules which our government at Washing
ton lays down for all people in charge of
| banks to follow. This bank had as a
president dearly beloved Christian
brother Of mine who was trusted by every
body because he was such good man.
| lie died few years ago, and il was dis
covered after his death that lie had stolen
nearly whole million of dollars of the
hanks money, and had spent it. Now
a rtlst "A
| thing for anybody to do, and it was Just as
wicked for a good man to do il as for bad
| man. When other good men discovered
| what this one had done, they did not tell
the government of it, as they ought to
| have done but they told falsehoods about
| il and hid the knowledge of it from every
body who ought to have known it. and,
what was very bad, went on allowing poor
| people n put their money into the bank
| just as ii il was still an honest bank.
Now, my dear children, we come to this
bad man, Bardsley. He has lived right
here in our dear city of Philadelphia for
many years He has been what you have
heard called politician--that 10, man
who has to do with elections and offices,
&c, had known him az a politician and
as member Of the same great Republican
party that our beloved President Harrison
and myself belong to- II was proposed by
this party to make this man Bardsley
treasurer of the city of Philadelphia. A
treasurer, you know, is the man who has
charge of the city's money. and in phla-
delphia there are many million dollars of
that money in the city treasury every
year. ! knew this man Bardsley had spent
more money than he was able to pay; that
Is what is called being in debt you know,
IT was said also that in his anxiety to get
money, he had twice Signed other people )
names 70 papers Or something Of that
kind, initiating their handwriting so as tu
deceive. That is what is called forgery, Won
know, In order to get him out of debt
helped to raise a large sum of money,
about $4,000, with which to pay his bills,
but il was found afterwards that he had
not told us the truth, for his debts were
twice as much as he had said they were
and - VIC did not pay them,
We had this man elected to the office Of
CITY treasurer, and ! want to confess Ia
you, my dear children, that we ought not
tn have done il We did a very wrong
thing in decciving the people Of the city
into putting all the city's money in charge
Of man who we knew was not honest
But we and other good men wanted to
have him help us in keeping everybody
from finding out that the good president
OF the Keystone Bank, who was dead, had
stolen all that money, and lie did help MS
all he could lie took q whole lot of the
city money tO0,0O0, that's more than
half a million, You know-and whole
lot Of the states money which he had in
his charge to go through his hands to tht
state treasury-sg3G. 900: that's almost n
whole million you know-and put both
lots into the Keystone Bank. Yuii sec that
more than filled the hole in the banks
money chest which had been left wher
the good president stole nearly million
from il.
but, my dear children, you have beer
told often that there is no rest for til,
wicked, and there is none The hole coulC
not be kept filed all the time, because tn,
bank had many friends who wanted II
use It's money. Then, too, there was al
officer Of the government good MIR lIarri
sons government called bank examiner
whose duty il was to visit the bank eyery
few months and see if the men in charg,
OF it were taking care Of the money
honestly, and were telling the truth ab6u
il. This bad man Bardscy, and aunlhr
good man who had been chosen prcsiden
after the other good man who had beer
: president had lied, told lies to this banl
examiner when he came to visit the bank
because they did not want him to know
that the good president who was dead ha,
: stolen million dollars, and because the,
were afraid If lac knew Of it he would tel
! the government and the government
, would shut up tile bank and not let 1t tax
| any more Of peoples money. These lie
deceived the examiner many times whel
he cam0. but the day at last arrived whel
, he could not be deceived any longer.
will tell Won how that happened.
Gou see, Is ! have said the bank coul
, not keepthat million dollars Of state none
and that nearly half million of cit
! money IN the hole all the time. one re
r son for this was that the bad man Bardslc
: wanted some of it to use as his own ii
what \ called speculation. He had n
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