Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1912 — UNCLE ELI SAYS [ARTICLE]

UNCLE ELI SAYS

No doubt that honesty is the best policy, but the man. that doesn’t make at least ten per cent at it is ho business man. If the recall was in force all over the country, we’d have a new set of officers every 24 hours and they might not be any better than the ones shoved eut. Experience is said to be a greater teacher, but I have always found that if I can beat a man in a horse trade I can sell him a gold brick afterward. s The man who called a policeman a dodo got just the same sentendfe as the one that climbed a 12-foot fence to steal a baby cart. Of what use to work?

The man that takes up two seats in a street car is judged by his bulk instead of his brains, but he never worries over it. He’s got two seats, and you can stand up. There is a* great deal of talk about conscience, but T never yet met a member of the legislature who wasn’t more afraid of a dog than of being driven to confess how much he got for his vote. In New York city the other day, when seven policemen were trying to swear an eighth clear in a court, the judge told them plainly he thought they were lying. Then the jury said the same thing. ' If it has got to that pass where we can’t believe a pdliceman when he la lying what show have the rest of us liars got?