Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1901 — The Appeal to the Record. [ARTICLE]

The Appeal to the Record.

Little Tommy returned sore and trembling from the torture room. “Doesn’t your papa ever thrash you?” he asked his chum, who Is the son of a cabinet minister. “I should say not!” replied the other loftily. “Every time he threatens to cane me I read him an extract from his great peace at any price speech In which he said: ‘These barbarians are like wayward children, but have we on that account the right to take away their heaven sent privilege to do as they please? Let us treat them as we would our own wayward children—plead with them, beseech them, but never coerce them with either gun or rod.’ ” “That’s a good deal to remember,” remarked Tommy. “Yes, but now he’s got so used to it that he drops the cane as soon as I start.”—London Answers.