Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

., plague struck, and IL blasts the ma
tion. thank God when 1t goes into
such wreck 1t can never be gathered
up again. want 1t to become SO loath-
some and such an insufferable stencil
that honest young men will take warn
ing. II God should put into money or
its representative the capacity to go
to its lawful owner. there would not
be a bank or safety deposit in the
United States whose walls would not
be blown out and mortgages would rip
and parchments would rend and gold
would shoot and beggars would get on
horseback and stock gamblers would
go to the almshouse.
The Temptations to Dishonesty.
How many dishonesties in the max
ing out Of invoices and in the plaster
ing Of false labels and in the filching
Of customers Of rival houses and in the
making and breaking of contracts!
Young men are indoctrinated in the
idea that the sooner they get money
the better. and the getting Of 1t on
larger scale only proves to them their
greater ingenuity. There is a glitter
thrown around about all these things.
Young men have got to find out that
God looks upon sin In very different
light.
A young man stood behind counter
In New York selling silks to a lady,
and he said before the sale was con-
summated, Il see there is flaw in
that silk" The lady recognized it, and
the sale was not consummated. The
head man of the firm saw the inter-
view, and he wrote home to the father
OF the young man, living in the coun-
try, saying: Dear sir, come and take
your boy. He will never make a mer-
chant" The father came down from
the country home in great consterna-
ton, as any father would. wondering
what his son had done. He came into
the store, and the merchant said to
him, why, your son pointed out a
flaw in some silk the other day and
spoiled the sale and we will never have
that lady probably again for a Gus
toner, and your son will never make
merchant" rs that all?" said the
father. Il am proud of him. wouldn't
for the world have him another day
under your influence. John, get your
hat and coat; let us start" There are
hundreds of young men under the pres
ali 20
around about commercial iniquity.
Thousands of young men have gone
down under the pressure; other thou
sands have maintained their integrity.
God help you! Let me say to you, my
young friend, that you never can be
happy in a prosperity which comes
from i'll gotten gains. "Oh," you say,
Il might lose my place. 1t is easy for
you to stand there and talk, but it is
no easy thing to get place when you
have lost it. Besides that. l have a
widowed mother depending upon my
exertions, and you must not be too
reckless in giving advice to me-" All,
my young friend, 1t is always safe to
do right, but it is never safe to do
wrong. You go home and tell your
mother the pressure under which you
are in that store, and l know
what she will say to you, II
she Is worthy Of you. She will
say: my son, come out from there.
God has taken care of us all these
years, and he will take care of us
now. Come out of that"
Misuse of Trust Funds.
Oh, there Is such a fearful fascina-
ton in this day about the use Of trust
funds. 1t has got to be popular to take
the funds of others and speculate with
them. There are many who are prac-
ticing that iniquity. Almost every man
in the course of his life has the prop
erty of others put in his care. He has
administered. perhaps, for a dead
friend; he is an attorney. and money
passes from debtor to creditor through
his hands; or he is in a commercial
establishment and gets a salary for
the discharge of his responsibilities: or
he is treasurer of philanthropic insti-
tuition, and money for the suffering
goes through his hands: or he has
some Office in city or state or nation,
and taxes and subsidies and supplies
and salaries are In his hands. Now,
that is a trust. That is as sacred a
trust as God can give a man. II is
the concentration of confidence. Now,
when that man takes that money, the
money of others, and goes to speculat-
ing with 1t for his own purposes, he is
guilty of theft, falsehood and perjury
and in the most intense sense of the
word is miscreant.
There are families today widows
and orphans-with nothing between
them and starvation but sewing ma
chine, or kept out of the vortex by
the thread Of a needle red with the
blood of their hearts, who were by ia
Their or husband left competency.
You read the story in the newspaper
of those who have lost by bank de-
falcation. and 1t is only one line, the
name Of a woman you never heard of,
and just one or two figures telling the
amount Of stock she had, the number
Of shares. 1t is very short line in
newspaper. but 1t is line Of agony
long as time: it is story long as eter-
nifty.
Dangers of Libertinism.
So there has seen great deal OF
fascination thrown around libertinism.
Society is very severe upon the impur-
Ivy that turks around the alleys and
low haunts of the town. The law pur-
sues 1t, smites it. incarcerates it, tries
to destroy it. You know as well as
that society becomes lenient in proper