The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-28

us to distribute them among their rightful owners" And If in all the pull pits of the United States today rousing sermons could be preached on honesty and the evils of dishonesty and the
 sermons were blessed of God and ar
 engagements could be made by which all
 the goods which have been improperly
 taken from one man and appropriated
 by another man should be put in the city halls of the country there is not city hall in the United States that would be crowded from cellar to cupola. Faith of the gospel; that we must preach and we do preach. Morality of the gospel we must just as certainly proclaim.
 Now. look abroad and see the fas- cinatiOns that are thrown around diff ferent styles of crime. The question that every man and woman has been asked has been: Should crime be ex- cused because 1t is on a large scale? Is iniquity guilty and to be pursued of the law in proportion as it is on a small scale? Shall we have the penitentiary for the man who steals an overcoat from a hatrack and all Canada for a man to range in if he have robbed the public of millions?
 Look upon all the fascinations thrown around fraud in this country. You know for years men have been made heroes of and pictorialized and in various ways presented to the public as though sometimes they were worthy of admiration if they have scattered the funds of banks or swallowed great es- tates that did not belong to them. Our young men have been dazed with this quick accumulation. They have said That's the way to do it. Whats the use of our plodding on with small wages or insignificant salary when we may go into business life and with some stratagem achieve such a fortune as that man has achieved?" A differ ent measure has been applied to the crime of Wall street from that which has been applied to the spells which the man carries up Rat alley.
 So a peddler came down from New England many years ago, took hold of the money market of New York, fiaunt- ed his abominations in the sight of all the people. defied public morals every day of his life. Young men looked up and said: He was a peddler in one de- cade and in the next deoSde he is one of the monarchs of the stock market That s the way to do it." To this day the evil influence of that profligate has been felt. and within the past few weeks lie has had consplcuous imitat- ors.
 [ s... The Way to Get Money.
 There has been an irresistible impress sion going abroad among young men that the poorest way to get money is to earn it. The young man of Haunting cravat says to the young man Of hum ble apparel; What you only get $1.S00 a year? Why, that wouldn't keep me in pin money. I spend S5,o00 a year. Where do you get it?" asks the plain young man. "Oh. stocks. enterprises all sorts of things, you know" The plain young man has hardly enough money to pay his board and has to wear clothes after they are out of fash ion and deny himself all the luxuries After while he gets tired of his plod- ding. and he goes to he man who has achieved suddenly large estate, and he says Just show me how it is done" And he is shown. He soon learns how, and. although he is almost all the time idle now and has resigned 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 al gold one with flashing chain, sets his hat little farther over on the side of his head than he ever did. smokes bet ter cigars and more of them. He has his hGSd in! Now. if he can escape the penitentiary 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 pavemsnts and docks. Now he has got so ia" along he t~ safe for perdition.
 It is quite a long road sometimes for a man to travel before he gets into the romance of crime. Those are caught who are only in the prosaic stage of if If the Sheriffs and constab bles would only leave them alone for little while they would steal as well as any body. They might not be able to steal