Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1908 — CONTINENTAL INSURANCE CO. [ARTICLE]

CONTINENTAL INSURANCE CO.

The largest and one of the best American companies writing fire and wind-storm insurance on city and farm property. Farmers, before renewing your insurance see the Continental’s most liberal contract. Any limit you wish on horses and cattle. In case of loss we pay on adjustment without discount, all at the same price that smaller companies will ask you. See that your insurance is written in the Continental. Call at my office any time and let me show you. The same office the Continental has been represented in for years, Room 4, 2nd floor, I. O. O. F. building. A. J. HARMON, Agent. Successor to J. F. Bruner. Yes, The Democrat has a few of those Wall Charts left, and the price remains at 35 cents additional when sold with a year’s subscription to The Democrat, 45 cents If to be mailed.

%WHO 13 JOHN W. KERN f” {Albany (N. Y.) Daily Press-Knlcken bocker, Ind. Republican.] "Who is John W. Kern?” asks William E. Corey, the multimillionaire steel magnate, who gained notoriety by marrying 'Mabelle Gilman, the actress. In the first place, John W. Kern is an old fogy. He has such old-fash-ioned notions that he despises a man who would divorce his wife and the mother of his children In order to gratify an insane passion for an actress. John W. Kern Is one of those back numbers who place honor above dollars. He would not sell his soul for gold, even though the devil offered him all the yellow metal there is In the bowels of the earth. . He has remained a comparatively poor man all his life rather than enter a combine to rob the people and drive competitors out of business. He never, so far as we have been able to learn, either founded a public library or endowed a college. Having lived an upright, wholesome, God-fearing life all his days, he has never felt the necessity of apologizing to his Maker or offering penance in the form of lucre for his sins.

William E. Corey is about as sharp a contrast to John W. Kern as could be found within the boundaries of the United States, with the possible exception of James S. Sherman, the other candidate for vice president No man who holds dear the honor of this country can contemplate the possibility of James S. Sherman becoming, through an act of Providence, the president of the United States without shuddering, whereas, if John W. Kern should be called upon to step into the highest office he would grace It. “Who is John W. Kern?” asks the faithless nabob who cast off his faithful wife, the woman who had bravely shared his days of poverty and had struggled with him to build up his fortunes, as a man throws away a lemon after he has squeezed the good out of it. Such impertinence deserves no answer, were it not for the sake of calling attention to the brazen effrontery of men of Corey’s stamp who had, through the medium of protected monopoly, grown to be the greatest menace that confronts this nation today. Anarchy can be stamped out by force, but the insiduous evil imposed upon this long-suffering people by men whom President Roosevelt designates very forcibly as “malefactors of great wealth," is even more to be dreaded than anarchy. “Who is John W. Kern?” Why, a plain, honest American citizen of the highest type, an unpretentious, cleanlivfng man. yet of scholarly attainments and commanding intellect. Had that purse-proud Pittsburg millionaire read John W. Kern’s masterly reply to the apology of James S. Sherman, he would have no need to ask, “Who Is John W. Kern?”