The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-11
DISHONESTY GIVEN
As THE CAUSE FOR
HIGH LIVING COST
lsidor Wulfson, indianapolis
Inspector of Weights and
Measures, Says "Patronize
Honest Dealers"
CONTINUED from Faye One.)

gain by skilful treatment and skillful
services performed, so that honesty is
as old as business is oldAand honesty
lies back and beyond all commercial
ventures. Honesty is the talisman in
every religion the world ever knew.
Honesty Is the touch stone upon
which the Mohammedan builds his al
tars to worship Allah Honesty Is the
basic principal of the Buddhist; honesty
is the principal moral characteristic OF
the followers Of Confucius. An Indian
even would rather have his head sew
cred than to break his agreement and
what other nations have found abso-
lutely necessary for their moral, their
financial and their commercial prog
ress is hundred fold more necessary
this country today.
Dishonesty jeposed Kings; over
turned Empires; trailed the flags of
nations in the dust. Dishonest COM
petition has stained the page OF every
great period in the worlds history and
government and business and nations,
as we'll as individuals must observe
this universal law of honest dealing.
rOr suffer the same inevitable results
las follows the laws Of gravitation.
Need For Square Deal.
80 that IN America we start with
the fundamental proposition that in
order that everybody may have an
equal chance to succeed there must
be a square deal for all concerned
The manufacturer who has dishonest
employees suffers not alone the re-
suits of theft, his loss in the factory
must be made M by the sale Of his
goods and the consumer and the pub
lie foot the bills of those who steal
from the manufacturer.
1.-THE banker who loans money to
dishonest individuals goes to the WALL
and in a desperate effort to retrench
himself he makes questionable loans
with the hope of recouping his losses,
Ireceivership. insolvency and thousands
of depositors who have placed faith in
the bank lose their all, SO that the dis
honest dealing of an individual effects
not only the party cheated. but spreads
its baleful influence over the commu-
nifty. This only serves to teach us anew
the old lesson that no man lives to
himself alone.
Under the present system of COM
petition in this country and on &C.
count OF the merging of capital the
controlling Of prices and on account
Of the fact that the law Of supply and
demand is less and less a regulator Of
prices every day, competition between
the large and small dealer has become
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merchant, the dishonest salesman. in
order to maintain his prestige, his
standing. resorts to dishonest means
to get the people and place his goods
upon the market.
Reasonable Profits.
"All sellers Of commodities are enti-
tiled to a reasonable profit upon their
investment and If the honest dealer
must stand under the strain of the
dishonest competition Of his next door
bneighbor, who is engaged in the same
business. If the dishonest competitor
SELLS a less quantity for the same price,
short weights, or in any way acts dis
honest towards the public. then
! the honest dealer is to that extent in.
jured as well as the purchaser and the
general public. This is true in an eco.
nomic sense and where the dishonest
competitor resorts to adulteration
then the public is injured in a two
sfold sense, not only in an economic
fbut a physical or hygienic way. The
kdishonest dealer not only cheats his
ycompetitor. not only cheats the public
rout of it's money. but poisons the sys
item of the people who use his foods
lor his commodities. and it is. therefore
egentlemen. to you. not only as dealers
but as purchasers and as citizens that
hthe question of THE Effects of Dis
Dhonest Competition" appeals.
Goal dealers. ice dealers or fruit