Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
Kearney's Kew Notes.

man, and the defalcations of men
who are rich and in prominent and
extensive business places, just as if
the great portion of the country
were made up of Cinnamon and rich
people, and Just as if there were no
short comings and defalcations among
people who are not rich.
As to the First, The Chinaman,
the hostility manifested toward him
ON the Pacific coast is driving him
out of the country, and viii break up
She treaty relations, IL great mea-
sure, between this country and China
As consequence the next genera
ton of Cinnamon in their native land
will open their doors less frequently
for the admission of American traders
and missionaries. Whatever griev-
ances the Cinnamon may have i'm
posed on the people in California,
they were not experienced here IN
the Atlantic and Middle States.
As to the Second, The defalcations
of rich men, they are numerous, but
not more numerous than the defalca-
tions of people who are not rich
The question of defalcations is not
question of labor. Labor has moth
ing to do with it, more than that a
laboring man or a rich man may be
wronged by the defaulter, and the
wrong as often happens in the one
case as in tie other. While it is
true defaulting banks, manufacturing
establishments, railroads, oil com
pames, insurance companies, have In
many cases robbed the men of small
means Of their pennies invested or
entrusted to them, they have at the
same time robbed the men of means
OF their dollars, just as men of means
and men of no means have been
cheated by individuals in whom they
trdsted. II is not a labor question !; 1t
IS a question Of morals, and the man
who is immoral, whether he be rich
or poor, viii oftener be defaulter or
delinquent than anything else, if cir
cumstances viii permit, and if it be
possible to create circumstances he
will create them, just as one immoral
man VIII cheat another in every day
lie transactions. The moral man,
whether rich OF poor, will make his
obligations good, unless great mis-
fortune oyertakes him, which some
times is the case, but generally, he is
considerate and does not over reach
himself So that when the question
of defalcations is considered as it
should be considered. it will be OBJ
served that the questions of labor
and riches do not enter into it, ex-
cepting SO far as that defaulters often
make men of small and large means
both poor. Again, it may be OBJ
served that in the great majority of
cases, therich people who default were
not always rich people, but they are
people who are supposed to be rich
through some enterprise or venture
in which others helped them to en-
gage, and in which they were dis
honest and managed to cheat every
body but themselves. If to hang the
dishonest people to trees and posts
will bring about a better state of
morals in the country, perhaps it
would be better to do some hanging
and that had better be done by
act of Assembly; but that would
not make work plentisr, neither
would it increase the wages of the
laboring class, for it In no way is a
question of labor. Indeed some of
the greatest pieces of roguery, which
enriched poor men, and made rich
men poor, and made plenty Of pork at
high ,rages, trere Stcindies, and the only
people who were benefited in a
money way were the men who did
the work, and the men who held the
offices, and the losers were the stock
holders, or the men who paid money
into the concern to build it up.
So far as reported, Kearney's key
notes viii not amount to anything,
for the reason that the Chinese ques-
tion is about disposed of, and for the
reason that the question of defalca-
ton or swindles as often benefits
labor, in getting it work, as that it
injuries it, and for the reason that
the question of defalcation is not a
question of labor, but a moral ques-
ton, and for the reason that he has
not struck the root of the evil; the |
root of the evil is the immortality of
society generally. But let Kealney
be heard.
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