Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1873 — The Greatest Want of the Times. [ARTICLE]

The Greatest Want of the Times.

V I do not mean money, nor wise legislation. I mean men—honest, -sound, true men -true to. the very heart’s core. Men who can n-ml will condemn wrong in friend and foe alike, t |»athemselves as well as in others. Men whose consciences are as firm and steady to truth as the needle to the pole. Mon who will stand for the right though the eartli be moved, and the heavens fall. Men who can tell the truth in Jim face of any- opposition,-and even to their own disadvantage.— Men, who, it they swear to their own hurt, will not change. Men who can go steadily on and who neither brag nor run, Men whose courage needs no strouting to keep it up, and who neither Hag nor flinch. - Mon who are large enough to reach beyond all merely sectarian bounds, and who love the truth for its own sake. Men who know wliat to say, and how and when to say it, and who say it.—rMen who know liow to find their places, and to fill them. Men who know their own business and who pay attention to it. Men who are not too proud to be poor, nor too lazy to work. Men who arc willing to live on what they can earn, and to pay for wliat they wear. There is a call for such men, who will answer? D.