The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-12

man can work for a dollar. or gam
bic for a dollar. or steal dollar, or bor-
row dollar. There are many ways to
get money, but there is but one right way.
ana that Is to give in exchange for the
dollar you get value received when a
man. white or colored, plows all day for
75 cents or dollar, he gives In return for
the dollar he receives its full worth.
The men who WELD the blacksmith
hammer, the house carpenters imple-
ments. the miners pick. the mason 5
trowel. II they be honest men, give in TO-
turn full worth for all they receive. Mon
ey that comes by inheritance is not, as a
rule. the best money. Money that comes
from disreputable business, such as SELL
ing liquor. is bad money from start TO
finish. Money that a lawyer receives for
doing a dirty thing for his client will
dirty the lawyer that gets it. So all the
way down the line, honesty is not only
the best policy, but 1t furnishes the only
basis and foundation on which the per-
manent structure of good character can
stand.
l know, in these days, that money rot
only makes the tilley so. but it makes
everything else that wears hair go and
1t moves a bald hcaced man tolerably
well And | know 1t Is true largely that
mans bank account determines not only
his business standing, but his social posi-
ton. and frequently his position in the
church OF God itself. In the last few
weeks gambling in stochs-futGres, 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 main WHO deals in futures
In the next ten years would lcse every
dollar he put into it--bears and bulls
alike That would have a tendency to
check this greedy spirit that specu.ates
and CANDLES on the bread and meat and
clothes OF the honest laboring men OF
this country. We can not 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
munity in their reckless schemes and els
honest methods. 1t is a sin in the sight of
God and whatever is sin we had better
let alone. l have In Il sense kept the
tocofd Of these SPECTATORS, from the
millionaires down to the little patrons or
bucketshops. Sooner or later, as a rule,
they go down in financial ruin and moral
wreck.
| wish the young men of this country
could see that a legitimate business, hon
esty conducted, giving value received for
all incomes, was the only way to pcrma
nent success oh, the wrecks along this
river from source to mouth-the river OF
speculation, of gambling; and believe a
bucketshop is as much gambling insti-
tuition as any faro bank run in Chicago
or New York. To play on the puts and
calls Of the wheat pit is as much gam
bling as any game of studhorse poker
ever played in California. Some of the
brightest, brainiest cleverast young men
Georgia ever produced have been swal-
lowed up in the maelstrom of speculation.
1 see thu journal this week reported that
game OF poker was going on In Atlanta
undetected by the police, and so on. | am
as much opposed 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 younx men In
month than every faro bank and poker
game that has been run in Atlanta since
the war. | care not how pure the motive
may be, how honest the endeavor may b.
when man goes into speculations-I
don't care how honest he thinks he Is. he
Is like the little child fondlng and playing
with rattlesnane in his hands Neither
the ehchantment nor pleasure OF the child