Iowa
Old Press
Inwood Herald
Inwood, Lyon County, Iowa
October 22, 1891
Ammunition all Gone
The Rock Rapids Review editor, after firing off a lot of
blank cartridges at C.D. Manning, which had no effect except to
fill his gun with the odor of burnt powder, last week tumbles
down in an insult to the intelligence of our German citizens. He
says the Germans need an interpreter in the court house. He
institutes that they can't understand English. Everybody but Lon
knows that there are not a half dozen German voters in the county
that can't speak English. Everybody who has had any dealings with
the Germans knows that they can make shrewd trades with the
Yankees, make and receive payments, buy, sell and transact all
other kinds of business. They came from a country where education
is to the front, and when they get here their national ambition
and natural patriotism leads them to master our tongue at once.
Many have learned English before they came over the water. How
desperate your game, Lon, when you have to insult the Germans in
the hope of presenting an argument against a tried and true
officer whom the Germans, foreign born as well as native, like
and respect. A large number of Germans will vote for Manning's
reelection.
[submitted by R.Z., Nov. 2003]