| Show IT A FACT there are men in this world yea there are men right here in this town and in every other town abo ho would be mad and would really teel feel insulted at being set down as thieves but to whom such a name would in reality be a most polite appellation a very gracious compliment they are the class commonly known as abad beats they are meaner than tile the common thiet thief just in the proportion as the confidential clerk who ho robs his employer is meaner than his less cowardly brother in crime who breaks into the mans house and robs him and yet what a difference the tha law makes in the two A fellow goes into the store and pompously calls up a clerk or proprietor and orders whatever he wants and tells them to charge it and take it down to the house lie ire represents that he Is able and willing to pay his bills and will do so at stated periods or when presented tie ile knows that lie he is a liar and a sneak but lie he has beat everybody who ulio has ever had anything to do with him and that lie he never pays a debt unless lie he thinks it policy to do so in order to get in deeper and that whatever money ho he has he blows in in extravagance or dissipation a anyhow lie he lives beyond his means or tor for some reason get enough to support himself or its his family in the style desired and instead of 0 getting aid from the proper sources it if needed or sending his family to the poor house so that he may bear the burden burde n alike he picks uron certain individuals to support them without any recompense whatever and if this grocery mentioned after going to all the expense of help to wait on this fellow book keeping beeping ee ping delivering the goods etc to bay aay nothing of the goods themselves wants his pay as promised what does the law say about it simply that it the man has a large amount of surplus property to be available h he f can be made to pay but it if he Is sharp enough to keep his income collected up reasonably close he Is de to nobody and nothing on earth ile he may assess any man whom lie he can deceive for the support of 0 his wife or his children or himself teed feed them with food and diess them in clothes belonging to somebody else such is the province of 0 the only american potentate vilio nho need account to no one the dead clead beat |
