People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Money Question. [ARTICLE]

Money Question.

The money question peeps out from under that big patch on your pants. It grins through the hole in the top of “Hayseed’s old hat.” It laughs through the rents of the weary wife’s torn'callco apron. It lies at the bottom of your empty flour barrel. It hides between the leaves of your child’s worn-out school-book. It swells the bigness of the bills presented by the grocery-man. It is written all over the pages of the tax-collector’s ledger. It slips between the lids of the preacher’s bible, as it lies open at the pulpit. It is corked up in the medicine bottles sitting on the shelf in the doctor’s shop. • It may be found in the thousands’ column of the office-holder's salary. It sweetens, or embitters, the wellsprings of human happiness. It mars the happiness of the guests at the wedding feast, and casts a shadow on the faces of the newly-wedded. It mingles, at the funeral, with the tears of the widow and the fatherless, as the clods fall on the lid of the coflin. It stands like a milestone, at the parting of the ways of human life, and points to heaven and to hell. —Nevada Director.