National Republican., 1881-07-29
COuntcrGciting.

a gentleman by the name of Avery has
recently been arrested for counterfeiting
dimes and quarters There is no doubt
that this misguided person was engaged
in very reprehensible calling He
knew that il was unlawful, and that, in
addition TO the violation of the statute, / t
was a wrong to individuals who might be
left with the false coins on their hands
and unable to pass them. He will doubt
less be punished as the law prescribes, un-
less he can show to the satisfaction of
jury that he was possessed of the imple-
ments of the counterleiting trade for
some honest purpose and that he passed
by mistake the false coins he had made
There are in this and in all other COM
munities counterleiters who escape arrest
indeed their false coinage is not I'M
lawful. 1t would require more space than
is contained in any one issue of THE RE-
PUBLICAN to describe them all, but we may
name q few:
There are the makers and vendors
Of adulterated articles of food. The sand
in our sugar, the chiccory in our coffee,
and all the various materials whereby
that which seems to be is not-all these
are as truly counterfeits as is the lead
quarter or dime The girl who paints
and the beau who dyes his whiskers
cheat each other by the exchange of coun-
terfeits. The parson who appears more
pious than he feels, the politician who
pretends to more patriotism than he has,
and the editor who affects more knowl-
edge than belongs to him-each
Of these is counterfeiter The doc
tor who walks on tip-toe in the
presence Of the stomach-ache, and
in mysterious undertone uses his un-
known technical jargon TO terrify the by.
ISLANDERS, is counterleiter of services,
and is trying to pass of a pennyworth of
skill for pound. The lawyer who hum
bugs his contiding client, the circus man
ager whose pictures of impossible flights
of horses in the air sharpen the boys
persuasive powers and enable them to
burrow for the quarters for admission (;
the peddler of Strawberries and peaches
with the largest ones at the top; the
canting Pecksnihs, moral!zing on glass
of water and gushing n whole magazine
essay over wan-faced beggar whose
wants they forget TO relieve-all these
and hundreds more are counterieiters.
The man who joins a church merely 10
give himself tone and to inspire others
with confidence upon which he hopes
10 increase his business or his credit is a
counterleiter; he uses the Almighty's
name as trademark and forges il TO
his note on Change
But there is no way of detecting some
of these counterieters. They work with
invisible implements The hypocrite
seems as good as the best, and there is no
unniling test which can be applied to his
counterfeit coin. All lofwhich should cause
us to examine the coin in our own posses
sion, and, if we find we have inflated it
by alloy to look with less favor upon the
lawful counterieiting which goes unpun.
ished yea, unchalenged Of justice, aLd
with more composure upon the mere
counterieiting of small bits of money
We are not eXcusing Mr.. Avery. He
should be punished. When the lawful
counterfeiters are detected let them be ex-
posed. That will be punishment enough
for them, for it will stop the circulation
OF their false coin.