"But you are a Great Chief, and how can you do wrong in taking things from your people?"
"Because the people own the things, just as much as you own the things which you have properly obtained."
"Then if you do wrong, will you be punished?"
"Yes; just the same as the people who do wrong. My punishment should be greater, if I do wrong, because I should set them an example to do right."
"But how can I do wrong if I take anything from my people? I own everything."
"Who gave everything to you? By what right should you or I own everything? Because we are chiefs does not give us the right to own everything."
"Then how can the chiefs ever own anything?"'
"They should work for it like everyone else does."
"Do you work like the others do?"
"Yes; I oversee the work of others and try to make them happy, and see that no one is idle and[p. 117] that the laws are obeyed. For that work I am paid, just as the others are paid for the work they do. I do this work because my people ask me to do so, and they pay me a certain number of coins for the work, the same as the man is paid for the particular work he does."