Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-24
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ey 70 pay his board ana has to wear
clothes after they are out Of fasAion and
deny himself all laxuries. After awhile
he gets tired OF his plodding. and he goes
10 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 re-
signed his position in tha baak Of the
factory OF the store, he has more money
than he ever had, trades of his old silver
watch for a geld oae with il flashing
chain. SITS his hat little farther ovet
on the sale Of his head than he eyer did.
smokes better cigars ani more Of them
He has his hand in. Now, If he can es-
cape the peni.eL tiary for three or feur
years ne viii set into political circles
aud he will get political jobs and will
have something 10 do with harhors and
payemepts and ducks. Now he has got
50 far along he is safe for nerdition.
II is quite long road sometimes for 4
man to travel before he gets into the ro-
nance OF crime. Those are caught who
are only in the prosaic stage of it, If the
sheriffs aud constabes would only leave
them alone a little whle they would
steal as wen as anybody. They might
not be able to steal whole railroad but
they could master load Of pig iron.
The temptations 10 Dishonesty
How many DISTINGUISHES in the making
out of invoices and in the plastering Of
false labels and in the Itching of custom
ers of rival houses and \ the making and
breaking of contracts, Young men are
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they get money the better. and the get
ting of it on a 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 differ
ent light.
\ young man stood behind a counter in
New York selling silks TO a lady, and he
said before the sale was censummated,
Il see there is ii flaw in that silk, The
lady recognized it. and the sale was not
contaminated The head man of the firm
saw the interview, and he wrote home TO
the father of the young man. living in
the country, saying. Dear sir. come and
take your boy. EIe viii never make Il
merchant. The father came down from
the country home in great CONSERVATION.
as any father would, wondering what his
boy had done. He came into the store
and the merchant said to him, WHY
your son pointed out flaw in some silk
the other day and spoiled the sale, and we
will never have that lady probably again
for a customer, and your son will never
make merchant" is that all?' said
the father. II 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
sure. under the destinations thrown
around about commercial iniquity Thou
sands of young men have gone down
under the pressure; other thousands have
maintained their integrity. God help you.
IL, me say to you, m, young friend, that
you never can be happy in a prosperity
which comes from i'll gotten gains. "Oh. !"
you say. II 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 thar, | have a
widowed mother depending upon my exer-
tions, aud you must not be too reckless III
giving advice TO me- All. my young
friend. it 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 in that store. and |
know what she viii say to you if 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
And remember that the man who gets
his gain by iniquity will soon losp it all.
One moment after his departure from life
he will not own an opera house he will
not own a certificate of stock, he gill not
own one dollar of government securities.
and the poorest boy that stands on the
erect with penny in his pocket. looking
at the funeral procession of the dead
cheat as it goes by, VIII have more money
than thai man who one week previous
boasted that he controlled the ,honey
market.
Misuse of Irusr Funds.
Oh, there is such fearful fascination
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 practicing that in
iquity. Almost every man in the course
of his life has the property of others put
hans. for dead friend; he is an attorney
and money passes from debtor to creditor
through his hands; or he is in CONNER
cial establishment and gets salary for
*the discharge of his responsibilities: or he
is treasurer of philanthropic institution
and money for the suffering gees through
his hands; or he has some office in city
or State or nation. and taxes and subsi
dies and supplies and salaries are In his
hands. Now, that is a trust. That * as
sacred trust as God can give man. 1t
Is the concentration of confidence. Now
when that man takes that money, the
money of others. and goes to Specializing
with it for his own purposes, he is guilty
of theft, falsehood and perjury and in
the most intense sense of the word is a
miscreant.
There are families to-day widows and
orphans-wth nothing between them and
starvation but sewing machine, or kept
out of the vortex by the thread of nee
die red with the blood Of theig hearts.
who were by father or husband left d
competency You read the story ia the
newspaper of those who have lost by ii
bank defalcation. and it is only one line
the name OF 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 Ia news
paper. but it is line of agony long as
time: it is a story long As eternity.
Now, do not come under the fascination
which induces men to employ trust funds
for purposes of their own speculation.
Cultivate old-fashioued honesty. Remem-