Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — Reciprocity. [ARTICLE]

Reciprocity.

Men are enlisted for the labor that kills—the labor of war. They are count ed, trained, fed, dressed and praised for that. Let them be enlisted also for the labor that feeds. Let them be counted, trained, fed, dressed, praised for that. Teach the plow exercise as carefully as you do the sword exercise and let the officers of troops of life be held as much gentlemen as the officers of troops of death, and all is done. But Neither this nor any other right thing 'can be accomplisned—you can’t even see your way to it—unless, first of ail, both servant and master are resolved that, come what will of it. they will do each other justice. People are perpetually squabbling about whet will be best to do. or easiest to do, or ablest to do. or profitablest to do, but they never, so far as I hear them talk, ever ask what it is just to do. And it is the law of heaven that you shall 'not be able to judge what is wise or easy unless you are first resolved to judge what Is just and to do it.—John Ruskin.