The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-06-14

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to go into business unless his moral
principle is thoroughly settled. That
is no place for a man to go into bust
ness who does not know when he is
overpaid five dollars by mistake wheth-
er he had better take it back again or
not. That is no place for man to go
who has large funds in trust and who
is all the time tempted to speculate
with them. That is no place for q man
TO go who does not quite know whether
the laws of the state forbid usury or
patronize it. Oh. how many men have
risked themselves in the vortex and
gone down for the simple reason their
integrity had not been thoroughly es-
tablished. Remember poor Ketcham.
How soon the flying hoofs of his iron
grays clattered with him to his de-
struction! Remember poor Gay, at 80
years Of age astonishing the world
with his fortunes and his forgeries.
Remember that famous man whose
steamboats, and whose opera houses
could not atone for his adulterous
rides through Central park in the face
of decent New York and whose be-
has blasted tens of thousands of young
men of this generation.
hold up the polluted memory to
warn young men whose moral princi-
Piles are not thoroughly settled to keep
out of Wall street. It is no place for a
man who shiwers- under the blast of
temptation. Let me say also to those
who are doing legitimate business on
that or similar streets of which that
is type to stand firm in Christian
principle. You are in a great com
mercial battlefield. Be courageous.
There is such a thing as hero of the
bank and hero of the stock exchange.
You be that hero. I have not so much
admiration for the French empress
who stood in her balcony in Paris and
addressed an excited mob and quelled
able banker on Wall street who in 1864
stood on the steps of his moneyed in
stitution and quoted the fears of de-
positors and babe peace to the angry
wave of commercial excitement. God
did 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 will be adjudicate
Honesty pays best for both worlds.
At certain times almost every pros
porous merchant wakes up, and he
says: snow, have been successful
in my line of trade, and have a toll
cradle income. I think I shall GO
down to Wall street and treble it in
three weeks. There's my neighbor.
He was in the same line of business.
He has 100000 or 100000 from the
simple fact that he went into Wall
street. I think 1 shall go too" Here
they come, retired merchants who
want to get little excitement in
their lethargic veins. Here they come,
the trustees of great property, to
fool everything away. Here they come,
men celebrated for prudence, to trifle
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 stock gam
bling? Do you know that in all
Christian lands this is one of the
greatest curses?
It is not peculiar to mercurial Amer
leans. Oh, no! Almost every nation
has INDUCED in it. The Hollanders
the most phlegmatic people in the
world, had their gambling seizure in
1888. 1t was called the tulip mania
It was a speculation in tulips. Prop.
critics worth $500, 900 were turned into
tulips. All the Holland nation either
buying or selling tulips. One tulip
root sold 1or 5000, another for $4,000
Excitement rolling on and rolling on
until history tells us that one Am.
sterdam tulip which was supposed tc
be the only one of the kind in all
the world actually brought in the
market $1,s16,0OO! That is matter
of history. OF course, the crash
came, and all Holland went down
under it.
But France must have its gam
bling expedition, and that was in
1916. John Laws Mississippi scheme
it was called. The French had
heard that this American continent
was built out of solid gold, and. the
project was to take it across the
ocean and drop it in France. Elk
element beyond anything that had
vet been seen in the world. Three
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