| Show abor abott ir IT is a sin to steal a pin pint so tile the trite old saying ran rai and nd 11 rl 11 right I 1 bt it was for stealing is taking what belong to 0 another consequently whatever tho tile thing stolen the tho QU Js still theft ill 11 tho the e same and the theft ii i criminal morally modally and ana statutorily when a man steals lie he 19 1 not the less a th thief bec bee because ause ho lie has not stolen cibil gold if lie ho steals a sheep theace tile act is as certainly criminal as if lie had stolen greenbacks green backs though thong r indiana are a apt P t to consider a little animal stealing 0 much a matten matter of course and rind ima lma many mady lly fly white winte people seem to pocas peeps similar 1 ar easy consciences to break into a man mans s house housa and steal gold greenbacks green backs or goods to the value of SO 0 lsna isna is as much mch and n no inore criminal than to break into his orchard ori oe garden annd arid steal flier filer efrom fruit to the thu value of 1 29 some borne people think orach or act as if they thought otherwise but they think and act wrongly A mail man is just as curable clil pablo pable if lf lie he goes goo into a garden and steals ten pounds pes or goes into a store and steals steal teri telf pounds of sugar and may bo be tho grapes or straw strawberries berries are ure really worth wort liMore more in lit cash than the tho sugar f mat m mah c at J and lii lil they LN ud undoubtedly cost indre molo moio labor and ana anxiety and patient waiting walting C iri in their owner to raise them than the sugar does to the liber merchant to proc tire it and i R tin in his stole stoic nevertheless Nevert beleAs many mans people are apt to give reason to sup up bosq that they think different to this edme people seem seism to imagine 0 that it is something like liko a joke joko to step into a garden and without the consent of the dailer help themselves to his fluit fruit but buc it is no joke to purchase ground purchase trees plant alid frutie them dig di and he and irrigate tile ifie soil kil wait year after year through tar mers mer heat and winters cold through drouth and grasshopper raids and then when the trees so cared careb cared for begin to mako make their te yo turns in their lus ius luscious clour it fruit have haxe it taken by some M lazy zy or vicious neighbor who has not the tn energy ergy enterprise and industry to go to work and raise ralso his own fruit such sueh neighbors are thieves i as surely as it if they robbed a bank and they are ate as deserving ot of the tile felons brand so faras farns the tho moral character of the of fience is concerned and sometimes so far as tilo the financial extent of the robbery goes |
