Newport weekly independent., 1901-07-26

more money than he ever had
 off his silver watch for a g
 with a flashing chain, sets hi
 little farther over on the side of his head than he ever did. smolles better cigars and more of them. He I1as his hand in! Now, if he can escape the penitentiary for three or fo9 9lr 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.
 It is quite long road sometimes for man to travel before he gets in- to 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 little while, they would steal as well as anybody. They might not be a ble to steal whole railroad, but they could master load of pig iron.
 Now, l always thank God when I find an estate like that go to smash. It is plague struck. and it blasts the
 
 into such a wreck it can never be gathered up again. l want it to be- come so lOathSome and such an in- sufferab ble stench 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 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 cer- tifcate of stock, he will not own one dollar of government securities, and the poorest boy that stands on the street with 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 boasted that he controlled the money market.
 Oh, there is such a fearful fascina- tion in this dcy about the use of trust funds. It has got to be popular to take the funds of others and specu- late with them. There are many who are practicinG 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 creditor through his hands; or he is in a commercial establishment and gets a salary for tke discharge of his 5ponsibilities or he is treasurer of philanthropic institution, and money for the suffering goes through his hands; or he has some office in city or state or nation, and taxes and are in his hands. Now, that is trust That is as sacred trust as God can give a man. It is the con- centration of confidence. Now, when that man takes that money, the money of others, and goes to specu- lating with it for his own purposes, he is guilty of theft, falsehood and perjury, and in the most intense sense of the word is miscreant
 So there has been a great deal of fascination thrown around libertin- ism. Society is very severe upon the impurity that turks around the alleys and low haunts of the town. The law pursues it, smites it, incarcerates it. tries to destroy it. You know as we'll as 1 that society becomes lenient in proportion as impurity becomes af- fluent or is in elevated circles, and finally society is silent or disposed to palliate. Where is the judge, the jury, the police officer that dare arraign the wealthy libertine? He walks the streets, he rides in the parks, he faunts his iniquity in the eyes of the pure. The bag of uncleanness looks out of the tapestried window Where is the law that dares take the brazen