Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-07-27

ed his abOminatOns in the sight Of all
the people and deied public morals
every day Of his life. Young men look
ed up and said: "IIe was a peddler in
one decade, and I'm the next decade he
Is one of the monarchs of the stock
market. That's the way to do IT," To
This day the evil influence of that prof
ligate fnancier has been felt, and with
in the past few weeks he has had con-
splcuous lmltators.
There has been an irresistible impress
sion 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 hum
bic apparel: What! You only get ST.
500 a year? Why. that wouldn't keep
me in pin money. spend $1,000 a
year" where do you get it?' asks
the plain young man. "Oh, stocks, en-
terprlses, all that sort of thing, you
know" The plain young man has
hardly enough money to pay his board,
has to wear clothes after they are out
of fashion and deny himself all luxu-
ries. After awhile he gets tired Of his
ploddng, 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 bow,
although he is almost 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 old 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 es-
cape 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 lie is safe for perdition.
Romance of Crime.
1t is quite a long road sometimes for
man to travel before he gets into the
romance of crime. Those are caught
who are only in the prOsaic stage of ii.
If the shcriffs 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, always thank God when find
an estate like that go to smash. 1t is
plague struck, and it blasts the nation.
/ thank God when it goes into such
wreck it can never be gathered up
again. | want it to become so loath-
some and such an insufferable stencil
that honest young men will take warn
ing. If God should put into money or
its representative the capacity to go
to its lawful owner. there would not
be n bank or a safety deposit in the
United 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 90 TO the almshouse.
How many dishonesties in the max
ing out OF invoices. and in the plaster
ing of false labels. and in the filching
of customers of rival houses, and in the
making and breaking Of contracts.
Young men are indoctrinated In the
idea that the sooner they get money
the better. and the getting Of it on
larger scale only proves to them their
greater ingenuity. There Is a glitter
thrown around about all these things.
Young men have got to find out that
God looks upon sin in very different
light.
A young man stood behind counter
in New York selling silks to a lady.
and he said before the sale was con-
81 see there is flaw in that
silk" The lady recognized 1t. 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, say
ing: Dear slr-Come and take your
boy. He will never make a merchant"
The father came down from the coun-
try home In great CONSERVATION, 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 flaw In some silk the
other day and spoiled the sale, and we
will never have that lady probably
again for q customer. and your son
never will make a merchant" rs that
all| said the father. Il am proud Of
him. 1 wouldn't for the world have
him another day under your influence.
John, get your hat and coat. Let us
start" There are hundreds Of young
men urder the pressure. under the fas-
cinations thrown around about COM
mercial iniQuity. Thousands of young
men have gone down under the pres
sure; other thousands have maintained
their integrity. God help you. Let me
say to you, my young friend. that you
can be q great deal happier in poverty
than you ever can be happy in a pros
perity which comes from Ill gotten
gains. "Oh," you say. 81 might lose
my place. 1t Is easy for you to stand
there and talk. but 1t is no easy thing
to get a place when you have lost it.
Besides that. have a widowed mother
upon my earnings. and you
must not be too reckless in giving ad-
vice to me-" All. my young friend, 1t
is always safe to do right. but 1t is
never safe to do wrong! You 60 home
and tell your mother the pressure un-
der 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 tanv care Of us now. Come out Of
that"
False to Their Trust.
And remember that the man who
gets his gain by iniquity will soon lose
it ALL One moment after his departure
f.o,,, re- bo will not ou-n an Onpra