Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — prof. Wilkinson's Piatiorm. [ARTICLE]

prof. Wilkinson's Piatiorm.

Tho well known and verjj ecctmtric Fros. Wilkinson, was in Rmisselael and its vicinity the greater part of last week. The Professor is now out of politics but lie has a platform, which makes up in compreliefisiveness what it lacks in practicability. Tire billowing is the plath rm and preamble: The following, although perhaps rather imyracti.cabie, under tlie piES£®t existing order <n thing.,;. 1 tender ns a peace offering, asM s.om tiling to approxi mate-as nearly as possible in the future: PLANK FlliST. “Let us unroll the endless scroll or i-vei-hsi ng time. -Li'tireb L n to the voices. of the distant, the. great and the mighty dead. They speakito'us in leaping, livlngyroiiiug thunder tones of the millions ot n ear, • n id, Mai Mered- wronged-, find broken human liejrts of the -depurting ages of the old and the mighty past* Let us atuM : .;h ylander, p.€i’SsCLiioi\ vvrre'.g. injnefj cc . intolerance and ufikindnesS from 'An’n'^CtWTolrttes< 1 on earth and good will to men. Let tts, if yon. please, clear friends, driql ;;ii •religi<.'VS, Doliiical, lliiti .'v.:.!, Sectional, social or domestic di-ffci - eneesand be in reali y and in truth onr n;uno indi -ripnnivcrsal band of brothers, asnnn as the Hock of Ages, or the.grand, everlasting gray old mountain tops -—brightly shining away, away, look away in the golden light of the rising or setting su’i or the sweet silver lieht of the moon for o\er and e ver.” PLANK SECOND. We are creatures of habit r.nd education, circumstances and opportunity; governed by our surroundings, and the influences which are brought to .-bear upon each and every oua of us. No two ot us have seen lead or hbaid the. samuZ.things, in regard to. men, things, habits, opinions, taste's or peisuits. Each one.: believes the most of what he - hgs : . and heard the most of, as a general thing, and no one is to blame for what they have seen, read or heard or the jniiuenct.s which have been brougiit to bear upon them, ai.d widen have made- them what. ihey are. Let us not allow orrselves io lie mesmerized into the belief -of low, silly, slanders. Stroag, dogmatical, mesmeric assertions, are not proof. Respnciftflly.

A paragraph ha!? been going the j rounds of the press lately, stating i ihat by. a. rccciiLriding of .the post-! office department, all letters mail- j cd on trams are thrown off at the ' ■next p»st-priute,..io haxe-t'hesinrh ps cancelled. j There is no truth in | the statement as no such absurd ruling was ever made. Postal clerks must receive all properly prepaid matter, wherever offered, and forward it promptly, to its destination. A law passed March 121877, gives \ the Board of Commissioners of each county of Indiana the authority to .appoint two students, resi-. dents of the county, to Pardue j University, and the students • thus ’ appointed are exempt from the payment of entrance and incidental fees, and the regular charges for room, heat and light. The reduction thus provided for amounts to 833 a year. There are no pupils attending from Jasper county at present. Persons desiring the appointment should make their application to the Board at their March session. School open to both sexes. Applications can be left with the county auditor.