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'4 THE ARGUS, TUESDAY. J AXUxVRY U. 1008. , THE Argus,, Published Dally and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue, Rock Island, 111. En tered at toe postofflce aa second-claw natter. By THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dally. 10 cent! per week. Weekly, $1 per year In advance. All communications of argumentative character, political or religious, must nave real name attached for publica tion. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island oounty. TRADES TmiJ COUNCIL Tuesday, January 14, 1908. The most generally satisfying thing that the present legislature could do in all its career, would be to adjourn sine die. Senator Beveridge has introduced a bill for a tariff commission. Fancy Beveridge acknowledging that he needs the aid of a commission to tell him how to vote. As Senator Aldrich is the father of the currency bill pending In congress, It will be nothing but prudent to try and discover the "nigger in the wood pile." perhaps carefully hidden there by the Standard Oil trust attorneys. The administration, after months of labor, has arranged a reciprocity treaty with France. It will be of im mense advantage to the "common peo ple" of the United States, -for it re duces the tariff tax on champagne.- Secretary Taft had to answer some embarrassing questions at the meet ing in New York addressed by him Saturday night. He was unable to satisfactorily explain why he had changed his- views on the necessity of tariff revision. more of dollars than of decency,, law and justice, those two men, one a con fessed grafter and the other a convic ted grafter, belong in prison, where they were, sent by a trial court which evidently considered the astounding violation of law and the crime against common honor of more importance than some trifling technicality which relatives and friends of the convicted men have fount after a Ion? exhaus tive search. Public officials who "graft" become public enemies. They are the worst class of law-violators. They are more to be despised than the professional criminal. The laws can be made none too drastic in dealing with officials who make a private snap of a' public trust. Unfortunately thfs class of law breakers is harder to detect and con vict than the common thief, yet their thievery places them upon a lower plane of moral cowardice than that where stand the ordinary crooks who fill the jails and penitentiaries. pendence,4 written by the founder of American - democracy, Thomas Jeffer-j sou; aud ever since then it has been i one of the i tenets of the democratic party that governments derive their j i . i a j i ' just power iron me consent oi me governed, and that people who are governed without their consent have the right to protest, and to demand their release from bondage. And the exercise of this right . ap pears to be what a large majority of the people of the Philippine islands are insisting on. RIFLES FOR SCHOOLBOYS. There Is a growling in the republi can camp in Ohio over the spoils of office that may produce democratic fruit in the future, if the democrats take warning and get together, so that like the republicans, they have some thing to fight for. The sensational news comes from Iowa that Senator Allison has ex pressed himself as doubtful of the ad visability of revising the tariff on the eve of an election. The Hawkeye statesman must be getting garrulous in his old age. He is not wont to be radical and incendiary in Ins remarks. He has been accused of having opin ions, but never of expressing them. Fix in your mind, that com merce is not a swindling trans action, but a purely beneficial operation; that every act of honest trad increases the happiness and prosperity of all who are concerned in it; that when we two exchange products, each is the more comfortable and the better off for the exchange for each has given that which he wanted less for that which he wanted more. Charles Xordhoffi Two Kxtremcs for the Same Knd. The paradox was presented before the Rock Island city council last even ing of the two extremes in influences rel ative to the liquor traffic in the city, working to the same end the defeat of the proposition to submit to the people the proposition to raise the sa loon license from $500 to $1,000. While both interests sought to accom plish the same disposition of the mat ter and succeeded, they were actuated by directly opposite motives. The anti-saloon people, as represented by the church, petitions desired the coun cil to defer action at the present1 mo ment believing that without immediate proceedings looking to the' regulation of the liquor traffic, their position would be stronger in the development of a sentiment looking to the submis sion of the local option proposition to the people in connection with the spring election. On the other hand the liquor interests considered only the present, and fought the submis- ion of the vote to the people fearing that it would carry, and maintaining that the increase would be oppressive to the saloon interests, discriminating in its effect, as driving out of business certain percentage of the saloons now existing. In the relative attitude of the two influences, the anti-saloon people pre sented the farsighted side of the issue, and the representation of the liquor traffic the shortsighted position. The anti-saloon influences submitted their protests in the form of numerous pe titions addressed to and read before the council, while the liquor -interests exerted their Influence by personal" so licitation among the aldermen in ad- ance of the meeting. In view of the pressure brought id bear from both sources, the majority of the aldermen were in a state of pitiful bewilderment. They seemed have on opinions of their own President's Plan Put Into Operation by the National Association. President Roosevelt's wish that the American schoolboy be instructed in rifle shooting is in a fair way to realiza tion, says a New York special dispatch to the Washington Tost. The National Rifle Association of America, in co operation with the national board for promotion of rifle practice, as the first step toward complying with the wishes of the president anil of the national board has amended Its bylaws so that rifle clubs can be organized in schools and become affiliated w ith it under the same rules and regulations as govern civilian rifle clubs. This schoolboy movement will be in augurated by a tournament which the National Rifle association has arranged to hold from Dec. 23, 1907, to January, 1908. at the Grand Ceutral Talace in New York. The most important fea ture of the tournament will be the presence of teams from high schools of other cities, notably Washington and Baltimore. . J THE LONDON to The Public Kncmy. Springfield Register: The decision of the appellate court of California, which declares void the indictment of Mayor Schmitz, coupled with the dec laration, of Superior Judge Dunne, be fore whom Schmitz was convicted, cre ates the suspicion that justice in Cal ifornia strikes snags in some pretty high places. The assertion of Judge Dunne is a bold one, that it is to be regretted the hearing of this appeal came up before a court whose members have relatives and intimate friends against whom many indictments were returned by the grand jury that returned those true bills. i win further say, the jury which rendered the verdict (against Schmitz) will be remembered with respect and honor long after the court which set aside the verdict has been forgotten.'' Possibly the decision of the appellate court, that the collection by Mayor Schmitz of graft from French restau rant keepers does not constitute public offense, is supported by some legal technicality with which the doors of penitentiaries are often pried open for prisoners with money; but Justice, blindfolded though she is, can see the crime against common honesty and official decency that has been perpe t rated. Whether Schmitz and Ruef are in or out of prison ; whether they have the friendship or not of court judges who are experts at digging up technical! ties to protect law-breakers, and whether they have the friendship or not of some business men who think MRS, D. E. SCHOLL and Daughter Leading Hairdressers. Is the place to get a good sham poo, facial and scalp massage, manicuring or chiropody. A full line of hair goods, nets, etc. Hair work made to order. Hair dressing for parties and weddings at the homes if de sired. Opposite Harper house. Old Phone 953. The Romans and the Sea. Virgil Is understood to have lived long on the bay of Naples, and he dwells repeatedly with unsurpassed ef fect on the littoral phases of the sea. but on the element at large he ex presses little but a sense of vastness, power, malevolence. It is a toilsome and perilous expanse, to be hurried across and escaped. Across the land the Romans went with indomitable confidence, marking their way with those works of pecul iar permanence, so that today the Brit on traverses the original roads they I built, and the Gaul walks beneath their arches, nut even in imperial times the voyage from Brundisiuni to Greece was something of a hardship. The ocean was a thing "bestrew'd with wreck and disaster." In its depths or on its shores lay the bones of those who never received burial and hence could not pass over the Styx. When Tiberius built a yacht he float ed it on the quiet lake Nenil and very likely kept it anchored like a palatla' houseboat. The sea lacked that essen tial stability which the Romans so much valued. It was estranging. Ro man adaptability made it a medium of empire, but never with the viking spir it. Sewanee Review. It Does the Business.' E. E. Chamberlain of Clinton, Maine says of Bucklen's Arnica Salve: "It does the business; I have used it for piles and it cured them. Used it for chapped hands and it cured them.. Ap plied it to an old sore and it healed it without leaving a scar behind." 23 cents at all druggists. and would have taken . the side- witching of the entire question in the same light that a man awakens from a horrible nightmare. And now that all is over for the present some of the councilmen who voted against sub mitting the proposition to the people, attribute their action to the effect of the anti-saloon communications, others to the crushing blow the $1,000 license would have been to the struggling sa loon, and still others to the fact that a special election on the subject would involve an unnecessary expense. And altogether they the aldermen who voted against putting the question up to the people are heaving sighs of re lief that they wer? not called upon to act in their official capacity in the ex ercise of their proper prerogative on the square-toad issue as to whether the license should be increased or not. The Argus has u:ged, and stijl main tains, the high license measure to be prop- er. it believes in the increased license reposes the best solution of the liquor question from the standpoint of sufficient regulation and in consideration of the much needed increase in municipal revenues. With high license in force and in position fo a trial would have developed an argument for a conserva tive consideration of the saloon ques tion in all its bearings with promised beneficial results as against the gen erally harmful effects of a possible radical course of action. The peculiar phase of the peculiar situation as it developed in the light of the pressure frpm the two extremes that influenced last night's action is that one side or the other may feel the peculiar effect of the rebound later on. Nobody wanted the halMoaf. 1770-1908. The Filipino people, according the most authentic reports, are much opposed to being governed by a power thousands of miles away, as were the colonists of the 13 provinces in 1776. King George the Third con siidered this sentiment among the col onlsts treason, but those who held it rebels; but Hhe sentiment was ap proved by, the Declaration ,of Inde- m 1 .rcx s Now Going oa and Going Some, Too No Tampering witK Figures. No Juggling with Prices. 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It may have been exploded a number of times to her apparent satisfaction, but secretly and with feminine inconsistency she clings to it. Alicia had such a theory, but she did not keep it buried in so inaccessible a dungeon as the bottom of her heart. Indeed, she wore It on her sleeve. It was her favorite theme of discourse, and the more It was disproved the more persistently did she revive It and champion it. And it must be admitted that Alicia's doubtful "acquiescence, "to you. But how nbout the other fellow? Was he convinced?" "Dick, how silly! Who ever henrd of Platonic love that wasn't platonic on both sides? How little you know of the subject!" scoffed Alicia with a mirthful little laugh. "And yet I have known you how long Is it?" "Seven months," promptly. "Aud you ride' your hobbyhorse at least every other time I see you." he said, not without marked intent. Alicia assumed a wholly unsuccess ful air of hauteur. "Oh. T beg your 1 1 '1 T" i 1 1 1 n lm vorp onrrr T'"n 1 w rml rnil men friends at least took particular de- j l shM ayoid tbe jn futur5 - SUe light in-discussing her theories with distant! v. her and promptly proceeding to dis- "Not at all." my" dear' Alicia. I as prove them, to that young woman's Bure you it rather amuses me," argued outward disgust and secret satisfac- Corrlgan, observing her aggrieved nt tion. Her hobby was platonics spe- titude with little discomfort to him ciflcally, platonic love. self. "In fact, I don't know when "It has been proved to me conciu- J any one subject has kept me Interested slvely," argued" Alicia, with delightful for so long a time." confidence, as flanked on one side by! "Indeed!"' The comment was preg the ample person of Richard Corrigan nant with feeling. and on the other by her squatty little I it was the first time Alicia's self dachshund Tretzel she strolled toward j styled philosophy had been so derided, the great stone garden seat near the ' and it nettled her. sundial. "i should be apt to accept that as a ."Yes." .her .companion, .replied .In coinplltneut," ventured Corrigan.. . lie The Danger of Grip and Pneumonia Neglected colds, during these violent changes of weather we are having, lead to grip and pneumonia, and these if the patient survives them leave behind them shattered health and lingering ills which invite all kinds of visiting disease. The safe thng to do when a cold or any throat or lung trouble appears, is to take Father John's Medicine, and take it faithfully, it is wholesome and safe, . being free from alcohol and injurious drugs. For more than 50 years, Father John's Medicine has been the family medicine in thousands of homes, and it has the impressive endorsements of physicians, clergy, hospitals and institutions because of its merit aud his tory. Father John's Medicine is not a patent medicine, but a physician's pre scription, curing coughs, colds, throat and lung troubles. Guaranteed. Father John's Medicine is for sale by T. II. Thomas. " had been watching her pull a crimson rambler to pieces aud scatter It over her tiny white shoes. Apparently she had not heard. "I say, Alicia," he persisted. "When you are ready to open a sub ject that may Ik? of 'more Interest than any I am able to suggest I shall be glad to talk to you," she said icily. Corrigan smiled broadly, but sur reptitiously. Had Alicia seen him thus amused he would have leen left with only the crimson ramblers for compan ions. "But, upon my word, Alicia. I am in terested," he said earnestly. "I've nev er been so absorlied in a study in my life. Why, my dear girl, if it weren't for my my belief in platonic love I might never have known you so well." Alicia confronted him with a half smile that, even in its semicompletion, was most attractive. "That's the Irish in you. Dick! You always manage to say something that will make the worst case of 'mad' turn to joy," she said, removing her big droopy hat and dangling it by the strings. "That's one reason why I love to be friends with you." "Then it Is true that Cod is good to the Irish," he laughed, and, subtle as it was, Alicia extracted the compliment and beamed good nature on him again. "You see, Dick," she began as If she were commencing a fairy story to an incredulous child, "it is so well, it is such a tremendous comfort to be just friends with a man." "Yes," said Dick readily. "I'm friends with several." "Silly! I mean for a girl. She can go about with him, ask him to do this and that for her and fel that she Is not putting herself under obligation If she's only friends with him, where as, if he's in love with her, he expects her to marry him and and it just spoils everything!" "I'm jolly glad I'm not sentimental." said Corrigan with a' purpose if with out veracity. "You'd have banished me long ago." "lou can have sentiment without be ing sentimental," she hastened to ex plain." And for some reason or other a flush stained her cheeks, and her eyes drooped. y "It's Just as clear as as mud." Cor rigan laughed in spite of his efforts to be serious. Alicia's eyes flashed. x "See here, Dick Corrigan. I believe you are making fun of me. Deep down in my own heart I know from your own actions and your whole attitude toward me that you agree with me. but Just to amuse yourself you make fun of me. I'm sure" you"' like "me." she went on. "just as I like you, or you wouldn't seek me out and want to be with me day after day. as you do. and that that very fact proves to me that you are in sympathy with my own at titude. We are friends, and you know it." she declared chal'engingly. Then she rose abruptly from the stone seat and walked over to the balustrade with her back toward him. "Come.. Pretzel," she said imperatively, as If railing hei dc fro::; a contaminating influence. Co.-rigan began to whistle very soft ly to himself while the small Dutch dog eyed him accusingly. "Alicia." said Coriigan's deep voice fondly from the depths of the great stone seat, lie had not moved. And right here it might be observed that Alicia always selected picturesque set tings for her discourses. The old gar den, shady and secluded, breathing ro mance and the fragrance of roses, was Ideal for platonics. "Alicia," repeated Dick when his first effort gained no response. With studied reluctance she turned her head. "I'd like to ask a few questions," he said, still somewhat indifferently. "111 be glad to answer them." The frigidity of her tone moved Cor rigan almost to the point of turning up his coat collar, but hhi better judgment prevailed. "This old guy, riato' he was be ginning as he walked toward her. "Dick!" w Her glance and tone froze the words. "I'm sorry," he said contritely. "But Alicia. I wonder if he ever knew the most beautiful woman in the world? I wonder if lio mnM hnr. ftteen with her almost dally for seven months? And yet. no, how could be? He lived B. C." In spite of herself Alicia dimpled. "It was beauty of mind, mental excel lencies, that he admired," she remark ed wisely. ' "rerhaps that's what I admire in you, "but somehow I doubt it" "My mental powers are not wholly to be despised." pouted Alicia. . "Xo. But an ordinary mortal cannot penetrate so dazzling an exterior," observed Corrigan. Alicia looked impatiently across the green. Somehow she was out of bar mony with the afternoon disappointed in In herself perhaps. Corrigan turned to her fjuite sudyJ denly. "See here. Alicia, do you like platonic friends better than anything else?" . - - - - .... "Yes." she said, but the syllable did not carry conviction. "Better than husbands, for in stance?" Alicia's color deepened. Things were more interesting after all. "I never had one." she laughed, and her voice was a little tremulous. "Then it's only theory?" Corrigan stepped closer. "Of course," she replied, looking up into his now earnest eyes. "Listen," he said sortly. "Couldn't" you le platonic friends with every one else but me. Alicia?" She did not reply, but one by one the petals of her rose tumbled down her frock. "Couldn't you?" nis big voice was vibrant with emotion. "I I might." she admitted, "but first let me tell you I like you letter than all the rest. I like you better than I could a mere friend. I I just hoped aud hoped you wouldn't agree with me. 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