Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1914 — Stealing. [ARTICLE]

Stealing.

Stealing is a wholly silly business at the best; but to steal In the postoffice, in a bank, or in any other organized institution, is absolutely Idiotic. There 1b no surer road to state prison than to steal from an organized business; and the-larger the business is the more complicated the business is, the smaller the possibility that the thief can avoid that final detection. The thief burrows around in his little corner very much as mice make ways for themselves under the floors of a storehouse or a dwelling. Both the thief and the mouse have' It all to themselves for a while, atfd the thief at least thinks that nobody knows. But to think such a thing only shows that he is a fool. His operations necessarily touch other people, for otherwise he would find nothing to steal. They complain; the trap is set for him; and merely by continuing to steal he walks Into it and is caught, Just as the mouse is when its secret passageway finally opens into the room it seeks to enter. The man who steals once may escape, but the man who makes a business of stealing ,1s as certain to be caught as he is to live. He has to quit stealing or to die in order to avoid being caught. It is a dead sure thing.— Hartford Courant.