Semi-weekly herald., 1907-10-28
HONESTY THE BEST POLICY.

Honesty IS the best policy is an
axiom that will not down. Occasion
ally we observe men piling up vast
fortunes by swindling and smart deal
Mgs Some go on the presumption
that they owe nothing To their fellow
man and play skin game. They oc-
casionaliy are enable to roll up vast
fortunes. t.. But are they happy? And
IL it not fact that ninety times out
ot one hundred these men are dis
graced before they die? Reaction Is
bound to follow.
For years the officials of the big
life Insurance companies thought they
lad it all their own way and they did
have pretty smooth Time OF II for
Il long time. But there came day
OF reckoning.
Trust companies that loaned other
peoples money at exorbitant rates
on watered stock are now having their
day and the end is not yet.
On the other hand the honest bank
er who engaged in legitimate business
and satisfied with reasonable and safe
profit. is passing through the ordeal
like hardened steel. The man who
deals honestly in business affairs wins
The day nine times out of ten and can
so home and sleep peacefully.
Aad liz not this true in every walk
,e Ina, "a II
is fair in love and politics" There
are countless thousands who can tell
you from experience that this is far
from the case The man who is not
honest in love generally gets left. II
only question of time.
And the same is true politically.
There are some who spend most of
their time figuring ont how they can
give one the "double-cross. They
make promises like child makes
soap bubbles and think no more OF
them. Others make deals and combi-
.ations with no idea of carrying them
out---iust to fool the other fellow. For
a time this sort of tactics may win.
But in the long run defeat and Is.
grace is as certain as the day is long.
The Herald believes in honest in
dustry The jobbers of Wall street
are menace to the nation. The
banker or trust company official who
loans large sums of money without
adequate security is curse ana
should be behind the bars. The graft
er who takes public money should he
placed out of harms way, and the pub.
lie official, no matter whether he Is
serving the city. county, state or ma
tional governments and uses funds
that do not belong to him is not eli
titled to any sympathy and the mere
fact of using such money mlawfuliy
should be prima facie evidence OF
guilt and the offending individual $, mt
up for life.
Honesty is the only policy-in bisi-
ness In love, or in politics. The Her
aid has been under the present man
agement twenty years or more. We
defy any man to step to the front and
say this paper or its management ever
double-crossed IN business or politics.
We defy any one to say that promise
WIS ever made in business or poll
tics that was not lived up to. We
defy any public official to say that the
management of The Herald ever So
licited or made deal of any kind,
OF ever took cent for hush money
or ever attempted to blackmail any
one out of cent. II honesty viii
not win in politics then The Herald
does not want 10 have anything to
do with the game and while there are
times when one becomes discouraged.
we have always found that decency
wins in the long run The Hera.,
may err In judgment and what is best
at times, hut when this paper or its
management stoops to double-crossing
OF betrayal of public trust we trust
the good Lord will take us beyond
the great divide.
II honesty prevailed there would be
no panic on Wall street today.
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