Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — When the Flag Looks Good. [ARTICLE]

When the Flag Looks Good.

"I have been in countries where the laboring man had meat once a year; sometimes twice—Christmas and Easter. And I have seen women carrying upon their heads a burden that no man would like to carry, and at the same time knitting busily with both hands. And those women lived without meat; and when I thought of the American laborer I said to myself: ‘After all, my country is the best in the world.' And when I came back to the sea and pw the old flag flying in the air, it seemed to me as though the air from pure joy had burst into blossom.’**—Robert Q. Ingersoll.