The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-07-27

SO a peddler came down from No,,,
England many years ago, took hold of
'He money market Of New York, faunt-
Gu MS denominations in the sight of all
the people, defied public morals every
Jay OF his life. Young men looked up
ana SAID: HE was a peddler in one
ueeaue' II in the next decade he is
one OF the monarchs of the stock mar
het. mats the way to do it." To this
Gay the evil influence of that profigate
mas oeen felt, and within the past few
weeks he has had conspicuous imita-
tors.
1here has been an irresistible i'm
preston going abroad among young
mel 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,s0o a year? Why, that
wouldn't keep me in pin money. I
spend $1,000 a year." where do you
get lt"' 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 Injuries.
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
on his silver watch for a gold one
with a flashing chain, sets his hat a
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 he
has got so far along he is safe for
perdition.
1t is quite a long road sometimes
for a mar to travel before he gets in
to the a 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 1
find an estate like that go to smash.
1t is plague struck, and it blasts the
nation. | thank God when it goes
into such a wreck it can never be
gathered up again. / want it to be-
come so loathsome and such an in
siderable stencil that honest young
men will take warning. If God
should put into money or it's repre-
sentative the capacity to go to it's
lawful owner, there would not be a
bank or a safety deposit in the Unit
ed 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.
And remember, that the man who
gets his gain by iniquity will soon
lose it all. One moment after his de-
parture from life he will not own an
opera house, he will not own a GER
t~ificate of stock. he will not own one
dollar of government securities, and
the poorest boy that stands on the
street with a penny in his pocket,
looking at the funeral procession of
the dead cheat as he goes by, will
have more money than that man who
one week previous boosted that be
controlled the money market.
Oh, there is such a fearful fascina-
ton in this dcy about the use of trust
funds. 1t has got to be popular to
take the funds of others and specu-
ate with them. There are many who
are practicinc 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 a dead friend; he is an attorney,
and money passes from debtor to
through his hands; or he is