Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-11-13
ARP AND THE LIARS
Bill Talks of The Sins of The Pres
ent Day In The World.
ABOUT LYING AND STEALING.
corruption In Politics of the Day and
Stealing From the Public Crib-Dif-
f>rent Kinds of Liars.

we are not distressed at the over
ihEow OF Tammany In New York. Sew
snty years is long enough for a party
or political power to rule great me-
tropoLs Corruption breeds more mag
sots as the city grows, for as Thomas
Jenerson said: The growth of great
cities Is pestilential to good morals
me public treasury is thing to he
plundcrcd, whether 1t be municipal.
state or national. There are thousands
81 men who would not steal from me.
put would steal the money I pay into
the treasury. for there it becomes 50
mixed up that nobody knows whose
money 1t is. II is just as il was two
hundred years ago. when Swift wiO @:
Nreat hcas have little fleas upon Their
backs TO bite EN-.
And Little fieas have lesser tleas. and 50
on ad infinitum."
There is one comfort about all this
public plunder. The money does not 90
dead. It has to be invested and gives
employment to labor. millionaire
san eat nor wear out much more
than can, nor will he lock up his
money and let it rest. Not long ago
asked clever northern man why It
was that rich people who pay the most
pf the taxes let the pension stal 30
IN 50 long and set bigger every year?
ha smiled and said; why that pen
sion money goes mostly to the poor
and we Ect it all back sooner or later.
II IS our cheapest way of supporting
mem. especially when we have your
help. POOR Garfield. In his last mes
SAGE he lamented that the pension rolls
nad got TO the alarming sum of $50
'oo.uuo, but said there was comfort in
hat 1t was obliged to decrease from
natural causes. for death was the COM
non lot and the pensioners were rap
IDLY decreasing in number. He was
mistaken. They have been multiplying
ever since he was killed. and now il
takes S15O000. 600 to pay the roll.
Public plumber would not be so bad
Il ii was done in the open, What aggra.
Yates us is that 1t Is dQpe on the sly
trough corruption. Though bribes.
franchises. charters. liG ses. salaries
ana schemes. 1t always veXes me to
see the cook hiding something or her
hid carrying off bundle on the sly
and hiding it under her apron as she
going home. But they are all so kind
1nd 50 willing and so good to the chill
dren that we saw wood and say moth
tnS They remind me OF what a blind
phrenologist said Of public offic a.
Rome while feeling the bumps on
his head. lie did not know him at all
nut said. This man is kind-heartel
ma Eood-natured and would do you q
'aNnr if You were in distress. bu' he
viii steal. II he found a man asleep
alone in a room at night he would sliD
lis purse from out his pocket bur
would kiss him before he left him" lie
diagnosed the man correctly, for he
was turned ont OF Office soon after for
embcZ2lng the public money. and e.
'ryEody was sorry FOR him because nc
Was 50 generous with his plunder.
Stealing from tho public crib seems 10
5c higher grade of crime than ly ing.
though it takes lying and hypocr.cy
and deceit to accom- lish it. | have Of
en- wondered why lying was not for
hidden in the Ten Commandments.
"rhOu shalt not steal" Is there. but
thou shalt not lie" is not there. and
vet it is accursed all through the scrip
lures and is the last sin recorded in
he last chapter OF Revelations and in
nearly the last verse. "For without
,re dogs and sorcerers. and whore
nongers and murderers and whosoev-
" loveth and maketh lie" According
10 David that sin did not leave very
many TO enter heaven, for he says Il
said in mine haste all men are liars"
The old Scotch preacher took II for
ext and his first remark was "Ah
David. me mon. II ye had waited until
aow ye might have said ii at your leis-
are" Lying is no doubt the most UNI
tcrsai sin among mankind, but il is
;raded and not always a sin. Stealing
IS always sin, but lying must he
malignant or harmful Paul sent Titus
Crete and wrote TO him that he
would have hard time in establish
ng a church there, tor the Creatans
we're all liars. Crete is Gambia now. an
sland in the Mediterranean. inhabit-
ID by Mohammedans chiefly, and trav-
sers say that they are no better now
han they were in st Paul's day, for
hey are not only liars. but thieves
England used to have laws to punish
common soldiers. common drunkards
ana common vagabonds. but none to
punish common liars. for they are|
generally harmless. Every community
has one or two and they keep us
amused at their Muhchausen exploits
in hunting and fishing and their mar
-ow escapes. Then there are some un-
"ommon liars-liars OF the first magnl-
tude as Shakespeare calls them. such
rs Baron Munchausen. Joe Mulhattan
and some Chicago editors and preach
rrs. Some Of these get into the pulpit
and make up pathetic stories andl
thrilling incident to emphasize their
sermons and create a sensation. Andl
there are thousands OF little white lies
ROcletY lies that have To be tnlh fnr