Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — Page 2

Public Library

HE attitude of public libraries toward fiction must be determined by the purpose for which they have been established and maintained. This purpose, as recorded in, their deeds of gift, in the charters under , whose authority they act, and in the published reports of their trustees, is public education. The charter of a typical Massachusetts library gives as the purpose of its incorporation, “the diffusion of knowledge and promotion of intellectual improvement.” Trustees uniformly base appeals for public support upon the educational value of their libraries.

The promotion of education was uppermost in the mind of the man who inaugurated the movement for the general establishment of public libraries in Massachusetts, and formed the basis of his appeal for state encouragement. In 1839 Horace Mann devoted the annual report of the board of education to this question. He showed that there were only fifteen free town libraries in Massachusetts, and that few books in them were of educational value. He deprecated the evils of excessive novel reading, and insisted upon school libraries which should “cultivate the germs of intelligence, benevolence and truth.” „ Through his influence the general court passed a series of statutes which culminated in the act of 1851, granting to every city and town of the commonwealth authority to establish and maintain a public library in the interest of public education. What the state understands by public education appears in the preambles and statutes of Massachusetts relating thereto. The first such statute, May, 1642, declared that “Forasmuch as'the good education of children is of singular behoof to any commonwealth, the selectmen of every town shall see that children are taught perfectly to read the English tongue.” „ , . • Before 1780 the views of Massachusetts had so expanded that the following article was inserted in the state constitution: “Wisdom and knowl-edge,-as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the ihterests of literature and the- sciences, . . . to encourage private and public institutions ... for the promo-

tion of agriculture, arts, sciences, trades, tnanufactures and a natural history of the country; to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, charity, industry and frugality; honesty and-punctuality; sincerity, good humor, and all social affections, and generous sentiments among the people.” So long, therefore, as this conception of'the scope of public education prevails, and so long as the promotion of such education is recognized as their legitimate purpose, the ideal attitude of our public libraries toward all fiction which tends to accomplish this great design must be one of friendliness and welcome.

All People Are Interested In Trusts

By E. H. WELLS, Glen Moore. N.J.

salaries and accept and enter our deposits on their and our books, safeguard and be responsible for our money, honor and keep account of the checks we draw, unless they lend out, for profit, the money we deposit to people doing big business. The banks must also buy with surplus funds not loaned out the bonds of corporations and trusts.. In the case of savings banks and safe deposit companies, where a small interest is allowed depositors, the necessity of these institutions loaning out our money or investing the surplus is still greater. So that we are more or less interested and investors in big business, corporations or trusts, directly or indirectly, to the amount of our savings and deposits, be it more or less. , If our savings are small we are interested in big business indirectly through the banks where we deposit. v If we are of large means we buy the stocks and bonds of the big corporations outright. So that we are all in the same boat and there is no question of morals ’involved. If we kick and hammer big business we are kicking and hammering ourselves. -

Making Friends With Various Animals

By H. J. HILL

the floor/ seemingly unconcerned, but hardly had his master announced that he was about to shoot Bob when the animal jumped up, whining and crawling behind the skirts of the hunter’s wife. The woman had all she could do to comfort the badly frightened animal. , ' \ I believe that we underestimate £he intelligence of animate and the value of their affection. If .you make friends of dogs or cats or birds, they are always your friends. They study and know you better than you know them. You need never regret, or b© disappointed in having bestowed your kindness on these friends.

By H. H. BOND. Cambridge. Mass.

The people who are kicking against monopolies are mostly those who think thev are not in them. Nearly everybody except the tramp, probably 80 pet- cent of the entire population, men, women and children, are to some degree, directly or indirectly, interested in big business, corporations or trusts. Anyone having as much as a single dollar deposited in open account in a national bank is indirectly interested in the success, stability and profits of big business of some kind. Bankers cannot afford to pay rent and

I believe that many of our household animals can understand our converrsation, and comprehend much of the daily talk between men. I have a friend in. the country who is a great hunter of foxes and rabbits, and when I visited hijn some time ago I found him in the act of cleaning his hunting gun. I said to him, “Are you getting ready to go hunting?” “No,” he replied, “I am .going to shoot Bob here. The dog is getting too old and stiff for hunting.” -The dog until then had been lying on

How Attitude Toward Fiction ~ May be Fixed ■

WOODROW WILSON GREAT DEMOCRAT

Judge Stringer of Illinois Recognizes Him as the Logical “ . Leader of the Party. .... IS FITTED FOR WHITE HOUSE Statesman, Scholar and Proved Practical Executive, New Jersey Statesman Would Be Ideal Occupant of the Presidential Chair, BY LAWRENCE B. STRINGER. Democratic Candidate For the U. 8. Senate From Illinois Against Lorimer. Before meeting Gov. Wilson, I was somewhat predisposed in his favor, from having read many of his productions and having admired the great comprehensive grasp of economic situations which prevades all of his political utterances and writings. Still while predisposed in his favor, until I had personally met and conversed with him, I was. not convinced of his availability as a candidate for President. ' Since meeting Gov. Wilson, however, all doubt in that regard, in my own mind, has been removed. Gov. Wilson is presidential timber of the exact kind and quality required at the present time. To begin with he is an intellectual giant, with a broad comprehensive grasp of every public situation. Throughout the east, he Is universally regarded as the brainiest American living today. Even in private conversation, his intellectuality, scintillates in every sentence he utters. He has A logical and analytical mind. His language is simple, easily understood, yet definite, incisive and convincing. He has been a student of political economy since his boyhood, has written varied books upon the subject and is conceded to be the highest authority upon theories of government in the country today. While our presidents have generally been men of patriotic impulses, honest and conscientious, still few of them have been great intellectually. Thomas Jefferson was an exception to this rule. Woodrow Wilson, if elected president, by reason of his instincts, characteristics, training, fearlessness, patriotism, faith in the people and extraordinary intellectuality would indeed be a second Thomas Jefferson.

Ideal Chief Executive of State. As governor of New Jersey, he has given that state a practical business administration, so conceded by all. He has shown himself to be peculiarly fitted for the executive office along the most practical lines. In meeting him, you are impressed with this fact The schoolmaster is not in the least in evidence. He is plain, matter of fact, and his conversation is not pedantic or pedagogic, but direct, forceful and earnest. Above all he is a man of the people. He was born with no silver spoon in his mouth. He is not a man of means or wealth. He is easily approachable. No dignity hedges him about. He resides in a very modest hpme at Princeton. On knocking at his door, no servant, liveried or otherwise, met us at the portals. It was the governor himself who opened the door for us, welcomed us in, took our hats and wraps and laid them aside, ushered us into his library, made us feel at home and talked to us neighbors who had dropped in for a casual call. There are no frills nor sure-belows about him. He is essentially Jeffersonian. As governor of New Jersey, he has fought for the plain people and they love him. In doing so, he has antagonized the interests. He knows it, but doesn’t care. He has faith in the people and takes them into his confidence. Sense of Duty Supreme. I also found him to be a man of positive convictions with the courage of the same. He is fearless in his expressions of opinions. If they do not agtee with your opinion, he is sorry, but he does not trim his views to conform with yours. His sense of duty is supreme. He would not change his views, unless convinced that he was wrong, even though it made him president. He is not a trimmer. He is not a politician, but is a statesman, in all that word implies. He abhors machine politics and machine methods. He does nothing behind closed doors. Everything with him is in the open and he has no political or public secrets. What he says to you, he is willing the world should know’ He is the soul of integrity and honor and he stands today as the one great champion of progressive ideas of govern nent in state and nation. If elected president, no machine leaders, bosses or fractions, will control or influence him. His sense of duty alone will actuate him.

Altogether I was exceedingly well impressed with Gov. Wilson as a man, as a statesman, as an executive and as a possible, if not a probable, future president He seems to combine in one personality, great intellectuality, simplicity, modesty, fearlessness in the discharge of duty, sterling character, honesty of motive, effectiveness, executive ability, energy, enth - si vsm, rugged honesty, practicality and Jeffersonian democracy. And what more what more would anyone want?

Public Sale, In RenSselaef, Saturday, February 24. The undersigned will offer at public sale at Leek’s hitch barn in Rensselaer, commencing at 3 p. m., on - . Saturday, Feb. 24, 1912, the following property: 2 Head of Horses— Consisting of 1 Black Mare coming 3 years old; 1 dark drotf Gray Mare coming 2 years old. ■ 15 Head of Cattle— Consisting of 2 Milch Cows, five years old, fresh in April; 1 grade Shorthorn bull coming 2 years old; 5 Steers 2 years old; 5 Steers coming yearingi -; 2 coming yearling heifers. A credit of 10 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent of for cash. B. T. LANHAM. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. J. H. Chapman, Clerk.

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Contracts for the Sale of Real Estate

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WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY ABOUT THIS?

To the People of Jasper Coooty: “THIS TELEPOST MUST BE CRUSHED OUT, REGARDLESS OF THE COST.” In these words a prominent Wall Street financier announced that the "Interests” had declared war on us and on you. Why he wished to crush it, —the many attempts to ruin it,—why they failed,—the great benefits of the Telepcst to you and to the entire Country, —and how, with your co-operation, it can never be crushed,— prompt me to address you. It concerns you. It is your fight as well as ours. ■> - The Telepost is an independent telegraph company owning a system of automatic machine telegraphy recognized as the highest development to date in its field. It is in active commercial operation between Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and other cities of the Middle West, with the lowest rates and best service ever given in the United States. Its purpose is to extend these advantages to all parts of the country. It gives a flat rate, regardless of distance, of one-quar-ter cent to one cent a word, according to service furnished. It sends 1,000 words a minute on one wire and illows telephone conversation over it at the same time. By all other methods it requires trom seventeen to ixty wires to do what the Teiepost does on one. Fcr over thirty-five years there bas been no real ompctition in telegraphy. The Interests behind this utility control it more completely than the Steel, Beef, Tobacco and Oil Trusts control the'r respective lines and products. By means of “Gentlemen’s Agreements,” admitted under oath to the New York Legislature, they have stifled competition, extorting, according to former Postmaster-General John Wanamaker, >loo,ooo,o<*> from the people in exorbitant charges for an indifferent service. The purpose of these “Agreements” is to maintain present high charges, and to block the introduction of any. better system by others. The methods employed to destroy the Telepost have been notoriously unfait, and un-American:—Spies dogging the footsteps of visitors to our offices; men of prominence, associated with us, threatened; employees bribed to betray us; timid shareholders stampeded into sacrificing their shares; our wires mysteriously cut, and our customers urged to leave us. Periodicals, and other publications, in alliance with the money powers behind the telegraph interests, have maliciously attacked us in order td discourage popular support for our enterprise, in much the same manner as they did Alexander Graham Bell when l.e introduced the telephone. f With the low rates of the Telepost, the wires will be used almost as freely as the mails. We plan to build a line from our terminal in Chicago to New York, having secured entrances into both cities and practically all of the right-of-way. This line wifi pass near your town, with which we shall ultimately connect it. The New York-Chicago line will put the Telepost on such a solid and big dividend-paying basis that extensions to all parts of the country will rapidly follow. The opposition has declared that it will make it impossible for us to build this extension by PREVENTING OUR GETTING THE MONEY NEEDED. In this ■hey do not reckon on your having anything to say, and seemingly forget that the original telegraph lines were builf,—not by Wall Street,—but, with profit to themelves, by the merchants, farmers and small investors of the country who were independent of capitalistic

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control or influence. We propose to build the Telepost lines in the same way. However determined the "Interests may be to stop us we want you to help us show that in spite of Wall Street opposition there is enough manhood and civic pride in this country to insure the completion of a monumental work of this kind without e.ither the help or sanction of any moneyed combination. however powerful. T here is more telegraph business between these two S! t,es , than between any other two cities in the world. Our lower rates and better service will give us the bulk of this profitable business. The old line companies estimate, the average cost to them per message to be about thirty cents. On the same volume of business the cost to the Telepost would be only eleven cents over sixty per cent. less. Thus with the people behind us our position in this fight is impregnable. The profits will be unusually substantial and increasingly large from year to year. Every SI,OOO invested by the original shareholders in Western Union in iSqB received up to 1890 cash and stock dividends amount- *° * lSfj ° Oo ' Original investors in telephone shares fared even better. its T Hv a l^ C 1 T St i, CannOt be b < OU£hf ’ Sold or mer fl e d by ket Sh . shar * s from stock market manipulation by its Board of Voting Trustees among whom are Rear-Admiral Sigsbee U S N • General Buffington, U. S. A.; Rev. Dr. Chile’s H j ni rSt ’ f ° rmer Senators Faulkner of Wes* Virginia and Blair of New Hampshire. Could anything be fairer, safer or more desirable to the small investor? The New York-Chicago line will cost only SOOOO6O Xrh r ? Se we offer 90,000 shares at’ sic each (par value). These shares are full-paid and nonassessable - The company has no bonds or preferred stock. This sum may look large, but if only a small " um Ver m each community invited to join our i^ oo stockholders in building this line, take a few shares each, the entire amount will be easily raised and line completed and in operation by the Fall All Tele post progress achieved to date is due to the support of the independent citizens of the country and its future is in their hands, i You may buy as many as you choose but for stimulating business 9,000 men and women with than h nn eS m ' an l nlUch more for the Telepost than one subscriber with the entire 90,000. If youirt with us in this fight,—and if you desire to shate in the S reat Profits and credit which will follow the comple tion of this line, write your name, address and the num wlth°^ Bha J e ’ wantid « on the attached coupon, and mail New York.° r m ° ney order to direct, care Telepost

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