The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-02-10

ing accounts and inspecting the BOOKS.
No time to do so? Then they had no
business to accept the position. 1t
seems to be the pride of some moneyed
men to be directors in great many in
situations, and all they know is wheth-
er or not they get their dividends regu-
larly, and their names are used as decoy
ducks to bring others near enough to
be made game of. What first of all is
needed is that 500 bank directors and
insurance company directors resign or
attend to their business as directors
The business world will be full of fraud
just as long as fraud is so easy. When
you arrest the president and secretary
of bank for an embezzlement carried
on for many years, be sure to have
plenty of sheriffs out the same day TO
arrest all the directors. They are
guilty either of neglect or completely.
oh" some will say. better preach
the Gospel and let business matters
alone" reply, if your Gospel does not
inspire common honesty in the dealings
of men the sooner you close up your
Gospel and pitch it into the depths of
| the Atlantic ocean the better. An or
| thuduN swindler is worse than hoteru-
| doX swindler. The recitation of all the
catcchisms and crecds ever written
and partaking of all the communion
chaliccs that ever glittcrcd in the
/ churches of Christendom will never
save your soul unless your business
character corresponds with your re-
/ ligiouS profession. Some of the worst
/ scoundrels in America have been mem
bcrs of churches. and they got fat on
sermons about Heaven when they most
| needed to have the pulpits preach that
which would either bring them to re-
pertance or thunder them out of the
| holy communions where their presence
was a sacrilcge and an infamy.
We must especially deplore the mis-
! fortunes Of banks in various parts OF
this country in that they damage the
banking institution, which is the great
| est convenience of the centuries and in
! dispcnsable TO commerce and the adj
vance of nations. In one hand it blesses
the lender. and with the other it blesses
/ the borrower. On their shoulders are
the interests of private individuals and
great corporations. I'm them are the
! great arteries through which run the
currents of the nations life. They
| have been the resources of the thou
7 sands Of fnanciers in days Of business
/ cNigency. They stand for accommoda-
| ton. for facility. for individual. state
! and national relief At their head aud
/ in their management there are as
. s4.I T. Ia,
any class of men. perhaps more. How
/ uciariuuS. then. the behavior of those
who bring disrcputc upon this vcncra-
/ bic. bcniguaut and God huuorcd insti-
+ tuition.
We also dcplorc abuse of trust funds.
. because the abusers fly in the fIce Of
divine goodness. which seems deter
mined TO bless this land. We are hav-
ing series Of uucNamplcd national har-
vests. rhc wheat gamblers get hold
Of the wheat. ANA The corn gamblers
get hold of the corn. The fun tide Of
Gods mercy toward this land is put
back by those great bikes of dishou-
orablc resistance. When God provides
enough food and clothing % feed and
apparel this whole nation like princes,
/ the scramble Of dishonest men to get
more than their share and get it all
hazards keeps every thing shaking with
uncertainty and every body asking;
what neAt?" Every week makes new
revelations. How many more bank
| presidents and bank cashiers have been
spcculating with other peoples money
and how many more bank directors
are in mbecile silence. letting the
! prrfdy go on. the great and patient
God only knows. My opinion is that
I We have got near the bottom. The
wind has been pricbcd from the great
bubble of American speculation The
men who thought that the judgment
day was at least 5000 years OF found
it in 1898 or 1897 or 1896. and this ma
ton has been taught that men must
keep their hands out OF other peoples
pockets. Great businesses built on Dor
rowed capital have been obliterated,
and men who had nothing have lost
all they had. | believe we are started
on higher career Of prosperity than
this land has ever sccn--if and if and If.
II the first men. and especially Chris
tan men, will learn never to speculate
upon borrowed capiiai--ir you have a
mind 10 take your own money and turn
il all iuto kites, To fly them over every
common in the Quilted States, you do So
CictN no wrong. eNcrpt when you tum-
bile your helpless children into the poor
house for the public 10 take care Of.
Hut you have no right To take the mon
ey of others and turn il into kites.
There is one word hat has deluded
more people into bankruptcy and state
Prison and ruin than any other word in
commercial lie. aud hat is the word
harrow That one word is responsible
for the deracutiuns and cmbclllcments
aud financial considerations Of The last
~ years. When executors conclude 10
speculate with the funds of al estate
committed Ia their charge, they do not
pur,uiu; they say they only morrow.