The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-01-15

"N'N hoe w seA your conscience III YOU
were taught that gains gotten by sin
were combustible, aud at the moment OF
ignitionwould be blown on by the breath
OF God until all the splendid estate
would vanish into white ashes scattered
In the NATURALIZATION that ins truction
has been To you precaution and n HELM
ever since. There are hundreds of com
mc-cial Va Adjustments In our great
cities which are educating n class oi
Young men who will be the honor OF
the land. and there are other establish.
ments which are educating young men
To DO nothing but sharpcrs. What
chance Is there for n young man who
was taught In an establishment that II
is right to lie. u IL il smart and that n
French label Is all that Ia necessary Ia
make thing French, and that you
ought always To be honest when IL pays,
and that II In wrong To steal unless you
do IL well? suppose, now, young
man just starting In life enters n
place OF that kind where there are
ten young men, all drilled In tho
Infamous practices of the establish
ment lie Is ready 20 be taught The
young man has no theory OF CONNER
cial ethics Where Is he TO get his
theory He will get the theory from
his employers One day he pushes his wit
! little beyond what tho establishment
demands OF him, and he fiecccs Gus
toner until the clerk Is on the verge Of
being seized by the law. What Is done
In the establishment? lie IL not ar
raigncd. The head OF the establish
ment says TO him; NOW bc careful; he
careful, young man. You might be
caught; but really that was splendidly
done; you will get along In the world,
warrant you" Then that young man
goes up until he becomes head clerk.
He has found there Is u premium on mi.
guilty.
One morning the employer comes 20
the establishment. He goes into his
counting-room and throws up his hands
and shouts: why, the safe has been
robbed" What Is the matter? Moth
ing, nothing only the clerk who has
been racticing n good while on GUS
toners is practicing n little on the EN-.
ployer. No new principle introduced
into that establishment II is n poor
rule that does not work both ways You
must never steal unless you can do IL
we'll. lie did IL well. am not talking
an abstraction; I am talking terrible
and crushing fact.
Now, here is n young man. Look at
him to-day. Look Mt him five years
from now, after he has been on trial in
such an establishments Here he stands
In the shop to-day, his cheeks ruddy
with the breath OF the hills, He unrolls
the goods ON the counter in gcntlcmanly
style, lie commends them To the pur.
chaser, He points out all the good
points in the fabric. lie effects the
sale. The goods are wrapped up, and
he diSmisses the customer with cheer
full good morning" and the country
merchant departs so impressed with the
straightforwardness OF that young man
that he will come again and
again, every spring and every autumn,
unless intcrfcred with. The young man
has been now in that establishment five
years. lie unrolls the goods on the
counter. He says TO the customer
Nov, those are the best goods we have
in our establishment" they have better
on the next shelf. ave are selling
these goods less than cost" they are
making 20 per cent He says: There
Is nothing like them in all the city,"
there are fifty shops that want to sell
the same thiag. lie says; Now, that
is IA durable article, IT. will wash yes,
il will wash out The sale is made, the
goods are wrapped up, the country
merchant goes of feeling that he has
an equivalent for his money, and the
sharp clerk goes into tho pri-
vatc room OF the counting-house, and
he says; well, got rid OF those goods
Mt last; really thought We would
never sell them; | told him we were
selling them less than cost and he
thought he was getting good bargain,
got rid OF them At last" And the head
OF the firm says That's well done,
splcndidly done! Meanwhile, God had
recorded eight lies-four lies against
the young man. four lies against his
employer. for | undertake To say that
the employer Is responsible for all the
iniquitics Of his clerks. and all the
clerks down To the tenth generation, II
those employers inculcated iniquitous
and damning principles
stand before young men this morn
ing who are under this pressure. | say.
come out Of H. ooh" you say, ~ can't,
have my widowed mother TO support,
and II man loses situation now no
can't get another one" | say, come
out 81 H. Go homo TO your mother and
say 20 her; Mother, can't stay In
that shop and be upright; what shall |
do9" and II she Is worthy OF you she
will say: Come out Of II, my son--we
will Just throw ourselves on Him who \