Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-07-25

TO the man who has achieved suddenly
large estate, and he says, Just show me
how it is done" And he Is shown lie
soon learns how, and, although he is al
most all the time idle now and has re-
signed his position in the bank or the
factory or the store, he has more money
than he ever had, trades off his old silver
watch for a gold one with flashing
chain, sets his hat little farther over
on the side OF his head than he ever did.
smokes better cigars and more OF them
/ lie has his hand in! Now, If he can es-
cape the pcnitentiary for three or four
years he will get into political circles,
and he will get political jobs and will
| have something to do with harbors and
pavcments and docks. Now he has got
so far along he Is safe for perdition.
1t is quite n long road sometimes for n
man to travel before he gets into the ro-
nance Of crime. Those are caught who
are only in the prosac stage of it. II the
sherffs and constables would only leave
them alone a little while, they would
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not be able to steal whole ralroad. but
they could master load of pig iron.
Now. | always thank God when | find
an estate like that go to smash. 1t is
plague struck, and 1t blasts the nation. [
thank God when it goes into such a wreck
can never bo gathered up again. want
it to become so loathsome and such an in
suferable stencil that honest young men
will take warning. II God should put
into money or its representative the ca
pacity to go to its lawful owner, there
would not be bank or a safety deposit
in the United States whose walls would
not be blown out and mortgages would
rip and parchmcnts would rend and gold
would shoot and beggars would get on
horseback and stock gamblers would 20
to the almshouse.
The Temptations TO Dishonesty.
How many dishonesties in the making
out Of invoices and in the plastering Of
false labels and in the fiiching of custom
ers Of rival houses and in the making and
breaking of contracts. Young men arc
iuloctrinated in the idea that the sooner
they get money the better and the got.
ting OF it on a larger scale only proves
TO them their greater ingenuity. There
is glitter thrown around about all these
things. Young men have got to find out
that God looks upon sin in a very differ.
ent light.
a young man stood behind counter in
New York selling silks to lady, and he
said before the sale was consummatrd
81 see there is a flaw in that silk" Tho
lady recognized it. and the sale was nll
consummoted. The head man cf tho firm
saw the interview, and he wrote home I'd
the father of the young man, living ir
the country, saying: Dear sir, come an.
take your boy. He will never make
merchant" The father came down from
the country home in great CONSERVATION
as any father would, wondering whist hi
boy had done. He came into the store
and the merchant said to him, "Whv
your son pointed out "A flaw in some sill
the other day and spoiled the sale, and W,
will never have that lady probably agar
for customer and your son will neye
make merchant" rs that all?" sal,
the father. II am proud of him.
wouldn't for the world have him anothe
day under your influence. John, get you
hat and coat; let us start" There ar
hundreds of young men under the pres
sure. under the fascinations throw
around about commercial iniquity. Thou
sands Of young men have gone dow
under the PRESSURE; other thousands hav
maintained their integrity. God help you
Let me say to you, my young friend, tina
you never can be happy in a prospert!
which comes from i'll gotten gains. "Oh,
you say, Il might lose my place. 1t il
easy for you to stand there and talk, bu
it is no easy thing to get. place wher
you have lost it. Besides that, | have
widowed mother depending upon my exer
tons, and you must not be too reckless il
giving advice to me-" All, my youni
friend, it is always safe to do right, bu
it is never safe to do wrong You &
home and tell your mother the pressur
under which you are in that store, and
know what she will say to you if she i
worthy Of you. She will say: My son
come out from there. God has taken car
of US all these years, and he viii TAX
care of us now. Come out of that
And remember that the man who get
his gain by iniquity will soon lose it all
One moment after his departure from lif
he will not own an opera house, he Wi
not own q certificate of stock, he will no
own one dollar of government securities
and the poorest boy that stands on III
street with a penny in his pocket, lookin
at the funeral procession of the doa'
cheat as it goes by, will have more none
than that man who one week preyou
boasted that he controlled the none
market,
Misuse of Trust Funds.
Oh. there is such q fearful fascination
in this day about the use of trust funds
1t has got to be popular to take the fund
of others and speculate with them. Their
are many who are practicing that il
Equity. Almost every man in the cours
OF his life has the property Of others pu
in his care. He has administered. per
haps, for dead friend; he is an attorney
and money passes from debtor to credito
through his hands; or he is in CONNER
cial establishment and gets a salary 70
the discharge Of his responsibilities; or h
is treasurer Of a phlauthropic institution
and money for the suffering goes throug
his hands: or he has some office in cit
or state or nation. and taxes and subs
dies and supplies and salaries are in hi
hands. Now, that is a trust. That is a
sacred a trust as God can give a man.
, is the concentration of confidence. Now
when that man takes that money, tn
money Of others, and goes to spcculatin
with it for his own purposes. he is guilt
OF theft. talsehood and perjury aud il
the most intense sense of the word is
miscreaut
There are families today-widows an
orphans-with nothing between them an
starvation but a sewing machine, or KEEP
out of the vortex by the thread Of a ne,
de red with the blood of their heart,