Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — Bull Bats Crow. [ARTICLE]
Bull Bats Crow.
Lobd Salisbury Is the champion pettifogger of the day.—Cincinnati Com-mercial-Gazette. Lobd Salisbury %as evidently partaken of a digh of American crow.— Cleveland Leader. Lobd Salisbury's last note is nothing more nor less than a British surrender.—lndianapolis Journal. It is as complete a surrender as it is possible to make in a diplomatic point of view.---New York Recorder. Ehpebob William backs down, Premier Salisbury backs down, but Uncle Sam’s back is still up.—St. Louis Star Sayings. Pbemieb Salisbury is backing down, reluctantly and ungracefully perhaps, hut he is backing down. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Give Lord Salisbury time and he will let us live on in peaceful possession of our seals, our lives, and our sacred honor.—Minneapolis Tribune. The British lion isn’t nearly so ferocious as he was a few days ago. Your Uncle Samuel is something of a liontamer.—Wheeling Intelligencer. Lobd Salisbuby has “come off his perch” and is willing to renew the “modus vivendi” on terms that are more reasonable than at first proposed.— Cleveland Plaindekler. Lobd Salisbuby is in the position of the small boy up 9 tree. Uncle Sam has called him down and he will come, but he wants to take his own time {ibout it. —Topeka Capital. Lobd Salisbuby has not increased his prestige by the zeal he has shown in behalf of Canadian adventurers who deserve little more consideration than pirates. —Omaha Bee.
Lobd Salisbuby finally descended from his high horse and gave the Britishers this bit of advice: "If you go sealing in Behring Sea you do so at your own risk.” —Pittsburg Gazette. It is supposed that Sir Charles Tapper of Canada is making hasty preparations to fall through a crack in the Tory platform. His big brother Salisbury has given him a hint to collapse.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. It is pretty evident that well-informed Englishmen renlize that Salisbury has hold of “the wrong end of the poker” on the'seal business, and has no just pretext for a show of obstinacy or hostile feeling.—Troy Times.
