Show v 45 AS TO 10 SMUGGLING x xA V VV V A A New York newspaper has a long art article cle on n smuggling It asks if people are arc naturally dishonest dishon dishon- CS est and especially the America people That defends de de- de- de jens fends the point of or view Many a man mall would sm smuggle gg something into the country who who would cheerfully cheer pay hi his hia washerwoman and give her a tip besides He Tie rea reasons ns in ill all kinds of ways way His fi first st point is that what ho he is going to try to smug smug- gle glein in i is his be he paid f for r it and nd he has a right to his own property provert Second that the tho government has no right ight by legislation to make Something a crime erime which without the arbitrary ry legislation L wo would ld be no cr crime Third that what this thi country coun COUll- try calls a crime is not a crime in Great Britain V That if he h. was going the other way he lie would not have ve to take apy such precautions precaution's and that what no is no iro crime in England ought not to b be a crime crim in inthe the the tb United States There is still stilt another class which h fc reasons sOI S' S that to levy such a tax is js a square h and that it is a good thing to get the best V pf a holdup whenever one can Others comfort themselves with the thought that the goods or n trinkets being onI only intended for presents to friends if the duties can be bc ev evaded ded ti they ey can buy more ore presents Still others reason th tha j if they can evade the thc dut duties it es s th thy they y can sell the goods at an immense pr profit f t and arid so be able to purchase more goo goods s. s So a great many peo people ie who would be shocked to be bec c called dishonest finally reason themselves irto a belief that it is h a kind of duty to get the thebe be beet t o of the custom officers officers' if they can for by what right do lo they put a tax on person has pur pur- V chas chasM chased cl and paid full value for Of course one is isI isnow I f r c caught u ht I now and then and has to pay the penalty x but many arc not caught 1 I V Te We once handed ded a newspaper to a distinguished man with the rema remark k that so and so had been een p pay pr paying ying y- y ir ing his respects to him V The he article was a f fearful arraignment of the distinguished citizen He took the paper read the i article le through then dropped the tho paper stretched his is arms over his head and with a great yawn rl 1 I p IV I. I the If If the blank blank son of a gun 1 only wily I know he lie might write something H We We St suspect there is now and then a holdup at V V th house but that in many cases th the vie vie- tini timis' timis is able le to say sar He lIe caught me for a trifle this f. f V time b but t if he he only knew know it I am ani still thousands of J d dollars ahead oE of him V VV J 1 Where impregnable 1 integrity leaves off and the V disposition m n for graft b begins gins can never be deter deter thin mined d from the customs house records |