Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-19
Burdette TO WouId-Be Officers,
from the Philadelphia Times J


Listen to me, Ben-lbrahim, aud may
Allah smooth your paths
My SOD, If you are going into politics
write these axiome upon your heart with
hooks of steal, as it were:
1t is right to steal from the govern
ment.
r If it isn't right it is customary, which
gives the practice color Of legal
right.
Do not steal from the government as
though you was ashamed of it. Only a
common pick pocket is ashamed OF his
profession. Steal boldly. Plunge your
thievish arms into the Golfers OF the gov
ernment clear up to the elbows, shut
both hands tight and come away with n
full hold and fair deckload. When
you grab, grab as though you never ex-
pected to hold Office again. Be like the
lightning, which never strikes twice in
the same place. Because it doesn't
need to; because it never leaves any
thing to. strike at.
When the band of thieves to which
you belong is sufficiently unanimous in
its rapacity TO cover the theft with n
Joint resolution, by all means, resolve.
1t adds to the sin Of theft the vice Of
hypocrisy and the crime of cowardice.
Allah is not deceived thereby, nor are
the people fooled, but it lays another
plate OF brass oyer your pachyderma-
tous hide and drags into yet profounder
slumber your superannuated conscience.
By the beard Of the profit, it would be
hard lines for the believers if they had
to believe all that the sheikh tells them
If the children of the faithful shall
ask you wherefore you steal SO much
more than you work, say boldly to them
that the law allows it and you are going
to have it. May you live as long as the
loot lasts. And endeavor to leave moth.
ing foryour successor. Shall you throw
temptation in the way of an honest man :?
Allah made us all, my son, but he made
you first, and hs everything else comes
after You, so do you go after everything
else.
Ii you sought to be clerk in the
booths of the merchants of Filed. elf.
hia, you would earn 50 a day by twelve
hours work. If you were scribe at the
desk OF the reporter, you would labor
eighteen hours each day, and your
ability would earn for you about Sc a
week, atyour real value., II you Jour-
neyed with the caravans Of the Pennsyl-
yania railroad, $50 month you would
get, and be glad TO get it. You are m
average ten-dollar-a-week man. But
you 60 to the legislature and you can
pay yourself out Of the treasury Of the
state $40 a day for resting. It is won
derful. But as you do less harm when
you rest than you are sure TO accom-
plish when you are at work, it is better
for the state that you spend all the days
OF your term in resting. When you bind
yourself to do nothing whatever, you are
cheap at $40 minute if you can be got
for no less.
Promise everybody everything they
ask for. 1t is go much easier to promise
man what he wants than it is to refuse
him and have him torment you with i'm
portunities and poster you for reasons.
Then, when the day for tho fulfllment
Of the promise comes to hand, renew
the promise. Take up one note by Civ
ing another. In the slang Of thu infidel,
stand him of for another term and Iell
him that when you go back again then
you will do these things for him. And
if it be SO that you do not go back, how
can you do anything for him Aud if
you do go back, say to him that you wiz
not buy your place of any man. Whas
dirt is this he throws upon the beard !.
reformer? By the head OF the snltnf
there are hardly enough places, for yon
own family,