Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1899 — Their Preference. [ARTICLE]

Their Preference.

Certain politicians of the nobler dafll —there are many of them—have t»l soul of an honorable but shrewd mfljg chant, who sells in the dearest a|fl| buys in the cheapest market He wisl es to get his money’s worth for jfl money, but be always gives full aH just measure. Wm There are also politicians, and tbSS are not few, either, who may say wtl the Scotch trader on his death-bed: J ‘ Oor faimly were aye middling bfl est; we neither liked to cbate nor,ta» chated, but o’ the twa, reyther 1 chate.” Ml v ■ “ Receive no satisfaction for pratagß tated impertinence; forget it and give it; but keep inexorably at a d| tance from him who offered it—Zj|M ter. 111