Show 7 there ought to be n nc some C D 1 who ivl A halfway half way policy between bome people who are honesty and dishonesty li 11 honestly dishonest every one were honest ai it is i 8 presumed they will be b by NATHAN HASKELL dal DOLE in the holy city business would be a cinch if all people were frankly and honestly dishonest it would be comparatively ively easy for everyone to got get along 4 bahe trouble is that people pretend to bo be honest and are dishonest st as far as they dare to be this unsettles settles un both the buyers and the sellers of commodities one does docs not know where ono one is at to use the expressive slang elang of the day all is fair in hate and war business as aa usually conducted is war I 1 would propose that lessons lissona be given in our high schools and business colleges in systematic dishonesty in time then the present uncertainty would be organized sed into a definite understanding that every dealer is what now lie he may or may not bo be ii a foeman worthy of your well your steal coincident with this form of education there should in in all fairness be a corresponding education in detecting dishonesty for instance there should be by law in every household scales on which all pieces of meat and other articles bought by weight must be tested of courso course the law should protect the public against adulterations adulte rations delete deleterious arious to health this introduces another problem and as aa it concerns all the community the defense must bo be also kept uniform so that there may bo be no uncertainty certainty assurance aesa ranee whether positive or negative is the great thing the sting in tho the title of this symposium as expressed in its question n cornea comes on the word still historically y it may be said that honesty has hit never been recognized zed in the diplomatic iv relations lations of tho the nations read and you discover that he seriously argues that the worst and roost most treacherous acts of the 11 prince rince are justified by tho the badness and treachery of liia his subjects war has always taken as its ita chief bases the most diabolical forms of dishonesty what the church has taught to bo be crimes tho the advocates of war wa r however good churchmen they were have upheld and praised and rewarded as aa the highest virtues if 11 business is a kind of war then if war is justi justifiable flable between nations the samo same principles however immoral when tested by the golden rule ought to be ba mado made the recognized principles in business there is no halfway half way between iet iel us follow the mample of the opponents of peace principles declare that as long as human nature is ia what it t is there can bo be no possible cessation of 0 war on earth and as lo 10 long ng as human nature is what it is there can bo be no universal practice of the foolish arik dictum that Ill honesty is the best policy but in heavens name nam let us ua go one step farther barthe r and leave oft off from fr OM our coins and other public utterances the sickly sentimental cant in III god we trust tt I act us ns cease boasting that we are a christian nation lot let us be what we are at heart frankly liones hones honesty dy P brutally barbarian let the ministers ceng pi preaching Caching righteousness on sundays to men elio are propping prop on monday to do the best they can to do their fello fellow w men in L every possible way men who are arc dishonest often declare that they would prefer to bo be honest if only their rivals were ivere honest li onest but they must musk meet them on their fallon tt very low level I 1 am willing to admit but fair to all since binco all are or will be alike 3 v I 1 |