Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — Farm or Professional Life. [ARTICLE]

Farm or Professional Life.

It now transpires that a bill introduced by the wily senator McHugh. of Tippecanoe -county apd passed by the legislature contains an innocent looking clause legalizing the Roby den of iniquity. The Senator from Tippecanoe is a “daisy.”—Monticello Democrat ~ A "daisy” sure enough, but the recognized leader of the Democratic side of the Senate, last winter, all the same. The Republicans pointed out his rascally trickery, at the time, but it did no good.

Judge Brown, of the Marion circuit court, has declared the fee and salary law of 3891, unconstitutional, as it was expected would be done. The case will now be taken to the Supreme Court, and there is very little doubt but that the Marion county decision will be affirmed and the law be stricken from the statutes of the state. The people demanded a just and equitable fee and salary bill, but the democratic legislature, which was pledged to give them sucli a law, gave them instead a sham law which they knew to be so defective that it would be overthrown by the courts. The Republicans in the Legislature pointed out the defects of the law, and sought to have them corrected but without avail. Again, at last winter’s Legislature, the Republicans, aided by a few honest Democrats, tried to pass a fee and salary bill that would amend the defects of the law of 1891, but the Democratic majority would not permit it.

With excellent taste and a great deal of force the philosophical contributor to the editorial columns of the Muncie Herald discourses in this strain: “ There is yet much of the spirit of intolerance extant in both political and religious circles. It is certainly no commendable comment on nineteenth century enlightment to have it said that men are abused and traduced because of opinion. Every man has a right to think and act as he believes to be right so long as it does not interfere with the individual rights of others or menace public welfare. Because a man does not and cannot see a question from the same point of view as yourself, does not give you license to abuse or harass him and heap calumny upon him. Your broad minded man is ever ready to accord to every other man freedom of thought and action. It is the narrow man, the man of but one idea, who persecutes an d reviles. It has ever been thus. Not until all men are thus educated and refined up to a higher ideal of hnman right, will intolerance in religion and politics cease."

The young men of the farm who are beginning to entertain thoughts of a professional educations with a view to become lawyers or doctors, teachers or preachers, in order to avoid the work of the farm, to wear better clothes, live in finer houses, go into politics and enjoy the bustle and excitement of the big city and the greater world, had better think twice ere they take the first step that •ball wean them from the presence of healthful and independent life. Men who have traveled, who have seen and know the world most and best, wonld like nothing better than to be able to retire from the worry, the incessant work, and the uutiriog energy called into requisition ia any one of the professions named, and indeed in any avocation of life, and go to the farm with its quiet, calm contentment

and health. Let these young men fortify themselves now by devoting time to study,' to think, to observe find experiment and thus post themselves and pave the way for more successful prosecuting the Worklj&Lthe-farm, and they will find themselves better otf as they approach old age than of those who leave the farm for a professional or city life. —Rural World.