Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1909 — LOYALTY. [ARTICLE]

LOYALTY.

If you work for a man, in Heaven’s name work for him. If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If' put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must villify, condemn and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your hearts content. But as long as you are a part of the institution do not condemn it. If you do, you are loosening the tendrils that hold you to the institution, and by the first high wind that comes along, you will be uprooted and blown away, and probably you will never know why.