The Portland daily press., 1871-08-02

We are growing too polite to call things By
their right names. We have softened "Grog>-
shops" into "Sample-rooms," and those whoal
our blunt Saxon ancestors called ''liars," wa
now designate as "persons who are given IL
exaggeration." And the doom of those peo-
pie. which is thus stated in our good old hon.
est Bible, "All liars shall have their part in
the lake which burnsth with fire and briu-
stone," we euphemistically paraphrase into
"All those who are conspicaousy inexacs
shall go 10 place of very torrid tempela.
ture."
To charge a man with being liar is to of.
fer him the last possible indignity, because it
lays at his door the most despicable of the
crimes, crime which Involves utter demor-
alization. There was time when it resulted
in duel, and if duel ought ever to bo fought
it is upon such charge. man that is q
liar deserves to be shot, if any man ever does
To make the charge is to attempt to do tha
man the greatest injury possible.
1t is the most despicable of crimes, because
"a atsis coward, knave and fool. He is
a coward, because he does not dare TO face the
results OF facts OF his own creating He is a
knave because he attempts to gain ends by
false pretenses. He is fool because he does
not see that, if all men were liars, society
would be hurled into a'hell of anarchy
There is no defense for it. 1t is not witty.
nor wise, nor beautiful, nor profitable. ANY
beckhead cen lie. A lie is moral deformi-
ty. 1t has no counterpart in any reality
All nature and all the fixed facts of the uni
verse conspire TO fling lie up to the surface
and fling it out, as the bodily system makes
an universal effort to eject poison. In tho
long run, the truth will come to be known
and the lie exposed. In the long run, there
ore, the lie is Improbable.
And yet liars abound, with all history in
demonstration of the folly of ialsehood.
There are the business liars, the buying liar
and the selling liar. The buyer unduy de-
preciating the good, and the seller unduly ex-
toling, are in this class. Solomon caught
them at it in his day. 1T is naughtl it is
naughtl said the buyer; but when he has
gone his way, then he boasteth." Even in
this day, many man boasts when he has
lied another out OF his property. The seller
attempts to lie the buyer out of his money.
Both regard it as very witty. Some parents
rejoice when their boys display this kind OF
smartness. Some employers encourage thelr
statesmen in this "sharp practice" In sucn
cases, the employed will some time be toa
sharp for his employer, and Uice uersa. They
are two dogs, hunting in couples, that tear
each other when they cannot catch the prey.
An employer ought to instruct his SALESMAN
that if he ever detect him deeeiving custo-
mer he will discharge him on the spot. Bush
ness may come in slowly, but confidence onca
secured, fortune follows; hut business buil5
on lies falls down in day, when the want OF
honesty in the tradesman is discovered. LS-
ing don't pay.
There are polite liars, whem we smoothly
call diplomats" men whose paws are as soiG
as velvet, but armed with claws like steel.
They gain nothing by direct force of tratL.
Their whole brains are given to the study OF
circumyention. As soon as a man who il
smoother and more patient comes along, their
time of ruin comes.
There are liars of gossip, men and women,
the only salt of whose discourse is falsehood,
who scatter firebrands, arrows, and DEATH
and say, "Are we not in sportF
There are begging liars, who live by their
wits. such wits as they have, who are framing
narratives of msfortunes, VINO are attemptms.
| M deceive the charitable, who are "dead
beats.n Such men and women make point
of going to clergymen at the dinner hour or
lust after his night sermon. The poor clergy
man has hardly enough to live on. His only
time OF rest is while he is eating. These i'm.
posters know that the man cannot hear tala
of hunger and go back with comfort to his
meal without giving some relief. He has
been preaching the gospel of charity and can
not 90 home and sleep if he does not relie's
an applicant who "dOes not know where TO
| sleep tonight" They know that the clergy
1 man cannot take time to investigate the Case.
The worst OF the class is the long faced liar,
| the "p;ous" decever who casks blessing" Oh
/ fine lie he is about to tell, and then ''retur 8
thanks" at its success. Alas for the success I
1t always comes back on the hypocrite in \
cuIse. God will avenge Himself il any ma
/ ottoo,nt n make Him marty tn a faleahn0d
Truth is cear. 1t is easy. 1t requires no
study. 1t does not have to be watched. II q
talsehood has no real and permanent power
in it. Truth triumphs at last. The simplest
soul can conquer life to himself by truth, but
it is not in the wit OF man to bring beaul ]
and good up out of the leeking corruption of
lies.-Om Society.