Show A PROTECTED CLASS OF ROGUES when carleton as a clerk in the tile methodist book concern at new york some seals ago was detected in stealing or peculating the honest and just mancho man who reported bimms him as a thief as is he lie wins ivas was in tile tiie line of his official duty bound to do was defamed abused persecuted and finally by a sort of ecclesiastical ecclesiastic sti ca 1 I court deposed from loftice the mistake this honest man lna ind mado made do wa was in in suppo supposing ing that the son of it a wealthy member odthe of the churchard chur chand a one could bo be punished for anything the same as if he had been a poor and friendless person he paid the penalty of his error by receiving punishment himself while the respectably connected criminal ho he reported not only went free of prosecution but was soon after promoted to the of the Brool brooklyn alyn klyn union trust Coni company panY doubtless on the ic commendation of men meu who knew him for a thief and upon the acceptance of others who had the like knowla knowledge 91 of his character the innocent depositors po in the bank had bad to suffer for cor iland it and aud carleton after robbing that institution of nearly half 1 a million dollars is now safe in a foreign country where the extradition laws will not reach him he will probably turn upa up as chief financial luperi sup n ten dent af neuter reuter in tilo tile great persian f railway allway enterprise ilis his friends at court so managed gie gic d the tiie matter that the indictment was not found against him until he had put himself out of the reach of the procor procer processes aes tes of the courts of this country carleton owes this lenience to the fact that he was very vory much of a young christian and a pharisee a high pretender to virtue morality and religion g mill and a liberal patron of fth the the missionary so cleties and the sunday y scho schoos sc hoos boos and that ills hh friends tre tro are ire 0 of f the like standing fhe ghe e straight laced winte livered ai rascals always stand by each other in an emergency of this when lien one of or them is caught ia in the tile act of stealing from puli publicans public pull ieans leans ans and sin ners nor and nothing sterns to them so s o ridiculous nui nus a proportion t tp punish a carleton carn Cari eton or a colfax or a moo woo brooks with the equal banded handed justice ti that I 1 at ti they I 1 ey ti themselves I 1 em selves mete meto out to ordinary ind and friendless crim crin finals who are not respectably connected with the churches the sunday bunday sunday school schools the tiie missionary societies and the tile young mens christian christiari associations taintor vb taho 0 stole stoie about four hundred thousand dollars from the atlantic national bank of new york during the time lie was its cashier cashler is another example of the cla class we are dis discussing cusIng he ife has been caught and arld jugged bugged and iii la will probably be tried and convict cd ed because he lie baa haa not saved enough of his lings to bribe anybody and because he was not ellough enough careful jea reful to separate venial vices from the respectable crime of grand larceny and refused to wear tile the full livery clear clean cut and thoroughly ecclesiastical of hypocrisy so to convenient to serve the devil in without offending against the tile accepted high standard o oc morality set up by the respect ahles ables 11 he is in ill limbo and to his utter and amazement he ae could not shot imagine it possible that the rude hand of justice justlee would drop drol on the lead of so grand and autocratic autocrat yc a thiel thief do you really think the oile people will havo have me mb arre arrested and scandalized for this he asked when he aseer ascer ascer bained that his ills thefts and forgeries fo rg erlda were kere discovered the question was wai prompted by habitual looseness of the administration of justic justie eIn eln this age acre 0 and country asa aga As a rule only poor and anid friendless criminals can be punished tile the magnificent and d wholesale thief nine times but of bf tell teil and the respectable scoundrel nearly always escapes either cither by the laws delays oi or the sympathy of his class and with all our boasts about equality before the law lacy it is a stubborn f fact ac t that justice asat is at this t time timo me less equally administered ll 11 irn iri the tho united states than in any arty monarchy of the tile old world sacramento union |