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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20
COME HOME.

"From Thomas Watson
o. Bryan, dear Bryan, come home with me
now,
The pops are all ready TO run;
You said you were coming right bcak to the
Pate,
As soon as your talking was done.
Come home, come home, Bryan, dear Bryan,
come home.
Poor Altgeld is dying and Boies has gone
nat.
Don't talk any more. but come home.
D! Bryan, dear Bryan. come home with me
now,
Why don't you come home while you can:
Free silver's all right Qcr the heathen).
that's so.
But you cant stuff IL down free man.
Come home, come home. Bryan, dear Bryan.
come home.
Mckinley Is ready to give you blow.
That will knock you quite fiat. so como
home. Lincoln (Neb) Call.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20
THE ROOSTER HE WORE on HIS HAT.

Come, pause for while in your PLAY
Ny boy,
And put down your ball aud your bat.
Attend to me well
While q story L tell
of man who was tempted TO stray,
My boy
And the rooster he wore on his hat.
This man was .laborer skilled,
My boy.
Contented and happy thereat;
For his job was secure.
And his wages were sure.
But his heart with a longing was filed.
Ny boy
For a rooster to wear on his hat.
One day some demagogues came.
My bog,
(For demagogue read Democrat,
And spouted and brayed
In behalf OF free trade.
Till they set all his fancy afiame.
Ny boy.
For rooster to pin on his hat.
He whooped like an imbecilc loon,
For a candidate fussy and fat,
Whose inflated rerpwn
Soon collapsed und came down;
And IL felt like punctuyed balloon.
Ny boy.
On the rooster that sat or the hat.
Now his partisans float in the soup: ,r
-
Along with the bill they begat.
The cuckOos all sigh
For their vanishing pie:
And the rooster Is sick with the roup.
Ny boy,
Poor rooster that rode on the hat.
And poverty sits in the seat,
My boy,
Where competence formerly sat,
And the laboring man,
Through this fatuous plan.
Is now left with nothing to eat.
Ny boy,
But the rooster he wore on his hat
Then take warning and never forget.
My boy.
Free traders are blind as bat.
Their promise of good
Is adversity's FOOD,
And the laborer long will regret.
My boy.
The rooster he wore on hts hat
indianapolis Journal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20
Bryan as an Orator.
Y1-N.lN IL SsrIN A IL ID 90 L


But Mr.. Bryan know somewhat, and
find in his habits of life many things
to admire. He is a man of undOubted
talent, a talent for the stage, perhaps,
rather than for statecraft. lie is kind
husband and an indulgent father He
does not smoke or chew, drink or swear.
steal or gamble-in short, he has not a
single redeeming vice that l know of,
unless il might be lying; and even there
| have had spells of thinking he believes
himself. Moreover, Mr.. Bryan is man
of rare eloquence, although anyone read
ing his speeches would be pardoned for
doubling the assertion. Reduced to
cold type his words become mere rant
and bombast, while those self-same
as mellifluous as the sweetest pipe in
yonder organ--would stir your heart,
just as would the voice of great sim
ger, by the very quality of tone. Add to
this a handsome, graceful presence and
a fire and energy of action, and you can
imagine that it matters. very little to
Mr.. Bryan's audience what Mr.. Bryan
The mistake he made in Madison
Square garden was in the attempt to ar
que. He ought never TO do that, for
the divine attribute of reason was left
out of his mental makeup.
But, my friends, there is not word
in this encomium which would not with
equal truth and appropriateness apply
to another famous Nebraskan, whose ex-
PLOTS are inseparably linked with the
history of Omaha whose habits are as
regular as the sun. whose character is
as impeccable as Bryan's own, whose
presence is just as handsome, whose
powers of speech were formerly just as
great and have wrought many an audi
ence TO tears, to laughter and to fren-
zy; man who, like Bryan, was pos
sessed of talking devil, and who today,
i'm Madison square, New York-that
bourne from which no Nebraskan seems
ever to return--is feeding breadcrumbs
to the sparrows. That man is George
Francis Train. And il must be remem-
bered that Mr.. Train once ran for the
presidency, just as Mr.. Bryan is doing,
on ticket of his own. / say that the
ticket on which Mr.. Bryan is running
for the presidency is essentially his
own, although two other gentlemen have
been casually mentioned in connection
with it-one trying to get off and the
other trying TO get on. Here, you OBJ
serve. is a sort of political cerebus. with
not the best of feeling between the ca,
nine collaterals. Mr.. Bryan's predica-
ment is not without embarrassment. He
must feel as bewildered with these two
appendages as the proyerbial cat with
a like number Of tails. He has probably
prevailed upon Mr.. Sewall to stay where
he is, whereas Tom Watson wants TO
know. lie wants to know where he is
at" He wants to know whether he is
candidate for the vice-presidency or
only Il yermifOrm aDDendix
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20
JuggIers with the National Credit.
CHAUNCEY DEPEw.


Bryan and Sewall and Watson pro-
claim a revolution. These jugglers with
the national faith and national credit.
with business and prosperity, with Labor
and employment. are recklessly endeav-
oring to precipitate one of those crises
in which capital and labor and homes
and wages are ineXtricably involved.
The right of revolution is divine, hut it
must have supreme justification. Under
our constitutions and institutions and
laws as they exist there is before us
in the promises of the Populistic leaders
nothing but an invitation to embark
upon that sea of reputation and dishon-
or which has wrecked every nation and
every people that ever embarked upon
il. This revolution promises to destroy
the Supreme court, to prevent the issue
of bonds and the use of the credit of
the country for any purpose. to debase
the currency, TO issue. if need be, ire
deemable paper and fiat money. and to
destroy the validity and the inviolability
of contracts between individuals. 1t
proposes to seize the railways and the
tclegraphs. to enter upon vague and
vast system of paternal government and
10 destroy those elements of American
liberty by which the government governs
least and the individual has unlimited
opportunity for industrial business, pro-
fessional and political honors and emolu-
ments.
mo one has ever doubted the wis
dom of the fathers of our republic. A
century of experiment has abundantly
and overwhelmingly justified their fore
sight. craftsmanship and patriotism.
They saw the horrors of the French
revolution. and they made up their minds
to guard their country against the ex-
cesses of temporary madness. They
created the executive and the legislative
branches of the government and made
them subject to frequent submission to
the will and judgment of the people, but
they enacted a written constitution I'M
der which the executive AMI the legisla-
tive branches must act. and then they
created that new feature of government.
that palladium Of the rights of the peo-
pie and the permanence of our institu-
tons. an independent Judiciary. a court
which could say to wild Congress:
You have oyerleaped the boundaries of
the constitution and you must bring
yourselves within its limits They knew
from the precedents of liberty behind
them that the Judiciary can always be
trusted. There are two places under
our constitution where neither wealth
nor power gives any advantage to the
individual. where the richest and the
poorest. the most exalted and the hum
blest stand on the same plane; one is the
ballot box and the other the court And
yet this Democratic and POpulistic al
lance proposes to destroy this ma jestie
tribunal and make it simply the echo of
the party caucus which controls Congress
this year and may be driven into Oh.
security next"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20
ABOU BILL BRYAN.

Abou Bill Bryan. may his tribe decrease!
Awoke one night from a deep dream OF
peace;
And saw within the moonlight OF his rcptn,
Making Ii rich and silver-like In bloom,
An angel writing I'm a book Of g0ld
Exceeding gall had made Bill Bryan bold,
And to the presence in the room he said.
What writest thou?" The vision raised
it's head.
And, with n look Of what he might expect.
Answered. ''Their names who'll get 1t in
the neck"
"And am 1 one:" asked Abou. II don't
know"
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low. !.
But cheerily still, and said, II pray thee,
sir.
Write me as one not liable to err"
The angel wrote and vanished The next
night
1t came again with great November light.
And showed the names OF those knocked gal
leywest;
And 10! Bill Bryan's name led all the rest.
Lincoln tNeb.) News.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20
BRYAN for Fiat Money.

EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER.
Mr.. Bryan at heart cares nothing for
the free coinage of silver. Mr.. Bryan
is first and last believer in fiat money,
and he is only using the free coinage
of silver to arrive at that finally. This
is serious charge to make, but If /
cannot prove it will apologize publicly
FOR it.
In the September numberoof the Arena
just last month--there is an article on
the currency by Mr.. Bryan, in which
he. criticises Mr. Cleveland severely for
using bonds in time of peace, and espe-
ciaily for selling them to syndicate.
He says: when the United States,
without waiting for the aid or consent
of any other nation, opens its minis to
the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the present legal ratio OF
IL to it will bring real relief to its peo-
pie. and will lead the way to the restora-
ton of bimetallism throughout the world.
IL will then be prepared to perfect its
financial system by furnishing a paper
money invested with legal tender quail
ties and sufficient in volume TO supply.
the needs of the government. Its paper
money will not be loaned then to favor
ties, but will be paid out in the expenses
of government, so that all may receive
the benefits"
This is fiat money, pure and simple.
Mr.. Bryan proposes to stop taxation and
pay the expenses of the government by
printing fiat money. This government
once launched upon that boundless sea
would as certainly fall and go down as
did the French republic, which was set
up at the close of the last century by
a lot of theorists and revolutionists.
They issued during a few years forty
thousand millions of francs of fiat money
ca He'd assipnnts and mandatS They
gave a legal-tender quality to it, but
while it could pay debts they could
not compel people to take it in pur-
chase. In other words, they could give
legal-tender quality to the money, but
they could not give purchasing power
to it. From day to day it was issued,
until finally it all disappeared as utterly
worthless. Not a single frame of it was
ever paid or redeemed, and the people
who had parted with their property
for it were rendered paupers. Their
property was gone and the money they
had received was valueless.
Shall this be lesson to us! And
can we contemplate the probability of
putting into power as President of the
United States man who holds such
views? In my humble opinion there is
but one way to bring us back TO prosper
ity and to the path of progress, and that
is to return to the system of admins
tration which has been of such great
benefit to us in the past. and to follow
in that path. to follow the lamp of ex-
perience. To do that every true, honest
American citizen, without distinction of
party. should unite in this attempt at
restoration. and should by an overwhelm-
ing ma jOrity stamp out now and forever
the hercsy and the folly of cheap and
debased currency.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20
An Assault on the National Govern
ment.
DON NJ. DICKINSON.

Let us see what confronts us. What
is this free government that we hear
about from the rOstrum only occasion
ally on the Fourth of July and gala
days? But a word about this funda-
mental expression. Up to the estab-
lishment of the American government,
governments had failed on the face of
the earth for the object for which gov
ernments are formed.
The theory is that this is the best
government and the only free govern
ment which achieves for the people
the largest amount of happiness, com
fort and prosperity for the greatest
number. Now, they had tried emper-
ors, lodging absolute power of legisla-
ton, the execution of laws, and all
Judgment upon laws in one man, and
il failed; the people were oppressed
and made serfs. They tried then oil
garchy, government of many men;
it failed for the purposes for which il
was founded; so that all monarchy and
all systems and every republic in the
world had failed when our fathers
formed the United States of America
and gave us a place in the family of
nations. (Applause.)
{. What was tn, peculiar part of the
government which promises permanency,
which promises republican or demo
cratic form of government, that could
live? 1t was this: We established a
legislature to make laws. a congress; we
limited the powers Of that legislature by
a written constitution--fhq far. Mr..
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20
Labor Needs an Unvarying and Re-
liable Currency.
FRANK $. BLACK, CANDIDATE, Fol
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.

FRANK S. BLACK. CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
''No mans labor of yesterday or last
year can be preserved, except by some
representative or token of it. and money
is the almost universally adopted agent
for that purpose. Nothing in the world
should be so anxious as labor that the
token which represents it should be I'M
varying and reliable. Who can
preserve until tomorrow the labor of to-
day? 1t cannot be done, and the only
means of securing its benefits is to re-
ceive and preserve some token which
shall stand in its stead and which may
be used as future needs may require"
And further on the speaker said: IF
man is robbed, it is crime and he may
have redress. LII bank fails and pays
him only 53 cents on the dollar, it is a
misfortune, and he is not yet without
hope of recovery. But if he votes away
AZ cents of every dollar, it is his own
fault, and he has nothing to condemn
but his own folly, which will remain
with him much longer than his money"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20

they went on, think. to the amount OF
$4,000. 100000. and finally the whole
structure collapsed. The government
would not take them, the paper became
absolutely worthless. and when that pa
per became worthless it was found, not
in the hands of the spectators; no, it
was found in the hands of the manu-
facturcrs, of the business men, of the
workingmen of France. 1t was on them
that the loss fell. because they had ex-
changed their labor and their earnings
for this worthless paper. That is the
history of all attempts to juggle with the
currency. The loss lands always in the
same place, and we can form no ex-
ception to the great natural laws.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20
No New Sectional Issue will be Tol

SENATOR THURsTON.

Ny fellow citizens, there are other rea-
sons yet why the loyal people of this
time. Senator Tillman of South Caro-
lima. rs"irman of the committee on reso-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20

republic and in no part an idle working
man who wanted to work. Tremendous
iapplause.)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20

na"ce;
large again,d
Unces Nfaybe,b ut t doesn' twegha heavier.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-02-14
Water Supply.

Our nelghborlng town of uarrisonburg
is looking around for sufficient supply
of good water. Thoy have selected two
springs near the railroad south of the
town and their committee has brought in
two reports. One recommending one and
one the other. From both springs it is
necessary to force the water to town.
The water Is said to be pure and spark
ling, but that of one of the springs is
very hard. The cost is estimated at sl3,
900 and $23,0 600 respectively.
Woodstock needs water even worse
than HarrsOnburg. for in case of fire, we
arc entirely dependent upon few small
cisterns and many parts Of the town have
not even this small protection. Unless
a fire happens to be very near one of
these clsterns we have not hose enough
to reach the burning building. We have
at least three springs within reach, from
all Of which the water would flow into
the town without the use of ram or en-
gine. and would give suffice pressure to
throw the water over any of our houses.
Situated as we are, do we not exhibit
a vast amount of stupidity to depend
on small cisterns to protect us from fire.
and for our water for drinking, upon
wells that have not been thoroughly
cleaned for forty years and the water OF
which has been analysed ty competent
chemists and pronounced daugero1si
OF the springs referred to one would
give us fine free stone water which Is
believed to be perfectly pure and is To-
Gated at leas. 400 feet above the town.
The other two are lime stone and would
furnish ten times the amount of water
that the town would need. Is 1t not a
subject worthy of serious consideration
and prompt aotOnl -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-02-14
STAR TANNERY ITEMS

Mr.. W. C. Himelrite, and Mr.. s stros-
nider, Of Strasburg, paid visit TO rsla-
tives last Saturday and Sunday week,
at this place. Both were looking well.
Mr.. j. W. Smith preached a very fine
sermon at Gravel Springs Church last
Saturday evening, although he is always
prepared to do that.
Mrs. Katie Foltz Is very sick with the
grip.
We are sorry 10 hear of Mss Rosa
Beatty being i'll.
Miss Annie Pfer is home again Wc are
glad to see. We understand she intends
remaining at home. We suppose her
school as graduated.
The grave yard society will me ct at
this place next Saturday night. Hope
it will be we'll attended.
We are glad to say our Sunday school
is moving along nicely, and IS doing a
good work.
We are sorry to announce that Mr. D.
Y. Himelrite's family have all been sick
with grip. Hope they will soon be well
again. D.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-02-14
ST. DaVld's Church,

We have given considerable space to
parties desiring to disseminate their
views upon the difficulty abolt the st,
David's Church.
When the first comm unication was re-
ceiyed, from a regular correspondent, we
cut out every remark rehsctirg upon
either party to the contest, because We
did not desire newspaper controversy
upon the subject. notwithstanding this
action upon our part, 1t wa, followed by
communication defending the position
OF the Ohio synod and attacking the
Tennessee. This brought out reply
fran ths Tennessee which is followed
this week, by long letter from the
other side. We see no good to be accom-
plished by continuing this controversy.
We will publish a reply to the article
this week, gif one should be sent in and
should be written in tie same spirit, bul
after that, all communications upon the
subject will be inserted as advertise
ments and the pay must accompany
them. We have taken no side in thia
dispute. In fact, we are not acquainted
with the matter in dispute and do mo-
expect to be.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-02-14
HAMBURG ITEMS.

Mr. William Fravel, of Lantz's mills,
aud Miss jennie Bishop, Of Shanghai. w
Va, are visiting relatives here this week
Mes.rs. Harry Kagey and Rush William
son, OF New Market, spent short time
with friends. in this place
Mr. Hiram Glenn and daughter Miss
Slllie, we regret to know. are sick.
Mr.. VIM. Sager, OF Belgrade, spent sew
eral days with Mrs. Jno. stoners family
Mr. Elmer Bjgnln left for Baltimore
on Tuesday.
Mrs. Isaiah Bowman and daughters
Misses Mamie and Ala, have b,en qalte
sick all week.
Little Clara, youngest daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. j. +. E;kart, has been sick FOL
the last few days.
Sweet Maria.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-02-14
EpINBuRG ITEMS.

Mr. Hugh saum paid a visit to SAums
vile, several days ago. There seems t
be some attractive force, which has th'
same effect on Hugh, that magnet has
on iron.
Mr.. L. P. wightman who was assist
ing in the search for Weathsrholtz the
wIfe-murdersr, last week, has returned
home. after an unsuccessful attempt to
capture the villain.
Mr.. J. g. Bowman is moving into bis
new residence on Chnrch street.
Rsy. Mr. Bluserman preached an In
teresting sermon to ths |. q. y. +. OF this
place, last Friday night.
Mr. Crisman, of Winchester, is visiting
relatives in this place.
On last F,idAy afternoon, Boyd, the
tour year-old son Of NJ Chs. Jenniog 4,
was drowned by falling into a pOst-hole
containing water. His remains we're in
tered in the new cemetery, on Saturday
at 3 O'Clock. Rev. Mr. BIuserman con-
Quoted the CD equles.
Mr. and Mrs Edward Miller, Of Jerome,
we're visiting relatives IN this place
several days ago.
The "Edinburg SentlGei," which was
burned by the great fire." is ia opera
ton again. They have purchased larger
press than the one destroyed BY the fire,
together with the necessary equipments
for modern ONCE.
Ms. A. NJ. Rsu, IS recuperating rapidly
after very long and critical illness.
The corporation has placed street
lamp in front Of the dwelling occupied by
Mr.. w. G. Murdock, on Main street,
so as to light the alley leading to DR.. F
NJ. Hlsey's stable, thus lighting very
dark quarter of the town.
Mrs. George Miller, If POwell's Fort IS
visiting friends in this place.
Mr.. Newton Jennings, Of Baltimore, IS
visiting relatives In this place. Sioux.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-02-14
PERs oNA1.

Mics Mary naYis Is visiting friends. at
Warren Springs, Warren county, Va.
Mrs. Beohm, wife of Mr.. Philip Bsohm'
of Pugh's Run, who has been quite ill for
several weeks,.is slowly improving
Mr.. Frank Headley and wife, Of Win
chester, Va, ale visiting his mother
and sisters, of this place.
Mr.. Mark B. Stephenson, of Mullen
berg street, left for Baltimore, Weene'-
day.
Mr.. A. II. Sny der, of the Rockingham
Register, was circlng around among his
many friends here court day.
Hon. W. A. sager, our representative
in the Legislature, was at home for a
few days last week and this.
Miss Edmonia Slime is visiting Mr.
h Mrs. II. B. Chapman, of Muhlenberg
street.
Mr.. Geo. W. Miley, our ClIcnlt Clerk,
is con fined to house. He has been sick
for some days,
Mr. Frank Nelson, who has been
travelling through the Southern states
for several months past, is now in
Woodstock.
Mr.. J. C. Van P,ls, the great revival
singer, is now ASST sting reYivalst School
field a. Leesburg, Va. Mr.. Van Pelf IS
one Of the finest vocalists in the State.
Mrs. D.. Robertson, Of this place, has
been very i'll. This last report which we
received from her was that she was
slightly better.
Mss Amey Headley, of CapOn Road,
and Mt. Marion Snspp, of Frederick have
been visiting Mr. H. Ho5ey and family,
of this place.
Nr. Jno. B Locke, one of the sprightly
writers Of the Staunton DAILY News,
spent Monday at his parents home in this
place. His mother was not the only lady
that was glad to see him here.
Col. f. L. Stickley left Thursday for
Florida. His health has not been good
for while, and he will spend some time
IN milder climate. We hope to see him
return in full health.
Mr.. Robt. Z. McIntuiff, who was called
back to his old homo here several weeks
since. by the illness of his sister, Mrs.
Miller. returned to his home in McComb
City, Miss, on Wednesday, of last weOS,
his sister being much improved.
We are glad to know that Mr.. John
Howe, the well known B. & o. K. r.
section master, here, who has been quite
i'll with pneumonia for week or two, IS
much improved, and we hope to see him
out again in short time.
M. John II. Hartman, whose Illness was
noted in our last Issue, we regret to say
is still very sick. The Herald, along with
his many friends, hope to hear OF his
speedy Improvement.
P.S. As we 90 to press we learn that
Mr.. Harman's condition has not improy-
ed, in fact ne Is critically i'll, and the
grayest apprehensiOns are felt by his
ply sician and friends.