Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-07-24

England many years ago. took hold OF
the money market OF New York. fiaunt-
ed his denominations in the sight of al.
the people. Gefied public morals every
day OF his life. Young men looked up
and said: He was peddler in one
decade, and in the next decade lie is
one OF the monarchs of the stock mar
ket. That's the way to GO it," To this
day the evil influence of that profiigate
has been felt. and within the past few
weeks he has had conspicuous imita-
tors.
There has been an irresistible inn
preston going abroad among young
men that the poorest way to get
money is 10 earn il. The young man
of Haunting cravat says TO the young
man of humble apparel: What, YOU
only get s1.sOO year? Why. that
wouldn't keep mt in pin money.
spend $4,000 year" Where do you
get it?" asks the plain young man.
"Oh, stocks. enterprises-al that
sort OF thing. you know" The plain
young man has hardly enough money
TO pay his board and has to wear
clothes after they are out of fashion
and deny himself all the Injuries.
After awhile he gets tired of ms plod-
ding, and he goes 10 the man who has
achieved suddenly large estate, and
he says: Just show me how il is
done" And he is shown. lie soon
learns how, and although he is al
most all the time idle now and has
resigned his position in the bank or
! the factory or the store. he has
more money than he ever had, trades
off his silver watch for gold 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 escape the
penitentiary for three or four wears
he will get into political circles, and
he will get political jobs and will
have something to do with haroors
and pavements and docks. Now he
has got so FAR along he is safe for
perdition.
1t is quite n long road sometimes
for man TO travel before he gets in
to the romance of crime. Those are
caught who are only in the prosaic
stage of it. If the sheriffS and con
| stables would only leave them alone
n little while. they would steal as
well as anybody. They might not 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 10 smash
1t is plague struck. and il blasts the
nation. / thank God when il goes
into such n wreck it can never be
gathered mp again. ] want il to be
come so loathsome and such an in
suffe bic stencil that honest young
men will take warning. II God
should put into money or it's repre-
sentative the capacity to 60 to its
lawful owner. there would not be n
bank or a safety deposit in the Unit
ed States whose walls would not be
blown out and mortgages would rip
and parchments would rend and gold
would shoot and beggars would get
on horseback and stock gamblers
would go to the almshouse.
And remember, that the man who
gets his gain by iniquity will soon
lose il all. One moment after his de-
parture from life he will not own an
opera house. he will not own "A Ger
tificate 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 funeral procession Of
the dead cheat as he goes by. will
have more money than that man who
one week previous boasted that he
controlled the money market.
oh, there is such fearful fascina-
tion in this d.: Y about the use OF trust
funds. II has got to be popular 10
take the funds OF others and specu-
late with them. There are many who
are practicing that iniquity. Almost
every man in the course of his life
has the property Of others put in his
care. He has administered. perhaps
for a dead friend; he is an attorney.
and money passes from debtor to
creditor through his hands: or he is
in a commercial establishment and
gets "a salary for the discharge Of his
possibilities: or he il treasurer Of
a philanthroTic institution, and
money for the suffering goes through
his hands; or he has some office 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 trust as
God can give a man. II Is the CON
centration Of confidence. Now. when
that man takes tina. money. the
money Of others. and goes 20 specu-
lating with it for his own purposes.
he is guilty Of theft falschood and
perjury. and i'm the most intense
sense Of the word is miscreant
So there has been a great deal Of
fascination thrown around libertin-
ism. Society is very severe upon the
impurity that turks around the alleys
and low haunts Of the town. The law
pursues it. smites it,. .ncarccrates 10.
tries TO destroy IT.. You know rs well
as ] that society becomes leuient i'm