Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1920 — DECLARE RAILROADS AN AID TO THE DEVIL [ARTICLE]

DECLARE RAILROADS AN AID TO THE DEVIL

Robert Fulton was not the only pioneer in the transportation business who had to fight ignorance. Witness a letter, held by F. W. Force, of Gilman, HL, which has just been brought to light. The letter, dated 1826, is signed bythe school board of Lancaster, Ohio, and refuses the use of the school house for a meeting to discuss the question as to whether railroads were practical or not. An excerpt reads: “You are welcome to use the school house to debate all proper questions in, but such things as railroad and telephones are impossibilities, and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the word of God about them. If God designed that his intelligent creatures slmuld travel at the frightful speed of 15 miles an hour by steam he would have clearly foretold it through his holy prophets. It is a device toJead immortal souls down to hen.-*