Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1885 — The Progress of Poverty. [ARTICLE]

The Progress of Poverty.

Historian McMaster does not believe in the popular myth about the better times they had in the “good.old days,” When asked for a Thanksgiving Day sentiment he wrote: “Every man to-day earns more money, wears better clothes, eats better food and of more kinds, lives in a more comfortable home, knows more of the world, holds broader views than he could possibly have done when the nineteenth century came in. ” Waterbunj Am eric an. Oliver Cromwell w s 10 less than 43 years of age when lie nrst embraced the military profession; and by force of genius, without any master, he soon became an excellent officer; though perhaps he never reached the fame of a consummate commander.