Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-01-13

office, and before I make any such
sacrifice I'll first "pass up' the office.
| Number 5 is student in the Jeffer-
son City High School from which she
will graduate next year. She is not
on the payroll, but helps to earn her
living by setting type and giving
music lessons.
Number s is son, freshman in
High School. He helps to earn his
board and clothes by carrying news
paper routes morning and evening,
arising at five o'clock A. NJ. each day
without being called. He is not on
the pay roll of the State.
Number 2 is a girl in the eighth
grade of the city school. Her con-
tribution to the family exchequer is
as fancy candy maker. The State is
not on her list Of patrons.
Number s is a son in the fifth school
grade and his brother, number 9, is in
the third grade. These boys are
agents for the Saturday Evening
POST" the "Country Gentleman and
such periodicals. They are not on the
State payroll
Number 10 entered school this year.
lie has an ambition to be the editor of
an agricultural paper-and will be
trained to be too suspicious of reports
started by political candidates to give
them space in his paper.
Number IL and 10 are twin girls too
young to enter school or be entered
on the State payroll. All they ask
or expect, is fair play for daddy"
whose favorites they are.
Namber Is was year old the 10th
instant. She doesn't expect to get on
the State payroll until after her
fathers term as Governor has ex-
pired.
Number IA is the good wife herself.
Sewing on buttons, mending socks,
making up beds, helping with the
washing and ironing, selecting prop
erly balanced rations, etc., make life
sufficiently interesting for her. She
is not on the State payroll, but has
her opinion of the fiends who spread
such reports. If she were a man
somebody would get hurt.
Now, Brother Case, there is the
whole story. l don't believe your
hand, or the hand of the public, -es-
pecially that great body of farmers
constituting your readers, lis against
industry, efficiency and honesty,
though these traits may be found in
State official with a large family-an
official SO ambitious as to aspire to
an office Others may try to purchase
with filthy lucre and mendacity rather
than with honest service.
Yours very truly,
CORNELIUS ROACH.
The editor of the Ruralist of course
made correction. Editorlally in the
next issue, among other things of
Secretary Roach, he said:
''Few men in public and private life
are more dependable. Probably few
persons have given credit to the as
sertion that the whole family was on
the State payroll, but few would ques-
tion the truth of the assertion that
four out of family of thirteen were.
That would be small per cent COM
pared with other records. No public
official can rightly be censured for
hiring a relative as competent as Miss
Roach has proved herself to be, and
no one would expect him to discharge
herr
Everybody in Carthage, where most
of the Roach children were born,
know that every child Is taught to
work, and they all know what itmeans
to labor for a living. Their fathers
election to an office with modest
salary did not in the slightest particu-
lar change the habits Of any member
Of the family. They are resigned to
accept the life OF labor to which they \
have all been elected. The one that
works for the State does not feel dis
graced because she has to work-no
more or less than any Of the others. \
They all work, don't care who know
II, and are not worried about the
opinion Of those that look down on
people because they have to work for
q living.