Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

r ■■ ■ ■ .... ffTyM Class Distinction Is op Un-American; Neighborliness Should Prevail. CopyrtahtbTx B. By JACOB A * R,,S ’ A «‘hor and Journalist, Purdy, Boston. ■ . . ! ; WENTY years ago there wasn’t a single settlement in’ < I * * New York city. Now there are more than sixty of J < ► them, and the settlement idea is spreading everyj o where. 3 1 33 The settlement is not a cure-all. It’s just a means of giving us something that in our modern cities we otherwise haven’t got at aII—NEIGHBORLINESS in the true sense of the word. In the small villages from which our cities grew there was democracy in social relations. The city has killed that. But it is ESSENTIAL TO A FULL AND COMPLETE LIFE, and we must revive it. ALL THE GRABPING AND THE GREED OF. THIB WORLD COMEB FROM NOT REGARDING OUR FELLOWB AS OUR NEIGHBORS. ONE DOESN'T TRAMPLE HIS NEIGHBORS. HE WORKS WITH THEM TO A COMMON END. WE MUST COME TO LOOK ON ALL THE WORLD AS OUR NEIGHBORS. We must do away with the idea of classes. THERE ISN’T ANY JUSTIFICATION FOR CLASS LINES IN AMERICA. They are unjust, unwholesome, unrighteous and un-American. Why should we have class lines here in this country and one man despise another just because he has been lucky enough to make a little more money ? A man has some right to be proud of what he makes with his own hands and his own brains, but HE HASN’T ANY BUSINESS PUTTING ON AIRS over what he is merely trying to spend. WE ARE ALL WORKINGMEN HERE IN AMERICA. I have never seen a man that was worth anything who didn’t work in one way or another. I think that often the man who sits at a desk does harder work than the man who handles a shovel. But, anyway, they BOTH ARE WORKINGMEN. * THERE ARE JUST TWO CLASBEB, THOSE WHO WORK AND THOSE WHO DON’T, AND THERE ISN’T ANY REA3ON WHY ALL THOSE WHO WORK SHOULDN’T BE NEIGHBORS TO EACH OTHER IN THE TRUE SENSE.

Woman’s Position Would Be Lowered by the Ballot. By Mrs. STUYVESANT FISH. New York Society Leader and AntisuflYatflst. 1 THINE too well of women to imagine that they can be benefited by mixing in. the mire of politics. They ALWAYS HAVE MOVED AND EVER SHOULD MOVE IN A HIGHER SPHERE and deal with better and more lasting thing 3 than the election of this one or that other to office. We cannot and ought not to go against nature. From time of Adam and Eve men and women have occupied different positions in life and have discharged different duties, and this we cannot alter. Women have rights, and they should know and maintain those rights, but this can he done WITHOUT THE BALLOT by working on .the lines where woman’s power is limitless. WOMEN MUST ACT TOGETHER, WHICH THEY NEVER YET HAVE DONE. THEN THEY MUST USE THEIR BRAINB TO GET WHAT THEY WANT THROUGH THE MEANS WHICH GOD HAS GIVEN THEM SO ABUNDANTLY. ANY WOMAN OF BRAINS—I WILL NOT BAY BEAUTY, BUT OF CHARM AND ATTRACTIVENESSCAN DRAW WHAT BHE NEEDS FROM MOBT MEN. One argument made by the suffragettes is that a woman has no, control over her own property. However this may have been years ago, at the present time it is not the case generally throughout the United States. Besides this, a woman can have the advice of the most able men in the country just BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN and alone. Were she to meet man as an equal in the struggle for existence her position would be far worse. EVEN THOUGH BLESSED OR CURSED WITH THE VOTE, BHE COULD NOT THEN HOPE FOR WHAT SHE NOW GETB SO LARGELY AND FREELY THROUGH THE CHIVALRY OF EDUCATED MEN TOWARD OUR BEX.

We Are Overhasty In Criticising Our Presidents. Bt ELBERT H. CARY, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United State* Steel Corporation. IF during a national administration ills befall the country as the result of whatever conditions, it is natural to PLACE THE BLAME ON THE PRESIDENT. In such cases all the good that he may have done or the success that he may hare attained for the nation is overlooked for the time being. WE ARE GREAT ADMIRERS OF A PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS INAUGURATION, BUT DURING HIS TERM, AS TIME GOES BY AND WHEN IN SOME WAY AND FOR 80ME Jgpp % REASON WE MEET WITH OPPOSITION TO OUR IHIkNM PARTICULAR PLANS AND WISHES, WE CHANGE OUR MIND AND BEGIN TO CRITICISE. Hr I would not minimize the obligations attached MjßMk to the exalted position of president or the RIGHT TO CRITICISE in proper language and spirit from time to time his acts and words. But EVERY CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY SHARES THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONDITIONS AND THE RE SULTS. If the leading men would at all times show a disposition, to harmonize with the work of those who have been elected to positions of public trust, ASSUMING THEIR INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY for the character and reputation and moral and material conditions of the country, instead of resorting to complaint and condemnation of official action, sometimes even defying the law itself, the grounds for MUCH OF THE UNFAVORABLE CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT WOULD DISAPPEAR. . .7