Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — THIS IS WORTH READING. [ARTICLE]

THIS IS WORTH READING.

A contributor signing himself “Senex” sums up the situation iu the following manner, in a late number of .the Inter Ocean. “The rich are growing richer and The poor-poorer.” Let u» see. In out country the majority of the rich commenced life jioor. This portion of the community are not growing poorer. A very large portiou of those who wealth, lose it, and so this class of the rich grows poorer. 'The man who takes a sober view of life and illustriously works on grows rich. The habits of industiy and economy whicb give liim a STart in life bear him on. He knows the value of money aud he does not heedlessly fritter it sway iu foolish undertaking aud iu personal indulgence. Never iu the history of our conn, try were the openings for business sj many as now. Never the call for earnest endeavor so great. Never was so large a pioportion of the poorer class likely to emerge from a bare livlihood to comfort and wealth as now; though tho dangers from betting ami gambling and driokiug keep, and wil 1 keep a host iu poverty. Why should not all prosper? Wages are higher, the demand for work is steady, the cost of the necessaries of life is lower. Savings bank hold millions of the earnings of

the common people. A large percentage of the people live iu their own homes. Almost every home has an organ or a sewing machine and carpets. People no more go to church in the rural districts in lumber wagons as fifty years ago. Tbe variety of food is greatly improved. Fruits of all kinds, aud all (he yeararouud, cheap. Workmen on farms do not get up at half past four in the morning to mow “while the dew is on.” Instead of that after breakfast they ride on npriug teats in doing much of ti e field work, while horses aud machines do most of the heavy labor. Meat three times a day. Bread froth tho finest of wheat. We live like Princes. Silks and broadcloth instead of liomcpptm. Schools free to the poorest. No one on the limits or in prison for debt. Up to date if a poor man wants a farm thegoverumentgives him free 100 acres. “Oh, but its on the frontiers!” Our ancestors landed in “a waste—a howling wilderness,” and did not compluin. Millions who came west are now in circumstances of ease in the vast interior. Millions more, in the newer West, will soon be in like happy condition if they get right down to business, and remand the calamity howlers to the rear.