| Show OTHER PEOPLES MONEY The Chicago printed a striking cartoon the other day It showed in a series of pictures tle tl e road to wealth A file of men was toiling over rocks and stones and nd fallen trees By the side of this road ran one that was smooth and easy An au automobile automobile came long along j it and one of the themen themen themen men in the tho toiling tolling line accepted the In of the chauffeur to ride with him The last picture of all an showed the automobile dashing through the gates of a prison The slow way is after all the best Take the case c se of or the thc Chicago bank bankers bankers ers ore Stensland and Hering Thoy They tried to take the short cut They looted their bank Hering gave himself up almost immediately Stensland thanks to the efficient and intelligent work of a newspaper man was arrested the other day in Morocco and will shortly be re ro returned returned turned to this country Stensland could never have enjoyed his liberty He says himself that the hours of his freedom were hours of misery He never knew when the hand of the law would fall faU upon his shoulder and hd he h lived in constant contant almost sleepless ap apprehension apprehension Neither Hering nor Stensland could have gotten much pleasure out of life Ufe during the months immediately pre pro preceding preceding ceding the discovery of their defalcations defalcations defalcations They knew they stood over a magazine that might explode at any moment and blow their reputations into shreds They are doubtless hap happier happIer haPpier pier now that the worst is known than thai they have been for tor many months Life Lire in prison can hardly be worse than the mental hell h ll in which they have been living Their imprisonment will no not give back bacle to the depositors the money that was stolen but it will be an ex cx expiation piaU on that thE law taw has the right to demand and that the men must make And A d it rather singular that with so 80 many conspicuous examples of at the ruin that lies at the end of the broad and easy way others do not take warning How many men mer are there in inthe Inthe inthe the United States today living the life Ufe that Stensland and Hering led How many are using money that does docs no not belong to them How many stand within a stones stone throw of absolute de destruction destruction No man Irian can answer these questions with certain knowledge but bu buit it is not too mu h to hope that some I of them may be warned warne while there Is still time There is plenty of room in this world for or the man who honestly hone Uy desires to re reform reform reform form for for the man who ho desire desireo to o live honorably there Is no room out outside outsIde outside side of the of the penitentiaries It Is better a 0 thousand times from every ever standpoint to live humbly throughout life than to enjoy a n brief season of fraudulent prosperity and die dien In n disgrace and despair |
