The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-11-20

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ABOUT L WING AND STEALING
Bill Arp on the Sins of the Prese mt
Day The Different Kinds OF
| Liars.
Atlanta Constitution.
We are not distressed at the over
throw of Tammany in New York,
Seventy years is long enough for a
party or apolitical power to rule great
metropolis. Corruption breed more
maggots as the city grows, for as
Thomas Jefferson said: "The growth
of great cities Is pestiential to good
morals" The public treasury is thing
to be plundered, whether it he munich
pal, State or national. There are
thousands of men who would not steal
from me, but would steal the money l
pay into the treasury, for there it be-
comes so mixed up that nobody knows
whose money it is. 1t is just as it was
two hundred years go, when Swift
wrote:
Great feas have little fleas upon their
backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser feas, and so
on ad lnfinitum."
There Is one comfort about all this
public plumber. The money does not
go dead. 1t has to he invested and
gives employment to labor. "A mil
lionalre can't eat nor wear out much
more than can, nor will he lock up
his money and let it rest. Not long
ago asked a clever Northern man
why 1T was at the rich people who
pay the most of the taxes let the pen
sion steal go on so long and get bigger
every year? He smiled and said: "Why
that pension money goes mostly to the
poor and we get 1T back sooner or later.
1t is our cheapest way of supporting
them, especially when we have your
help" Poor Garfield. In his last mes
sage he lamented that the pc rsion rolls
had got to the alarming sum of $780,
600, 1000, but said there was comfort in
knowing thatit was obliged to decrease
from natural causes, for death was the
common lot and the pensioners were
rapidly decreasing in number. He
was mistaken. They have been multi.
plying ever since he was killed, and
now it takes 100000 to pay the
roll.
Public plumber would not be so bad
if it was done in the open. What az.
gravates us is that 1t is done on the sly
through corruption, through bribes,
franchises, charters, licenses, sal,lries
and schemes. 1t always vexes me to
see The cock hiding something or her
chill carrying off bundle on the sly
and hiding it under her apron as she is
| going home. But they are all 80 kind
and so willing and so good to the
children that we saw wood and say
nothing. They remind me of what a
blind phrenologist said of public Of
fetal in Rome while feeling the bumps
| On his head. lie did not know him at
all, but said, "This man is kind. heart
ed and good-natured and would do you
a favor if you were i'll distress, but he
will steal. Ii he found man asleep
alone in a room at night he would slip
his purse from out his pocket, but
would kls HIM before he left him.
He diagnosed the man correctly, for
he was turned out of office soon after
for embezzling the public money, and
everybody was sorry for him because
he was so generous with his plunder.
Stealing from the public CRIB seems
to be a higher grade of crime than
lying, though it takes lying and hypo
crisy and deceit to accomplish it. ]
have often wondered why lying was
not forbidden il the Ten Command
ments. "Thou shalt not steal" il
there, but thou shalt not lie I" is no
there, and yet it is accursed all through
the Scriptures and is the last sin re
corded in the last chapter of Reve,a
} tions and in nearly the last verse. "Fo
without are dogs and sorcerers, ant
) whoremongers and murderers an,
whosoever lovelh and maketh a lie.
According 10 David, that sin did no
leave very many to enter heaven, fo
Z he says, II sold in mine haste all me-
8 are liars" The old Scotch preache
Q took it for text and his first rcmar
4 was, Z" Ah, David, me mon, if We ha
: waited until nowJe might have said
t at your LEISURE" Lying is no dout
o lhe most universal sin ataong mankind
g hut it is sgraded and not always sin.
l. Stealing is always a sin, but lynn
Q must be malignant or harmful. Pa,
d sent Titus to Crete and wrote to hil
!. that he would have hard time |
VI establishing o church there, for til
h Cretans were all liars. Crete is Cal
l. dla now, an island in the Mediterr
v mean, inhabited by Mohammedal
,f chiefly, and travellers say that they n
n no better now than they were It s
r. Paul's day, for they are not only liar
lg but thieves. England used to ha,
lie laws to punish common scolis, comm,
r. drunkards and common yagebonas. b
10 none to punish common liars. for tn