Connecticut western news., 1901-07-25

tefpriSeS, all that sort of thing, you know" The plain young man has hardly enough money to pay his board hcs to wear clothes after they are out of fashion and deny himself all luxu- rios. 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, al hough he Is almost all the time idle new and has resigned his position in th" bank or the factory or the store he has more money than he ever had. trades off his old silver watch for a god 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 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 pa Eements and docks. Now lie has got so far along he is safe for perdition.
 Romance of Crime.
 
 a Elan to travel before he gets into the romance of crime. Those are caught wEo are only 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 net be able to steal whole railroad, but they could master load of pig iron.
 Now, always thank God when find an estate like that go to smash. It is plague struck. and it blasts the nation. thank God when 1t goes into such week 1t can never be gathered up again. I want it to become so loath- some and such an insufferable stench that honest young men will take warn ing. If God should put into money or it's representative the capacity to go to it's lawful owner, there would not be T 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 geld would shoot, and beggars would get on horseback, and stock gamblers would go to the almshouse.
 How many dishonesties in the mak- ing out of invoices. and in the plaster ing of false labels, and In the flching of customers of rival houses, and in the making and breaking of contracts. Young men are indoctrinated in tie 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 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 counter in New York selling silks to a lady, and he said before the sale was coll summated, q see there is flaw in that silk" The lady recognized it, and the sale was not consummated. The head man of the firm saw the interview, and young man, living in the country, say ing: Dear sir-Come and take your boy. He will never make merchant" The father came down from the coun- try home in great consternation, as any father would, wondering what his boy had done. He came into the store, and the merchant said to him, "Wby, 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 merchant" ''Is that all?' said the father. T am proud of him. I 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 pressure, under the faS- cinations thrown around about com. mercial iniquity. Thousands of young men have gone down under the pres sure; other thousands have maintained their integrity. God help you! Let me say to you, my young friend, that you can be great deal happier in poverty than you ever can be happy in pros perity which comes from i'll gotten gains. "Oh," you say. q might lose my place. 1t Is easy for you to stand there and talk, but 1t is no easy thing to get place when you have lost 1t. Besides that, I have a widowed mother depending upon my earnings. and you must not be tco reckless in giving ad- vice to me-" An, my young friend. it is always safe to do right, but 1t is never safe to do wrong. You go home and tell your mother the pressure un- der which you are In that store, and I know what she will say to you 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"
 False to Their Trust.
 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 certificate of stock, he will not own one dollar of government securities, and the poorest boy that stands on the street with a penny in his pocket looking at the flu neral procession of the dead cheat as it goes by will have more money than that man who one week previous boast ed that he controlled the money mar ket.
 Oh, there is such a fearful fascina. ton 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 iniquty. Almost every man | in the course of his life has the proper l ty of others put in his care. He has administered perhaps for dead friend | he Is an attorney, and money passes | from debtor to creditor through his ! hands, or he is in commercial estab ishmcnt and gets a salary for the dis | charge of his responsibilities, or he Is | treasurer of a philanthropic institu | ton, and money for the suffering goes | through his hands; or he has some of | fee 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 car