Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-01-01
DEPEW ON Honesty
ESSAY PRINTED IN The new YORK
WORLD IN 1899.
The New York Senator Shows That
Honesty is Easier to Write About
Than Practice. All Those InvOlv.
ed in Present Scandals We're
Shouting Honesty in 1896.

that in its issue Of December 81, 1899, il
printed from the pen of Senator Chaun.
cey VI. Depew, the following very inter.
esting essay on "Honesty:"
/ Honesty is too much talked about, az
if it were scarce in these days. TIE
business principles of today are better,
purer and more universally honest than
they-were in the days of my boyhood.
81 have seen many men become
wealthy through dishonest methods, and
my experience with them has taught me
this: That most men who gain wealth
dishonesty, if they live long enough. get
poor again. 1t is almost an invariable
rue; and it is reasonable enough. If you
stop to figure it out, for it comes about
in this way: A man employs dishonest
methods and yet he becomes very
wealthy. All his creditors know that
his career is just little bit sh .dy az re.
CARDS business methods, but he sails
sereney along until a crucical moment
arrives--a moment such as We had last
week-when ready money, cash at any
! price was the cry Of the maddened
brokers.
"Then he finds his Waterloo The
credit which he might have obtained,
the confidence Of reliable, reputable firms
which he might have commanded, are
not forthcoming.
The main temp alton with which the
ordinary business man OF today is beset
is the temptation to msrepresent his
capital or business prospects, and thus
obtain greater credit But don't do it
it does not pay. The old, old adage,
Honesty is the best policy is the safest
motto for every business man to follow.
And l know what am talking about,
too.
"'Be good and you'll be happy. but
you won't have good time may sound
yer" we'll and elicit rounds Of applause.
but it is fallacy through and through.
1t is easier, much easier, for an honest
m n to become wealthy than for his dis
honest brother, who may seem to pros
per for time; but. mark my words, his
is only Temporary success"
The World intimates that in the light
of recent disclosures, comment upon this
essay is at this time unnecessary. That
is all very true, and Senator Depew's
poor old heart must suffer many an ache
when he reads his interesting AMI in
structive essay OF 1899.
But this is not the only interesting
defamation on "honesty" that is to be
found in old-time newspaper files and
written bv men who, at the moment
posing as the special champion of "hon.
e ty" and the particular defenders OF
national honor" have recently been ex-
posed as men who preached but did not
practice.
The files OF the New York World say,
for the year 1896, will show that every
United States senator and representative
indicted for malfeasance in office, every
insurance magnate exposed as an EN-.
bezzler of his policyholders' money,
every national banker detected in the
act Of stealing the deposits entrusted to
him, every federal official whipped from
the service in disgrace, every "frenzied
financier," shown before New York's in
surance committee to be a perjurer-
posed during the presidential campaign
OF 1896 as one divinely ordained to de.
fend the national honor" and as one
whose moral convictions were shocked
because the democratic party in that
year charged to be true the very facts
which are now being revealed to the
public gaze.