Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — Judge Baldwin’s Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Judge Baldwin’s Philosophy.

The Logansport Journal has been publishing the vie ws of prominent citizens on the question “How to be Happy though Poor.” Here is Judge Baldin’s conclusionon the subject: If I had my life to live over dgain I would not accumulate property. It don’t pay for the trouble. It costs more than it comes to. I would obey the bible command, “Give me neither poverty nor riches.” I would get me a modest home and pay for it early in life. If I had a family I would insure my life payable at death; if childless payable on the endowment plan, at the beginning of old age. I would then use up and enjoy my earnings from day to day and not hoard up money for some one else to quarrel about. after my death. feuch is my guess about how to be happy on nothing a year. Happiness upon paper is one thing; happiness with the wolf at the door is another thing altogether. Seneca with an income of millions per year wrote a book in praise of poverty. If Seneca had lived upon a back alley in the tenth story of a Boman tenement house with a sick wife and a dozen hungry children and out of work I fancy he would have been as unhappy as those he lectured upon the duty of making the best of the necessary ills of lile. These essays by well to do people upon “How to be happy altho’ poor’ ’are very much like the lectures by the childless upon how to bring up children.