Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-01-12
SSYRLAN BULLS.


House, and who is said to have con
municated to President Grant. iror
time to time, more than two hundre
and fifty valuable ideas, now recon
mends that the United States 90 int
the Bull business. IL is not stock rais
ing that Newman means. The 81
Louis farm never paid, and Newman
is too sagacious to suggest the repcti
tion of an Improbable experiment.
Nor is ii u Wall street operation h
has in mind. Former ventures of th
White House in this direction, although
perhaps pecuniarily successful, hav,
not been such as to command popula
enthusiasm or to win votes for thirc
term.
Parson Newman's bulls are Assyriai
bulls, the bulls of Nineveh and Baby
lon, which have lain under dirt heaps
neglected and uncared for, for centuries
winged bulls with human heads ant
long boards and plaintive features tha
appeal to the people of America fo
notice and protection.
Newman saw and piticd these in
teresting creatures when no was las
in Asia performing his official dutio
as Inspector of Consulates. lie ais,
saw that they are fast being dug "
by Mr.. George Smith ard carried away
to the British Museum, and that sooI
the entire bull population of Ninevcl
will be brought under the debasing in
huence of monarchical institutions un
less the United States Government
bestiIs itself TO immediate action. II,
beseechcs Congress to appropriate $40,
600 at once and send an accredited
agent Of the Government to disinter
few dozen of the venerable animels
lead them gently down the valley o
the Tigris to some seaport of the Per
sian Gulf and embark them upon one
Of Secor Robesons ships of war fol
passage to America. WhA is $40,
900, he pleads, especially when it comes
out of the public pocket, and when you
are getting full-sized bulls for YOU
money, all sculptured over with lovely
cuneiiorm inscriptions, as interesting
as Bessie Turner's book or as one o.
Bishop Gil Havens best sermons
Grant and Newman cannot do bet
ter than TO follow up this idea as q
third-torm measure. Let them for
bear fomenting religious war that
will bring misery to communities and
households, and nothing but ruin and
disgrace to those who instigatc it,
Here is chance for something efiec
tive, and at the same timo perfectly
harmless. Let Grant and his promul
gators of valuable ideas take our ad
vice and make the Assyrian bull ques
ton, along with Anti-Catholic ques
ton, one of the issues of the coming
campaign.
If the subject were properly set be.
fore the country if the organs were
to take tup and show that our national
honor, or perhaps our national exls-
tence, is involved in our treatment Of
these helpless relics of antiquity il
MIST were to draw bulls appealing to
Columbia in various attitudes of sup.
plication; if Eugene Lawrence we're
TO transfer his attention from the mod
ern to the ancient Babylon; II some
body were to organize Bull Brother
hoods in every State, perhaps the pco-
pie would arise in their majesty and
demand Assyrian bulls, and vote for
the candidate who was already pledged
to the bull policy.
Newman should at once put his idea
in the form of bill, and get some
third-term Congressman TO introduce
il. Tho bill might be ridculed by
trihers like Sunset Cox and Proctor
Knott; it might even tail to pass the
Democratic House. But in the Senate,
if brought forward and advocated by
Hannibal llamln, to whom the measure
would appeal with all the power OF
early associations and strong contem-
poraneous interest, it would surely
meet with friendly and thorough dis.
cussion.
There is no knowing but what in
the storm Of popular enthusiasm that
would ensuc, Gen. Grant might ride
into n third lease Of power mounted
on the back of venerable Assyrian
bull, whose chiscllod features should
bear n weird resemblance to those of
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