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Show AN UNEARNED DECORATION. The plain people of America may be excused for looking just a little askance ask-ance at the grand-cross of. the l;'Slf11 of Honor which Secretary Hay will accept ac-cept with thanks from France. To r sure he duew so with th,- consent of congress, but the grand cross of the Legion of Honor is not at all in Reaping. Reap-ing. with American traditions or Democratic Demo-cratic principles. .In American cyaf n can be no more than a glittering bauble. bau-ble. The Irish emigrant-girl Who rose from a bed sickness at Ellis Island when the Slocuin-was burning and with her own hands saved half a dozen lives at th" risk of her own is .much more deserving of the- cross than Mr. Hay. .Avhose bravest act has been to stand firmly on ..his reserved rtgnis when Mr. Roosevelt would have pushed him aside. To actvp't a foreign fore-ign decoration for having done- his simple duty at home its a paradoxical proceeding, to say the- least, and as such-it Willi be viewed by the average American citizen. Butte Miner. |