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Show Dishonesty Taken for Granted in Business? When we consider the centuries of preaching that honesty Is the best policy. pol-icy. M N surprising how little has been ai en. 'pushed. Every business pluce has a cashier to watch the clerks, and see thct they properly turn In- the money. And the cashier herself Is watched by a cash register. The honesty hon-esty of almost everyone Is doubted. There can be no reasonable objection to giving a man credit who will pay next week, but cash stores are becoming be-coming almost the rule. And they are an Insult to our professions of honesty. Why are so many dishonest? There Is not the slightest question that honesty hon-esty Is the best policy, from it practical prac-tical as well as from a religious standpoint, stand-point, but I should be ashamed to print here the per cent of the dishonest dis-honest as estimated by practical men who deal with the public What Is the flaw In the argument? Why. have we been unable to learn the most Important of all lessons? Why as u race do we butt our heads fur centuries against a pitiless stone wall? With all our Intelligence, why do we continue to be such scoundrels? E. W. Howe's Monthly. |