The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-17
WAYS OF DEFAULTERS.
POPULAR SYSTEMS REsoRTED TO BY
DISHONEST EMoL OWES.
What Happens in the Happy Go-Lucisy
business Houses oc This Country
Merchants aad Bankers Who
Strain Human Nature.

Chicago Tribune INTERVIEW
Il resident + Chicago, whose long exneri.
ence in the examination of irregular n
counts gives his opinion some vs}a,, ey
nreSse s his conviction that there is hardly
large estahi5 lament in the city in which H.
honest practices do not prevail Thara isg
remarkable difference, he says. between fi,a
coEisaF yatEa business concerns OF ENGLAND
and Scotland and the dashing happy-rg-
lucky houses of America In the steaIv
business Of Great Britain, where the son
succeeds the father and is trained in III,
contingencies from his early wears, all the
details Of the Office arz carefully clahor-
ated, and no one can steal cent, without
being 10 md out But here & shrewd man
establishes an enormous business without
giving any part OF his attention to the rou-
tine OF the Office, and as lis employees usually
receive begSorty allowance it is scarcely
70 tie wondered that they add to their salary
ly tAa.t
.iucb rs T saou!i daprecate any attalnp.
t. e&CIa the tbi5f,' said this man e, feel
n3 q muisaration whatsoever for the Iner-
chant ~ the banker who looks for honesty
IN rlorh ar cashier who is paid So moata
Tor handling $4,000 a year, without aay
check or safeguard imposed upoa kim. "A
en1Vi Yer VINO expects lelity should reward
Is salYGntS according to the responsibility
OF place. The loose aEi Inadequate sYste,Is
oi some farms are amazing. idouot believe
there is Il large establishment in Chicago
0hege, II employed in position Of trust.
coGlt nos steal thousands Of dollars ecery
year
There are several different kinds Of defal,
cations which We often have 10 deal with
FIRST, there Is the biunGarar, who t2kes a.
vantage Of a mistake to pocket thaodd cash.
SaPPo5' b. IN, the payroll to make ont in q
house where li1y mou arc employed. That
duty IS generally cons, Tered so parody M
eHnlcal that soma subordinate employe is
delegated 10 draw 10 the payroll Ike cred.
is each man with his proper salary, but by
mistake makes tue footing $500 instead Of
$40. The proprietor looks over the roll. OBJ
serves the correctness of each item takes
jhe footing for granted, and draws his check
for $3.50 The young man puts the weekly
@,pen! O. each person in an envelope. finds
asurPius Of SIS, and discovering his error
pockets that amount. Then he reflects what
e fool he has been to live on 500 a month
When hy e careful hlunder every weel,
ue might easily double his income Thu
suggestion Of accident Is turned into a sys-
tenn, aCl he become, a regular tloCQu'ter
The ure=cry-tuu Of the pay-rols ought, of
Course, 10 5H Imperative hut as a matter. of
,,yt Ds grHa.,y Dcs5r rs the evidence of bis
'.'uy, W&.h ID n@For suspected until the
,ga.a IS feels - De firm or his own style Of
,l.ug ae@ags him Even after he knows
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