I never knew much about it until lately.

It is not so at home, or was not when I was a boy--but here you can take away a man's character, rob him of his home, corrupt his children.

You can break your wife's heart, be cruel, revengeful; you can lie and be tricky, and no law can touch you--in fact, you are still a respectable citizen.

But if you take a dollar-bill out of another man's cash drawer, you are sent to jail and branded as a thief.

And it is right--looked at from one standpoint--the protection of society.