Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Outlawing Liars. [ARTICLE]

Outlawing Liars.

A merchant in Chicago sent one of his traveling salesmen to Michigan, and upon his return asked him if he had canvassed a certain town for orders. The salesman replied that he had done 90. Subsequently the merchant learned that the man had not visited the town in question, and discharged him for lying. The salesman then began an actiou to compel payment of his salary as agreed upon in a contract which both had signed. In the trial the defense of the salesman was that if he did make a false statement it did not result in any damage to the Interests of his employer, and consequently that it did not afford grounds for annulling the contract The judge decided in favor of the merchant, holding that a lie told by an employe to his employer invalidates the contract of employment Good I In the business, and we may add, in the newspaper world there should be no room for the liar. The outlawing process should go on until employe and employer cease lying to each other and until they, and “enterprising” reporters and editors, cease lying to the public. Truthful persons hate a liar. Liars hate one another. The liar hates himself so long as he is capable of honest introspection. All lies are black. In the innumerable broods of lies there are no genuine albinos. What is not true is false.