Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1871 — Liars. [ARTICLE]

Liars.

The world is full of liars. There are the business liars, the buying liar and the selling liar. The buyer unduly depreciating the good, and tho seller unduly extolling, are in this class. Solomon caught, them at it in bis day. “It is naught! it is. naught! said the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.” Even in this day, many a a man boasts when lie has lied another out of hia property. The seller attempts to lie the buyer out of his money. Both regard it as very witty. Some parents rejoice when their boys display this kind of smartness. Some employer encourage their salesmen in this “sharp practice.” In such cases, the employed will some time be too sharp for his employer, and vice versa. They are two dogs, hunting in couples, that tear each other when they cannot catch the prey. An employer ought to instruct Lis salesman that if he ever detected him deceiving a customer 1 , he will discharge him on the, spot. Business may come in slowiy, but iropfidenco once secured, fortune follows; but business built on lies falls down in a day, when the want of honesty in the tradesman is discovered. Lying don't pay-. There axe petite liars, whom we smoothly call “ diplomats,” men whoso paws are as soft as velvet, but armed with claws like steel. They gain nothing by direct force of truth. Their whole brains are given to the study of circumvention. As soon as a man who is smoother, and more patient, comes along, their time of ruin comes. There are liars of gossip, men and women, the only salt of whose discourse is falsehood, who “ scatter firebrands, arrows acd cSfeuh,” and say, “ Are we not in sport r*f There are begging liars, who live by their wits, suen wits as they have, who are framing narratives ol misfortunes, who are attempting to deceive the charitable> who are “ dead beats.” The worst of the xlass is the longfaeed liar, the “ pious” deceiver who “ asks a

blessing” on the lie he ia about to tell, and then “ returns thanks” at its success. Alas! for the auobessl It always come 3 back on tbe hypccrite in a curse. Cod will avcDge Himself if any man attempt to make him party to a fklsehood. - Troth is clear. It Is easy. It requires no study It dors not have to bo watched. The falsehood has no real and permanent power in it. Truth triumphs at last. The simplest soul can conquer life to 'himself by troth, but U is not in the wit of man to bring beauty and good up out of the reeking corruption of lies.— Our Society.