Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — Average Man’s Honesty [ARTICLE]

Average Man’s Honesty

A banker who, for the first time in his life, has come into intimate contact with poverty-stricken folk, says: “The average man wants only half a chance to be honest.” .This is a thing worth learning, remarks the Toledo Blade. But it did not require visits to the to find, it out. A little thought would have served as well. The mass of peopleis constituted of average men. The mass has the power to do whatever it wills to do. It could, if it wished, rise in the night and strip the rich, bare, and since it is the mass that represents the majority will, it could, so far as the law is concerned, go unpunished. , But the average man is honest. The mass wants nothing of bloodshed and robbery. Those who possess are safe from those who have nothing. Our banker friend who visited poverty row used his eyes. His remark shows that, for most of his years, he hadn’t on this particular subject, used his grains.