Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — Few-Line Interviews. [ARTICLE]

Few-Line Interviews.

W. N. Rowley of Boston—Even the reports that-come from the South fail to give people of the North an adequate conception of the industrial prosperity and prospects that are now the South'*. The country is developing with wonderful rapidity. In the six hours’ ride out of Savannah I counted from the window of the car sixty-four cotton gins. s There were doubtless just as many on the side of the train. The race problem of that section is gradually settling itself satisfactorily by the industrial education of the young negr<*s, which is now beginning to show results. They have changed in many cases from the worthless and unskilled labor of half a generation ago to skillful workmen and self-dependent property owners. Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago- I do not believe it is possible to have what is called an “open town" unless the public wants it. I don’t believe that it is possible to reform a community by passing laws. The community cannot rise above its own level, and its level is reflected in the way in which it enforces its laws. There is no truth in the report that Chicago is a "wide open" town. It is a “closely shut down” town in every sense of the word. I think it is very poor policy for a mayor to advocate the enforcement of the blue laws or the ringing of the curfew l»ell when the people are not in favor of them. You cannot reform any community by law. It musT be done by education. Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts—Before I came to Congress I had built up a law practice that brought me an income of $20,000 a year, and 1 havu every reason to believe tliat the practice would grow to $50,000. I had saved from my income about SIOO,OOO, and I believed I could keep my practice nhd still attend to my duties in Congress. After more than thirty years in the public service, I find myself at 75 with my law practice gone and the accumulations of my young days dissipated. It is impossible to remain in Congress and attend to (>ae's duties nnd nt the same time to continue an outside business. Gen. John R. Brooke,. U. S. A., Commanding the Department of the East— There are now forty enlisted men in my department tip for cxanfinutlon for commissions, nnd when any or nil of them are found qualified I will take the very greatest possible pleasure in heartily recommending them for their commissions. I have a record for having more men from the ranks commissioned than any other department commander in the same time, nnd I am of the opinion that the right of every mgn to get a commission, if he i* worthy of it, is the greatest"hope of the army, Walter Fears of New Iberia, La.—l have handled mules for some time, but I have never seen so great a demand for them a* bow. I am paying now from $175 to SIOO for a good heavy mule, and $l2O and up for lighter stock. These prices represent an extremely large advance in the last year. This may be, and no doubt i*. in some measure due to the demand for South African export, but it is not entirely due to that. The demand extend* all over the country, and it 1* difficult to any In how many different litas it I* felt.