Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-27

line? There sovereigns living to-day who take
with them to their couches of nights, this soothing
smoothing doctrine that what they do, they have
to" do
Does the average man who shears associate
friend in sharp and questionable business trans
action view his action from any other point OF o.?
in self extenuaton. IF hadn't got him, he would
have got me I'm not his keeper It's up to hin, him
somebody else would've. l had to- that's all. y
The operator in stocks who pulls down profit
of a million by secret and unfair manipulation of
to him that his vast gain probably would involve
distress misery, cruel hardship, the part of the
losers-for it is mddng certain, even if it is not
generally admitted in speculative circles, that when
a million is won, somebody must lose The losers?
What has he to do with the losers? What are their
hardshps the hardshps of their wives and children,
to him9 They playing the game, weren t
they? They pited themselves against me, did they
not? And it's game from which the baby act is
barred, isn't it? am not here for my health, am !?
If l don't win, lose, don't l? Very well! I've got
to win 1t S not open to argument at all have to-
The absconder who is caught up with and brought
back from Egypt or Paraguay. or Japan or what
ever his Jumping off place,-does he often come
a thief, and I'm caught and now l II take my medl-
cine? Not very often, according to this writer S
experience, and, newspaper man, he has formed
part of the receiving party at the pier when many
a noted big money thief has been brought back.
Nineteen out of twenty of these embezzers on a
huge scale have what they palpably deem the most
excellent excuses for themselves; excuses in the
excusefulness of which they themselves it is usually
apparent, plainly believe
In the Family. Too
THEY were driven to their populations by the ex-
travagance of their wives and families They were
underpaid and chance of advancement.
They were seduced into specializing margin by
friend of theirs who had been steadily beating the
market for years. There had been sickness in their
families, and the doctors bills had been too great
burden, and SO, beginning with little 'taklngs;
they had got in their heads and had finally
been "compeed' to seize large amount and flee.
And so on Almost invariably it can be seen that
they feel poignantly sorry for themselves not be-
cause they are thieves but because of their plight,
because they have been caught There was, they
tell you with moist eyes that denote the yellow
streak no other way for them in the circumstances;
they had to " steal!
The penurious we'll to do who exhibits mig
gardly spirit in providing for his wife and family
and does contemplate his stingness with serene
extravagant, -spendthrifts all. They would live
beyond his means, did he not apply the brake.
Plenty of wives and families get on very we'll on
very much less than he doles out to his wife and
family! Their "wastefulness" should be checked!
He has to" be stingy with them!
The divorce courts cluttered with opponents
of this have to- doctrine. The roySterlng other
where dalliant husband, hailed to court to answer
in separation proceedings, and his nfirmities of
character and his wanton strayings revealed, had
to- behave in accordance with the accusations be-
cause his spouse had become no longer congenlal !;
or the rounded up deserter of wife and children
had to- forsake them because he was out of work
and couldn't get job. Always you discern that
they themselves profoundly believe in these their
had to protestations.
The tickle, flrtatious wife had to" prove false
to her vows because her husband had proved him
self a "brute had failed to provide for her
in the style to which she was accustomed, or had
revealed himself as Incompatible She too you
perceive thoroughly believes in all of her self CON
donations and stands in excellent favor with herself
The kleptomanac has to- pfer from the shops
because he or she, victim of heredity what not,
is obsessed by the overmastering impulse to steal.