Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — Speculation and Theft. [ARTICLE]

Speculation and Theft.

Some statistician, in emulation of Lombroso, perhaps, has been figuring out the habitual employment of convicts. He concludes that more men and women whose employers are the national, state or municipal governments fall into evil ways aud come to untoward ends than those who work for private Individuals or corporations. A very large proportion of the men and women who have been handlers of public moneys seem to yield to the constant temptation and being to speculate, and some cynic avers that peculation is the corollary of speculation. As a matter of fact, most of the big and little thieves who confess how they were led to take money that did not belong to thorn declare that speculations of one sort or another brought them eventually behind the bars.