The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-06-21
TIE TALMAGE SERMON.
The Noted Divine Preaches on Stock
Gambling.

In this digoourse DR.. Talmago arraigns
Z the spirit Of wild speculation and gives somo
account Of the financial ruin of other days;
Proverbs ssii, s, "Richos certainly make
themselves wings they fly away as an eagle
toward heaven"
Money is golden breasted bird with
silYcr boak. II alights on tho office desk or
on tho parlor contor table, Mon and womcn
stand and admire it. Thoy do not notice
that it has wings larger than a rayon's, lar.
ger than flamingo's, larger than an oaglo' g.
One wave of the hand of misfortune and il
spreads Its beautiful plumago and 10 gone
"as on eagle toward heaven" my text says,
though sometimes think it goes in tho
other direction.
What voriacation wo have had Of tho
lying capacity of riches in Wall stroot! Aad
I'VE We'll street is ono Of tho longest streets in
30 world. II docs not begin at tho foot Of
Trinity church, New York, aud end at The
Fast rivor. as many supposc. It reaches
through all our American cities aud across
the sea. Encouraged by tho revival of trade
and by tho fact that Wall street disasters of
other years wore 30 far back as 10 bo forgot.
ton, speculators run mp the stocks from point
to point until innocont pooplo OH tho outside
suppose that tho stocks would always CON
tinuo to asoond. They gathor in from all
parts of tho country Largo sums of money
arc takon into Well street aud small sums of
money Tho crash comes, thauk God, in
timo to warn off great many who wero on
thoiW way thithor, for tho sadness of tho
thing is that great many of tho young mon
Of our oitics who save q little money for the
purpose or starting themselves i'll business,
and who hayo 5000 or 81 900 or $4,000 or
$4,000 60 into Wall street and lose al,
And if there over wae timo for tho pull
pit to speak out in regard to certain kinds of
nefariouB enterprises now is tho timo,
Stocks rose and foil, and now they begin
torlso again, and they will fill again until
thousands Of young mon will bo ruined un-
less the printing press and tho pulpit give
emphauo utteranoc. My counsel iB to coun-
trymen, 80 far as they may hear OF this dis
course, II thcy havo surplus to invest it in
hrat mortgages and in moncyed institutions
which though paying comparatively small
interest, arc sound and safe beyond dispute,
and to stand clear of tho Wall street vortex,
whore 80 many havo been awamped and
swallowed. What q compliment il is to
the healthy condition Of our country that
these recent disasters havo in nowiss dc
pressed trade l thank God That Wall streets
capacity to blast this country has gone for.
ever.
Across the island of New York in 1896 n
Wall made Of stone and earth and cannon
mounted was built to keep off tho savages.
Along by that wall street was laid out, aud
as tho street followed the line Of the wall it
was appropriately called Wall street. 1t is
narrow, it is unarohitcotural, and yet its his
tory is unique. Excepting Lombard street
London, 1t is tho mightiest street on this
planet. There tho government of tho United
states was born, There Washington heli
his lcvoes. There Mrs Adams and Mrs
Caldwell and Mrs. Knox and othor brilliant
h women Of the Revolution displa, cd their
charms. Thero Withcrspoon and Jonathan
i Edwards and George Whitefold sometimes
preached. There DR.. Mason ohidcd Aloxan-
dor Hamilton for writing tho constitution of
( the United States without any God in il
There negroes wero sold In the savo mart.
TheEe- criminals were aaynessed TO wheel
barrows and, like boasts of burden, com
PEELED to draw or were lashcd through tho
street behind carts to which they wcro fas-
tened. There fortunes have como to corona.
ton or burial sinoe tho day whom reckless
spectators in powdered hair and silver shoe
buckles lodged Dugan, tho governor general
Of his majesty, olenr down to yesterday at 8
O'Clock. The history of Wall street is to q
certain extent the financial, commercial,
agricultural, mining. literary, artistic,
moral nnd religious history of this country.
They arc the best men in this country and
there arc tho worst. Everything from un
Bwerving integrity to tiptop scoundrolism-
everything from hoavcn born charity to bic cd.
less Shylockism ] want to put tho plow in
4 at the ourbDtono Of Trinity and drive il clcar
through to Wall street ferry. And so il shall
go II The horses arc strong enough TO draw
the plow.
First Of all, Wall street stands as q typo in
this country for tried integrity and tho most
outrageous villainy. Farmers who have
only few hundred dollars worth of pro.
duoo to put on tho market have but iittlo to
test their character, but put man into the
goyen times heated furnace of Wall street
excitement and he either comes out q Shad-
raoh, with hair unsinged, or he is burned
into black moral oinder. No half way
work about 1t. If wanted to find integrity
bombproof would go among the bankers
and merchants Of Wall street, yet because
there have beon suoh villainies enacted thero
At different times some men have supposed
that It is great financial dcbanohery, and
they hardly dare 60 near the street or walk
up or down 1t unless they have buttoned up
their last pocket and had their lives insured
or rel1giously crossed themselves. Yet if
you start at either end Of the street and read
the business signs you will find tho pamos
Of moro men Of integrity and Christian bo-
nevolenoe than you can find in tho samo
space In any street of any of our cities
When tho Christian commission and tho
sanitary commission wanted money to send
Nioino and bandagos to the wounded,
y breadstutt5 wore wanted for famish
!...s Ireland, whom colleges wore to DO cn-
lowed and churches werc to bc supported
and missionary societies were to bo equipped
for their work Of sending tho gospel all
around the world, tho first street to respond
has been Wall street, and tho largest re
BponBcs in oil the land have come from Wall
Htreet.
rs But while that street is typo of tried
integrity on one hand i, is also q type of un.
bounded swindle on tho othor. There are
the spiders that wait for innocent fios.
There are the crocodiloS that crawl up
through the slime To cranoh the calf. There
are the anacondas, with lifted loop, ready to
crush the unwary. There arc financial wreck
ers, who stand on the beach praying for q
Caribbean whirlwind TO sweep over our com.
mercial interests.
Let mo cay it is no place for man to 90
Into busineds unless his moral principle is
thoroughly sottlod. That 10 no place for a
man to 90 into business who docs not know
whonihe is overpaid $6 by mistake whether
he had better take IL back again or not.
That 10 no place for q man to 90 who has
large funds in trust and who is all tho time
tempted to speculate with them That Is no
place for man to 60 who does not quito
know whother tho laws Of tho state forbid
usury or patronizo it. Oh. how many mon
have risked themselves in tho vortex and