Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1911 — HOME-MADE PHILOSOPHY [ARTICLE]

HOME-MADE PHILOSOPHY

' Generally the towns that are not on the map are on the bum. The man who waits to laugh last sometimes doesn’t laugh at all. Running into debt makes a man V sweat just as badly as any other rnm; ; Tell everybody there is a chance for, them to win, unless you want them to fan. Robinson Crusoe needed no court or law—r-nobody wanted to rob him of hi* landed possessions. If it wasn’t for Injuring the shoddy clothes business I would pray God to clothe the poor in feathers. 'Special privileges are contrary to our national constitution. Those who ask for them are preaching treason. The man with more children than he can educate should be charged with stuffing the political field with ignorance. If I go to heaven and do not get an equal portion of the things given away, I’ll still imagine myself on earth. The poor play at politics and get the joke on themselves—the rich work at politics and get the profits for their labor. X : There is not a single soul I wish to take advantage of, therefore I join no organization which does not include the whole race. The time is cpming when evangelists will preach every family into a home on earth, as a preliminary—to preaching them into heaven when they die. Stop painting the beauties of hefiven, and try to help establish something nearly like it on earth, so the people can see that such a dream is possibl e.