Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1859 — NOBLE CONDUCT. [ARTICLE]

NOBLE CONDUCT.

Corn for m*al and feed, it. is well known, is Very scarce in this region at present. Those having money have great difficulty in procuring it,.while those who are without money find it almost impossible to get corn enough to supply the wants of their families and keep their work horses from breaking down. l uring such seasons of scarcity, it is gratifying to notice acts of human ty in our ci'izeus. A couple of our citizens v ent down on Beaver for a wagon load of corn each, one day last week, and called on one of the well-known citizens of Beaver township. He asked them if they had money. “Of course,” they replied. “Then,” said he, “you can get none of me.. I have a little corn to spare, but tnose who have money cannot have i». I will sell it for half a dollar a bushel, and to those only who have no money to buy elsewhere!” We have also heard of two citizens some five or six miles north of this place, who have positively refused to sell corn for sevenfive cents a bushel cash, saying that they intended to sell it for fifty cents to those who had no money. How different is this noble conduct from that of those who, if the the truth is told, have been going about the country buying up all they could buy, in order to sell it for a dollar a bushel cash in hand. The one class deserves the respect of all, while the other will receive, as they should, the sealmark of miserly inhumanity.