Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1916 — FAMOUS EDITOR’S VIEWS [ARTICLE]

FAMOUS EDITOR’S VIEWS

The following article was written by the famous editor of the Eastern Magazine, who makes a careful analytical comparison of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hughes, and asks the German-Americang who are inclined to doubt Mr. Wilson, to think twice before acting; ‘There is nothing subtler than class influence. The world ig full of people who think they are progressive but can nearly always be found on the reactionary side when it comes to a crisis. I don’t object to the existence of these people; indeed, they include a large percentage of my friends. “They derive a strong satisfaction from their imaginary progressiveness. and, though they are dangerous to the welfare and happiness of the masses, they are agreeable persons. The nomination of Mr. Hughes gave this class a splendid opportunity to he reactionary under .the most respectable auspices. “Nothing was ever more absurd than to suppose that Hughes and Wilson belong in the same category. Wilson is an imaginative, determined, sensitive and growing force. 'He did not bother much in his earlier years about the great system of privilege, which is what the masses are blindly struggling against. “When he became president of Princeton, however, and tried to see that the poor boy in that college got something like an even chance with the rich boy, he ran up against the ‘system’ for fair. After a desperate struggle it defeated him by a hair. “He then became governor of New Jersey and saw that the difficulty in the state government was essentially the same difficulty he had met at Princeton. He fought the ‘system’ through two terms and thoroughly beat it, with the finest liiliain and 'iTanna?/ re '

(rn November 7, 1860, in Cincinti, Ohio, and departed this life her home near Wlieatfield Octor 11, 1916, aged 56 years, 11 onths and 4 days. She was one a family of three children, two n s and one daughter, William" of artii Manchester and Charles H. Knirnan. She was united in marage to William D. Meyers February », 1890. To this union were born ?o children, one son and one tughter, Pearl It., who died August , 1 896, and William H l ., who withl s father still survive. ■?he came with her parents in 72 to Jasper county, where she s since made her home. Previs to her marriage she was a lued school teacher, having taught n years in her home county. She is raised in the Lutheran faith and s’ faithful in her belief. Mrs. Meyers was a woman with J very pleasing personality. She ide friends with all who came to I ow her. Her lasting monument s her large circle of friends. She d been in poor health for several ars, hut the last year of life she s an almost constant sufferer, yet j 3 bore it with patience until the

leaves a husband, one son! J two brothers. Her father preed her to the better world Janu--1 28, 1915, and her mother Aug. I 21, 1915. flay her life now say to her loved s in the language of her Savior: go to prepare a place for you t where I am you may be also.” CARD OF THANKS Vo desire to express our heartthanks to the many friends and ?hbors for their many acts of dnesß and sympathy expressed ing the long illness and after the tb of our beloved wife and sister WM, D. MEYERS, WM. HOLLE. CHARLES HOLLE.