The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-28

whole railroad. but they could mas er :oao or pig iron.
 Now 1 always thank God when find m estate like that go to smash. It is plague struck. and il blasts the nation. thank God when 1t goes into such a wreck it can never De gathered up .gain. want ii to become so loath- some and such an insufferable stench hat honest young men will take warn Ing. If God should put into money or .ts representative the capacity to go to its lawful owner. there '.ouid not be 2 bank or safely deposit Tn the United States whose walls would not be blown put and mortgages would rip and parchments would rend and gold would shoot and beggars would get on horse pack and stock gamblers would go to the almshouse.
 The Temptations 70 Dishonesty. How many dishonesties in the mak- ing out of invoices and in the plaster | ing of false labels and in the filching of customers of rival house 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 large scale only proves fo them their great ingenuity. There is glitter lhrown around all these things. Young men have got to find out that God
 looks upon sin in a very different light.
 young man stood behind a counter
 in New York selling silks to a lady,
 and he said before the sale was con-
 summated. II see there is q 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-
 try. saying: Dear sir, come and take
 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 boy had done. He came into
 the store. and the merchant said to
 him: Why, your son pointed out a
 flaw in some silk the other day and
 spoiled the sale. and we will never
 have that lady probably again for
 customer and your son will never
 make a merchant" 'Is that all?" asked
 the father. 1T am proud of him. l
 wouldn't for the world have him an-
 other day under your influence. John,
 get your coat and hat; let us start"
 There are hundreds of young men
 under the Vaccinations. thrown around
 about commercial iniQuity. Thousands OA SouhB HIGH nave SOHe uOWH
 the pressure: other thousands 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 i'll got
 ten gains. "Oh." you say, II might lose my place. It Is easy for you to stand
 there and talk. but 1t is no easy thing to get place when you lave lost 1t.
 Besides that. I have widowed mother depending upon my exertions, and you must not be too reckless in giving ad- vice to me-" An. my young friend, it is always safe to do right, but it is never safe to do wrong. You get home and tell your mother the pressure under which you are in that store, and 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 iniqulty will soon lose 1t all. One moment after his depart ure from life he will not own an opera house. he will not own a certificate of stock. he will not own a dollar of gov ernment 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 1t goes by, will have more money than that man who one week previous boasted that he controlled the money market.
 Misuse of Trust Funds.
 Oh. there Is such fearful fascination in this day about the use of trust funds. It has got to be popular to take the funds of others and speculate with them. There are many who are prac- ticing that inquity. Almost every man in the course of his life has the prop erty of others put in his care. He has administered. perhaps. for a dead friend: he is an attorney, and money passes from debtor to creditor through his hands; or he is in a commercial establishment and gets salary for the discharge of his responsibilities; or he Is treasurer of a philanthropic institu- tion, and money for the suffering goes through his hands: or he has some of- flee in city or State or Nation, and taxes and subsidies and supplies and salaries are in his hands. Now. that is a. trust That is as sacred a trust as God can give man. It is the concen- tration of confidence. Now, when that man takes that money, the money of others. and goes to speculating with it for his own purposes, he is guilty of theft. falsehood and perjury and in the most intense sense of the word Is Q miscreant
 There are families today, widows and orphans. with nothing between them and starvation but a sewing machine, or kept out of the vortex by the thread Of needle red with the blood of their hearts. who were by father or husband left competency. You read the story in the newspaper of those who have lost by a bank dedication. and it is only one line, the name of a woman YOU never heard of. and just one or two figures telling the amount of stock shs, had. the number of shares. It Is very short line in a newspaper, but 1t is a line of agony long as time; it Is a story long aseeternity.
 Now. do not come under the fascina- tion which induces men to employ trust funds for purposes of their own specu- lation. Cultivate old fashioned hones- ty. Remember the example of We'll ington. who, when he was leading the BritisH army over the French frontier and his, army were very hungry and there was plenty of plumber on the French frontier and some of the men wanted to take ,t. said: Soldiers. do not touch that. God will take care of us. He will take care of the English army. Plenty of plumber. l know, all around. but do not take it." He told the story afterward himself how that the French people brought to him their valuables to keep-he supposed to be their enemy-brought him their valua- nles to keep. and then, he said, at a time when the creditors of the army NAra IfV,1r e..