Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-03

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 gold one with a
flashing chain. sets his hat little far
ther 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 politi-
cal jobs and will have something to do
with harbors and pavements and docks.
Now he has got so far along he is
safe for perdition.
1t is quite long road sometimes for
man to travel before he gets into
the romance of crime. Those are
caught who are only in the prosaic
stage of it. If the sheriffs and con-
stables would only leave them alone a
little while. they would steal as well
as anybody. They might not be able
to steal a whole railroad, but they
could master a load of pig iron.
Now. 1 always thank God when find
an estate like that go to smash. 1t
is plague struck, and it blasts the ma
ton. I thank God when it goes into
such wreck it can never be gathered
up again. want it to become so loath-
some and such an insufferable stencil
that honest young men will take warn
ing. If God should put into money or
it's representative the capacity to go
to it's lawful owner, there would not
be bank or safety deposit in the
United States whose walls would not
be blown out and mortgages would rip
and parchments would rend and gold
would shoot and beggars would get on
horseback and stock gamblers would
go to the almshouse.
The Temptations to Dishonesty.
How many dishonesties in the max
ing out of invoices and in the plaster
ing of false labels and in the filching
of customers of rival houses and in the
making and breaking of contracts,
Young men are indoctrinated in the
idea that the sooner they get money
the better, and the getting of it on
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 a very different
light
A young man stood behind a counter
in New York selling silks to a lady,
and he said before the sale was con-
summated, 81 see there is a flaw in
that silk" The lady recognized it, and
the sale was not consummated The
head man of the firm saw the inter
view, and he wrote home to the father
of the young man, living in the coun-
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your boy. He will never make a mer-
chant" The father came down from
the country home in great consterna-
ton, as any father would, wondering
what his soE 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 GUS
toner, and your son will never make
a merchant Is that all?'' said the
father. 81 am proud of him. 1 wouldn't 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 fascinations thrown
around about commercial iniquity.
Thousands of young men have gone
down under the pressure; other thou
sands have maintained their integrity
God help you, Let me say to you, my
young friend, that you never can be
happy in prosperity which comes
from ill gotten gains. "Oh.'' you say,
Il 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 that, 1 have a
widowed mother depending upon my
exertions. and you must not be tco
reckless in 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
are in that store. and 1 know
what she will 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
Misuse of Trust Funds.
Oh, there is such fearful fascina-
ton 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 prac-
ticing that iniQuity. Almost every man
in the course of his life has the prop
erty of others put in his care. He has
administered, perhaps, for dead
friend; he is an attorney, and money
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