Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-03

No. 43.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND comes down
hard on Johnny Bull.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is not as
popular with the British as he was.
THESE are great days for vacations,
but for some of US they are pretty busy
ones.
THE republican House made good
beginning by promptly calling that
Presidential bluff.
GREAT BRITIAN's belief in arbitra.
tion will soon be strong enough to
stand alone again.
Soon we will have to keep an eye on
the state Legislature. This session will
be all important one.
iowa has the champion runner and
the champion wrestler. And by the
way, Iowa is the champion state.
THE Car Of Russia has secured q
typewriter. From this it would seem
that progress is on the rise in Russia.
SOME of our Decorah boys have ex-
pressed anxiety to go down to Ven
zuella to fight the English. Our boys
would give Johnny Bull hard tussle.
HAYWARD says that his first killing
was when he killed horse in the
street. He evidently believed in be-
ginning at the bottom and working up.
THERE are great many patriots
who are whetting thar knives for war.
There is not any danger that England
will fight the United States. She
dasn't.
In the death of Allen G. Thurman,
of Ohio, that state loses one of her best
citizens, the nation one of her ablest
statesmen and the bar, one of its most
distinguished members.
MIR. CLEVELAND evidently did not
allow his mind to become wholly alb
sorbed on ducks during his recent hunt
ing trip. He must have glanced over
the barrel of his rifle in the direction
Johnny Bull.
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LET those who are harping upon the
mistakes that are to be made by Tom
Reed point out some of the mistakes he
made when he was Speaker of the
House before, and they will receive
more attention.
"GENERAL" COxEY is ina somewhat
peculiar condition. Even the populists
Of Ohio object to his participating In
their conventions. 1t will ssOn be ap-
prOpriate for him to ask the old and
oft-repeated question:: "Where am I
at?"
ONE Of the provisions Of Alexander
Dumas, the late French novelist's will
is that no mention should be made in
the newspapers of his death. His ex.
ecutor will have an exceedingly inter-
esting time trying to enforce that
clause.
THE speech of Hon. NJ. ]. Woolsey,
of Ossian, at the Commercial Hotel at
that place few days ago and reported
in these columns was surely a strong
plea for women's rights. Wonder if
Mr.. Woolsey wouldn't like "new
women"
HAYWARD has made statement of
his life, which will be published in
hook form soon. 1t will be good read
ing and just the thing for the police
force of Chicago to read, for it will con-
tain many instances which are anala-
gous to their own crimes and deeds Of
dark import. They are surely just the
kind Of fellows who will enjoy such
reading. ;.
THE new senator from South Caro-
lima, Mr.. Tillman, denied in the Senate
few days ago that he was p0pulist.
But said he, II am democrat and q
follower Of Jackson, Calhoun and Lin
coln." The senators laughed at this
peculiar internlixture Of political phe-
nomena. But really, is not this about
the ludicrOus condition which the DEM
ocratic party is now in?
GEORGE w. SMALLEY, who lived in
England long enough to lose all his
Americanism, writes to the London
Times that the "best Americans do
not approve Of the present attitude Of
the administration and congress toward
England. We don't know who the
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