People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1896 — GOLDBUG LOGIC. [ARTICLE]

GOLDBUG LOGIC.

1 The poor mun who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor v?h<» can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twine as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the government to destroy the people is a patriot. Wm. J. Bryan. The on Smith. The following story is vouched for by a Yale professor: Several years ago a young colored student was admitted into the freshman class at Yale. He was assigned in the classrooms a seat next to the son of a prominent New York business man, whom we may call for convenience Smith. Now, young Smith did not relish the idea of sitting by a “nigger,” as he put in, so he wrote to his father, complaining of the indignity. Mr. Smith, the elder, taking the same view, at once wrote an angry epistle to the faculty, demanding that his son be relieved immediately from such close association with one of an Inferior race. The professors were puzzled, but one of them, with long experience in class work, undertook to answer the letter satisfactorily. He informed Mr. Smith, most politely, that no present interference was possible, but that, in a few weeks, when the classes were rearranged and graded.

he co-ula assure nim tnat the desired change would certainly be made. Mr. Smith was satisfied with this assurance, young Smith was appeased, and the far-seeing professor had no difficulty whatever in keeping his word, for, by the time the class was graded, the young negro had proved himself so superior a stucient tnat ne wa o among the leaders of the first section, while Smith was an insignificant unit in the third. The joke was too good to keep, and the whole college laughed over it — except Smith, who, naturally, did not see much fun in the situation. But his father wrote no more letters to the faculty, at any rate.—New York Tribune.