Show c f ff BE BECAUSE IT WAS IT-WAS AS IllS HIS PI FIRST SE f cameto to sentence upon pon Louis tho the judge came pa pass h I. I When Then cameI I punishment was made ade a little Francisco Glass Class at San limit because the tue prisoner was on trial f- f c lighter than the for Ills his first offense V offense for which 1 Chat is to say It u was wa tho the first he lie had been tried But Dut it it was as not his 1118 first orten offense offense offense-by e-br e by 1 T I an any an means zu Men do not leap Into the perfection of a 1 criminal life at a a. single bound Wrongdoing Is a a. growth v MOn Men whoso whose habit has hat been honest whose thoughts are honest whoso whose acts and professions have agreed In iii standing standing stand stand- ing scrutiny of their associates these assocIates these men do not In Instantly Instantly In- In commit great crimes Glass has been bribing and otherwise violating lafor law la for Cor years cars lIe He has lon long ago placidly accepted the theory that the laws were not intended for fOI the rich and the powerful It has been his belief that many a thins thing forbidden forbidden for tor- bidden b by statute law vt and b by that moro more sacred law lau which Is placed b by tho the Maker er In tho thu hearts of or all men might by him be bo ignored Ho He had come to silence conscience conscience conscience con con- science wi h tho the sentiment that er c everybody does docs so and b by the other pernicious doctrine that business could not be bo conducted If IC one did not now nos' and then thon resort to lo bribery briber And the danger of oC it has been that thal ho has professed proCessed rectitude and uprightness In the presence of his fellow tellow fellowmen fellowmen men while daily lan living hiving a 0 life in iii which law breaking was unquestionably going on The rhe peril of th the case ease is not wholly that Glass has been bribing been debauchIng debauch debauch- Ing tog his follow fellow countr countrymen A severer blow to the community com corn Is that men knowing ho did It have havo seen soon him accepted as a 0 model citizen Glass Is an old man and anti yet et he lie has not within years completed one ono big transaction which would bear tho the light of ot the tile law or of or the Golden Rule nule It has been his lila habit and the habit of thousands s of others to take toke tho the measures which custom antI and not right prescribes And here in his old ago he ho must hear hoar the court sentence him to five years at penal Jenal servitude in the California state prison It Is not worth while Some time men will recognize the thc fact that If theall they the all deal Justly the they will all U be on n a sound footing fooling and an equality Violations of or law b by one ono render violations viola viola- Lions of or law b by r another nce necessary sr In a n. sort of or self self-de e- e lense When hen both stop stoll It It each will bo io o as well off and off and andall Iii all the tho rest of or the community will be better off olt There Thore Is coming coming- a a. do day when crimes such as those I committed b by Glass and condoned by the business world ill a-ill bo be unknown when men will simply not do the lie things s the law f forbids their doing And In that day of righteousness restored the pretense of or civilization will vill lot reveal a 0 sham |