Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-22


and send In roll of bills 50 too much,
would dispatch a messenger in hot
haste TO return the surplus, yet who
will so into n stock company. in which
after awhile he gets control or the
| stock and then waters the stock and
makes 100000 appear like S2oo,u0o.
He only stole 100000 by the opera
ton. Many OF the men of fortune made
their wealth in that way
One Of those men engaged in sucli
ulrightecus acts that evening. the
evening of the very day when he wa
tered the stock. will find wharf ra;
stealing daily paper from the base
ment doorway and will 20 out and
catch the urchin by the collar aEI
twist the collar so tightly the poor fel
low has no power TO say that il was
| thirst for knowledge that led him to
the dishonest act. but grip the collar
tighter and tighter. saying: Il have
been looking Cor you a long while
You stole my paper four or five times
haven't you, you miserable wretch:'
| And then the old stock gambler with
n voice they can hear three blocks,
will cry out, police, police"' That
/ same man the evening of the day in
which he watered the stock will kneel
with his family in prayers and thank
Col for the prosperity of the day, then
kiss his children good night with an
air which seems TO say. 81 hope you
all will grow up to be as good as your
| father" Prisons for sins insectile in
| size, but palaces for crimes drome-
darian. No meysy for sins animalcule
in proportion. but great leniency for
mastodon iniquity. \ poor boy slyly
takes from the basket of a market wo-
man q choke pear, saving some one
else from the cholera. and you smoth-
er him in the horrible atmosphere of
| Raymond street Jail or New York
| Tombs. while his cousin. who has been
skillful enough to steal $4,000 from
the city, you make candidate for the
state legislature.
Omnipotent Indignation.
There is good deal of uneasiness
and nervousness now among some peo-
pie in our time who have got un-
righteous fortunes, great deal of un-
easiness about dynamite. tell them
that God viii put under their un-
righteous fortunes something more ex-
plosive than dynamite, the earthquake
Of his Omnlpotent indignation. 1t is
time that we learn in America that sin
Is not eXcusable in proportion as it de-
FLARES large dividends and has outrid-
ers in equipage. Many man is rid
Ing 10 perdition position ahead ana
lackey behind. To steal one copy OF 4
newspaper is Il gnat; to steal many
thousands of dollars is camel. There
is many Il fruit dealer who would not
consent to steal basket of peaches
from neighbor's stall, but who would
not scruple to depress the fruit mar
ket and as long as l can remember
we have heard every summer the
peach crop of Maryland is a failure,
and by the time the crop comes in the
misrepresentation makes a difference
of millions of dollars. man who
would not steal one basket of peaches
steals 10000 baskets of peaches.
Go down into the public library. in
the reading rooms, and see the news
paper reports of the crops from all
parts of the country, and their phrase
ology is very much the same. and the
same men wrote them, methodically
and UNANIMOUSLY carrying out the huge
lying about the grain crop from year
to year and for a score of years. Aft
er awhile there will be corner" in
the wheat market, and men who had
contempt for petty theft will bur
glarize the wheat bin of nation and
commit larceny upon the American
corn crib, and some of the men will sit
in churches and in reformatory insti-
tutions trying to strain out the small
gnats of scoundrelism, while in their
grain elevators and in their store
houses they are fattening huge camelS
which they expect after awhile to
swallow. Society has to be entirely re-
constructed on this subject. We are
to find that sin is ineXcusable in pro
portion as it is great. know in our
time the tendency is to charge reli-
gious frauds upon good men. They
say, "Oh. what a host of frauds you
have in the Church of God in this
day!" And when an elder of church,
or deacon, or minister of the Cos
pei, or superintendent of a Sabbath |
school turns out defaulter what dis
play heads there are in many of the |
newspapers. Great primer type. Five /
line plea. Another Saint Abscond-
o6 - Gsn
gion at a Discount" Shame on the
Churches" while there are thousand !
ScoundrelS outside the church to one /
inside the church, and the misbehavior
of those who never see the inside of
church is so great that it is enough to !
tempt a man to become Christian to
get out of their company. But in all
religious and irreIigious, the
tendency is to excuse sin in proportion
as it is mammoth. Even John Milton
in his Paradise Lost" while he con
demns Satan, gives such a grand de-
scription of him you have hard work
to withhold your admiration. Oh, this
straining out of small sins like gnats
and this gulping down great iniquities
like camclS,
Gallery of Pictures.
This subject does not give the pic
ture of one or two persons. but is Il
gallery in which thousands of people
may see their likenesSes. For instance,
Ill those people who, while they would
not rob their neighbors of a farthing,
appropriate the money and the treas
lre of the public. \ man has house
10 sell. and he tells his customer it is
worth $4,000. Next day the assessor
comes around, and the owner says If
IS worth $4,000. The government of
-he United States took off the tax from