Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-11

'Ni'oA 'hc lnnclllng motive. That
man who is honest merely bccause
honesty Is the best policy" I, asready
moral bankrupt.
My charge is to YOU. in all drpari-
mentS OF life, steer clear OF ribery all
OF You. Every man and woman at
some time will lie tempted To do wrong
Tor compensation. The bribc NAV not
he offered in money. II may bc offered
IN social position. Letus remember
That there is day coming when the
most secret transaction of private life.
and of Iuhlic life, will come M for
public apprehension
We can not hrihe death. we can not
orlbc sickness, we can not hribe the
grave. We can not brihc the iud.s-
mcntS of that tod who thunde..s
against this sin. Pie" said Cardinal
beaufort, "fr! Can't death be bribcd?
Is noncy nothing" Must die. and So
rioh? II the owning of the who'll,
realm would save me, | couli get it 10y
policy or hy purchase by money"
No, death would not he bribrd then.
lie Will not he bribcd now. Men of
the world often regret that they have
To leave their money here when they
go away from the world You can tell
from what they say in their last hours
that one OF their chief sorrows is
that they have to- leave their money.
| br' all that dclusion. tell that
bribctakcr that he will take his
money with him. God will wrap it
up III your shroud or put it in the
palm Of your hand in resurrection. and
there II will lie, not the cool, bright
shining gold as il was on the day when
you sold your vote and your moral
principle, but there 1t will lie a hot
metal, burning and consuming your
hand forever. Or if there bc enough
of it for chain, then it will fall over
the wrist, clanking the fcttcrs of an
everlasting possession. You take it
for time, you take it for eternity.
Some day in the next world, when YOU
are longing for sympathy, YOU will
feel on your check kiss Looking up
you will find it to be Judas, who took
so pieces of silver as a bribr, and fin
ishcd the bargain by putting an in
famous kiss on the Iurc cheek of his
Divine Master
Another wrong use of money is seen
In the abuse of trust funds Nearly
every man during the course of his
life, on n larger or smaller scale, has
the property Of others committed to
his keeping. He is so far. n safety de-
post; he is an administrator and holds
in his hand the interest of the family
of a deceased friend Or he is an at
torney, and through his custody goes
the payment from debtor to creditor,
or he is collector for business
house, which compensatcs him for the
responsibility; or he is treasurer for n
charitable institution, and he holds
aims contributed for the suffering; or
he is an official of the city or the state
or the nation, and taxes and subsidies
and supplies are in his keeping.
1t Is as solemn n trust as tod can
make it. 1t is concentrated and null
tiplied condolences. On that man de-
ponds the support of bereft house
hold, or the morals of dependents, or
the right movement of a thousand
wheels of social mechanism. A man
may do what he will with his own, but
he abuses trust funds. in that Que act
commits theft, falsehood, perjury, and
becomes, in all Intensity of the word, a
miscreant How many widows and or
phans there are with nothing between
them and starvation but a sewing
machine, or held up out of the vortex
of destruction simply by the thread of
needle, red with their own hearts
blood, who n little while ago had, by
father and husband, left them a COM
potency! What is the matter? The
administrators or the executors have
sacrificed it-running risks with it
that they would not have dared to en-
counter in their own private affairs.
How often is it that man will earn
a livelihood by the sweat of his brow,
and then die, and within a few months
all the estate goes into the stock-gam-
bling rapids of Wall street! How oft
en- is it that you have known the
man to whom trust funds were COM
United taking them out of the saw
ings bank and from trust companies
and administrators, turning old home
steads into hard cash, and then put
ting the entire estate into the
vortex of speculation. Embe zzle-
ment is an easy word to pronounce,
but it has 10000 ramifications. There
is not a city that has not suffered
from the abuse of trust funds. Where
is the court house. or the city hall, or
the fail, or the post office, or the hos
pital, that in the building of it has not
had political job? Long before the
new court house in New York city was
completed 1t cost over SIC, 900, 900. Five
million six hundred and sixty-three
thousand dollars for furniture! For
plastering and repairs, 81, SO. 900. For
plumbing and gas works, Sl,231,sl7.
For awnings, S23,553, the bills for
three months coming to the nice little
sum of SIS, Isl. 1873 SO. There was not
an honest brick, or stone, or lath, or
nail, or foot of plumbing, or inch OF
plastering, or inkstand, or door knob
in the whole esta blishment
That bad example was followed in
many OF the cities, which did not steal
quite SO much because there was not
so much to steal. There ought to be a
closer inspection. and there ought to
be less opportunity for embe zzement
Lest man shall take five-cent piece
that does not belong to him, the con-
ductor on the city horse car must
sound his bell at every payment; and
we are very cautions about small o.
lenses, but give plenty of opportuni-
ties for sinners on large scale to es-