CURSE OF SPECULATION.
Pr. Talmage Draws Lessons From
Gambling Crazes Which Have
Swept Over the World.
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ishing the world with his fortunes and |
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{Copyright 18011
wasminaroN, D. C—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage arraigns the spirit of wild
speculation and gives some account of
the financial ruin of other days; Proverbs
xxiii, 5, “Riches certainly make them-
selves wings; they fly away as an eagle
toward heaven.”
Money is a gold breasted bird with
silver feck. It alights on the office
desk or in the counting room or on the
parlor centre table. To and women
stand and admire it. They do not notice
that it has wings larger than a raven’s,
larger than a flamingo's, larger than an
eagle's. One wave of the hand of mis-
fortune, and it spreads its beautiful
plumage and is gone, “as an eagle toward
eaven,” my textbook says, though some-
f think it goes in the other direc-
had of
in Wall
times
ton.
What a verifieation we have
the flying capacity of riches
Street! And Wall Street is one of the
longest streets in all the world. It does
not begin at the foot of Trinity Church,
New York, and end at the East River, as
many suppose. It reaches through all
our American cities and across the seas,
Encouraged by the revival of trade and
by the fact that Wall Street disasters of
other years were so far back as to be
forgotten, speculators run up the stocks
from point to point unti! innocent people
on the outside suppose that the stocks
would always continue to ascend. They
sather in from all parts of the country.
hon sums of money are taken into
Wall Street and small sums of money.
The crash comes, thank God, in time to
warn off a great many who were on
their way thither, for the sadness of the
thing is that a great many of the young
men of our cities who save a little money
for the purpose of starting themselves
in business and who have $500 or $1000
or $2000 or $10,000 into Wall Street
and lose all. And if there was a time for
the pulpit to speak out in regard to cer-
tain kinds of nefarious enterprises now
is the time.
Stocks rose
go
and fell, and now they
again until thousands of young men will
be ruined unless the printing press and
the pulpit give emphatic utterance. My
counsel is to countrymen, so far as they
may hear of this discourse, if they have
surplus, to invest it in first mortgages
and in moneyed institutions which, though
paying comparatively small interest, are
nd dispute, and to
Street vortex,
where so many have been swamped and
awallowed. What a compliment it is to
the healthy condition of our country that
these recent disasters have in no wise
depressed trade! I thank God that Wall
Street's capacity to blast this country
bas gone forever.
Across the island of New York in
1685 a wall made of stone and earth
end cannon mounted was built to keep off
the savages. Along by that wall a street
was laid out, and as the street followed
the line of the wall it was appropriately
called Wall Street. It is narrow, it is
unarchitectural, and yet its history is
unique. Excepting Lombard street, Lon-
don, it ia the mightiest street on this
lanet. There the Government of the
Tnited States was born. There Washing-
There Mrs. Adams
and Mrs. Caldwell and Mrs. Knox and
other brilliant women of the Revolution
displayed their charms. There Wither-
son and Jonathan Edwards and George
There
Dr. Mason chided Alexander Hamilton
for writing the Constitution of the Uni
ted States without any God in it. There
negroes were sold in the slave mart.
barrows and, like beasts of burden, com-
pelled to draw or were lashed through
the streets behind carts to which they
were fastened. There fortunes have come
to coronation or burial since the day
when reckless speculators in powdered
hair and silver shoe buckles dodged Du-
gan, the Governorieneral of His Maj-
esty, clear down to yesterday at 3 o'clock.
The history of wah Street is to a oe
tain extent the financial, commercial,
agricultural, mining, literary, artistic,
this coun-
best men in this
try. There are the
thing from unswerving integrity to tip
top scoundrelism—everythin from heav-
en born charity to bloodless Shylock-
jsm. 1 want to put the plow in at the
curbstone of Trinity and drive it clear
through to Wall Street ferry, and #0 it
shall go if the horses are strong enough
First of all, Wall Street stands as a
trpe in this country for tried integrity
and the most outrageous villainy. Farm-
ers who have only a few hundred dol
Jars’ worth of p sduce to put on the mar
ket have but little to test their charac
ter, but put a man into the seven times
heated furnace of Wall Street excite
ment and be either comes out a Shadrach,
with hair unsinged, or he is burned into
a black moral cinder. No half way work
about it. If 1 wanted to find integrity
bombproof, 1 would go among the bank-
ers and merchants of Wall Street, yet be
cause there have been such villainies enact.
3 there at diffefunt times Sothe men
ve supposed that it is a great financia
debauchery, and they hardly dare go
near the street or walk and do it
unless they have buttoned up their last
ket and had their lives insured or re-
igiously crossed themselves. Yet if you
start at either end of the street and
read the business signs you will find the
names of more men of integrity and
Christian benevolence than you can find
in the same space in any street of any
of our cities. When the Christian com-
mission and the sanitary compigion
wanted money to send medicine and Dand-
ages to the wounded, when breadstuffs
were wanted for famishing Ireland, when
colleges were to be endowed and churches
were to be supported 2nd missionary so
cieties were to equippd for their work
of sending the gospel all around the
world, the first street to respond has
been Wall Stroet, and the largest re
nses in all the land bave come from
all Street.
But, while that street is a type of tried
integrity on one hand, it is also a type of
unbounded swindle on the other. e
are the spiders that wait for innocent
flies; there are the crocodiles that crawl
5p tough the slime to cranch the calf;
t are the anacondsz, with lifted Joop,
ready to crush the unwary; there are fi-
nancial wreckers who & on the
beach praying for a Caribbean whirlwind
to sweep over car commercial interests,
go into business unless his moral princi
ple is thoroughly settled. That is no
Jace for a man to go into business who
oes not know when he is overpaid y
mistake whether he had better ta t
; that is no place for a man
has large funds in trust and
to apeculate
for a man to
French Empress who gtood in her balcon
in Paris and addressed an excited mo
and quelled it es 1 have admiration for
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gentiemen in in.
of commercial excitement,
God did not allow the lions
to hurt you. Remember, my
ness life will be adjudicated.
pays best for both worlds.
Again, 1 have to remark
of legitimate speculation on the
hand and of ruinous gambling on
other. Almost every merchant ia to some
extent a speculator.
upon the difference between
sale price at which he gets the
one
the
goods and
Wi
but also upon the fluctuation of the
markets. 1f the markets greatly sink, he
greatly loses. It is as honest to dea
stocks as to deal in iron or coal or hard:
ware or dry goods. He who condemns all
stock dealings as though they were in-
iquitous simply shows his own ignorance.
Stop all legitimate speculation in this
country, and you stop all bank you
stop all factories, you stop all storehouses,
you ll the great financial prosperi
t this couniry.
ngland chance ip
1720, I ea bubble.
They i
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il taken and tw:
until
forth
itement
came
1 Sea enter
Another com-
£5,000, WK) ¢
lop r ]
tion: another company, with a ca
£4.000.000 to insure people against loss by
servants: another company, with £2500,
ital, to transplant walnut trees
from Virginia to England; then, to cap
the climax, a company Was formed for
“a great undertaking nobody to know
what it is.” And, lo, £600,000 in shares
were offered at £100 a share; k
opened ai 0 o'clock in the md
Josed at 3 o'clock in the afterr
the first day it was all subscribed.
great undertaking nobody to know what
it ial”
An old magazine of those days de-
scribes the scene (Hunt's Magazine). It
LEAVE “From morning until evening
Change alley was full to overflowing with
one dense, moving mass of living beings,
composed of the most incongruous ma
terials and in all things save the mad
pursuit whereof they were employed utter-
y opposite in their principles and feel
ings and far asunder in their stations in
life and the professions they w.
Statesmen and clergymen deserted their
high stations to enter upon this great
theatre of speculation and gambling.
Churchmen and dissenters left their
fierce disputes and forgot their wranglings
upon chirch government in the deep and
hazardous game they were playing for
worldly treasures and for riches, which,
if gained, were liable to disappear within
of their creation. Whigs and
000
an hour
Tories buried their weapons of political
warfare, discarded party snimosities and
mingled together in kind and friendly in-
tercourse, each exulting as their stocks
advanced in price and grumbling when
fortune frowned upon them. Lawyers,
phy sicians, merchanta and travelin men
sreook their employment, neglected their
yusiness, disregarded their engagements
to whirl along in the stream, to be at
last engulfed in the wild sea of bank-
ruptey. Females mixed with the crowd,
forgetting the station employment
which nature had fitted them to adorn,
and dealt boldly and extensively and, like
those by whom they were surrounded,
rose from poverty to wealth, and from
that were thrown down to beggary and
want, and all in one short week and per
haps before the evening which terminated
the first day of their speculation. Ladies
of high rank, regardless of every appear
ance of dignity and blinded by the pre
vailing infatuation, drove to the shops of
their milliners and baberdashers and
there met their stockbrokers, whom they
regularly employed and through whom
extensive sales were daily negotiated. In
the midst of the excitement all distinc
tion of party and religion and circum-
stances and character were swallowed
up.
"But it was left for our own country to
surpass it all about thirty-seven years
o. We have the highest mountains and
the greatest cataracts and the longest
rivers, and of course we had to have the
largest swindle. One would bave thought
that the nation bad seen enough in that
direction during the morous multicaulis
excitement, when almost every man bad
a bunch of crawling silkworms in his
house, out of which A expected to make
But all this excitement was
compared with what took
lace in 1864, when a man near Titusville,
venn., digging a well, struck oil. Twelve
hundred oil companies call for a billion
of stock. Prominent members of churches,
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a fortune.
as nothin
assigned them, saw it was their privilege
to become presidents or secretaries or
members of the board of direction. Some
of these companies never had a foot of
ground, never expected to have. Their
where oil might be and two vials of
own from all parts
the gu
A youn
region of
having sold his farm at a fa
because it was sup d there might be
oil there—coming to
phia at the time
throwing a Jo check to
noonday meal and saying he
anything about the change! Then
stepped back to the gas burner to light
his cigar with a thousand dollar note. Ut
terly insane! :
The good Christian people said,
company must be all night, because Elder
So-and-so is president of it, and Elder So-
and-so is secretary of it, and then there
are three or four highly respected profess
ing Christians in the board of directors.”
They did not know that whey a tof sd
Christian goes into stock gambing
lies like sin. But alas for the country! It
became a tragedy, and a thousand million
dollars were swamped. There are families
to-day sitting in the shadow of destitu-
tion who but for that great national outs
rage would have had ir cot!
their homesteads. a hold up before the
oung men these four grea gam-
ling schemes that they may eee to what
length men will go smitten of this pas.
sion, and 1 want to show them how all
the best interests ©
it and God is againet it and will condemn
it for time and condemn it for eternity.
1 do not dwell Upon the frenzied
tions in Wall Street last month. You
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