Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1915 — THEMISTOCLES [ARTICLE]

THEMISTOCLES

When Themlstodee was asked by his host at a dinner party to entertain the guests by playing the lute, ho replied that he oould not play the fiddle, but that he could make a small town a great city. We have In this nation many politicians who are good “fiddlers,” but they cannot asks s small town a great city. We are overrun with orators who can play Upon the passions of the hot they can’t put brick aad mortar together. We need builders. Let those who huger and thirst ftr power understand that the highest glory of a statesman Is to eonstruot, • and that It Is better Cor a mam that ha should build a public highway than’ that be should become Governor of a state, end that ha start a plow than that he become the author of a law. The true test ofatataasiaMljtg lathe would gOTsnTftrat Ml •