The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26

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of Wall street from that which has
been applied to the spoils which the
man carries up Rat alley.
SO a peddler came down from New
England many years ago, took hold Of
the money market of New York, flaunt-
ed his denominations in the sight of all
the people, defied public morals every
day of his life. Young men looked up
and said: HE was a peddler in one
decade, and in the next decade he is
one of the monarchs of the stock mar
ket. That's the way to do it," To this
day the evil influence of that profigate
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 to earn it. The young man
OF Haunting cravat says to the young
man of humble apparel; What, you
only get 81 800 a year? Why, that
wouldn't keep me in pin money. l
spend SIS, 900 a year" where do you
get it?" asks the plain young man.
"Oh, stocks, enterprises-all 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 his plod-
ding, and he goes to the man who has
achieved suddenly large estate, and
he says: Just show me how it is
done" And he is shown. He 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 flashing chain, sets his hat a
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 years
he will get into political circles, and
he will get political jobs and will
have something to do with harbors
and pavements and docks. Now he
has got so far along he is safe for
perdition.
1t is quite 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 il. If the sheriffs and con-
stables 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 load of pig iron.
Now, l always thank God when
find an estate like that go to smash
1t is plague struck, and it blasts the
nation. / thank God when il goes
into such a wreck il can never be
gathered up again. | want il to be
come so loathsome and such an in
sufferable stencil that honest young
men will take warning. If God
should put into money or it's repre-
sentative the capacity to go TO its
lawful owner, there would not be q
bank or safety deposit in the Unit
ed States whose walls would not be
blown out and mortgages would riT
and parchments would rend and golc
would shoot aud 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 soor
lose it all. One moment after his de
parturc from life he will not own al
opera house, he will not own a Ger
tiiicate of stock, he will not own one
dollar OF government securities, ant
the poorest boy that stands on the
street with a penny in his pocket
looking at the funeral procession o
the dead cheat as he goes by. vii
have more money than that man Wh'
one week previous boosted that HI
controlled the money market.
Oh. there is such fearful fascina
tion in this day about the use of trus
funds. II has got to be popular Il
take the funds of others and specu
late with them. There are many whit
are practicinG that iniquity. Amos
every man in the course of his lif'
has the property of others put in hi
care. He has administered, perhaps
for n dead friend; he is an attorney
and money passes from uep'or u
creditor through his hands; or he i
i'm commercial establishment ant
gets "A salarJ. for TIE discharge of hi
r possibilities; or he is treasurer o
philanthroEic institution, ant
money for the suffering goes throug
his hands, or he has some Office Il
city or state or nation, and taxes AM
subsidies and supplies and salarie
are i'm his hands. Now, that is
, trust. That is as sacred n trust a
God can give "A man. 1t is the con
I centration of confidence. Now, whe
, that man takes that money, tn
, money Of others, and goes to specr
lating with il for his own purposes
he is guilty of theft falsehood an
perjury, and in The most intens
sense of the word is miscreant.
e. So there has been great deal d
t fascination thrown around libertir
ism. Society is very severe upon tn
! imnurity that turks around the alley
e. and low hauuts of the town. The La
ta.