Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1911 — Passing of the ‘Big Man.’ [ARTICLE]

Passing of the ‘Big Man.’

The big-brained, big-hearted, ‘old Roman’ men, whose integrity was as unquestioned as their ability, are almost extinct. Their places are cut up and filled by smaller, less able, often much less honest men. It is not that the big men have gone to the citiesfor they are not there; it is not that they left no descendants —for in more cases than one cares to count, the smaller, less able, less honest men are their own sons. These latter frequently make as much money In a year as their fathers did In ten, and show-less character in a lifetime than their fathers did in a year.-—Cornelia A. P. Comer, in in the February Atlantic.