St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-17
=. that man ha. .ehieved?" A different

a. that man has achieved" A different
measure has been applied to the crime
of Wall street from that which has
been applied to the spoils which the
man carries up Rat alley.
So q peddler came down from New
! England many years ago, took hold OF
the money market of New York, faunt-
ed his denominations in the sight of all
the people, defed public morals every
day of his life. Young men looked up
and said: "He was peddler in one
decade, and in the next decade he is
one of the monarchs of the stock mar
ket. That's the way to do it, To this
day the evil influence of that profigate
has been felt, and within the past few
weeks he has had conspicuous imita-
I tors.
There has been an irresistible inn
preston 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 humble apparel: "What, you
only get $1,000 a year? Why, that
wouldn't keep me in pin money. I
spend $4,000 year" "Where do you
get it?'' asks the plain young man.
"Oh, stocks, enterprises-all that
sort of thing, you know" The plain
young man has hardly enough money
to pay his board and has to wear
clothes after they are out of fashion
and deny himself all the luxuries.
After awhile he gets tired of his plod-
ding, and he goes to the 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 al
most 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 silver watch for 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. He has his
hand 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 pavements and docks. Now be
has got SO far along he is safe for
perdition.
It is quite long road sometimes
for a man to travel before he gets in
to the romance of crime. Those are
caught who are only in the prosalc
stage of it. If the sheriffs and con-
stables would only leave them alone
little while, they would steal as
we'll as anybody. They might not be
able to steal whole railroad, but
they could master load Of pig iron
Now, I always thank God when ]
find an estate like that go to smash
It is plague struck, and it blasts the
nation. 1 thank God when it goes
into such a wreck it can never be
gathered up again. I want it to be-
come so loathsome and such an IN
sufferable stencil that honest young
men will take warning. If God
should put into money or its repre-
sentative the capacity to go to its
lawful owner, there would not be
bank or safety deposit in the Unit
ed States whose walls would not be
blown out and mortgages would rlI
land parchments would rend and gold
would shoot and beggars would get
on horseback and stock gamblers
would go to the almshouse.
And remember, that the man who
gets his gain by iniquity will soor
lose it all. One moment after his de-
parture from life he will not own an
opera house, he will not own Ger
tificate of stock, he will not own one
dollar of government securities, anc
the poorest boy that stands on the
street with penny in his pocket
looking at the funeral procession OF
the dead cheat as he goes by, viii
have more money than that man who
one week previous boasted that ht
controlled the money market.
Oh, there is such fearful fascina'
ton in this dcy about the use OF trust
funds. It has got to be popular te
take the funds of others and specu
late with them. There are many who
are practicing that iniquity. Almost
every man in the course OF his life
has the property of others put in his
care. He has administered, perhaps
for dead friend; he is an attorney
and money passes from debtor te
creditor through his hands; or he is
in commercial establishment ane
gets salary for tie discharge OF hi.
responsibilities; or he is treasurer o.
a philanthroric institution, ane
money for the suffering goes through
his hands; or he has some office II
4 city or state or nation, and taxes ane
subsidies and supplies and salaries
are in his hands. Now, that is
trust. That is as sacred trust al
God can give q man. It is the con
centration of confidence. Now, whe1
i that man takes that money, tht
money of others. and goes to specu
lating with it for his own purposes
he is guilty of theft, falsehood ane
perjury, and in the most intense
sense of the word is miscreant.
So there has been great deal OF
fascination thrown around Hbertin