Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1892 — PREICHERS AT HALF BATES. [ARTICLE]

PREICHERS AT HALF BATES.

ft Faya the Railroads of the West to Encourage Them. St. Louis Chronicle. ***-*’ J "P “We kreonly to glad to givfe the preaehers a half rale,” remarked an official of the Missouri Pacific. “No consideration of sentiment prompt us to it either,.l can assure you. It is strictly in the line of business. We have found out that where there are the most preachers there are also the most people of industry and productive thrift. There are also vast stretches of waste places in the West which, when built up by the kind of people who encourage the growth of a wholesome religious sentiment, will add \ immeasurably to our reverme.—For that reason I bad rather give a pass to the humblest preacher than a half-rate to the superb Ingersoil. “I have noticed that as the preacher, has pushed his way Westward the frontier has receded until now there is none of it left. He is now talking the byways «nd~tbir paths and the wilderness is disappearing and tho barren prairies are blossoming with crops. So you see that from a business standpoint, it pays us to encourge him to travel about by allowing him a half-rate fare. It is different with the Eastern roads. All of their territory is developed to its fulest capacit and they can’t hope for in creased productiveness through the prerchers ministrations. Therefore they treat him like all other passengers and don’t give him a half rate.”