People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — Some Proverbs of Solomon. [ARTICLE]

Some Proverbs of Solomon.

“The king, by judgment, establisheth the land; but he that receiveth gifts (boodle) overthroweth it.” “There is a generation (the gold bug), whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.”