The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-07-26

wouldn't keep me in pin money.
spend $1,000 year." 'Where do you
get it?" asks the plain young man.
''Oh, stocks, enterprises-an 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 luxuries.
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
off his silver watch for a gold one
with a flashing chain, sets his hat
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.
It is quite a long road sometimes
for a 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
able to steal whole railroad, but
they could master load of pig iron.
Now, 1 always thank God when
find an estate like that go to smash.
It is plague struck, and it blasts the
nation. I thank God when it goes
into such a wreck it can never be
gathered up again. I 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 its
lawful owner, there would not be
bank or 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-
e. =,
| opera house, he will not own GER
tificate 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 boosted that he
| controlled the money market.
Oh, there is such fearful fascina-
ton 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 the discharge of his
responsibilities; or he is treasurer of
a 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
| subsidies and supplies and salaries
are in his hands. Now, that is a
trust. That is as sacred trust as
| God can give q 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 ibertin-
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