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Show THE LESSON OF THE BANK ROBBERY. t'ne of the first decrees entered upon tho ledger of tho ages regarding man was thnt he must earn his bread by the sweat of his face That decree has neter been retoked Manj a man tries to etnde It, some seem to succeed, but the rule holdi good A striking object lesion has been supplied to the people of this city recently of what follows when thnt decree Is deflel Two men In the prime of life when life must bate been most sweet to them, decided to uc what they had not cat ned It seems thej were not dlseotered for ten sears. Suppose they neter had been, how would It hato been with them" Tor ten years each wint to bed etery night with the knowledgo burning deeper nnd deeper Into his soul tint he was a thief Doei any ono think the) did not suffer' i:erj day with them was a day of np-prehenslon np-prehenslon lest they be dlscoter d, nnd the nights to them were so niled with accusing sjectori thnt the silence nnd darkness became, terrors to t'lem They took the money that thej might the more generously mlnlsti r to their own base passions and nppetltlea Tl oso nppetltcs and pnsslann at last became their only refuge. The) were sinking lower and loner long before their crime was dltcotered It was aa though their own souls felt the taint and were dragging them down fn the Utel where they belonged Without telf-rcspect, nnd In constant fear they walked tho earth The faces of friends who trusted trust-ed them became a torture to their ees at last, until we can Imagine when the pilson with Its Infamy opened Its I iloomy doom to them a sense of relief re-lief came to them after tho strain of ears that had been upon them Iho slate working ln chains Is hap-'llcr hap-'llcr than thej could hate been, llli toll may be pitiless, his comforts few, his reward nothing, but nt night the stars come and bend abate him In thought he can seo tho ladder that Is beliwf let dnmi nearer and nearer to him, nnd he dreams of the time when It will be within reach nnd when his soul will mount upon It to a sphere where the chrfln are nil broken and the fned soul finds peace It there nny slate that these two men would not be glad to exchange places with At the same tlmo we must not forget for-get that perhap we are all a little to blame for the shortcomings of IheM men Wo see all around us men who are strltlng to otade that old first doeiee. They are Intent upon obtaining obtain-ing more than their rightful share of the worlds wealth They are oaieful to tight shy of the penitentiary, but they do not scruple to sink to any deception, de-ception, to debase their manhood, to bieak their solwun agreements when the can do so at a profit and when they succeed and accumulate fortunes, we, none of us, cuestlon them as to the tortuo.n path they hate traters) to obtain tt Hut even these do not etade the old Intlolablo law without paying the penalty. pen-alty. When men (mother their generous gener-ous Instincts long enough, those In. stlncts wllhtr and die In their breasts 'I he old high imriiosea nn longer thrill them lltolr heart beats become as lnetalllo us the ring of a twinty ilnl-hir ilnl-hir pb e and when thy go to their own heuun for comfort they know that all their better selves hatt, by their own acts, been shrlteled within them and the memories which they once fought would be their comfort tn old age, are but tho scoria of a life burned out In the fires of base desires. All this should teach the joung men of Utah the InexoraMo truth, that no man ran trong his fellow man without with-out himself paying the ptnaltj. The criminal may be able to etade an accounting ac-counting with the outside world, but li cannot get away from himself, and a fortune the foundation of tthlch 11 on murdered self-respect, on broken promisee, on deception, on falsehood nnd faith betiajed, may curround a man with etery material comfort, may bring him power and purchased honors, but It cannot brine back to him the thlngt which once were his and without with-out which life la a mockery and fraud C. C. Ooodwln. |