The Washington herald., 1918-01-25

tions. A man is a thief when he says
That Is all WOOL" when IL 80 hall
cotton.
He is a thief when he says, THAT
was imported" when il was made In
Cleveland. or Pittsburg or Chicago.
An employer is a thief, IL he takes
advantage Of the necessities of the
poor and pays his employe starvation
wages and makes him live below the
hunger line. A laborer is a thief, Il
he soldiers and doesn't give honest
work to his employer for the wages
he pays him, then he is a darn thief!
A gambler who bets and wins Is a
thief. II he bets and loses he is a
fool So. every gambler Is either a
fool or thief. or both.
II a church runs a lottery. that
church is a dirty, low thief. AS a rule
the man who steals a million stands
a better show to keep out of the
penitentiary than the fellow who
steals hundred thousand
So true has that become that a
friend of mine suggested that We
take that commandment, and make II
read, Thou shalt not steal on a small
scale
on siauoerert.
Here's what l believe. You can
call this republicanism, you can call
it democracy, you can call it what
ever you please. here's what I be-
lieve. l believe that the man who
sticks a gun under my nose on the
public highway and demands my
money. or my life measured by every
rule and standard of honesty, he is
no more a thief than that man or
combination of men who secure con-
troll of a nations food or fuel supply.
or some other necessity and indis-
pensable commodity and then put the
price of that commodity up so high
that the workingman can't AFFORD 10
buy II, and then give him the alter
native Of paying the price for IL or
starving or freezing to death. He is
a darn thief.
Thou art weighed in the balances,
and art found wanting"
safety First for America"
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor."
You say, "Bill, have never been
in court" Somebody tells something
derogatory about another and you
don't stop to find out whether what
they said was true or not. You begin
to tell it around the street to others
and you say, Have you heard the
latest? Oh. 1t is rich and rare and
raey."
Have you heard the story about
Mrs. Jones?'
mo, I haven't"
Poor soul, I feel so sorry for her
you are an old liar. II you felt sorry,
you'd keep your old mouth shut. That
1t what you'd do.
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against they neighbor."
Don't you know some Of the darn
lies that you told about me before
I came to town? You know there are
multitudes of people that are past
masters and adopts at criticizing
others.
Like a young lady. A friend asked
her, "Can you sew"
She said. mo, but can rip up
A Spanish proverb said, "Tf our
faults were written on our foreheads,
we'd all go around with our hats over
our eyes"
What are your neighbor's shortcom-
ings to you? Your faults you think
hidden, perhaps may stand out as
plain as the scandal you are talking
about, and your trifling faults may
seem Just as black and set people
talking behind your back.
Ambuscade may be legitimate In
warfare, but in dealing with your
faults is cowardly. Leave
your ambuscade and come into the
omen. don't trv and divert attention
from your rotten life by throwing mud
at somebody else. The Spanish prov
erb says, "Whosoever spits against the
winds spits in his own face" In other
words you will get II where Queen
Elizabeth wore the ruff.
One of the besetting sins OF nearly
every community is gossip.
Une man or woman to set on nre
this heIlish thing. can keep a whole
in an uproar.
Believe Only Truth.
oh. gossips set husbands to quarrel
ing with their wives; wives with their
husbands. They will make men sus-
picious of their wives and wives sus-
picious of their husbands. / have more
respect for the poor old hag going to
hell under the gas light Of the city, an
outcast, than 1 have for this member
Of so-called respectable society who
under the cover of that damnable busi-
ness win assassinate the character Of
others. A breath of scandal sweeping
the community, numbering the rep
utation of men and women and caus-
ing tears of, anguish. =.
Shun the tale bearer, the tatter,