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EQUITY AND THE FOOL. 



By Henry Burns Geer. 



The general impression is tiiiit it 

 takes a smart fellow to be a rascal. 



fairly, is at heart a fool as well as 

 rascal. 



Some three thousand years ago, the 

 prophet wrote: 



"As the partridge sitteth on eggs. 



There are some homely truths In 

 the old book from which this is 

 c;uoted. Truths that are germs of wis- 

 dom — and gems so firm and brilliant, 

 that time has not effaced their lustre. 



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And yet. so many shady transactions 

 have resulted disastrously to the in- 

 augurator, that one is apt to conclude, 

 that, after all, the man who deals un- 



and hatcheth them not: so he that 

 feetteth riches, and not by right; shall 

 Ifave them in the midst of his days, 

 and at his end shall be a fool." 



The wrongs of mankind are the re- 

 sult of inequality, of unfair dealing 

 and inequity. These things are the 

 basis of indignation, or righteous 



