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Show LACK SENSE OF SHAME. In tho days of yore, when a man had been convicted of crime and had served his sentence and been pardoned, ho usually changed his name and went lo somo distant part of the country to begin life anow, or if he elected to ro-inaiu ro-inaiu in his old Iioimp, In (onft'ni to keep out of tho public gaxo as much ns possible. JIo jtct'ually seemed lo have somo sonsc of shame. It is different now; A man who has been in tho penitentiary for brcakiug his country's laws, or has done a stunt of making little ones out of big ones with a hammer in a jail yard for a less heinous offense, comes forth and writes magazino articles on lifo behind prison walls, ombarks in big business or goes into politics. Witness .Julian Hawthorne Haw-thorne and Charles W. Morso, the literary lit-erary man and the banker and pro-motor, pro-motor, as two bright and shining examples. ex-amples. Down in Oklahoma a celebrated train robber of tho early da's of that interesting in-teresting stato is a candidate for tho Democratic nomination for governor, und thoy say his opponent; for high political po-litical honors is also a man with a record rec-ord somewhat: similar. The new mayor of Boston, whore tho Puritans once held sway, has looked through prison bars from rhc wrong side, but tho votern elected him just the same. To tho charge that their man had served a term behind, stone walls, his sup-portors sup-portors rotorted that the opposition candidate can-didate would bo in prison now if he had his just deserts, and they won the election. All these are vory recent instances. The tendency to honor ex-convicts with office, however, is not now. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, when president, nominated for United States marshal, a ono-eared horso thief who had escaped lynching and worn tho stripes, and the sonatc confirmed him without a sign of nausea. The" rising generation will be excused if it wonders whore tho advantage of remaining, honest comes in. Truo, virtue vir-tue is its own reward, but virtue will uot be made any more attractive by olectiug or appointing er-convicts to office ' |