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Later tribal organization arose, and food and shelter were held in common. But since the folk-ways commended raiding and looting between alien tribes, here was presented an alluring chance to secure both booty and glory to men trained in the "get and hold" process of acquiring. For thousands of years life itself depended upon this unerring exercise.
Even so was I moved by the Bruges-like emptinesses of Pekin, in the vast pretensions of its Forbidden City, which are like a cry, long sustained, that at last dies away in a wail. I saw the place in 1905 in that slack interval after the European looting and before the great awakening that followed the Russo-Japanese war.
Yes, the Spartacides held possession of the town and the red flag was flying from the town hall. The regular authorities had been disarmed and were held as hostages by the rioters. There had been a good deal of looting of shops and robbery of the homes of the well-to-do. As to there being any American among the prisoners or hostages, he did not know.
And with that he tramped out, and was too angry to remember to close the door. Lidgerwood turned back to his desk, savagely out of humor with Benson and with himself, and raging inwardly at the mysterious thieves who were looting the company as boldly as an invading army might.
"Have you ever suspected him of being mixed up in the looting?" "I haven't known enough about him to form an opinion." Benson stepped to the door communicating with the outer office, and closed it quietly. "Your man Hallock out there; how is he mixed up with Flemister?" "I don't know. Why?"
Yet a similar confusion of thought is involved in this indiscriminate application of the term piracy, unless we emphasize the fact that in this connexion it must be divested of its ordinary moral connotation. Plain sea-robbers there were, not a few, who had no compunction about seizing and looting any vessel of any nationality except for politic reasons their own.
There, there was immediate assistance by the City of El Paso and the United States government, soon reinforced by friends and relatives in Arizona and Utah. At one time 1500 Mormon refugees were encamped in El Paso. A. W. Ivins tells: "As soon as the colonists were gone, a campaign of looting and destruction was commenced by the Mexican revolutionist and local Mexicans near the colonies.
If the good principle was not sufficiently impressed, Belgium must have impressed it; a looting army is a disorderly army. The soldier has burden enough to carry in heavy marching order without souvenirs. That collector of the stoppers of carafes who had thirty on his person when taken prisoner was bound to be a laggard in the retreat.
"Habit of looting contracted in India, you know; ain't so easy to get over, you know," says Snigger. "When officers dined with him in India," remarks Solemn, "it was notorious that the spoons were all of a different pattern." "Perhaps it isn't true. Suppose he wrote his paper at the Club?" interposes Jones. "It is dated at Chatham, my good man," says Brown.
The cavalry was followed at a distance by a company of rascally looking guerrillas followers of every army who fight simply for the sake of looting afterward. "To the house!" cried the captain of the guerrillas, a man named Sandy Barnes. "Company, attention!" cried out Jack, and drew up his command across the lawn in front of the homestead. "Halt!" shouted Captain Barnes.
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