The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-06-06
A MELANGE OF
LIVE TOPICS
Penned for Journal Readers
by a Local Scribe.
Honesty.

euUIueUSU 10 d DIOk0F TO sell, WHO
at the recent fictitious rise in val
u9 of the securities of that corpo-
ration, was enabled to dispose of
the same at a profit of $780, 900 to
his principal, has just returned
the check for this amount to her
broker, saying that as the stock
was sold far beyond it's real value
thus causing heavy loss to some
one. she could not accept money
thus gained.
This is the kind of people that
60 to heaven when they die. There
are very few persons, even among
those who profess religion, that
would hesitate to take money Sc
cured in this way. They would
do this if they knew it meant loss
or ruin to some other person who
received no value, or very mad
equate one, for his outlay. 1t is
very evident from both natural
and revealed religion that whoever
is willing to accept something
without giving a fair equivalent
therefor, is not exactly right NOR
ally. Whether at the card table,
the races, in the stock exchange,
or business generally, such an act
is equally culpable, and differs
from absolute dishonesty in de-
gree rather than in kind.
Measured by the standard of
giving an exact equivalent for
something received, how many
wealthy people would there be in
the world at the present time ?
Would there be many Rockefel-
lers, Goulds, Morgans, and others
who, taking advantage of the i'm
mense power given them by their
wealth and using laws which were
designed to, further their schemes,
are enabled to sell their products
for more than they are worth, and
to gain possession of the property
of Others without giving fair
price therefor ?
In this commercial age, when
both the religious and irreligious
are so absorbed III their efforts to
gain the most with the least ex-
penditure, the case of this Phila-
delphia woman is very refreshing,
showing that honor and principle
are not entirely dead even though
the body polite itself set an ex-
ample to the contrary, and society
applaud infractions of right and
glorify the successful gamer at the
expense of others.
Apropos to gambling, the fol-
lowing despatch from London will
be read with interest:
every one is bent on beggar-
ing his or her nelghbor. 1t is the
smart hostess, who, regardless of
all considerations of hospitality
and friendship, invites guests to
her house for the express purpose
of winning their money. Her only
aim is to get together those who
will play roulette or bridge, and
can afford to pay up handsomely
when the hour of reckoning comes.
There is no less danger for the
gilded youth in the country house,
on his friends yatch or in Lon
don drawing room than on the
turf or at Monte Carlo. Night af-
ter night women encourage gamb-
ling in their houses and watch COM
placently the pecuniary scourglng
of their friends.
$50 be at home certain after
noon in the week has become the
way of announcing to those who
can play and pay that they will
find the hostess's drawing room a
private gambling saloon, and go
firmly has the passion for snatch
ing money from other peoples
pockets taken possession of the
feminine mind that women of po-
sition no longer hesitate to act as
heaters for those who are ready to
provide sports if birds are pro-
vided for them
Wonder if these ladies didn't
begin with progressive euchre!
From London the gambling craze
has progressed to New York soci-
ETY. and we may soon expect to
hear of it in Atlanta.
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Frau Wagner who holds the
manuscript of an opera by her
husband, the late Richard Wagner,
refuses to allow it to be played
anywhere save in the Wagner OPP
era house at Beyrout, and has pc
titioned the German government
to grant her a perpetual copy
right SO that no other place, ex-
cept the one named, may ever
hear what is alleged to be one of
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