Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-09

It's a curious fact that so many
people, especially women, have so
little conscience regarding the eva
sion of duties that women who stand
well in the communities in which they
live will stoop TO such petty ways of
defrauding their government.
What pretty illuminated cards"
exclaimed one woman; that one, es-
specially, with the motto, Honesty Is
the Best Policy Yes" replied the
other, Il brought them from Europe;
and wasn't L fortunate? ! got them
through with a lot of other things,
without paying cent of duty.
Does it pay to sell ones birthright
for little mess of pottage2 Is there
any power in cunning, In shrewd,
long headed, deceptive methods that
can for a moment compare with the
truth, with absolute integrity?
Veracity to a man should be price
less. When he has lost truthfulness
and the reputation for it, he is a
burned-out man, a mere shell, like
one of our great skyscrapers Quilted
by fire.
American liars in high places have
recently had the 1ashlight of public
scrutiny turned upon them. Men who
not long ago stood high in the Amer
lean regard are worse than nobodies
| today, for they are despised by their
fellow men.
No man can look honest and long
give the impression of honesty when
he is an habitual scoundrel. 1t Is
only a. question of time when some
thing will happen to tear off his mask
and reveal the real man.
Just look at the man who has prac-
tised deceit and lying all his life.
There is not line of truth in his
face. His very expression is false.
He radiates dishonesty from every
pore. He may attempt TO deceive
with his smooth, honeyed diplomacy.
but we instinctively feel that he is a
liar in every part of his being.
person may have great ability
and a college education, but If he does
not ring true, if there Is any evidence
of counterfeit about him, he never
gets our confidence. our order, our
business or our patronage.
What the world wants today is men
who will not offer English woolens
manufactured in American mills, who
will not sell Irish linen" made in
New York The world wants physi-
clans who will not pretend to know
the nature of disease when they do
not, or experiment upon patients with
questionable doses of drugs: states
men who will not pack caucuses or
pull wires lawyers who will not urge
their clients to press their suits into
court to get their fees. when they
know there is no chance of winning:
clergymen who can hear larger call
than that of a large salary or popu-
lar applause. II wants business men
who will give thirty-six inches for a
yard and thirty-two quarts for a
bushel 1t wants journalists who will
not write scurrilous, scandalous srtt-
cles merely because the chief editor
wants them. IT wants men and
women who will not say they do 1t
because everybody does"-young peo-
pie who will not think anything prof
liable that is dishonest.
A former Mayor of Boston has said
that in fifty years he has seen the
outworking of honesty and fair deal
ing. and that 30 per cent. of the sue
cessful men have been distinguished
for their business integrity, and that
those who have taken counter
course have persisted by the way.
Honesty" said he. lis a natural law,
and the violation of it means retribu-
ton. a day of reckoning and punish
ment. AS unerring as the law of
gravitation, when honesty is violated
1t is followed by retribution. The con-
sequences cannot be avoided. They
may be deferred, but justice must al