Show burdette to would be government officers times listen to me ben ibrahim and maa roay allah smooth your path my son if you arc going iulo politics I 1 write tile these be axioms upon your henrt heart with hooks of deteel as it were it is right to steal f from rom the government ifft if it right it ia is custo customary m ary which gives the practice a color colo r of legal right do not steal from the government as though you were ashamed of it only a common pickpocket is ashamed of liis his profession steal boldly plunge your thievish arma arms boldly bolda into the coffers clear up tip to the elbows elbows shut both hands tight and come away with a full fill I 1 hold told and a fair deck load when you grab grab as though you never ex expected to hold office again be like e the tile lightning which strikes twice in in the same place because it dots doa not need to because it never kayte anything to strike at when the band of thieves to which you belong is sufficiently nn un anit neus in in its rapacity to cover the theft with a joint resolution by all till means resolve it adds to the sin of theft the vice vicc of hypocrisy and the tile crime of cowardice allah is not deceived thereby nor are the 11 people eople fooled but it lays another plate of brass over you your r pachydermatous hide bide and drugs into it yet profounder pro founder slumber your fuated conscience by the beard odthe of the profit it would be hard lines for the believers if they had to believe all that the sheikh tells them inthe if the children of the faithful shall ask you whereof you steal st eal so much more than you work say boldly that the law allows it and you are going to have it may you live as long aa its the loot lasts and endeavor to leave nothing for your successor shall you throw tempt mitlon aitio u ia in the way afan of an honest man allah made us all my son but he lie made you first and aa as everything else comes after you ou so do you go after everything else elise isyou if you sought to be a clerk in the booths of odthe the merchants of filed el f ania you would earn 62 2 a day by twelve hours work if you were a scribe at the desk of the reporter you ou would labor eighteen hours each day and your ability would earn for you about 86 6 a week at your you r real value if you journeyed with the caravans of the pennsyl pennsylvania vania railroad 50 a month you would gaetand get and be glad to betit get it you L ou are an average ten dollar a it week man but you go to tile legislature and you can nay yourself fout out of oatlie the creasi treasury of the tay e state 10 a day for resting it is wonderful butas but as you do less harm when you rest than you are sure to accomplish when you are at work it is better for the state that you jou spend all the tile days of your term in resting when you bind yourself to do nothing whatever you are cheap at 10 a minute if you can be got f for or no less promise everybody eve everything F g they ask for it is ao much i easier easier to promise a man what he lie wants than it is to refuse him and have him torment you with importunities and pester you for reasons sons then when the day for the fulfilment fulfillment of the promise comes to hand band renew the promise take up one note by giving another in the slang of or the infidel stand him another term and tell him that when you go back again then you will do these the be things for him and if ihbe eo fo that djou you do not go back how can you do 0 an anything for him and if it you do go back say lo 10 him that you will not buy your place of any ally man what dirt is ibis this he throws upon the beard of a reformer by the head of the sultan there are hardly enough places for your awu family |