The promoters and directors of such concerns have at least hit upon a very clever method for becoming rich, and if the securities of the original shareholders are not injured, and the holders of the genuine and the watered stock can share equally without endangering the interests of all, perhaps such an action may be less blamable, but it is a new kind of proceeding to Orientals.
I must not omit to mention, however, the confidence which is placed in the honesty of the people in general; for example, you enter an omnibus, you will find the driver, but no conductor to collect the fare.

"It is up to you" to put the fare into a box, and if you do not pay no one will ask for it.

Yet every fare is paid.

I have never seen a dishonest man who omitted to pay.

This is a remarkable fact which I have noticed nowhere but in America.