People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1896 — Farwell on Ingersoll. [ARTICLE]

Farwell on Ingersoll.

Prom The Chicago Record. Mr. Farrell, in his article on Ingersoll in The Record, says: “Compare the two civilizations (that of Greece and Rome) with the civilization of to-day, and if intellectual developments produce both, why the difference?. Then Rome had 60,000,000 slaves. One-half her population—women—were property for man’s lust and infanticide was a virtue.” Can Mr. Farwell tell us how many slaves there are to-day in America—slaves working for 75, 80 and 90 cents a day? Can he tell how many child laborers there are engaged in work that is little short of infanticide? Will he tell us how many women there are in our cities to day who are panderers to man’s lust—women whom the church members pass frith averted faces and to whom the doors of the church are closed? The Roman bought and sold his slave and called him slave. The American buys his slave at the lowest possible price a day and calls him brother. Verily the two civilizations are different. Maude Wellman Wheeler. South Hend.'lnd.. Feb 14.

The Kankakee Daily Times of Feb. 14th con tains a very flattering three column article on B. J. Gifford, quoting extracts from the Pilot souvenir edition concerning his operation in Jasper county. The article presents his name as a suitable republican candidate for governor of Illinois. It is not at all probable however that Mr. Gifford cares to enter the political field, as his personal enterprises are undoubtedly the heighth of his ambition. It is stated that he is not a politician, and if that is so he certainly is not in touch with the powers that make governors for Illinois.