Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — What the Country Needs. [ARTICLE]

What the Country Needs.

Fewer dogs and more sheep. Fewer fences and more pasture. Fewer bar-rooms and more schools Fewer scrub cattle and more good ones. ' Fewer wire pullers in popular conventions and more industry. Fewer men who seek office, and more whom the office seeks. Fewer loafers about railroad stations, four-cornera stores and taverns. Fewer impetuous young men, eager o rush into print and raise the devil enerally. Fewer juvenile statesmen who are eager to rush into the places their seniors and betters ought to occupy. Fewer “leaders” to knuckle to popular prejudices when wrong. * A ' ' i