Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — GROVELING AT THE FEET OF WEALTH [ARTICLE]

GROVELING AT THE FEET OF WEALTH

It never fails. This country simply can not face a national crisis

w i t h o u t gome metr o p o 1 i t.a n newspaper slobbering all over itself in its blat-|

ant worship of wealth. A few weeks ago young Marshall Field t— very rich and a decent fellow — quietly enlisted as a private in a. Chicago regiment, j not as a thousand other young men . had done before him. His act was -smeared all over the Chicago papers, photo and all. Theodore Roosevelt’s young sen answered the call of his country and the fact was immediately flashed by telegraph all over the land. Bill Jones, poor and hard working, hitched his old mare in the. barn and streaked it for the nearest recruiting office —and not Z word was said about it.