Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-07-26

and he will get political jobs and will
have something to do with harbOrs and
pavcments and docks. Now he has got
50 far along he is safe for perdition.
1t is quite a long road sometimes for a
man to travel before ne gets into the rO-
nance of crime Those are caught who
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
not be able to steal a whole railroad, but
they could master a load of pig iron.
Now, I always thank God when find
an estate like that 20 to smash. 1t is
plague struck, and it blasts the nation. I |
thank God when it goes into such a wreck |
t can never be gathered up again. want I
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
pacty to 20 to its lawful owner, there |
would not be a bank or a safety deposit |
in the United States whose walls would |
not be blown out and mortgages would
rip and parchmcnts would rend and gold
would shoot and beggars would get on
horseback and stock gamblers would go
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 arc
indoctrinated in the idea that the sooner
they get money the better, and the get
ting of it on 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 differ
ent light.
A young man stood behind counter IN
New York selling silks to a lady, and no
said before the sale was cOpsummated,
81 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 CONSIDERATION,
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 O 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 a merchant" SIS that allq' 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
] hindu dc Of v-otrper NOR, r7ndor bo y,roc-
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'll
Let me say to you, my young friend, that
you never can be happy in q prosperity
which comes from III gotten gains. "Oh,"
you say, Il might lose my place. It Is
easy for you to stand there and talk, but
it is no easy thing to get place when
yOu have lost it. Besides that, | have a
widowed mother depending upon my exer-
tons, and you must not be too reckless in
giving advice to me-" All, my young
friend, it is always safe to do right, but
il is peyer safe to do wrong. You go
home and tell your mother the pressure
under which you are in that store, and |
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"
And remember that the man who gets
his gain bv iniquity will soon lose it ali.
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 Q 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
boosted that be 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
t of others and speculate with them. Their,
!, are many who are practicing that in
: lquity. Almost every man in the course
:, of his life has the property of others pu
, in his care. He has administered, per
e haps, for dead friend; he is an attorney
9 and money passes from debtor to credito
e through his hands; or he is in CONNER
n eial establishment and gets a salary 70
n the discharge of his responsibilities; or h
y Is treasurer Of philanthropic institution
n Ind money for the suffering goes through
d his hands; or he has some office in cit
: or state or nation, and taxes and subsi
Il dies and supplies and salaries are in hi
Y hands. Now, that is a trust. That is a
i sacred a trust as God can give a man.
y is the concentration Of confidence. Now
y when that man takes that money, tn
u money Of others, and goes to speculatin
h with 1t for his own purposes, he is guilt
d of theft, falsehood and perjury and i
re the most intense sense of the word is
miscreant.
a. There are families today-widOws an
1T Orphans-with nothing between them an
y starvation but a sewing machine, or keI
Is out Of the vortex by the thread of a re-
Sc die red with the blood of their heart
ty who were by father or husband left
r. competency. You read the story in Il
ye newspaper of those who have lost by
no bank defalcation, and it is only one lin
Ill the name of a woman you never heal
We of, and just one or two figures telling Il
amount of stock she had, the number
IN shares. 1t is very short line in a new
w paper, but it is a line of agony long
of time; it is a story long as eternity.
Us Now, do not come under the fascinati
e- which induces men to employ trust fun
if for purposes of their own speculate
ks Cultivate cid fashioned honesty. Rene
lot Der the example of Wellington, wi
We when he was leading the British arr
IN. over the French frontier and his arr
it. was very hungry and there was pier
til of plumber on the French frontier a
en- some of the men wanted to take
it'll said: SOLDIERS, do not touch that G
as will take care of US. He will take c,
mt of the English army. Plenty of plund
me l know, all around, but do not take
zen He told the story afterward himself, h
ar that the French people brought to Il
their yaluables to kecp-he supposed
ew be their enemy-brought him their va
Of Rbles to keep, and then, he said, al
ted time when the creditors of the army W
the calling for money and for pay all
Of time and they had so much all arol
i'd: about, he did not feel it right for him
in take it or for the army to take it.
on author beautifully wrote in regard to
the "Nothing can be grander or more nc
flu and original than this admission.
and old soldier, after 30 years Of service,
b.a iron man and victorious general, est
''N lished in an enemy's country, at the h
of an immense army, Is afraid of his G.
itors. This is kind of fear that
res seldom troubled conQuerors and Wet
that and l doubt if the annals of war pres
earn anything comparable to this sublime
await nlicitv"