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Show THE LESSON OF THE BANK ROBBERY. One of the first decrees entered upon the ledger of the ages regarding man was that he must earn his bread by the sweat of his face. That decree de-cree has never been revoked. Many a man tries to evade it, some seem to succeed, but the rule holds good. A striking object lesson has been supplied sup-plied to the people of this city recently of what follows when that decree is defied. Two men in the prime of life, when life must have been most sweet to them, decided to use what they had not earned. It seems they were not discovered dis-covered for ten years. Suppose they never had been, how would it have been with them? For ten years each went to bed every night with the knowledge burning deeper and deeper into his soul that ho was a thief. Does any one think they did not suffer? Every day with them was a day of apprehension lest they be discovered, and the nights to them were so filled with accusing spec-tors, spec-tors, that the silence and darkness became terrors J, It MltiM to them. They took the money that they might l' the more generously minister to their own base f Mtm passions and appetites. Those appetites and pas- ' I j,1B sions at last became their oniy refuge. They were iff 1 fl sinking lower and lower long before their crime t( I'w'ltH was discover,-. It was as though their own souls 'F J fplj felt the taint and were dragging them down to '! the level where they belonged. Without self-re- '' 4'il spect, and in constant fear they walked the earth. j? M 1 !fl The faces of friends who trusted in them became H v m a torture to their eyes at last, until we can im- t S , I agine that when the prison with its infamy opened I j it its gloomy doors to them, a sense of relief came to ) fl them after the strain of years that had been upon ' ifl tliem HkSjB The slave working in chains is happier than ill nlPfl they could have been. His toil may be pitiless, jiln!j his comforts few, his reward nothing, but at night PrflB the stars come and bend above him, in thought he y$ i$B can see the ladder that is being let down nearer. f' "'$B and nearer to him, and ho dreams of the time when v lB it will be within reach and when his soul will j j JM mount upon it to a sphere where the chains are ifMljjB all broken and the freed soul finds peace. Is there w$ ifl any slave that these two men would not be glad f ' iHl to exchange places with? . "JU f (H At the same time we must not forget that njj f" perhaps we are all a little to blame for the short- "JM sfB comings of these men. We see all around us men ' , jjB who are striving 'to evade that old first decree. m ! 9 They are intent upon obtaining more than their 1HIHM rightful share of the world's wealth. They are Infl careful to fight shy of the penitentiary, but they H do not scruple to sink to any deception, to debase I '; iH their manhood; to break their solemn agreements J ? Lfl when they can do so at a profit, and when they j"' A1H succeed and accumulate fortunes, we, none of us, f ; B question them as to the torturous path they have $ jIH traversed to obtain it. - !j ' f But even these do not evade the old inviolable? 1 H law without paying the penalty. When men' jljj . smother their generous instincts long enough,' Hp. '1B those instincts wither and die in their breasts. j riH The old high purposes no longer thrill them. . f Their heart beats become as metallic as the ring ' a i M of a twenty-dollar piece, and when they go to their f lB own hearts for comfort, they know that all their ' M!B better 3elves have, by their own acts, been shriv- if 1-B eled within them and the memories which they , I't M once thought would be their comfort in old age, ' M are but the scoria of a life burned out in the fires ' W fj of base desires. i'!il!B All this should teach the young men of Utah iT'r)B the inexorable truth, that no man can wrong his ' !? f B fellow-man without himself paying the penalty.' t M The criminal may be able to evade an account- " Mi ing with the outside world, but he cannot get i H away from himself, and a fortune the foundation ; i of which lies on murdered self-respect, on broken $ !' promises, on deception, on falsehood and faith be- jIL J trayed, may surround a man with every material Wj f,gq comfort, may bring him power and purchased JU MA honors, but it cannot bring back to him the things J ! ! which once were his and without which life is a lflB mockery and fraud. 1 iB |