Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-26

uemssr. have made rs sssu.2risls AID
named 10 LANES
Ths old man bowed gr2vsly, and gave
Brsn his hand Rrsz shssk it warmly.
and came away.
Now NJ must decide Es lad al ths
facts They wers more SERIOUS than Ne
could have imagined He walked the
streets. up and down. block after BLOCK
He ws1ld 20 over the ground and set the
thing IN order il his mind Then ns
would act a. Hearen should give hin
hght. Here was the case; thousand
people, ten Thousand, want knives. bits,
saws chisels, axes They are scattered
over Thousand niles Of ground II each
man must 90 to the ulAkers f1r his al or
pick. the expense IS rulnOus. Simply he
cannot 90 He cannot combine with many
Of the rest They are too far away Here
IS a man with money In his hand who
knows all this lie cannot goto all these
folks; but il IS all one a. II be had gone
and said II you people will let me. can
bring you your banners and wrenehes
and pitchforks a. low price. and
make a good thing Of II myself,
because can handle hundred
with little more expense than one
And these people are only too wiling
But ne cannot do it alone. Goods must
be bought, and moved. and STORED, and
packed, and shipped Complicated a.
counts must be kept. The people say
Get ten. twenty. hundred men to help
you We CAL afford to pay them all. We
are ten thousand strong It IS the people
who pay The money passes into lie
chiefs hands; but il comes from these
scattered thousands 10 pay these hundred
he - faF Z.
share is the greatest. of course; his CAPT
tai i, the bower Of so many men But the
rest is not his. II be keeps any part Of
anv man 5 jus. due. he steals. (So Bren
said and stamped on the stones in his hot
way '-Aeh man has right 20 his share
in = gortion to the worth Of his work TO
. ,eople be serves. He has right 70
land that he shall not lose his depend
zee without realon. snail be merciIully
treated in weakness and misfortune. Not
one Of these widely scattered employers
in thousand would have it otherwise.
But they cannot come and see % it them
selves They must trust i. 10 the chief
TO see Justice done His capital gives
him 80 many mems pO ar; he Is ten or
hundred in one. Here was this man this
Antoine Haffelfuger, using this power
like a despot and barbarian Here was
.1ll.1 .,,I H.
au oA'l man whom ne ~ ~. -. 1'
gFas'ed' anu -" no 'eaieu In a. IA 49,
coz AiiH ~ - ,,..-I. ha ~
5 sliri "a - ,rsr-'itr -
49, T., NOD forI,ai,an hs rns,,It s1s3
~ ,is 10, - rSonsy had fallen into RI
6andS Wbat sbo3lJ ne done The law
- ~. cor1u'on ,noralitv said. II IL Hal.
feIfncer's. the course i clear Bus was
tho ris,bt course 80 clear Was This money
HsfeiAnger's If truth were toldy He
owed f;rav ten times told Hi, cspital,
which bis farther and This old man had
Jointly made and The hard times together
ave him Irresistible str,nq-tb and he
Used il like a merciless tyrant This
money in his hands would be Just so
much rnore newer ~ harm Had he (Brenl
tho rirbt 10 piv. lty The centerbits
~ 9is,o1 9ororarIy belong to the
burglar. would he be justified in
returning them TO their owner if he knew
thew would b. used to night to rob, per
hans murder. man in his bed2
CborIav had no right to the money.
fprs,, know in his heart, that Traveller
,vorld not have touched it more than fire.
What should he do with it, them Was it
MOI plain that it had been put into his
hands to use as he should Judge right?
His happiness for life, he felt sure. de
pended upon Kate, And was not Hates.
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