Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — THIEVES AND THIEVES. [ARTICLE]

THIEVES AND THIEVES.

Word comes from London that John Bull is ‘’squealing” about the manner in which he has been repeatedly “held up" by ill advised investments in American enterprises of various kinds. He has “got enough," if dispatches may be trusted, and now regards all American projectors of railway, brewery, or other syndicates as belonging to the same general class of thieves who “hold up" railway trains and relieve' the passengers of their valuables, or of card sharpers and confidence men who ruthlessly rob their victims of their last dollar without compunction. A writer in the London Financial News says: “This dirty business has been overdone, and the British goose is not likely to lay any more golden eggs. If the peoplehave any sense left they will give a wide berth to everything American, and especially to the manipulated, treacherous securities of American railways.” The lamentations of this character coming over the water are numerous, and while they will no doubt afford amusement and satisfaction in many quarters, they are certainly not to the credit of the American people. “Honesty is the best policy," at home and abroad, and if indeed American enterprises have become synonomous with fraud and treachery in the markets of the world, then we shall rue the day that such a condition became an accepted fact. “They' who sow to the wind shall reap the whirlwind.”