Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-07-22

That's the way to do it. What's the
use Of our Flooding on with small
wages or insignificant salary when we
may 50 into business life and with
some strata gem achieve such fortune
as that man has achieved?" 4 differ
| cit measure has been applied to the
cr"me of Wall street from that which
has been applied to the spoils 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, faunt-
ed his abominations in the sight of all
the people and defied public morals
every day of his life. Young men look
ed up and said: HE was a peddler in
one decade, and in the next decade 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 prof
! ligate fnancier has been felt, and with
in the past few weeks he has had con-
spicuOus fmitatOrs.
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
BILE apparel: What! You only get ST.
800 a year? Why, that wouldn't keep
me in pin money. I spend $4,000 a
year" Where do you get it?' asks
the plain young man. ooh, stocks, en-
terprises, all that sort of thing, you
know" The plain young man has
hardly enough money to pay his board,
has to wear clothes after they are out
of fashion and deny himself all luXu-
ries. After awhile he gets tired of his
Flooding, 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,
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 a
gold one with 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 es-
cape 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.
Romance of Crime.
1t is quite a long road sometimes for |
a man to travel before he gets into the |
romance of crime. Those are caught |
who are 9lly in the prOsaic stage of it. |
If the sheriffs and constables 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 load
of pig iron.
Now, I always thank God when l find |
an estate like that go to smash 1t is |
plague struck, and it blasts the nation.
| thank God when it goes into such q |
wreck it can never be gathered up |
again. l want it to become so loath-
some and such an insufferable stencil |
that honest young men will take warm
ing. If God should put into money or
its representative the capacity to go |
to its lawful owner, there would not |
be bank or a 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 aImshouse.
How many dishonesties in the max
ing out OF invoices, and in the plaster
ing Of false labels, and in the f1lching
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 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 a very different
light.
a young man stood behind q counter
in New York selling silks to a lady,
and he said before the sale was con-
summated, Il 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 interview, and
he wrote home to the father of the
young man. living in the country, say
ing: Dear sir-Come and take your
boy. He will never make a merchant"
The father came down from the coun-
try 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
never will make 4 merchant" SIS that
all?" said the father. 81 am proud Of
him. l 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