When the English, the French, and the Spaniards reached America, the Indian tribes had been raiding each other's territorial clothes-lines for ages, and every acre of ground in the continent had been stolen and re-stolen 500 times.

The English, the French, and the Spaniards went to work and stole it all over again; and when that was satisfactorily accomplished they went diligently to work and stole it from each other.
In Europe and Asia and Africa every acre of ground has been stolen several millions of times.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue.

This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

Christian governments are as frank to-day, as open and above-board, in discussing projects for raiding each other's clothes-lines as ever they were before the Golden Rule came smiling into this inhospitable world and couldn't get a night's lodging anywhere.