The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-19
Dishonesty Zones in (Uavt$

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Z business since 1884. Honesty is large
I ly a matter OF environment II can't
always De defined by a hard and fast
/ rule.
9 The newspapers these days keep the
pubic posted as to almost every de-
Ialcallon which happens in any part of
/ Jle country, whereas boz the old DAYS
men stole and cheated just as much
/ di-d more perhaps but it didn't get into
the newspapers so often.
Ferhapa I'm one section of the coun-
tiy nFe persons say, wiz be arrested
TOT eIlUe1Zlemeut iu one week In a
much larger territory there will BE- uo
arrests at ALL Nevertheless. the fact
that uFe persons have been caught
/ 7tea1ilig In certain area, creates q sen
sation and causes many people to be-
i-eFe tii4L stealing has reached the
proportions of an epidemic OF course
/ IL hasn't done anything OF the sort
When i said that honesty is often
question Of environment / meant
tnls- Today for instance am con-
/ sioeflns the case of a man who used
some money of his employer because of
sickness i'm his family which meant
doctors bills and other extra expenses
I beyond his salary.
Finding he could not make the sum
good as he had hoped to do By Dor
rowing from other sources, he took
some more money and played the races,
I expecting 10 recOup himself in that
way. Well the races did not 60 his
way. They seldom do. it seems. under
such circumstance and he was deeper
in debt than ever.
His theft was discovered and we
/ were notified, Relatives came to his
help and he discharges his debt 90 his
employer, although that did not pre-
vent him from losing his situation.
NOW, what I am poudering Is this;
I That young man has a chance at an
other situation if he can give bond, and
ne has come here and laid the case be
fore me. hoping that I may be induced
/ to give a second bond.
Shall / or shall I not do as he asks?
/ believe the man is and has always
meant 10 be perfectly honest. CiFCum-
/ stances Of the most trying nature
caused him to yield OnCe-n0t the love
I of pleasure or of self indulgence.
That man is stronger today than he
I ever was and If he gets the bond he
I viii probably do better work i'm his new
I post than i'm the old I have about de-
/ cided 10 give it to him. Some people
/ would say that the man was a thief
/ and meant TO be q thief. I do not.
/ The other day we gave bond for
railroad empiOye who is married and
/ has five children. He lives i'm a small
/ town.
Now, iu the event Of sickness COM
ing into the family or extra expense Of
! any sort that mans meager salary viii
/ not go very far. If ne should default it
! would probably be with the intention of
/ returning the money. not to steal.
With men occupying positions high
/ er up il is often the same way, A stress
/ of circumstances makes a man appear
like a willful thief who i'm reality
/ shudoers A the word even. There are
/ thieves, plenty of them, in the commu-
/ nifty; but considering the allurements
/ and temptations men are subjected to
1 ia these days the trend of things. as I
/ said before, is toward honesty.
ut can't help but be so, for the rea-
/ son that the people are better educated
[ on account Of the public schools
I Here are some figures which are more
/ or less significant and indicate that in
/ some instances at least the larger
/ bonding companies of the country have
/ decreased the number or the default
! ers. For instance. the proportion of
/ losses incurred to premiums received
by the United States Guarantee COM
pany I'm 1903 was % per cent. as against
/ 42.2 i'm 1901. The American Surety COM
/ pany's proportion Of losses to premiums
( I'm 1903 was 26.5 per cent IN 1902 IT ran
/ up to 8l.+ per cent
ON the other hand, the proportion OF
/ losses paid to premiums received BY
I the fidelity department OF the Fidelity
/ a. Casualty company of New York was
/ 21.9 per cent i'm 1908, against only 1873
/ I'm 1902, and was the highest for this
/ concern i'm nine years.
/ The United States Fidelity < Guar
I anty company of Baltimore paid last
I year in the fidelity department losses
/ amounting TO 3S1 per cent of the pre-
/ miums. i'm 1902 36.2 per cent; I'm 1901,
/ only 1873 per cent. The proportion of
/ losses paid to premiums received last
/ year By the National surety company
/ was 331 per cent, the highest in the
/ seven years of its existence.
/ The Fidelity & Deposit company also
paid last year the highest percentage
/ of losses TO premiums II has done I'M
/ ten years-359 per cent, and the city
/ Trust safe Deposit e. Surety company
/ had the same percentage of loss
The Guarantee company Of North
/ America. Under the head of proportion
} of losses incurred TO premiums received
/ during 1903. charges only Is per cent,
/ the lowest rate i'm ten years.-New
/ York sun