Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — Can’t Find Any Philanthropy In It. [ARTICLE]

Can’t Find Any Philanthropy In It.

Fowler Review. We publish elsewhere the will of the late Moses Fowler which contains provisions that materially concern the people of Benton county. According to its provisions the Benton county lands can not be sold for twenty years yet. This provision, as we view it, will materially operate against the development of our county, for a body of 20,000 acres of land is not likely to be managed so fully in the interests of the people as if it were divided into small holdings. Again, it will be seen that no bequests for public institutions were made, and the much talked of college which was to be erected in Fowler to perpetuate his memory failed to find a favorable response when the will was written. Wabash College, of which he was a trustee, was also left out and so was Purdue. The will is a carefully drawn document and its provisions are calculated to benefit nobody but the blood kin of the late departed.