The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-06-14

Sirhetion! Remember poor Gay. at 30
years of age astonishing the world
with his fortunes and his forperies.
remember that famous man whose
steamboats, aud whose opera houses
could not atone for his adulterous
rides through Central park in the face
OF decent New York and whose be-
havlor on Wall street by lis example
mas blasted tens of thousands of Young
men of this generation.
hold up the polluted memory TO
warn young men whose moral prinei-
pies are not thoroughly settled to keen
out OF Wall street. 1t is no place for
man who shivers under the blast of
temptation. Let ME say also TO those
who are doing legitimate business on
mat or similar streets of which that
Is type TO stand firm in Christian
principle. You are in great com
mercial battlefield. Be courageous
There is such a thing as a hero of the
bauk and a hero of the stock excbonos
iou be that hero. have not so much
admiration for the French empress
who stood in her balcony in Paris and
addressed an excited mob and oueIled
IT as have admiration for that veneer
able banker on Wall street who in 1864
stood on the steps of his moneyed in
stltution and quoted the fears of de-
positors and bade peace TO the angry
wave OF commercial excitement. God
dld not allow the lions To hurt Daniel.
and He will not allow the bears" TO
hurt you. Remember. my friend. that
all these scenes of business will soon
have passed away, and by the law of
GODS eternal right all the affairs of
your business life viii be adiudicsted
Honesty pays best for both worlds.
At certain times almost every pros
porous merchant wakes up. and he
says: Now. | have been successful
in my line Of trade. and / have toll
cradle income. think shall 90
down 10 Wall street and treble II in
three weeks. There's my neighbor
He was in the same line AZ business.
He has $500. 900 or $500. 900 from the
simple fact that he went into Wall
street. think shall go too" Here
they come. retired merchants who
want TO get a little excitement in
their lethargic veins. Here they come.
the trustees of great property. 10
fooleverything away. Here they come.
men celebrated for prudence. TO triie
with the livelihoods of widows and
orphans. Do YOU wonder that some
times they become insane? 1t is in
sanity. Do YOU know there are hun
dreds of young men who are perish
ing under the passion for stool, gam
bling? Do you know that in all
Christian lands this is one of the
greatest curses?
1t is not peculiar 10 mercurial Amer
leans. On. no. Almost every nation
has INDUCED in it, The Hollanders,
the most phlegmatic people in the
world, had their gambling seizure in
1853. 1t was called the tulip mania.
IL was a speculation in tulips. Prop
critics worth 100000 were turned into
tulips. All the Holland nation either
buying or selling tulips. One tulip
root sold Tor 5000. another for $1,000.
Excitement rolling on and rolling on
until history tells us that one Am
sterdam tulip which was supposed 10
be the only one of the kind in all
the world actually brought in the
market Sl,sl6.000! That is matter
of history. OF course. the crash
came, and all Holland wen. down
under il.
But France must have its gam
bling expedition, and that was in
17l6. John Laws Mississippi scheme,
IL was called The French had
heard that this American continent
was built out of solid gold. and the
project was to take il across the
ocean aud drop it in France. EX-
element beyond anything that had
vet been seen in the world. Three
hundred thousand applicants for
shares. Excitement so great that
sometimes the mounted military
had to dispense the crowds that had
come to buy the stock. Five hun
dred temporary tents built TO ae-
commodate the people until they
could have opportunity of interview
ing John Law. A lady of great
fashion had her coachman upset her
near the place when John Law was
passing in order that she might
have an interview with that benevo-
lent and sympathetic gentleman.
Stocks went up TO 1850 per cent,
until one day suspicion got into the
market, and down il all went-John
Laws Mississippi acknowledging
its protector and some of the great
est financers in all France. and was
almost as bad as French revolution
Sedate England took its chance
in 1920. That was the South sea
bubble. They proposed to transfer
all the gold of Peru and Mexico and
the islands of the sea 10 England.
Five millions worth of shares were
put on the market at E3OO share.
The books open. in few days it is
all taken and twice the amount
subscribed.
Excitement following excitement
until all kinds of gambling projects
came forth under the wing of this
South sea enterprise. There was
large company formed with great
capital for providing funerals for
all parts of the land. Another com