HISTORY: Inwood Herald Newspaper, Lyon Co., IA This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Roseanna Zehner August 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ______________________________________________________ NOTE: For more information on Lyon County, Iowa Please visit the Lyon County, IAGenWeb page at http://iagenweb.org/lyon/ ______________________________________________________ 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. October 22, 1891 Transcribed by Roseanna Zehner