Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — I Would Remark. [ARTICLE]

I Would Remark.

-The public manners of Rensselaer have very materially improved within the past ten years. It was no uncommon thing to hear oaths and obscene langauge from very many people daily who now seldom utter an oath and never tell smutty stories. In this particular the public manners or morals have improved and as there is still room for improvement I trust it will continue. What a blot on a man’s life is such a habit No good mother teaches, her boys to swear or use filthy langauge. * • • That was rather a nice thing the Rensselaer Business Men’s Association did in raising so much,money to assist in making tbe Alliance Pic-Nic a success. &ome of the Alliance “cranks” want to do away with all the “middle men.” What the farmers need is more eaters instead of producers. If they force the consumers to become producers, they will be like the Irsliman who sawed Off the limb he was sitting on between him and the tree. The result would not astonish a sane man. * * * The pooling of tbe interests of the school towns aDd township trustees if rumors are true was not as much of a success as we had hoped. The story is told that a Chicago saleman of school supplies came to Jasper recently and sold Butler’s reading,charts, to three trustees Tor ten ($10) dollars per set, when they have purchased them through Mr. E. L. Clark the special Secret try for five ($5.50 )doland fifty cents per set. " One new Trustee was indignant that he had been taken in for the of $4 50 each for seven sets or $3f.50

There are about four democrats visit the Pilot office to one farmer Republican if sharp observes are not mistaken. Republicans should consider well the political principles of the People’s Party before giving them any kind of indorsement. Are they best for the government, the people, or the individual. From wbat I know of them lam sure they are not. Each man should study these questions for himself. # ■* * The plan of the Editor of the Pilot to get the subscribers cf his paper to boycott business men that do not patronize him is one that will work both ways. * * * The next Grand Jury, if not a muzzled one by those in authority or in high life can find hundreds of indictments if it desires to do. Let the Jury commissioners put none but the best men on Jury duty. The last Grand Jury failed to do its duty. Two bad or interested men can prevent indictments. The enforcement of the law is the one thing we need. Why ask for more law until what we have has been fully enforced.

BEN HUR.