Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — The Same Custom. [ARTICLE]

The Same Custom.

A magazine editor at the Authors’ club, in New York, was talking about H. G. Wells. "Wells is now the foremost English novelist,** he said. “Strange that a man so talented should misjudge us as he does. When he was over here he found fault with everything. One day at lunch, getting tired of his attacks on the tyranny of our trusts and our bosses, I said: “Well, at least, Mr. Wells, you must admit the grandeur of the magnificent statue of Liberty that rears its proud head over our harbor?* •“Oh, yes,’ said Mr. Wells, ‘you have the same custom as we—you rear your finest statues to the dead.’”