The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-02-24
VERY LIKE US.

Old country people are very apt to
make merry over what they call Yam
kee dishonesty" but FROM the following
from the Dublin Freeman's Jurnal we
should Judge that there is little steal
ing going on, the other side ofthe water,
and that the difference between our
neighbors and our selves amounts to the
difference between tweedeldumdl and
tweedeldumde, The concluding portion
of the article is we'll worthy of calm
thought. But the politicians will never
let Us think calmly.
II living facts were helps to a sermon,
the ordinary of Newgate ought to preach.
The best sermon has just been forwarded
to the Court OF Aldermen by the Rev
Mr. Jones. who holds the responsible
Office of ch .plain in the celebrated pri
son. Mr.. Jones enlarges on growing
evil which has probably not oeen SO
much as noticed by philosophers at large
the steady advancement of dishonesty.
He does not mean the mere tricking and
stealing disposed Of by the magistrate,
but the moral obliquity growing and
nurtured in persons of education and es-
tate, gentlemen in every sense OF the
word as the world goes, and leaders of
their own circles 10 society. The dis
honest trader, according to Mr.. Jones,
tlourishes apace all over the kingdoms.
His experience with convicts has forced
him to believe that system prevails by
which dishonest shopmen are enable to
pursue their populations in an almost
undiscOverable manner. A railway por-
ter Was convicted the other day OF Steal
ing, and his feeling was not so much one
OF sorrow rs OF amazement. lie plead
ed that what he had stolen was SO small
as not 10 constitute its being taken as a.
thett at ali. Besides, he added, all the
railway servants take these things. In
commerce this easy spirit OF wrong do
ing leads to transactions which are
termed shrewd. although 4 few years
ago they would have been called rog-
uiSh. One prisoner who had been !.
shopman told MIR. Jones that all his COL
leagues were equally guilty with him.
self, that they all stole, and sold their
goods to n regular receiver. who often
came and boldly solicited tor . transac-
ton" This certainty is amazing news.
Ii MIR. Jones information be correct,
there is indeed = terrible falling of in
morality, That men OF estate and posi-
ton have in recent years been engaged
in business of an indetensible cha acter
there is unfortunately no room to doubt.
The complssency with which impro, rlety
and undeniable immortality are set down
and related in our books OF fiction proves
| that the mission of evil is not so harshly
regarded rs it used TO be- The one rene
dy lies. to our thinking, III one direction
in religious education. Let Us begin
at the beginning and plant the seeds Of
morality when Inc soil is fresh, gener
Gus, aud possessed OF its best power o.
recepiivity. Ii is not in middle age
when the work of the world has had it,
effect, that We can hope to quicken the
sensibility, eradicate the principles o
seltshness. ami Undue the mind witt
Just notions OF the value OF the things o
| this lite. An education devoid Vi resic
ion is guide wanting. the one thing
needtul. and its product is a life such a
that with which the Ordinary OF New
gate Is painfully familiar.