The Hypocrisy of Bank Embezzlers
By Editor
AND now comes the discovery that the cashier of the Bank of Sonoma, Petaluma, Cal., has been stealing from the bank for eighteen years, although all this time a prominent member and officer of a church, and supposed to be so honest that the directors of the bank had not even required of him a bond. As usual in such cases, "he is greatly prostrated." We should think that such systematic and gigantic hypocrisy ought to have prostrated him long before, if he had any conscience at all. It is particularly noticeable, however, that these fellows are never prostrated by their rascality till they are found out. Even then it is not their rascality, nor their hypocrisy that prostrates them, but their being caught in it.