Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — “Poor Bicherd.” [ARTICLE]

“Poor Bicherd.”

Beu Franklin is to blame for the sordid and very partial view of success tuat prevails in this country. Franklin, though himself not a parsimonious man, dinned maxims of parsimony into the ears of the American people so persistently, and did it in such a wonderfully forcible way, that he succeeded in ingraining the thought of the American people with an eminently material philosophy. The moral of it ail is—save, save, save fora rainy day. By dint of everlasting repetition of the vision of the rainy day that has got to be laid up for, Ben Franklin has succeeded in taking all the sunshine out of the days-that are not rainy lor hundreds of thousands of people.—Boston Transcript.-