Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1910 — Salvation in General Enlightenment. [ARTICLE]

Salvation in General Enlightenment.

We may say, according to Charles Edward Russell, in Success Magazine, that next to general health and the best possible environments for the people, the welfare of business demands universal education, and that of the highest type. For its safety and permanence it requires a public too well informed to riSe up and rend man’s source of supply because worldwide conditions produce disagreeable results; a public too well informed to listen to the foolish Imaginings of incompetents and the dull party leaders. Business ought to see to this. In the opinion of foreign visitors that take good note s os us, we are politically the least informed of all civilized peoples. Cabmen in Paris and yokels in Germany will discuss political problems with far more intelligence than the average American Congressman. The evils of such a condition are not merely sentimental, but most practical—as we are very likely to find before long. The surest ally of business (that in the present stage of evolution supplies our primal necessities) Is a high and general itaeligence.