The semi-weekly messenger., 1901-07-23
within me past few weeks he has had
conspicuous imitators.


conspicuous imitators.
The Way to Get Money.
There has been an irresistible impres-
sion going abroad among young men that
the poorest way to get money Is t0earn
it. The young man OF Haunting cravat
says to the young man Of humble ap-
pc-el: "What, you only get $500 q
year? Why, that wouldn't keep me in
pin money. / spend 5000 a year."
where do you get it?" asks the plain
young man. "Oh, stocks, enterprises
all that sort Of thing, you know" The
plain young man has hardly enough mon
'ey to pay his board and has to wear
clothes after they are out Of fashion and
deny himself all luxuries. After awhile
he gets tired of his plodding, 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 re-
signed his position in the bank or the
factory or the store, he has more money
than he ever had, trades off bis old silver
watch for 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 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.
1t is quite long road sometimes for q
man to travel before he gets into the ro-
nance Of crime. Those are caught who
are only in the prosaic stage Of it. II 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 a load Of pig iron.
Now, l always thank God when find
an estate like that go to smash. 1t is
plague struck, and it blasts the nation. I
thank God when it goes into such a wreck
can never be gathered up again. want
it to become so loathsome and such an in
sufferable stencil that honest young men
will take warning. If God should put
into money or its representative the ca
pacity 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
horseback and stock gamblers would 60
to the almshouse.
The Temptations to Dishonesty.
How many dishonesties in the making
out of invoices and in the plastering Of
false labels and in the filching of custom
ers 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 get
ting of it on a larger scale only proves
to them their greater ingenuity. There
is glitter thrown around about all these
things. Young men have got to find out
that God looks upon sin in q very differ
ent light.
A young man stood behind counter in
New York selling silks to lady. and he
said before the sale was consummated,
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, saying: Dear sir, come and
take your boy. He will never make
merchant" The father came down from
the country 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 will never
make merchant" "Is that ALI? said
the father. Il am proud Of him.
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 men under the pres
sure, under the destinations thrown
around about commercial iniquity. Thou
sands of young men have gone down
under 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 a prosperity
which comes from i'll 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 a place when
you have lost it. Besides that, have q
widowed mother depending upon my exer-
tions, and you must not be too 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 60
home and tell your mother the pressure
under which you are in that store. and
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 iniquity will soon lose it all.
One moment after his departure from life
he will not own an opera house, he will
not own a certificate 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 it 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 a fearful fascination
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 practic!ag thar in
iquity. Almost every man in the course
of his life has the property of others put