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THE ARGUS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1908. THE ARGUS. in your POWCrS. the more is it inoum-!nf tho vonr In th csntrol anil ennth. bont' Oil VOU tO meet the nnpstillli urn Mtrlc nf 'iho eta to artA rolioultxr a . -r...n..i . . . , .. . .. - f"- " "v"-' . a iuiy ana. weeKiy at 1624 irankly and fairly. If you will not ac-' drouth that threatened to be serious. Second avenue. Rock Island. 111. En- cept our remedy, what is your rem-1 : ierea at me postomce as second-clium 'edv? TIipi-a miit ha natter. J" x , "'i" BY THE J. W POTTER CO. TERMS Dally, 10 cents per week. Weekly, Jl per year in advance. Th Poverty Ridden. Was there ever a more heartbreak- underlying our organization today. If u ib not tne wrong we point to the ing problem than that of being poor wrong that disinherits men of their and yet looking prosperous? Far bet birthright. What is It? There must , ter were a diet of potatoes and cab be some way of securing the laborer! bage soup and a pair of leather the proper reward for his toil, of open-, breeches of the vintage of 1838. And Humor end Philosophy By DUNCAN M- SMITH - All communications of argumentative , ing to every man willing to work op-' that is one great reason why the coun- 'haf&cter. '- nnlitipsir rr rotltrlnti. ..! nnrtnnltv trk wnvb ...m ' fry 1m It- In fSalnrav tw Pfiftfirftninia ap cnaracter, - political or religious. nave real name attached for tlon. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. correspondence solicited from township In Rock Island county. must Portunity to work. If you will not publlca-.taKe our plan, what is your plan? every j Wednesday, December 30, 1908. Professor Fcircro says "Americans are too cheerful." Well, that's cheer ful. Roekefeler has written an essay on giving, but he knows more about tak ing. - . WEATHER MAN HOLDS TO HIS PREDICTION Insists There is Ground for Forecast of Lower Temperature and Orders Cold Wave Flag Up. The surest way stick on the water him on. to make wagon is a man to nail Did any of the Standard Oil wit nesses get their memories back as a Christmas present? ..It is said down in Washington the people are worrying about Roosevelt's future. . That is entirely unnecessary. '"Isn't this about the most pleasant blizzard you ever saw?" was asked the weather man this morning. "Never mind. You just wait and see what happens," answered the prognos- ticator with tome asperity. "Just turn on the cold wave nag today, please." So the No. 5 flag with a black square in the middle was hoisted above The Argus office and we shall see what wc shall see. A peculiar feature of the present winter has been the persistent refusal of cold waves to arrive when ordered. They originate away up in the north west, all right, and make a good start J this way, but in some manner they get on me wrong track, slip a cos, take the balloon route, or otherwise escape us. Yesterday's forecast was not entirely futile, however, for hardly had it been try be it In Galway or Cattaraugus or Posey county is a better place to be poor In than the city. A man is a man there, even if blue drilling jump ers are his best. Barring a condition of actual, grip ing want from which may God save all who were made in his image there are no people in the world so fortunate as those who have made up their mind to be poor and happy together. Nor Is there anywhere a man so cursed as lie. who can no longer live in the sim ple society in which he was born and yet yearns for It. New York Mail. The Beginning and the End. The beginning is three or four weeks previous to election. Two aldermen get to talking politics over their beer, and one finally says: "Well, Jim, I think I know the senti ment of the people, and I'm willing to bet my candidate will be elected." "lie doesn't stand an earthly show." "Money talks." "How much will you put up?" "Five dollars." "Pone." And two or three days after the elec tion the dally paper Informs its read ers: "Among those who had a clear In- ON BUSINESS PRINCIPLES. Bo gentle with the errlny. , For you can never knov But what the man may quickly Recover from the blow., And if you try to soften ' His lot perhaps a ten Or better you may borrow When he's on top again. Mistakes are more than common. And, as for every crime. Not every person guilty - Is busy doing time. Man is so very human. Ho sometimes makes a slip, But by Judicious boosting He may regain his grip. No one can read the future. You cannot always tell Who'll bo on top tomorrow And who'll be down the welL Hold in reserve your judgment And try to figure out For every erring brother A fraction of a doubt. We cannot all be angels. We cannot always eay Just when our little footsteps Will toddle off astray. And preaching's somewhat different From sticking to the text. Be gentle with the erring. Who knows? We may bo next. Certain Uncertain. To avoid misleading ambitious rhy mesters, perhaps we ought to say that the late Bloodgood H. Cutter, the poet of Little Neck, L. I., who left an estate of $6G5,000, of which more than $500, 000 was bequeathed to the American Bible society, did not make his money writing poetry. eight into the temper of the electors Issued when the clouds gathered and i throughout the country is Alderman a light rain began falling. This in- J Thomas, who backed his acumen with creased in intensity farther east and south, becoming one of the heaviest his money and is a winner to the ex tent of $30,000." Baltimore American. ' A test of the" soot-laden air in Chicago shows that 7,000 pounds of t organic and mineral substances are deposited on an acre of ground in that city from the atmosphere. Now let anyone dare to say that this condition of the air is not injurious to health. As Indianapolis is hardly less afflicted with smoke than Chicago, the deposits are probably as heavy there. No won der every one complains of the diffi culty of breathing and of keeping clean. CLAIM THAT REPUBLICAN PARTY IS CONSTRUCTIVE IS REFUTED The Horror of the Century. A later developments verify the report which at first seemed exag gerated of the earthquake in Southern Italy, the world is appalled by the fearful magnitude of the disaster. From present indications 100,000 have perished. When San Francisco, rent by (Special Washington Correspondence of The Argus.) A favorite allegation by Republicans 3 thru the Democratic party has not lieen constructive; that it lias been negative, merely .an opposition party, objecting always and suggesting never. Apropos the supreme court a few days ago handed down an opinion that E. II. Ilarriman, president of the Un ion raclfic Railway company, need cot answer certain questions propounded to him by attorneys of the interstate commerce commission. The decision essentially narrows the scope of the commission and thus puts farther away the day when real regulation of com mon carriers shall have been achieved. This case was begun by the Initia tive of the commission to determine whether or not the Ilarriman financial forces In Wall street hnd violated the anti-trust law by consolidating the Un seismic shocks and destroyed by Are,1 ion raelfle and Southern Pacific roads. suffered a death loss of less than 500 it .was regarded in this country as the most terrible misfortune of the kind in late history. People in America scarcely dream of the horrors of the j situation. It is the horror of the past ' and present centuries in southern Italy. It is beyond comprehension at this distance. People are not fully awake to it yet. When the western slope of this country was overtaken by great misfortune the old world responded in human sympathy and substantial aid. Let the people of this country, the people of Rock Island, act in ac cord with the appeal of the Red Cross society and render all in their power toward the comfort of the stricken and afflicted, the alleviation of suffering and the proper evidences of, sympathy toward those who have been so sadly and so overwhelmingly stricken. The "Coming Menace." The statement of ex-Secretary Shaw that socialism is the coming menace of the country, though somewhat in definite, not simply because it comes from Shaw, but because Shaw and so many other men who study economic: dons truth is the truth that the I-Iarri- It was believed the consolidation had accomplished a combination in restraint' of trade, a thing theoretically repug nant to the spirit of the anti-trust statute. Republican Made Laws Inadequate. That the consolidation did actually eliminate competition in what is com monly known as 'Ilarriman territory" every sleeping car porter, every bralic man, every office boy west of the Mis souri river and south of the Yellow stone knew, yet so Inadequate is the system' of federal statutes "construct-1 el" by the "constructive" Republican 1 party that there exists no known agen cy In the United States which has pow er to plate upon the records of t lie courts that universally known fact. Every one who knows anything about the matter knows that the combination is restraint of trade, and yet the mighty judicial arm of the law, co-ordinating with the commission ns of the mighty executive arm of the law, can not officially reiterate to the country what already the country knows. It would be absurd to create or "con struct" a system of enactments which would inhibit the government from making record of the fact that the sun shines, yet approaching that tremen- liii's'sion to sleep' by 'affirming t hat it had no power to make rates or deter mine ns to relationship between rates. Of course some may believe that it is rather vapid to interject vague pre diction Into what should be comment upon events actually become history, but nevertheless It is one of the facts that the fear of additional soporifics administered by the judiciary agitates commission circles In Washington. If, as claimed, the Republican party Is so magnificently constructive, why, may we nsk, should the eighteen years or more which have gone since the Sherman law was enacted not have sufficed that party to devise some means to accomplish the deired end? It is as though some architect boast ed of his art and then produced a sod shanty when his client desired a mar ble palace. Of course any one who spoke Ironically of the sod shanty would be dub'.ied "nonconstructive," negative, mere opposition. Ilowever,' the clients about 90.000,000 long suf fering citizens of the republic insist on being ironical this time. Uncle Joe's Transformation. The subject is so fascinating thnt one finds it almost impossible to re frain from mentioning it every week this tariff revision program. 1 once knew a theatrical manager who failed because he was eternally changing his program and disappoint ing his patrons. Teople -wcu'.a go to the theater to witness the per formance of some celebrity and find another, perhaps of equal fame, in the star role, so that the auditors never knew when they decided to buy dra matic coffee whether they would get coffee or tea. ' Here patriotic Democrats were throw- to Be foH r DON'T J The Argus Daily Short Story WON BY A TURNOUT BY RUTH CAMPBELL, Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated Literary Press. With a derisive honk the car shot past the pedestrians and vauished in a cloud of dust. Dorothy Stanford re-1 argued that the easiest way to win garded It angrily and stamped her . fortune was to marry one. SianfcrJ; Dolly":? father, had made a fortune in Chesterton, and Mayling a conditions have tbe same opinion. The indeftniteness of the declaration lies In the fact that no time is set for the "comink of the menace." Judging from the small socialist vote cast this year as compared with the ante-election claims of Eugene V. Debs and other socialist leaders, the menace is not approaching as rapidly as some of its. friends would like. However, It is important the situa tion, be carefully observed and that the public be alive to the issues. The statement made by Secretary Shaw recalls ' tbe " words of Henry George before the American Social Science as- sociation of Saratoga in 1890. He said: "Let me say a word to you, professors of political economy, you men of light and leading. We single tax men propose something we believe will make the life of the masses easier, that will end the strife between- .cap ital and labor and solve the darkening social problems of our time. If our remedy will not do, what is your rem edy? . You must choose be tween the single tax, with its recognt tion of the rights of the Individual, with its recognition of the rights of property, with , its recognition of the province of government, on the one hand, and socialism on the other. . - The matter is too solemn, too important. It involves the health, the lives, the very souls of human beings. It- involves the progress of society, the fate of civilization. If you have-had superior education, if you have had what so many of us have been denied the leisure for study, the opportunity to cultlva(e what Is highest and best There is this about a woman she IS Just as certain to be uncertain as she 13 to be flippant and ununderstandable. He Was On. "I have a new book here," said the affable agent, "that I am only showing to educated persons," "Thanks," said the shy victim, "but am ,afraid lam not elegible. Part of mv education iu the school of ex perience came from contact with book agents." A Follow Up. "What year were boarding houses In vented?" "What year were prunes discov ered?" "Did they come together?" "No. The boarding house came the next year as a consequence." foot. I "That's the third time he's done that thing. I believe he's doing it ou purpose. If he passes us again 1 11 What she would do was not told. for at that instant there sounded an other warning, and now a gray car shot past iu pursuit of the red. 'They have a right to the road," de fended Lawrence Mayling indulgent ly. He could afford to be generous to a defeated foe, since Dolly had es chewed automobiles and had taken to pedestrianism. Mayling had no car, but he was a good walker and the holder of the distance championship which was con tested every Saturday. The Marathon races had roused the local love of athletics, wherefore the I distance runner and the distance walker were the local heroes. This had given Larry Mayling his thance with Dolly, for his long legs car- Vfith the coming of the athletic craze he had seen his opportunity to win. and he had pressed his advantage bv.rd. Now he was training Dolly for the ladies' race, which was to be a feature of the coming week's sports, and he was making the most of his opportunities. Blount and I'razcr, whom he chose to regard as his di.sappvluted rivals, persisted iu running their cars over the triangular course on Useful Shade. "What kind of art is this? Who ever Baw a green eow'i" "That's all right. There ought to b cows of that color if there are none." "What for?" "Just to match the city farmer." (Continued on Page Six.) man system of common carriers has absolutely destroyed competition be tween the Union Pacific, Southern Pa cific, Oregon Short Line . and Utah Northern. Central Pacific, Oregon Rail road and Navigation and several lesser roads and handed over to Mr. Harrl man control of all freight and passen ger carrying In approximately one- Ihlrd of the continent. The government official may affirm that the sun shines, but may not write Into the court records that that equally patent thing exists the Ilarriman re straint of trade. And yet the laws under which these inhibitions have been Judicially In dorsed by the . supreme court were "constructed" by the Republican party, were sought to be avoided by a Repub lican commission and have now been construed by a court of last resort of which the major number of the mem bers were appointed by that same party. It Is not sought here to debate the wisdom of the decision. Let learned lawyers discourse anent that. But. in the light of the often repeated charge of nouconstructlveness of the Demo cratic party, the present helplessness of the government to accomplish some thing substantial In regulation of car riers, to say the least, is Interesting. Opiate For Commerce Commission. I may go further and assert that there Is a well defined fear in the in terstate commerce commission's offices here that other court decisions will be forthcoming which will place the com mission exactly where It was after the celebrated "maximum rate case," Iu which la 1894 the court put the com- AT Kuschmann's GROCERY You will find goods and prices that will save you money. 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"Why didn't you succeed?" "Too much money." "I didn't know you had any." "Didn't. Other fellow had it" In Doubt. Though Santa Claus with everything Worth having Is supplied. If he discovers I'm on- earth I will be satisfied. PERT PARAGRAPHS. It is indisputable thorn has its rose. that not every. Lots of men think they have a hard layout unless they are served with 4 soft snap. Sometimes tbe advocate Is the chief reason why you cau't be per- suaded that a I given thing is I right." FTN'- I Get iu touch j with the good things, but don ! get touched for good thing. r OH' BKY4NI srxs una . A woman may be well posted In poll- tics and still be able to select a good brand of complexion powder. There"" are just two kinds of lie those you don't believe and those yoo do. . i Anything will do for Brother Bob. He doesn't know a Christmas present from a horseshoe nail anyhow. ' Give the childreu red mittens and pocket handkerchiefs. They will be certain to remember yon In after year If you do. i I Some babies look like their daddies. They seem to be harmless little things, and one Would think they would have better taste. w 1 "TOTT RISKED YOUR MFE FOR HIS, ISHED DOLLY l'KOUDLY. ried him over the ground at a splen did speed, and he left all others far behind. All summer, with Dudley Blount and Paul Frazer contending for Dol ly's favor, ho had seen little of her. She had loved the Bwlft, easy motion of the high powered cars, and she had been unable to resist their charms But since the athletic fad had struck Chesterton the owners of cars were decidedly out of it. Not alone were they regarded as per sons too lazy to use nature s owu means of locomotion, but in addition they got. themselves very much dis liked by speeding past pedestrian par ties and raising a dust that made walking unpleasant. "They should be kept off the course at least," said Dolly severely. "The roads are for the people and not mere ly for a few selfish persons who have money enough to buy cars." Mayling smiled, but Bald nothing. Not so long ago Dolly had protested agaiust the deliberate fashion in which pedestrians occupied the road to the annoyance of autoists. Now the shoe pinched the other foot, and she had changed her opinions. There might, after all, be a chance to I win her hand before the walking fad died. . , The situation was not due to the fact that Mayling cared for Dolly while shs? did., not. jcare. ipr hl?n, but. .Stephjeu which the races were to be tried, and Dolly waxed mare and more angry each time the cars parsed them with the "honk" that was capable of so many Interpretations. What made It worse was that she really cared for Dudley Blount, and she wan both hurt and angry at the calm fashion in which he had aban doned all effort to win her favor when she had decided that walking was the thing. Dolly had expected that he would make some light against the new fad. but Instead he had laughed when she nrgtvl hi in to take up the exercise. "You would do wel to leave the car :n tre garige for awtiiie, she coun seled. "Walking is good for you." "I get plenty of that when the car breaks down." he reminded her. "I guess I'll stick to wheels, Dolly, and let you do the walking." Dolly had shrugged her shoulders to show her indifference, but she was none the less hurt and angry and pro ceeded to show marked interest in Mayling in order to teach Blount a lesson that he seemed too indifferent to learn. As Frazer's red car passed them for about the tenth time in their circuit of the course Dolly had a sudden Inspiration. "Mr. Blount In his gray car cannot be far behind," she said. "Ix;t us pre tend that we do not, hear and make him take the side of the road Instead.' Do you think that be. will?'' asked Mayling uneasily. Of course he will turn out, said Dolly confidently. "He won't try to run us down, and when he sees that we do not Intend to move out he will have to turn." She smiled radiantly at the Idea, but found no answering smile on her es cort's face. Mayling went white to the Hps at the .thought oljvhat miqrbt happen were the plan to miscarry- He did not think of the girl, only of himself, for Mayling despite his ath letic prowess was no moral hero. He was not afraid to fight. Indeed, lit rather welcomed the opportunity, for he was reasonably certain to knock cut hi? man, but to walk with one's back to an auto and to dare a rival to keep ou were not at all to his liking. ; When the faint humming of the mo tor told uf the coming of the grjiy racer Dolly smiled delightedly. Notfc Ing signs of a bolt on the part of her ,- companion as the frantic sounding .Oi the horn told that Blount was near, she caught at his coat. In an ecstasy of fear Mayling threw off her hold and dashed for the side of the road just as Blount, to avoid an accident, took chances on the road side. Mayling ran directly Into the path of the auto, and then, with another quick twist of the steering wheel, Blount threw the car at the stone fence. The next instant there, was the sound of exploding tires, and the driver was thrown heavily to tha frozen ground. He lay still and white, and with a lit tle cry of terror Dolly ran to his side. Tenderly she raised his head into her lap and with her handkerchief stanch ed the flow of blood from the cut In 1:13 forehead, while Mayling stood wonderingly by. Tnn't vou co for a doctor?" she asked when at last she looked up. "If you had done ns I told you It would have been all right, but you had to run at the wrong moment for all the world like a scared chicken. I thought that athletics made men brave, but I was wrong. It seems to make them foolish. That action of Mr. Blount's was braver than anything you ever dared think of." I guess I won't need a doctor, Dol ly." murmured the Ifjured man. That is all the tonic I need. It would have been all right if you had kept to the road, but when Mayling ran di rectly in my path I" "You risked your life for his," fin ished Dolly proudly. "Dudley, you were splendid." "I guess I had better get a car riage anyhow." said Mayling sheep ishly as he started for the town. The scene was not to his liking. The two beside the road did not even seem to realize that he was gone, for in each other's eyes they read the old. old story and found it delightful ly new. Blount had won by a turn out His ruined car and aching head were forgotten. It's the judgment of many smokers that Lewis' Single Binder 5 cent cigar I equals in quality the best 10 cent cigaV. Improve " f f Your Baking Ov J J KG Baking Powder will dp it! Get j 1 f a can. Try it for your favorite cake. 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