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Show BETRAYAL OF TRUST. We regard the betrayal of trust.' the moBt dreadful of crimes. It differs widely from all other crimes in this, that it is always double. In iimes like the present, when bo many of. the hopes ot the country depend upon the restoration of public confidence in our banking and commercial institutions an embezzlement by a bank officer, clerk or other agent becomes a crime indeed, worse perhaps in its moral aspects than in the simple tak ing and conveying to his own use the monev of others. The confidential clerk who betrays his truBt in giving up to others the secrets of his employer, betrays a grave trust and becomes as bad a traitor, and as wicked as waB Arnold, when he betrayed West Point into the hands of the British. Perhaps about the most wicked betrayer of trust is he who departs from the pledges he has made in order to obtain ob-tain the votes of the - people. How often of-ten do we see men do this, these days, who laugh when they think how their betrayed constituents have been eo cutely betrayed. As the trusted servants ser-vants of the banks and commercial enterprises who fall by the wayside in this way always receive the condemnation condemna-tion of the people, the betrayer of political po-litical trust should never again receive the votes of honest men. The man who betrays trusting woman is, if pos sible, the woret of the lot. Yet how often is his almost unspeakable crime condoned and forgiven. The fact is this crime, let its exhibition taks whatever form it may, is simply hideous. These are all spoken ndl toroawA trusts, but there is another kind the betrayal of which is, if possible, possi-ble, still more wicked; we allude to those which are matters of course, in the nature of things and which are under-etood. under-etood. The unfaithfulness which dictates dic-tates the betrayal or neglect of a trust, such as this, is just as bad as either of the others, is just as mveh of a sin and should receive just as grave a punishment, punish-ment, Nor, to our mind, does the importance import-ance of the trust concerned make the elightest difference. lie who betrays a little child's innocent trust is a greater great-er villain than he who runs away with Rothechild's millions of gold. I3e true, honest and trustworthy as well where a nickle is concerned as where millions. The honest man is honest in everything, every-thing, everywhere and under all cir cumstancea. You can trust him. Are the oldrfashioned virtues departing from amongst men? It certainly seems so, when we recall the innumerable in stances of the betrayal cf trust all over the world. A nihilist or an anarchist may at least be honest. With the betrayer be-trayer of trust this is impossible. A murderer may be honest but the betrayer be-trayer of trust, never. Be true to every trust, great or small, formal lor implied, which is placed in your hands. Were this rule more strictly complied with there would soon grow up here on earth something very like what we suppose exists only in heaven. We are not surprised to hear that the Parnellites will not support Roee-bery. Roee-bery. The present premier is but the shadow of Gladstone who was never a true friend of the Irish and only used them in forwarding his own extreme liberal sentiments and purposes. This is an instance of adroit political management which has rarely been surpassed. It was a piece of cold blooded, skillful and ! unfeeling use of a brave and trusting people to forward the aims and purposes pur-poses of the liberal parts of England. The world will soon be able to size Gladstone up right. |