Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-19
ABE WOULD BE D0WEYlTE
AND TELLS OF QUALIFICATIONS
Also Writes His Opinions Regarding
Prince Henry's Visit to
this Country.

Par said was aktin as tho L was in
deep meditashun and wanted to no
what 1 was thinkin of. L sed l had
ben thinkin of joinin sum church
asociashun. He sed that was good
thing and had his entire approval and
wanted to now where 1 was most in
klined; / sed I was struck on too the
Doweyites and the Mormonites, but
leened strongly to the later. He sed to
jine the Doweyite biial meens, for sew
evral reasons. They was hundred
times bigger humbug than the Salt
Lake fellers and nothin in the world
was so poperler now as humbugs, that
they was nearer home ssand it would
be a good deed handyer to tend church
or make deposit of mony with EN-,
and worst of all judging the future bi
the past, if 1 joined the Mormonites
it would be sum time afore / Good take
a sect in kongres. Par bein older than
/ and had more experience konkluded
to adopt his advice. So rit too Mr..
Dowyite to no the "Modus operande"
of joinin his select sirkle. He sed he
was unedikated and didn't no what
that big word ment, but if / wanted to
line him and his followers al / had to
do was to have implisit faith in him
ond turn into his hands al the kash |
Good rake and skrape and borry from
mi trends. Then he maid putty strong
hint, he sed it would be safe from pick
pockets, burglars and Tax Ferrits. He
also sed that DIN TO little disturbance
in his silk biznes he wood like fu
thousand bi return male, but thare was
no need of mi komin down as L Good
send mi name from here at any time
and joine the happy kroud. 1t kinder
struck me that he didn't want too sea
me very bad for fear that the neear
got to him the les faith | wood have.
One of the gratest things in his favor
is the tremendous free advertising he
gifts, the papers are al full of his ex-
PLOTS, his pikter is printed on the fust
page of sum big ones. Viii if the pat
ent medisine men Good git as much fire
advertising as he does tina kood bi all
the trusts in the country in year.
1t seems strange that in this enlitend
country humbug should rule the roost
but L no its so from experience. Once
L was an important father in the politi-
cal world but nobody put mi pikur in
the paper; no editor remarked on mi
wonderful genious, and in the sittys l
visited, nobody met me at the train
with brass bands and resepshun ko-
mites but tina air not altogether too
blame, for / usually travelled in disgise
and walked a'oot into those sittys.
Thare is vast amount of humbug in
hi life. We have hired man at good
wages to work for us and he's got gal
that wants to go to England to sc the
Carrie Nation humbug, and if she is
like her par she ls very likely to go if
the old man will furnish the kalat-
eral. Sum fellers which were hired at
about IT the salary he gifts air stikin
thare nose in it and saying it amt good
politiks, that seems they konsider poll
tiks and humbug the same thing.
But why in the name of common
sence should this country go wild to
honor an English or German Prince.
Tha never fit for our independence but
fit again it. Why should we the most
powerful and proudest nation in the
world humble ourselves to worship the
humbug of crown which came to the
wearers through conquests or as des-
cendants and are no indication of their
ability or manhood. Where is there
one that started in life by splitting rails
and became by his own honesty and
energy the chief of this nation and the
grandest man of this republic, and to-
day his memory is cherished by more
people than any other man in the
world. If Abraham Lincoln was alive
his voice would be heard in favor of
the poor struggling sister republics, in
stead of the crowned heads of foreign
potentates, and then there is the
ABElJoNEs JR.
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