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THE ARGUS, TUESDAY. MARCH 17, 1008. 4 THE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue, Rock Island, 111. En tered at the postolllce as second-class matter. i BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS-r-Dally, 10 cents per week. Weekly, Jl per year 1ft advance. 1 All communications of argumentative character, political or religious, must have real name attached tor publica tion. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures , " Correspondence solicited from every township In Hock Island county. Tuesday, March 17, 1908. An nou iieement. Having been nominated as candidate for alderman of the Third ward on the democratic ticket. I ask the support of the voters of the ward at the approach ing election, April 7. IIM'S. CHARLES J. SMITH. Hurrah for the shamrock! "Oh, Paddy, dear, and did you hear the news that's going round?" The supreme court of Ohio has de cided the convention of the bridge trust magnates is unconstitutional. The citizen who permits a rattle snake to hypnotize him, can blame no one but himself if in after days he finds he has been stung. Another republican senator has at tacked the Aldrich bill on the ground that the railroad bond feature is a step towards government ownership of railroads'. What with a republican governor, a republican United States senator, the night riders and prohibition, the world is nearly upside down in Ken tucky these days. No ' cause that stultifies itself by countenancing and recognizing, and worst of all assisting hypocraey can convince itself, much less the public, that it deserves success. If Senator Knox and some other as pirants for the republican nomination for president had voted as they now talk, the railroad rate issue would have been settled some years ago. The republicans have sidestepped both the moral and prohibition phases of the pending campaign in Rock Is land in order that the candidates so inclined may talk on all sides of pre vailing issues in their canvass for votes. The house of representatives at Washington has passed the bill pro viding for the restoration of the time- honored inscription, "In God Wc Trust," to the face -of American coin age. The legislation was necessary in view of the presidential freakism man ifested in the elimination of the rev erential motto. To Probe lor Graft. Chairman Wagner of the house com mittee on expenditures in the post- office department proposes to invest!. gate that department on the ground that "some of the expenditures appear to have been made in contravention of law." No doubt he has in mind the pay inent of the salary and expenses of Assistant Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock while engaged in influenc ing southern postmasters to work for Taft's presidential boom. The com mittee on expenditures in the war de partment would do well to follow Mr Wagner's example, and inquire into the payment of Taffs own salary and expenses out of the treasury while he is engaged in traveling and speaking in the advancement of his own boom. Such proceedings ought to be ex posed and punished, even though it is countenanced by President Roosevelt. Print Paper and the Tariff. Notwithstanding the earnest and urgent demands being made by all pub lishers using print paper, there is rea son to believe that the majority of the house members on the ways and means committee in congress are determined that no action shall be taken at thi session of congress to remove or de crease the duty on print paper. No combination is more grasping or relentless than the paper trust. Each year this combine puts the screws on a littlo harder, and an increased price is wrung from the helpless publisher. The committee on ways and means in the . house of representatives knows this, tut still they refuse to come to the relief of the publisher by remov iug the duty on the pulp, the raw ma terlal from which print paper is made. Much as they may at times love the publisher, they seem to love the paper trust more. While the price of print paper varic with the size of the contract, it is known that a grade of print paper that Bold for a minimum of $1.90 per 100 pounds in July, 1906, is now forced to bring $2.45 per 100 pounds When new contracts are made publishers expect to be forced to pay in the neighbor hood of $3 per 100 pounds for the same grade of print paper that cost less than $2 in 100(5. There Is no gainsaying the fact, adds the Prairie Farmer, that the paper trust absolutely controls the manufac ture of print paper in this country, and they will continue to control it and exact whatever prices they make ust as long at the present tariff pro hibits the importation of, and keeps the supply of raw material entirely in the hands of the paper trust. Many .publishers are coming to real ize they must either reduce the size of their paper, increase the subscrip tion price, or else go out of business. The committee m ways and means in the house of representatives at Wash ington could remedy the evil by tak ing the duty off wood pulp, but at present the paper trust holds the whip and Uncle Sam's committee of house hold expenses jumps at it3 crack. Tlic Presidential Candidacy of Gov ernor Johnson. - Some interesting views are being taken of the candidacy of Governor Johnson, who has been forced into the democratic presidential race, ap parently not through any considerable demand for opposition to Bryan, but because of a certain disgruntled ele ment who would like to embarrass the Rryan candidacy, if possible, and who would like to complicate the Denver convention so as to open the possibil ity of -having the convention manipu lated by the reactionaries in antag onism to the wishes of the rank and file of the party, who are almost unitedly for Bryan from one end of the nation to the other. The- Chicago Public takes an inter esting view of the Johnson candidacy. It says: 'That William J. Bryan is tne free choice for the presidency of an over whelming majority of the democratic voters and a large mass of voters who are not democratic partisans, no one can doubt, and no one does doubt. Neither does any one doubt that the worst influences that curse the nation are conspiring to secure his defeat by trick and device. These influences, com monly known since Lawson's exposures of The System, have settled upon Gov ernor Johnson of Minnesota as the man for their purpose; and, unhappily for himself. Governor Johnson has evident Iy yielded to their overtures. The in ner meaning of the action of the dem ocratic committee of Minnesota last week, followed by Governor Johnson's significant silence, is as obvious al most as if the literal raising of a cur tain had disclosed a tableau of machine politicians from Governor Johnson's state in negotiation with The System of New York. ' Whether The System's plans, so skillfully engineered at St. Paul by Governor Johnson's private secretary, will miscarry at the Minne sota primaries and in the state con vention, is quite uncertain. The demo cratic machine will have patronage from St. Paul and abundant, funds from New York, while the Bryan vol unteers will have neither patronage nor funds. But the volunteers prom ise weariless work to save Minnesota from appearing at Denver as a cat s paw for the reactionaries; and wheth er they succeed or not, there is no reasonable possibility of any extension of this Wall street diversion beyond the Minnesota border." When One" Spends Money. One would think that money would he saved in prosperous times when there is plenty of it nloiit. But no; that is not the time when it is saved. It Is then that it is spent. Everybody spends it governments, railroads, corporations. capitalists, housekeepers, bouse build ers, collectors. People expand their wants in such times and satisfy some of them, and then is when it is most of all Impossible to live on anything a year. But after all the money has been spent a few times over and has come to be scarce and borrowing has come to le a serious matter and folks have much less to spend and no expectations then everybody groans and begins to save, not only tryinjj desperately to squeeze back inside of the bounds of income, but to pay back what was spent In expectation of a time when saving would have become Convenient To most of us that time never comes And yet there are tilings for which we spend more than we can afford, that really do justify our expenditures, so that after the money has leen spent and we are pinched for the lack of It we would still rather have what it bought thau have the money back. Appleton's. ' Napoleon at Dinner. Napoleon was no epicure. He usual ly drank uotbing but diluted cbauiher tliV and was no Judge of wine. He liked plain dinners boiled or roast chicken, mutton chops, grilled neck of mutton, haricot beans or lentils. Ills table manners were not very refined He would use his finger in lieu of fork or spoon and would dip his bread lu the sauce, the dish being then passed around td guests, who hnd to dispense with squeamishness. The bread had to le particularly good. He ate fast, quit ting the table In twelve minutes and leaving Jofephine and the company to take their time. When he dined alone he commonly took only eight or ten minutes. Indigestion was the natural consequence of this speed, and he had sometimes to stretch himself at full length on the carpet till the pain abat ed. He detested physic and professed to disbelieve In it. a subject of playful discussion' with his doctors. Constant never knew him to be obliged to keep his bed a whole day. He was very sen sitive to cold and had fires and warm beds ttO thejear. - - Kennedy' Laxative Cough Syrup acts Sently yet promptly on the bowels and allays inflammation at the same time, tt is pleasant to take. Sold bv all druggists. Humor and Philosophy ' By DUNCAN M. SMITH . PERT PARAGRAPHS. When the tongue of an Individual is cut on the bias, how can you expect straight talk to come from it? Putting a girdle around the earth overland and undersea has become so common that the only way a daring airship driver can call attention to himself will Im by whirling away to the inoou or JfTrs. Nobody doubts that times might le Improved, but it is always some time in the past that they were good, you know. A home grown variety of com mon sense is the best thing in (the world to keep you out of trou ble. It is about as easy to reach the sympathies of some people ns It is to give an ele phant the head ache by pelting hiin with ripe tomatoes.' The man who really thinks he is funny is a bigger bore than the funny man. - Although the winter blizzards were soul trying, it isn't recorded that any body got hot about them. You may be on good terms with n man without liking him very well or being proud of his acquaintance, but your motives will be open to suspicion. Being a successful business man isnt necessarily exciting, but the results are gratifying, especially to the sec ond generation. You can sometimes tell pretty close ly what a man thinks by what he doesn't say. Sometimes It is wiser to attend a banquet by proxy than in person, and the same thing might be said of mar rying and hanging. As to the Worm. They tell us that the worm will turn If by untoward events put to it. Strike back at those who bruise Its neck. But did you ever nee one do it. Or any man that you have known? Did ever yet a worm pursue him And catch him in a block or two And hand him what was coming to himT Investigate and you will find The whojo thing is a superstition. The worm may turn when on a hook. But that's not of its own volition. Of course it squirms around a bit. But still the man who was discerning Would know that antics of that sort Could not be Classified as turning. 'TIs true sometimes the human worm May throw-ftis left leg o'er the traces, But most!y, when things don't go right. He takes It out in making faces. And as a very general thing The turning of this lowly brother When one cheek gets a stinging rap Consists in turning up the other. No: worms are not inclined to turn. X That is the nature of the creatures. Although a man may tread on them And to a Jelly mash their features. The only turning that they do. If nothing happens, by and by. Is. when they are the proper breed, JThey turn into a butterfly. A Big On. He says ho never made a mistake." "He is in error." "Think s?" "I know it; did it when he bragged about It.". So inexpensive. "What are you doing health?" "Taking sun baths." "Sounds nice." for your "Well, I find them as Invigorating as a meal." i - "What you would call a 'light lunch.' eon?" The Main Thing. "He, Is taking a course In a barber college." "Learning to shave?" "les, incidentally. Of course the main thing is to get well posted on the history of all the prize fighters and ball players. Must Be Bad. "She says she is so fond of helping her mother in the kitchen." "Indeed. I did not think they were that bad." "Who were?" "Her dad's finances." Not Cheeked. "Where did they get the money to go west?' ' "Bought his wife a ticket, and he traveled as baggage." "In her trunk?" "No; blind baggage." Carrying It to Extremes. "He is certainly very polite." "Polite. I should say, so. Why. that fellow will laugh at an English Joke." When It Hurt. A German surgeon in the Franco Prussian war had occasion to lance an abscess for a poor fellow, and, as the sore waa obstinate. It became neces sary to use the knife twice. The opera tion was not a very painful one, but the patient declared that it had nearly killed him. and when a third resort to the lancet was proposed he protested that he cruld never go through the op eration alive. The surgeon promised to make it easy for him and. railing up a' few of the loungers, ordered one of them to hold his hands close over the patient's eyes and two others to grasp his hands firmly. "This arrangement," explained the doctor, "is paid to prevent pain in such an operation. Now, lie perfectly quiet, and when I say "Now!' prepare your self." The surgeon at once began quietly with his work and In a short time had completed the operation without the least trouble, the patient lying as quiet ns though In sleep. When all was done the surgeon laid aside the knife and said, "Now!" Such a roar came from the lips of the sick man as. seldom Is heard from any hu man being. lie struggled to free him self, yelling, "Oh, doctor, you're killing me!" Shouts of laughter soon drowned his cries, and be was told that t.ie opera tion had been all over before ft sijual was given. It was a good joke, but It is doubtful if the poor fellow could ever be made to Ielieve that he did not feel actual pain immediately after that fatal "Now!" Usual Result. 'Well' asked the motorman. "did you manage to collect your little bill from that conductor?" "No," answered the disgusted pas senger. "I got tired tryiug to collect it at his house, and the other day 1 caught him on his car." "What did he do?" "The same thing as usual put me off." BOTH SIDES OF THE PROHI BITION QUESTION More About Labor's Position.! IUY I'HKSS COMMITTEE OF LOCAL. . OPTION COMMITTEE John B. Lennon, president of the International union and treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, voluntarily sent a signed open letter to the Bloomington Pantagraph in the issue of Saturday, March 14. in de fense and in explanation of his atti tude on the local option question, for which he had been criticised. A few extracts are hereby presented for the consideration of all men, especially 'labor men:" "I stand unqualifiedly, without any reservation whatever, against the sa loon business. I have never, hi so far as I am capable of judging myself, stood for any cause simply because it was popular. I believe the fact that I have stood solidly for the trade union movement for now a good deal more than 30 years is evidence of the truthfulness of this statement. If I believe a proposition is right, if it commends itself to my conscience, it I am tho onlv man in the community that stands for it, then I will stand alone. If I am convinced that a cause is right, it is going to have my sup port, and I believe without any reser vation whatever that the saloon is an injury to a community and that it is right, to eliminate them, and my ef forts will be extended to the fullest extent that I am capable of to bring about that to me desirable end. "I am especially against the saloon because of my connection with the labor movement. I have lived some what more than half a century, and have had some experience in that length of time, and every bit of it tends to convince me from year to year more and more that tho saloon is of greater injury to the wage work ers of the country than any other one thing connected with our lives as citi zens and as men. I could go over the roll of men who have been prom inent and even great in the labor movement, whoso prestige and in fluence were destroyed by the exces sive use of. liquor, and it was the so cial or illegal social features of the saloon that caused them to go to that excess "If a locomotive engineer is known to patronize the saloon, he is looked upon askance by the railroad compan ies that employ him. If he goes often, and it is known, he loses his job What is true of the engineer is true of the tailor, the machinist, and every other craftsman. No matter how fine a mechanic a man may be, if he is a frequenter of tho saloon and becomes intoxicated, he will find himself dis criminated against by the employers in that . industry. No man can deny this that wants to tell the truth. It ii not open to denial. It is a fact, and I believe it can be removed to a very great extent by eliminating the saloon. "The saloon is not Recognized by so ciety as a legitimate business. This is so self-evident that scarcely a word is .needed to convince anyone of the tiulh of the statement. If a man wants to go Into the grocery business he does not have to pay a $600 license fee a year. If he wants to start a sa loon, that Is the first proposition that confronts him, to pay a license fee of SCO0. What is this for? It is for the privilege of maintaining a business that is not recognized as being a le gitimate one by our citizens generally. Every citizen in t,his community is a party, or nearly every ono, to the :granting of these licenses to maintain StjeTIrgus Daily Short Story "By the Short Cut." (Copyrighted, 1908, M. Sparvllle was grateful to Henry Gris- wold. Not since the engagement of McMahon's minstrels two months be- fore had the -town had so much to a - a out. Nine years ago Hank Griswold.had gone to the city in his Suuday pepper and salt suit, with cowhide boots and cloth -cap to complete his costume, Now he had returned Henry Griswold, and to the splendors of well tailored clothes he added the magnificence of a fur lined coat and shoes and hat ii icc- ! Sparvllle was accustomed to fur coats, but with the fur outside, while Henry showed only the .cloth. Patent leather shoes, too, every day in the louuu oluer amusements, week were regarded with awe not un-1 Xel1 sm,Ipd and chanf?e1 subject, mixed with envy and Griswold went home feeling miser- Even more interesting was the evi-' ab,e' IIe ,ove(1 Xel1- an1 tb5s ref,,sal dent interest Griswold displayed ln , was a blow to his heart and his pride. Nellie Morrison. They had been sweet-! U wa8 Ben who tuSSed Xcll's sled hearts in the old school davs and had up Bw"man'8 hm t1ie following after kept up a correspondence, a fact dis- ,noon and found Griswold gloomily -re-seminated by the postmaster, but It Sing the coasters. The hill swung was evident thnt ttrUwnid hn,i -nmn i bi a rough half circle down the steep home with the intention of cutting out Ben rieree, who escorted Nell home from church Sunday evenings and oth erwise gave evidence of ultimate seri ous intentions. Fublic sentiment was largely in fa vor of Ben, Had Sparville been so frivolously minded as to indulge in betting the odds would have been about three to one In his favor, for Henry had seemed to lose Interest in skating and coasting and other winter sports in which Sparville delighted. He visited the pond and the coasting hill, but merely as a spectator, and at such times Nell, fully conscious that the exercise brought a stronger glow to her cheeks and an added snarkle Fighting Prohibition Every where. IBV TUB PRESS COMMITTEE OF THE ANTI-PUOIIIBITION LEAGUE. The rumor given currency by the Iccal option press committee is to the effect that the Anti-Prohibiticn league of Rock Island county has decided to let Moline go "dry" for the benefit of Rock Island. A Moline saloonkeeper is said to be the authorltyfor the statement. The fact is that the Anti-Prohibition league of Rock Island county is fight ing 'prohibition everywhere in this community and is as deeply inter ested in the defeat of prohibition in Moline as in Rock Island. It happens, however, that the liquor dealers who live in Moline and pay taxes there and have done their part to build up I hat proud city have expressed the de termination to leave the matter wholly with their fellow citizens, trusting to their common sense and their desire for fair play and just treatment. Ac cordingly, they have asked the league and the Rock Island wholesalers and all others who. from the Moline point of view, are outsiders, to keep out of the fight in that city, except in so far as the circulating of literature giving erified statistics is concerned. There is no "plot" on the part of tho Anti-Prohibition league. What sort of campaign, if any, shall be made in Moline, is properly a matter for the Moline people to decide and they have been so unanimous in their expression of the desire that Moline he left for Moline, that there was nothing to do but to accede. Reports from the plow city are that the atti tude of the Moline retailers in re garding the whole matter as one of public policy and in leaving the issue to be decided by the sense of fair play and local pride of their towns men, is justified by the results and that it is admitted by leaders of the local option forces in that city that the saloons will not be voted -out. PRRSS COMMITTEE ANTI-PROHIBITION LEAGUE. this business, and I proiose for one 1o have it. understood that I do not propose hereafter to be a partner in this business, either directly or indi rectly. If they secure a license to carry on their business they will have to secure it against my protest. "Much is said about the loss of the license fees. This is, however, so small, so insignificant, that it should not appeal to anyone that has any sense of manhood in him. When dol lars are to be weighed against moral character by men or by a commun ity, it is about time that such a com munity should be set back to aboul the 12th century, instead of claiming to be progressive in p-jient one If morals are not worth more than a few paltry dollars, then am very much mistaken in my estimate of the make-up of the citizens of Biooming ton township. I believe that they will show by their votes most posi tively that human uplift is to be con sidered of more importance than a paltry license fee, accompanied by human deterioration. T cannot take the space at thi? time to show that even from the flnaii cial standpoint the whole argument favorable to the saloon is based upon false premises, absolutely false. Ever from the dollars-and-cents standpoin the saloon is a detriment to any com tr.unity." '-OCA I OPTION PRESS COMMIT TEE. - By Matie Barnes. M. Cunningham.) to er eyes, was most inclined to hec- tor mni- GriswoId ascribed her treatment to a deB're' fd,s,play hcr "T 8 f-T quetry. but when, near the close of the second week, he made formr.1 proposal ef marriage and was refund he stared at her in dismay. "It's this way," explained Nell judi- eicusly, seeing his bewilderment. "I you, Harry, but you are so differ- ent now- When 3 were a boy there was no one 'ho could beat rou ia a 8katIUS race, and you used to go down Beeman's hill faster than any of the others. Now you're afraid to const.' "I'm not afraid," denied Griswold. "I don't want to; that's all. I have WHO CATCHES MAT KEEP, HE QUOTED. declivity. "' Usually the roadway was beaten into a glare of ice by the coast ers, for it was the only good coasting place in the ueighlxrbood. From the brow of the bill the entire road could be observed. All summer Henry Beeman had -been cutting the thick growth of pines which had cover ed the hillside, and now only a broad expanse of glisteniug snow crust dotted with the pine stumps remained. It was a pretty spectacle, and Gris wold enjoyed it in spite of the evident favor with which Nell regarded Ben, who accompanied her In her dashes downhill and the walk back again, with Nell walking by his side. Nomi nally Nell's sled was her sister's, and Ben's was supposed to be the property of his little cousin, but those two youngsters had little use of their pos sessions. The snn was dipping toward the hills on the other side of the valley and most of the coasters had gone home when Nell settled herself for her last ride. Ben had stopped to tie his shoe laces, and Nell looked over her shoul der. 'Who catches may keep." she called as the sled gathered momentum. Bpn sprang to his feet and ran for his sled. throwing himself upon it and starting off at a terrific pace. Griswold gave cne glance at the fly ing figure far ahead. He knew that Ben's sled was not as good as Nell's and that he would not catch, her until she reached the bottom of the incline. There was just one chance for him self, and. throwing off his coat, he caught up the pointer that Jimmle Sweeney had just brought up to the top of the hill. At the foot of the field was a place where two lengths of the fence had fallen in, and there were two or three similar breaks where he stood. It was the work of an instant to step through one of these and throw himself face downward upon the sled. Steering with both hands and feet. Griswold 6hot down the steep declivity. It was several years since he had been on a sled, but it all came back to him, and with a skill that was the talk of the hill for the remainder of the season be steered his flying sled in and out be tween the stumps, shaving the bark here and dodging a trunk there Just as a fractured skull seemed imminent. It took but a few seconds to accom plish the journey, but to Griswold It seemed years before he shot through the opening of the fence and with a last terrific effort swung himself Into the road. Just ahead were the smart gray jack et and saucy little hat that he was pur suing, and as he shot past he caught the runner of Nell's sled. . " 'Who catches may keep, he quot ed as he steered the two sleds into the softer snow beside the road to permit Ben to pass them. "How did you do It?" demanded Nell wonderingly. "Did you -think it would be Ben?' he countered. The girl shook her head. "I wanted to see if you would make an effort" she explained shyly. "All the way down I heard Ben shouting, and I was afraid that he w,as alone." "ne was," explained Griswold. . ' ame the short way." ' Xell looked, ai owner. .Tftarki FLOUR. WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CARLOAD OF OUR RED SEAL BRAND FLOUR, MILL ED FROM THE CHOICEST MINNESOTA AND DAKOTA HARD WHEAT. EVERY SACK GUARANTEED. 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