Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-12

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raigns the spirit of Wild speculation
@ and gives some account Of the imam
eial ruin of other days; Proverbs Xxill-,
s, Riches certainly make themselves
wings. they ifs away as an eagle toward
heaven
Money is a golden breasted bird with
silver beak. 1t alights ON the office desk
or on the parlor center liable. Men and
women stanl and admire it. They do not
notice thar it has wings ,1rger than a
ravens larger than hamingps, larger
than an eagles. One wave of the hand
of misfortune and it spreads its beautiful
plnmage and is gone-''as an eagle to-
ward heaven my text says. though
sometimes think it goes in the other d.
reetion.
What a verifcation we have had of the
flying capacity of riches in Wall street!
Aud Wall street is one of the longest
streets in the world. 1t does not begin Mt
the foot of Trinity Church. New York,
and end ut the East river, as many sup
pose. 1t reaches through all our Ameri-
can cities and across the sea. Encour-
aged y the revival of trade and by the
fact that Wall street disasters of other
years were so far back as to be forgotten,
spectators run up the stocks from point
to point until innocent people on the out
side suppose that the stocks would al
ways continue to ascend. They gather in
from all parts of the country. Large
sums of money are taken into Wall street
and small sums of money. The crash
comes thank God. in time to warn off a
great many who were on their way thith-
err, for the sadness of .Ae thing is that
Of tho van mo If at1r cities
who save a little money for the purpose
of starting themselves in business, and
who have $500 or $1,000 or 5000 or
$4,000 go into Wall street and lose all.
And if there ever was time for the pull
pit to speak out in regard TO certain kinds
of nefarious enterprises now is the time.
Stocks rose and fell, and now they be-
gin 10 rise again, and they will fall again
until thousands of young men will be
ruined unless the printing press and the
pulpit give emphatic utterance. My coun-
sci is to countrymen, so far as they may
hear of this discourse, if they have sur
plus to invest it in first mortgages and in
moneyed institutions which, though pay
ing comparatively small interest, are
sound and safe beyond dispute, and TO
stand clear of the Wall street vortex.
A StrSet with history
Across the island of New York in 1853
n wall made of stone and earth and can
non mounted was built to keep off the
savages Along by that wall street
was laid out, and as1the street followed
the line of the wall it was appropriately
called Wall street. 1t is narrow, it is I'M
architectural, and yet its history Is
unique Excepting Lombard street, Lon
don. it is the mightiest street on this
planet. There the government of the
United States was born. There Wash
ington held his Ievees. There Mrs. Adj
ans and Mrs. Caldwell and Mrs. Knox
and other brilliant women of the Revolu-
ton displayed their charms. There
Witherspoon and Jonath Edwards and
George Whitfield sometimes preached
There DR. Mason ehided Alexander
Hamilton for writing the constitution of
the United States without any God in it.
There negroes were sold in the slave
mart. There criminals, were harnessed
to wheelbarrows and. like beasts of bur-
den. compelled to draw or We're dashed
through the street behind carts to which
they were fastened. There fortunes
have come to coronation or burial since
the day when reckless spectators in
powdered uuIT anu SILVER SLOe puChfS
lodged Dug2n, the governor general of
his majesty. clear down to yesterday at 3
o'clock The history of Wall street is to
certain extent the financial, CONNER
eial. agricultural. mining, literary, artis-
tic, moral and religious history of this
country and there are the worst. Every
thing from answering integrity to tiptop
scoundrelism-eyery from heaven
HILL. Il ,.a.., /
want to put the pillow in at the curb
stone of Trinity and drive it clear
through to Wall street ferry. And so it
shall 90 if the horses are strong enough
to draw the pillow.
First of all, Wall street stands as
type in this country for tried integrity
and the most outrageous viilainy. Farm
ers who lave only II few hundred dollars
worth Of produce to put on the market
have but little to test their character, but !
put man into the seven times haate
furnace of Wall street excitement and he
either comes. ont a Shadrach. with hair
unsinged. az he is burned INFO black |
moral cinder. No half way work about
it. If | wanted 10 fad integrity bomb |
proof, ! would, go among the bankers aad
merchants Of Wall street, yet because
LHefe HiNt sbStfB@fStiEu \ Itdiiiie> enacted !
there i'll different times some men have
supposed that&it is Il great financial de-
bauchery, and they hardly dare 20 near
the street or walk up or down it unless
they have bnttoned up their last pocket |
and had their lives insured or religiDusly |
crossed themselves. Yet if you start at |
either end of the street and read the bust
ness signs YOU viii find the names of
more men of integrity and Christian be-
nevolence than you can find in the same I
space in any street of any of our cities !
When the Chfstian commission and the |
sanitary commission wanted money to /
send medicine and bandageS To the /
wounded. when breadstuffs were wanted !
for furnishing frelaud. when colleges were
to he endowed ami churches were 10 be !
supported aud missionary societies were
to be equipped for their work 81 sending |
thr gospel all around the world. the first |
street 20 respond has been Wall street, |
and the largest responses in all the land /
have GENE from Wall street.
Bur while that street is a tyle Of tried |
integrity on one hand il Is also " type OF |
unhouade.l swinlle on the other. There (
are the spiders that wait for innocent
flies There are the cr0eodIles that crawl /
up through -he slime to crdnch the calf. |
There are the anarondaS with lifted lopp, I
ready to .r7tsh the unwary. There are
financial wreckers. who stand on the
beach prA wing for Caribbean whirlwind |
10 sweep over cur commercial interests.