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Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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thisstock would mount, and they planned then to sell outquietly, restore the banks money and take down a hugeprofit for themselves. It will be seen that neither the actuation nor the method of these early plunderers differedfrom to-days characteristics. The stock went to pieces,the operations of the trio were revealed and they werearrested. After making what restitution they could, theywere still short about two millions. It was discovered that bank looting had not been thoughtof, and that Congress had made no laws to cover theactivities of these men. The worst charge that could bebrought against them involved little more than misde-meanor. They chose to be tried by judges rather than ajury, and were speedily acquitted. This affair caused thefirst laws for the protection of bank deposits to be writtenupon the statute books. Evidently, however, this trio of predacious gentlementaught the dishonestly inclined more than they did thelawmakers, for bank peculations began to be heard of at
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We Might Take One of Those, Co Far Jl way and Be Happy Together, She Whispered So long as men steal, just so long will other men try todiscover the philosophy of larceny. When the bluster andsensation which follow a notorious crime have abated alittle there is always the haunting Why? to tempt and bafflethe student of criminality. Men steal because they wantthe money. It is possible to dismiss the whole questionwith this cynicism. But why do they want the money?A second irony might dispose of this query as well, andcome no nearer any human solution of the problem. Per-haps the reader will prefer to do his own theorizing. A few years ago a young man of respectable antecedentswas accountant in a bank. He was friendly with a lawyerwho had a weakness for kiting checks. The man persuadedthe boy to hide his shortage on several occasions, and soonmade up by transferring money from another account.The time came when the attorney put through a check fora few hundred dollars. Itcame back unpaid

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