The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-12-18

have, you Will think just as do
Thousands Of young men are going
down under that process day by day.
and there is only here and there a
young man who can endure this artil-
lery OF scorn- They are giving up their
Bibles. The light of nature! They
have the light of nature In China;
they have it in HindOstani they
have it in CeylOn- Flowers there; stars
there; waters there; winds therei but
no civilization, no homes, no happiness
Lancets to cut and juggernauts TO fall
under. and hooks to swing on; but no
happiness l tell you, my young
brother, we have t. take 4 religion OF
some kind We have to choose between
four or Eve. Shall it be the Koran Of
the Mohammsdsn, or the Shaster of
the Hindoo. or the Zsndavesta of the
Persian, or the Confucius writings of the
Chinese, or the holy Scripture? Take
what you will; God helping me. Will
take the Bible. Light for all dark
ness; rock for all foundation; balm for
all wounds
Young man, hold on to your Bible.
It is the best book you ever owned It
| will tell you how to dress, how 70 bar
gain, how to walk, how 70 act, how to
live, how to die Glorious Bibies
whether on parchment or paper, in
octave or duodecimo. on the center
table of the drawing room or in the
I
Biblei Light to our feet and lamp to
our path. Hold on to it!
The second class of insidious tempta-
| tons that comes upon our young men
| Is ted on by the dishonest employer
| Every commercial establishment is I.
| school. In nine eases out of ten, the
principles of the employer become the
principles of the emplOye. 1 ask the
| older merchants to bear me ont in these
| statements If, whom you were just
/ starting in life, Ia commercial life, you
were told that honesty was not mar
izetable, that though you might sell all
| the goods in the shop, you must not
sell your conscience, that while you
| were to exercise all industry and tact,
/ you were not to sell your conscience
il you were taught that gains gotten
/ by sin were com bustible, and at the
/ moment of ignition would be blown on
/ by the breath of God until all the
/ splendid estate would vanish into
| white ashes scattered in the whirlwind
then that instruction has been
| to you a precaution and a help
/ ever since. There are hundreds of
/ commercial embellishments in our great
| cities which are educating a class of
| young men who will be the honor of
| the land, and there other establish
ments which are educating young men
to be nothing but sharpers- What
chance is there for young man who
/ was taught in an establishment that it
Is right to lie. IL it is smart, and that a
| French label is all that is necessary to
| make a thing French. and that you
| ought always to be honest when it
pays, and that it Is wrong to steal I'M
less you do it well? Suppose, now, a
young man just starting in life enters a
place of that kind where there are ten
young men, all drilled in the infamous
practices of the establishment He is
ready to be taught The young man
has no theory OF commercial ethics
Where is he to get his theory? He will
get the theory from his employers
One day he pushes his wit a little be-
youd what the establishment demands
of him, and he feeces q customer until
the clerk is on the verge of being seized
by the law. What is done in the estab-
lishment? He is not arraigned. The
head of the esta blishment says to him;
Now, be careful; be careful, young
man, you might be caught; but really
that was splendidly done; you will get
along in this world, I warrant you"
Then that young man goes up until
he becomes head clerk. He has found
there is a premium on iniquity. One
morning the employer comes to the
establishment He goes into his count
ing room and throws up his hands and
| shouts: ''Vhy, the safe has beer
robbedT' What IS the matter? Moth
ing, nothing; only the clerk who has
been practicing a good while on Gus
toners is practieing a little on the en-
! ployer. No new principle intrOd uced
into that establishment. 1t is n pc II
rule that will not work both ways.
You must never steal unless you can
do it we'll He did it well. 1 am not
talking an abstraction; I am talking &
: terrible and a crushing fact
Now here is a young man Look al
him today FsnnhF "A him five
from now, after he has been under
trial in such an establishment. Here
he stands IN the shop to-day, his cheeks
rudy with the breath of the hills. He
unrOlls the goods on the counter il
gentlemanly style. He commends them
to the purchaser. He points out all the
good points in the fabric He effects
the sale. The goods are wrapped NJ
: and he dismisses the customer with
cheerful good morning." and tbs
: country merchant departs so impressed
| with the straightfOrwa ar ness of thai
- young man that he will come again
and again every spring and every au
r tumn unless interfered with
E The young man has been now in tina
1 establishment Ave years He unrOll
D | the goods on the counter. He says Z
4 the customer, NOW those are the hes
o goods we have in our estab lishment
2 We are selling these goods at les
Z
e per cent He says; There is nothing
like them IN all the city" there ar,
( fifty shops that want to sell the sam,
e thing. He says: Now, that is a dur
5 able article, it will wash;H yes, il viii
a wash out The sale is made, the good
= are wrapped up, the country merchan
= goes of feeling that he has equiva
o lent for his money and the sharp clerl
5 goes into the private room of the count
I ing house and he says; well, 1 go
}; rid of those goods at last; reaII,
q thought We would never sell them;
5 told him we were selling the m les
9 than cost; aud he thought he was get
$ ting good bargain; got rid of them al
u last"
: And the head Of the firm says
L That's we'll done; splendidly dOner
e Meanwhile, God had recorded eigh
Il lies-fOuF lies against the young man
e four lies against the employer, for
e undertake to say that the employer /
5; responsible for all the iniquities of hi
i clerks, and all the iniquities of thOsi