The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-09-22
SAM JONES'.
Rev. Sam Jones Writes on HoW to Get
Dollars.
Atlanta Journal.

A. man can work for a dollar, or
gamble for q dollar, or steal a dollar,
or borrow a dollar. There are many
ways to get money, but there is but
one right way, and that is to give in
exchange for the dollar you get value
received. When a man, white or col
ored, plows all day for seventy-five
cents or a dollar, he gives in return
for the dollarh he receives its full worth.
The men who WELD the blacksmith's
hammer, the house carpenters nipple,
ments, the miners pick, the mason's
trowel, if they be honest men, give in
return full worth for all they receive.
Money that comes by inheritance is
not, as a rule, the best money. Money
that comes from a disreputable bust
ness, such as selling liquor, is bad
money from start to finish. Money
that a lawyer receives for doing a dirty
thing for his client will dirty the law
yer that gets it. So all the way down
the line, honesty is not only the best
policy but it furnishes the only basis
and Foundation on which the perma-
nent structure Of good character can
stand.
know, in these days, that money
not only makes the flly 60, but it
makes everything else that wear hair
90; and it moves a bald-headed mar
tolersbly we'll. And I know it is true
largely that a mans bank account de.
termiles not only his business stand
ing but his social position, and fire..
quently his position in the Church of
God itself. In the last few weeks
gambling in stocks-futures, corn,
cotton and wheat, has made many rich
and many poor.
Klondike and dollar wheat catch the
boys coming and going. | wish it
could be so that every man who deals
in futures in the next ten years would
lose every dollar he put into it-bears
and bulls alike. That would have a
tendency to check this greedy spirit
that speculates and CANDLES on the
bread and meat and clothes of the
honest laboring men of this country.
We cannot legislate cotton and corn,
wheat and oats exchanges out Of the
country. The fellows that run these
machines can buy legislation off and
can run and be assured of perfect i'm.
muity in their reckless schemes and
dishonest methods. 1t is a sin in the
sight of God, and whatever is sin we
had better let alone. have in a q
kept the record of these spectators,
from the m~illionaires down to the lit
tie patrons Of bucketshops. Sooner
or later, as a rule, they 60 down in
financial ruin and moral wreck.
I wish the young men of this coun-
try could see that a legitimate bust
ness, honestly conducted, giving value
received for all incomes, was the only
way to permanent success. Oh, the
wrecks along this river from source to
mouth-the river of speculation, OF
gambling and I believe a bucketshop
is as much a gambling institution as
any faro bank run in Chicago or New
York. To play on the puts and calls
of the wheat pit is as much gambling
as any game Of studhorse poker ever
played in California. Some of the
brightest, brainiest, cleverest young
men Georgia ever produced have been
swallowed up in the maelstrom of spec
ulation. I see the Journal this week
reported that a game of poker was
going on in Atlanta undetected by the
police, and so on. I am as much op-
posed to poker, faro banks and seven
up for the dollar as any man on this
continent, but one dirty bucketshop
in Atlanta will wreck more young men
in a month than every faro bank and
poker game that has been run in AT
lanta since the war. I care not how
pure the motive may be, how honest
the endeavor may be when a man goes
into speculations-I don't care how
honest he thinks he is, he is like the