Show f t I I I I I t I I I I I I I If I A TERRIBLE EXAMPLE 7 f t 44 44 M ee I m M M 4 M 4 M 4 M 4 m 44 M 4 M 94 H M 4 M M I 44 M M MIt It is true that the Government took its time about putting Neeley Rathbone and Reeves the Cuban Cubat postal fund embezzlers on the tile rack and that there was a great deal of grumbling in this country in consequence But now that they haet have ha t been tried and convicted con no one can say that the I punishment meted eted out to them is inadequate to their crimes Rathbone gets ten years at hard labor labor la la- bor and a fine of Neeley gets fen en years and a fine of and Reeves Beeves gets ten years and anda andI I a fine ot As none of them could raise the r I- price the he sentences practically mean life imprisonment imprisonment imprisonment imprison imprison- ment i default in-default of pardon at the end of the penal service or some time thereafter before the death of the c convict That we believe Oe to be the rule of the Spanish colonial law under which all three were were tried and sentenced The fate of these unworthy disloyal and dishonest dis dis- honest Americans should serve as a warning to adventurous spirits who seek seck office in the colonies in the tile belief that the tile arm of the law is not long c enough o to stretch across the he be water and that any pickings to be found in out our island possessions are safe to take in out of or the file old cold It would be incorrect incorrect incorrect to assert that Nemesis em sis always is certain to overtake the evil doer deer in the colonies Certain things of common notoriety but officially unknown in Manila make us think so There was a gawdy epoch of clandestine trade with Aguinaldo's rebels at itt one time and fortunes were made in hemp and tobacco by people with whom customs officials did didn n not t appear to be bc acquainted But all that is past an and why dig it up Or why dig up th the army my transport trans trans- port lOrt business between bet San Francisco and th the Philippines Philippines Phil Phil- All that too is past and pocketed and amI what go would it do to publish the tile papers Let Letus Letus Letus us rather reflect t that it would have ha been better and c cheaper for far Neeley and Reeves Ree if they had pleaded guilty at the start and projected themselves them selves upon the mercy of the court But they did not and their present fearful plight is a shout of admonition to th the youth of the land that verily the way of the transgressor sor is so hard a cat could not scratch it |