The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-13

periodical disturbances of the Industrial
world which result in thousands of
wrecks.
COTTAGE BY THE SEA.
Second-It leads to thousand crimes.
The desire and the determination to get
rich, and that shortly, is the power that
leads the man intrusted with money to
risk that money in questionable transac-
tions. 1t is this haste to be rich that
sketches for your cashier and your mer-
chant and your bank officer the wild
dreams of luxury which lead at last to an
outer actof criminality The cashier from
his desk dreamsof a palace of horses and
carriages, and the cottage by the sea, a
magnificent mansion in the city. He is
not willing to obtain his money by the
slow process of work. He believes that
he can stake n certain sum and win; with
the turn Of the wheel of fortune can be
rich in day. He stakes other peoples
money, and the result is crime. These
crimes are but simply eccentric and es-
thetic developments Of the older crimes
against person founded on the same prin-
ciple.
A highwayman is q highwayman be-
cause he determines to be rich suddenly.
The burglar is a burglar because he de-
sires to get rich in night. And the mur-
derer destroys his victim for his money
because he desires to be rich immediate
ly. Highway robbery, burglary, muir
der for money, are the original brutal
elements out of which the more aesthetic
mr. tC Of notx ,aIo
have sprung. 1t is this mania that leads
to a thousand, crimes today against soci-
ETY.. The dive, the gambling den, the
saloon, the brothel have as their funda-
mental inspiration the desire for sudden
riches. There are individual idiosyncra-
cies that develop them, but there are
thousands Of lives drawn to this whirl-
pool Of vice and crime by the attractive
power of the evil eye of money. A man
believes that he can become rich rapidly
by keeping a saloon. He is willing to
trade in human hearts and human blood
to accomplish that purpose. A man is
willing to debauch his fellow man in a
gambling hell, believing that he may
suddenly acquire great fortune.
THE BEST MAN.
Third-This mania as it grows in men
emphasizes and develops all that is CEN
tral in self 1t necessarily makes a man
mean and selfish. 1t causes man to en-
ter his hearts affection upon that one
thing. He esteems that to be his treas
ure Of life. Where a mans treasure is,
there will his heart be also. 1t will hard
en- and make mean the poor man who is
afflicted with the mania as we'll as the
rich who have gone beyond the hope of
recovery. heard Of an old farmer in
Maine who sent a son into the war. He
was killed in battle. The old man after
ward expressed his regrets. He said that
he had made great mistake; that he
ought to have had substitute. He said
that he could not get man anywherein
the country to do as much work on the
farm as that boy and that he was the
smallest eater he ever saw
An old man who had emphasized this
thought in his life above all others went
to meat market and decided to content
himself with bone for soup. He asked
the market mana big, fat Dutchman,
jolly and good natured-the price Of a
bOuO WihSh SgSu LnO
ket man told him nothing at all; take
the bone along If he wanted it. The old
man, who was little hard of hearing, pat
his hand to his ear and asked, Cannot
you knock of little?" The market man
laughingly replied, Eyes, he would take
10 cents for it." The old man paid the
dime and went away chuckling over his
great bargain. 1t is necessarily true
that as we develop this principle in life
we overreach ourselves. The attempt 10
deueIop self is sare in the process to de-
stroy SELF
Fourth-This mania surely and thor
oughly destroys Christian life. The
man afflicted with 1t begins at once to
cultivate these delightful notices. old
but awfu. in their meaning;
''Dog eat dog"
''Devil take care of the hindmost."
Business Is business"