Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1875 — Temptations of Trade. [ARTICLE]

Temptations of Trade.

A dry GOODS clerk was on trial yesterday on a charge of dishonesty preferred by his employer. The latter gave a woman two one-dollar notes, which she Avas to hand the young man as if by mistake for a single note. The trap was well baited, and the youth fell into it putting the odd dollar into his pocket. But he was not without a his own behalf he stated that he had been educated to dishonesty. His employers had been ’“damaged goods,” representing that they had been wetted at a fire, w en j n f ac t the hydrant in the cellar wag brought into requisition to damage them. The clerks were compelled t& tell falsehoods about the goods, and were thus ’trained in a school of rascality. Iflaw and justice were synonymous the yo ung man who simply followed out his eniployer’s teachings ought to have been invited to step down and out of the pr isoner’s dock, and his employer should l\ave been sent to jail. As it was, th'j accused was acquitted. But the moral of the trial is worth its cost to the ci ,ty treasury. A business man who chea ,t s his customers may be sure that his clerks will rob TorA: P‘ tper.