Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1919 — BEG PARDON, MR. KUPPERS, ALSO MR. ATTORNEY. [ARTICLE]

BEG PARDON, MR. KUPPERS, ALSO MR. ATTORNEY.

The people of this locality cannot let your recent article go entirely unchallenged. Will you tell us, Mr. Kuppers, what standard the Jasper County Land company has set? It seems to be hitting the men of this community pretty hard, as very few men who reside here have ibeen retained in the employ of the company. Other years there seemed to be plenty of work and just as good prospects for crops. This year there seems to be just a chosen few around here working. The rest are men brought from Purdue and Indianapolis. We have nothing whatever personally against these men, but it looks to us if the said company wanted permanent assets to the community, it would employ men from near here at least, not men who will be here during the busy season and then go no one knows where. You commenced wrong, Mr. Kuppers, in condemning the people of this community before you were known around here. Now it will take some time to get into their good graces and you absolutely cannot accomplish that by sending out such a challenge as your article of recent date. Mr. Kuppers, there are lots of honest, industrious men in this locality who need the work of the- company and who ought to have it. We, as the people of Newland and vicinity, are ready to extend the glad hand to anyone who seems to want to be friendly and just, but just glance over your article in the Republican and you will acknowledge you have been neither friendly nor just, and if you are fair to us will say you certainly laid it on pretty thick. Again we ask your pardon if we have said anything which should have remained unsaid. Respectfully, The People of Newland and Vicinity.