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Show R4GJS FOE DISHONESTY. II there were ever a periud since the peopling of the globe when there w;ia more dishonesty in the world than at present, history fails to record the faot. There is nodouhtthat from the beginning IVtuuU and cheats have been practiced. Eiuly records tll tho fact. A saliricil story has come down from century to century, and is well known to all civilized peoples, how Diogenes went about the streets at midday, bearing a lantern, in search of an honeBt man. That he waa uniuccCBBful arguea badly for the morals of the age. The old philoso pher poas bly might not have to record re-cord a failure to-diiy, but his aatire would app'y to these times Tvith wonderful force. There appears to be a rfte for dishoueaty, and a mania to cheat. No one con pick up a nowsnacer. whether of an isolated country town or a populous city, without with-out his eyes catching senaatioLal headlines -indicating dishonesty. Long lists of swindlers, of absconders, of defaulters, of petty thieves, and prominent peculators appear in the journals. Life insurance swiudles, &tock gambling cheats, savings hank stealings, and other incorporated frauds are as common as the air we breathe. Official dishonesty is the rule aud not tho txcepliou. The mania extends to and permeates every avenue ot trade and BCteuce. We tind it in the mosl common aflairs of life. The contractor cheats in his CJntract and the laborer swiudles In bis work. The very food that we eat is tainted with fraud, and thu clothes I thul wo wear ar deceptive cheats. The p-ncil with which we write is a lie, in that its maker has stolen the name ol o .c who originally was honest hon-est in turniug out a good article; the paper ou which we write is not what the manutacturers represent it to be. And so it is with almost everything one can touch, and nearly every p?f son one meets. There appears to be an epidemic ol di.honesty. Whether' it can be stayed, as choU-r-i, small pox, yellow fever or other plagues are checked, is a doubtful question, aud ono which moralists audsocial scientists scien-tists are better qualified for discussing. Before any change cau he expected there must be a revolution in the con-cience con-cience of tbe world. That conscience is becoming so seared and hardened as to lose its powers of readily detective detect-ive the difference between honesty au'l dishonesty; ai.d even where the di'.rtu.:tiun canuot he mistaken public . conscience U inclined to invent miti-t-atiug circumstances, and put forth excusing statements for the criminal. Tnis must be reversed or public faith and commercial bounty, aa well as individual uprightness and morality, all of w'oich are seriously shaken, will ls shattered and destroyed. Public const ierce must become mora quick aud Botsitive, and st the nme lime enlist on thi side of honesty. If crime be delected the sentiment ol the community must be in tavor ot punishing the perpetrator, instead ol exrueiug him; and if deception be practiced with injurious or fraudulent intent, the public must welcome the tincture and dttuand the chastisement chastise-ment of the guilty. We do not claim that this durable change in public Mltiment wi'l come about; but in view of the moral status of humanity, oue my well a?k if there is to be any cure for this plague of dishonesty, and if o, when is the remedy to be ap-niifd |