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THE AHGUS. ru Wished Dally nd Weekly at ISM Second A. ve nae. Rock Inland, IR, J. W. Potter - 7. Publisher. Taaiia-DaUy, 60c per month; Weekly. S3 00 per annum. All coramnniratlone of a critical or arnmenta te character, political or religion, nan hare real nam tjchl for publication N0 aach arti tlclea will be printed orer fictitious atenatnreg Anonvmon communication not noticed Correspondence solicited from erery townetiD n Rock Uland county. Tfksdh. February 10. 'lSfil. Bangor, Me., seems disposed to take tie lead in introducing fad?. At a com ing ball in that city the prompter will be suspended frcm the renter of the ceiling in a t aske. Doctor Koch's lymph is probably a ere raluahle medicine but like most other valuable medicines, it is most likely to kill you when you are least lively to get well without it Kansas City annexed about 12,000 in habitus before the census, but is to-day out just that number of inhabitants. The ordinance annexing the outlying territory has been declared illegal. Governor Abbett says that the value of land per acre is groater in New Jersey than in any other state in the union There is not a farm in the state more than ninety mi!es from either New York or Philadelphia, and very little iand more than six miles frim a shipping p.ict. Formerly the great arctic or snowy owl was rarely found m ccntial or north ern New York, but during the present winter tbe species has been numerously repr.'.'n!rd and numbers have been killed This is thought to be due to the fact that rabbit., on which the birds feed, have been uncommonly plenty this season and lave attracted them. St. Louis Republic: After the demo crats of Illinois have made a nomination for United States senator and have sub mitted it to tie peop'e, its approval at the polls biaJs them to support it to the ten thousandth billot in the legislature if Becessary. To abandon it would be to repudiate the principal and to deny the right of popular choice. Mr. Windoh, like General Grant and Secretary Manning, was a great smoker (t cigars, End his excessive use of tobacco is supposed to have aggravated his heart trouble. He was disinclined to take any Physical exercise and disliked walking. Even in going the short diet nce from the treasury building to the white house Le was accustomed to take a carriage. Under the new apportionment the number of presidential electors will be 444; necessary to a choice, 223. Oa the basis of the vote of 1333 the republicans would have 270 and the democrats 174 electoral votps. On the same basis, re marks the Chicago Herald, and regardine New York and Indiana as now safely democratic, the vote in the electoral col lege would stand 225 democrats and 219 republicans. On the basis cf the vote of 1390 the democratic majority would be verwhilming The new departure in form adopted by the Daily Continent (formerly the Star) , ff New York, under the proprietorship cf Frank Mrnsey. seems to meet with popular approval. It is a five-column, sixteen page sheet, ably edited and rilled with bright and newsy matter. The columns are narrower, and about half as long. Mr. Munsey has deviated consid erably from the prevailing custom adopted by metropolitan journals in his make-up of the Continent, and it is to be hoped that he will at least not regret his action if it does not prove a brilliant suc cess. Caue of Talleyrand's l.aim-iienA. The caue of Tdleyrand's larin'ne.ss has long been a matter of dispute. During the fifty-two years which haveelapsed since his death bin deformity Las Ihjl-u accounted lor in all maimer of ways. Some Nto:-i's have it Mint the defect was congenital; others that it was occasioned by an accident which befell him iu his in fancy. The most curious explanation of all w that offered by a writer in The Quar terly Ileview. "To quote the very words of our informant, an eminently distin guished diplomat," says the writer, "Tal leyrand's Vienna colleague. Baron TVessen foerg, told me years ago that his lameness was owing to carelessness of his nurse, who laid him down in a field while she flirted with her sweetheart, and ou coming back to ber charge found some pigs dining on the infant's legs. I am sure that W'essen berg told me this as an established fact, and I am all but sure that his authority was Talleyrand himself." A Very Delicate Ileat Discovery. The new bolometer has been put to splen did use by Professor Langley, who with ite aid has measured the heat radiation of the light of the glow worm. He states that the light given by this highly scientific in sect is accompanied by less than one-four hundredth part of the heat given by an equal amount of gaslight. This means that the light of the glow worm is four hundred times more economical of energy than gaslight, and also vastly more eco nomical than the'electric light. New York Journal. Mexicau children are very seldom rude r saucy. They are taught to be polite un der all circumstances, and to all people. Some parents would rather have their boy be almost anything else than a grosero or rude person. For this reason one hears little quarreling or rough talk among chil dren playing, and sees hardly any fighting or bullying of little boys by larger ones. TAXES FOR THE POOREST MR. THOMAS G. SHEARMAN DISCUSSES "THE COMING BILLIONAIRE." Startling Fi-ure, on Wealth and Taxa tionHow Tariff Taxation Puts Money Into the Pocket of the Rich The Poor Are Robbed to Make the Billionaire. The growth of wealth in the bands of a few rich men in the United States has, within the px?t twenty-five years, re sulted in producing fortunes of unheard of proportions. The fabulous wealth of Croesus which was the marvel of the old Greeks, was nothing in comparison with the vast fortunes of our Astors, Goulds and Vanderbilts. It is not surprising then that we are asking ourselves: How rich will our rich men become? Shall we not at some time have a triHionaire, and astonish ourselves and all the world besides? In the January number of The Forum magazine Thomas G. Shearman, the emi nent writer on social and economic ques tions, has a remarkable discussion on this subject entitled -The Coming Billion aire." When Mr. Shearman claimed in the same magazine more than a year ago that ha'f of the wealth of the country is owned by 40,000 families, and that three fourths of it is owned by fewer than 250, 000 families, his statements were disputed by many. There was much controversy at the time over a list of some seventy rich men given by Mr. Shearman as worth from ?.?0,OiX,000 to $1.j0.O00.CO0 each. It was claimed by many that the fig ures were exaggerated, but in the Janu ary Forum Mr. Shearman contends that the list was in the main correct. In discussing "the coming billionaire" Mr. Shearman treats of the creation of wvalth a.s influenced by our present sys tem of indirect taxation, and by indi rect taxation lie des not mean the tariff tax exclusively, but includes taxes upon banks, bonds, merchandise, lands, capi tal in manufactures, railroads, etc., in all of which the tax is shifted back to the actual user or consumer. This trans ferring of taxes brings it to pass that our tax system nut only discriminates in favor of the holders of large capital, but it actually puts money into their packets; that the poorer people not simply pay more than thfir due share of taxes to the government, but they pay in addition a tax to the rich which much more than makes up for the taxes which the rich themselves pay. How this result is brought about Mr. Shearman seeks to show by a series of tables. The total wealth of the country he estimates at about f82.000,000.000, or nearly $1,000 per head of the population. The division of this wealth is as follows: Families. . i,a..xo .ll.6-J0.nu Wealth. St3.367.000.Ono 7.500,000.0.10 l!.S15,i,0(W Rich lliJJl.... Working. . Totals 1VKK.O0O $.i2,'2,0o0,Wt The production of wealth in 1S90 is put at $13,000,000. After allowing 4 rr cent, of this for repairs anil replacements the net income is divided as follows: Families. Average Income. Total Inrfm J.'oo Ss.o.'O Si.riou.oiw.otio lHOrt) 1.51VMXO 000 11,620,000 wo 6.650.000,000 These figures become all the more striking when the matter of saving money is considered. If there were no taxes the ric-h could easily save two thirds of their incomes, while the other classes could scarcely save one-fifth of theirs. But taxes, especially the tariff taxes, are levied upon the expenses of the people, and thus tear much more heavily upon the piorer classes than upon the rich touching four-fifths of the in come of the average poor tiau and only one-third of that f the rich man. All forms of indirect taxes thus levied upon expenses are supposed by ilr. Shearman to be about 15 per cent. This would therefore tako from the two poorer classes ftWO.000,000 a year, and from the rich only $-25.000,0(W. But these two 6ums represent taxes which go to the government and those which go to indi viduals. Mr. Shearman estimates thit one-third of the taxes paid by both classes go to a small section of the richer class. This would give the following as List year'ssavinirof the rich and other classes: SAVINGS OF THE RICH. Natural saving SVW.000.000 Deduct taxes, etc $25,000,000 Adil profile Uon tax system ,W0.iW 175,ooo.a Total 17T.(jiKJ,iJfJ SAVINGS OF OTHEtt CLASSES. , Natural savings $: i0.fr w.000 Deduct taxes WiO.OuO.OOO Net savings G40,OUO,000 The yearly gam to the rich over and above other classes is sufficient to yield in thirty years, if placed at 5 per cent, compound interest, an amount equal to ihc entire present wealth of the country. But if a system of taxation were intro duced, according to which the people would have to" pay taxes on their pos pessions rather than on their exrteuses, the result would be far different. Mr. Shearman estimates that such a system would require about 1 1-5 jer cent, on all property at its full value. Such a tax would be paid as follows: ISO.OOO rich would pay $5Si,ono.ooo 12,!0,000 others would iay 823,u0 ',000 It is Mr. Shearman's opinion that the substitution of a system of direct taxa tion would be worth !jr50,000,000 a year permanently to the middle and working classes. An individual case is used to illustrate the workings of the two sys tems. At present the owner of $10,000, 000 need not pay more than $15,000 a year in indirect taxes; while, if he is the protected owner of mines and factories, he often makes a round $100,000 out of tariff taxation. Under direct taxation this millionaire would pay $125,000 a year in taxes, and he could collect noth ing from other men's pockets. What, then, are the prospects for the coming of the billionaire? Mr. bnear nian claims that if the billionaire comes he will not be the product of any natu ral law, but simply the product of indi rect taxation the system which taxes the many for the benefit of the few. If this Bystem continues the billionaire might reasonably be expected in torty Tears, and several billionaires in sixty years. The present system, under which landlords and 1 arge capitalists as a class pay nothing in taxes, will assuredly pro duce the billio naire if continued. But will it ba continued? Mr. Shear man thinks it vill not. The abolition of the sugar tax a nd the enormous increase of the permanent expenditures of the government by the Republicans at the last session of congress have brought us face to face with a deficit of $50,000,000, and no party will hereafter venture to reimpoee the sugar tax. The people will learn through cheapened sugar, aa never before, that tlw tariff is a tax, and they will not tolerite the sugar tax again. But in teachiig the people this lesson the Republicans have unwillingly taught them an invaluable lemon in the nature of a protective tariff itself. In this way free sugar will not only not save the pro tective system, as was intended by the McKinleyites, but it will help to under mine and ruin that system. Blaine's reciprocity, to, will teach the former the value of the foreign market and the desirability of enlarging that market be yond the two Americas. The last elec tion doomed tt e wool tax. and the wool growers have long threatened that free wool will mean free woolen poods. As protective tariffs are abolished di rect taxes will have to be levied in order to raise revenues for the government, and as protection passes away the reign of the extortioner wiil cease. The rich will then bear thi-ir du? portion of the public burden. When this has been brought a'fciut the 'oillim iire will not come, for the system will !- dea l. wh: F30TECTiO:j FAILS. Uigli Iuti,' oti !! Iliil, l , yt Tre vciil I.iM-lttvit aiil :rike. Th'J country b:i u- v -r -n t time, perhaps, v'ii:i fh.-r.-- was an ahun- danee of evidt-tce t. ;-how that protection cannot guarant -e ".-tea ly work and high wages." That high tariff organ. The Boston CV:imv rcial Bulletin, furnishes the following two ite.n-, placing them together: The rolling mill a:i l pipe works at Scotttlale. Pa., have been closed down indefinitely, ;is have been also the Char lotte furnace said coke works. About 10,000 men are out of employment in Scottdale alone. Tiie Frick company has also shut down nearly 1.200 oveus. The officials of the Illinois Steel com pany give the fallowing reasons why the rolling mills at South Chicago, Ills., have been shut down. They say: "We are try ing to settle a so lie of wages with the men for the couiin ; year, and want time to adjust it. We have been negotiating with the men for ten or fifteen days in regard to the wages, and I can't tell how lonaj it will 1; before we arrange the entire scale. We will b? obliged to make some reduction in wages, as the mills in the east have done so. j.nd we want to meet the difference." The Illinois com pany's mill hi.ve generally been shut down at this se.ison for repairs. This statement that the wages of steel rail workers ha ve been reduced is of in terest in view c f the facts brought out in the senate debate on the steel rail tariff last summer. A dispute having arisen as to the difference between the labor cost of making steel rails in America and in Enroje, an i lqniry on the subject was sent to Carroll D. Wright, United States labor commissioner. He reported that the labor cost in one ton of rails in Europe is $11.32 and in America $11.59, a differ ence of twenty-seven cents. In his let ter to Senator Carlisle, moreover, Mr. Wright inade the following strikins statement: "You will pardon me if I call your at tention to one analytical feature which should be observed in the use of the analysis iiereuith forwarded. Labor coht in urie ton of steel rails I mean af ter all the materials have I een assembled in the steel rail works and are ready to be subjected to the pmpe r manipulations for the production of standard steel rails should be less per ton relatively in this country than in Great Britain or on the continent, because American producers of standard steel rails dispense with at least one expensive process still adhered to by the foreign producer; and further more, our mat rials, ore. etc., are purer tlian those used in most other places; so the quantity of re, for instance, required for the product on of a ton of standard steel rails is les-i in this country than in other places, an d of course the labor re quired to produce one ton of steel rails is, so far as the purer materials are con cerned, less hr than abroad." To cover thi difference of twenty seven cents a ton the two houses of our high protective congress put a duty of $13.44 a ton on steel rails. The price of rails is now $24 a ton in England and $28 in the United States. The American railmakers are now consolidated into ouly six or ei;ht establishments, and they have a practical monopoly of the home market. The shutdown of the Chicag j concern is not the only evidence that the steel railmakers are not getting all that high protection promised. The great steel mil king of this country is Andrew Car negie. The following interesting news item has recently been printed: "Five hundred employes in Carnegie's steel works at Bradfc rd, Pa., have struck for the advance in wages which was prom ised before the i'cKiuley bill was passed, but luis since been indefinitely poet Ioned." Here is uuoth r from a Philadelphia paper: The Edgar Thomson Stwl works of Carnegie Brothers & Co. (limited) have again broken tlieir phenomenal record at rail making. An output of 1,441 gross tons of rails in t wenty-four hours is now the record, the best previous perform ance having lu 1.417 tons. The best day's work by amy other mill is said to be 1,312 tons. The dirTerenco between the price in England and America, as above given, is $4 a ton, which would be $5,7tr4 on Carnegie"s one tlay'b output. To insure Carnegie against the comietition of the cheaper English rails the AlcKinleyitea imposed a tariff of $13.44 a ton, which, on Camegie"s 1 441 tons, would amount to a taritf protection of $19.S0C.U4. How beautiful a thing it is for brethren .to dwell together in unity and tax them selves to make taillionairesl Dream. Puck could put a girdle round about the world in forty minutes, but he wm slow compared with the niont ordinary dream. We survey maukiud iu China aud Peru at the same iutant of time, And in the course of one revolving moon we may walk with Plato iu the groves of Academe, applaud Luther at the diet of Worm, s-t out for holy Palestine with CRur-de-Lion, assist Noah iu buiiiiiiiK the ark, and call on the mountains t cover us at the day of judg ment. Many stones are told showing the differ ent count of time. Lord Brougham relates that hedreamed a dream of lonj continued action during a short doze while a droniug counsel whs pleadii-.jj liefore hi:u. Lord Huiittml fell aslftp while listeniii to tome one reading, dreamed a loni dream, and awoke in time to hear the conclusion of a sentewe ti.e first words of which were iu hiti ears when he Ucitne unconscious. Dr. Abercrombie relates that a trentlemau dreamed that he had enlisted for a soldier, joined his reyimeut, deserted, had been ap prehended, carried back, tried, condemned to be shot, aud at last led out for execu tion. After all the usual preparations he awoke with the report, and found that a noise in an adjoining room had both pro duced the dre:ui aud awakened him. Another dreamed that he had crossed the Atlantic and spent a fortnight iu America. In embarking, ou his return, he fell into the sea, and, having woke with the friKht, he found that he hnd not been asleep ten minutes All the Year Bound. 'Is CommmptoB Inenrable. Read the following: Mr. C. II. Mor ris, Newark, Ark., says: "Was down with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and physicians pronounced me an Incurable Consumptive. Began taking Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, sm now on my third bottle, and able to over see the work on my farm. It is the finest medicine ever made." Jesse Middleware Decatur, Ohio, says "Had it not been for Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption I would have died of lung troubles. Va9 given up by doctors. Am now in best of health." Try it. Sample bottles free at Haru & Btthasen's drug store. ELECTRIC BITTERS. This remedy is becoming so well known and eo popular as to need no special men tion. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaran teed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases f the liver and kidneys, will remove pimples, boils, salt iheum and other affections caused by impure blood. Will drive Malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Slalarial fevers. For cure of head ache, constipation and indigestion try Electric Bitters Entire satisfaction guar anteed, or money refunded. Price 50 cents and $1.00 per bottle at LlarU & Bahnsen's drug store. ECCXXKS'S ARNICA SAL VI. The best salve in the world for cats, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions, and posi tiveiy cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per bcx. For sale bv Earta & Batasen. Senator-Elect Peffer, of Kansas, be litves in women suffrace and prchitiition. How lonely he will be in the United States senate. Allow me to add my tribute to the ef ficacy (f Ej's Cream Balm . I was suf fering from a severe attack of itfl .enxi and catarrh and was induced to try your remedy. The result was marvelous. I could hardly articulate, and in less than twenty-four hours the catarrhal symp toms and my hoarseness disappeared and I was able to sicg a heivy role in grand opera with voice unimpaired. I stroisly recommend it to all singers. Wm. H. Hamilton, leading bas?o of the C. D. Hess grand opera company. John L Sullivan icdignactly denies that he is drunk Bgain. It must be the same old drunk, then. ADVICE TO K0THKK8. Are you disturbed at night and broken of yocr rest by a 6ick child suffering and crying with pain of cutting teeth? If so, Fend at once and get a bottle of Mm. Winslow's Soothirg Syrup for children teething. Its value is incalculable. It will relieve tbe poor little sufferer imme diately. Depend upon it mothers, there is co mistake about it. It cures dysen tery, diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, reduces inflammation and gives tone and energy to the whole system. 3rs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children Teething is rleasant to the taste, and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female nurses and physicians iu the United States, and is or sale by all drug gists throughout tha world. Price 25 cents a bottle, j The tired street-car horse best knows "the luxury of whoa." Da Ton Cocgk! Don't delay. Take Kemp's Balaam, the best cough cure. It will cure your coughs and colds. It will cure pains in the cbeet. It will cure influenza and bronchitis and fall diseases pertaining to me iungB Because n is a pure balsam. Hold it to tbe light and see how clear and thick it is. You will see tbe excellent effect after taking the first dose. Large bottles 50s and $ 1 . The length of the ballet girl's dress is considerably over two feet. A Heal Baluin is Kmp's Btutm. The dictionery says, "a balsam is a thick, pure, aromatic substance flowing from trees." Kemp's Balaam for tbe throat and lungs is the only cough medi cine that is a real balsam. Maiy thin, watery cough remedies are called balsam's but such are not. Look through a bottle of Kemp's Balsam and notice what a pare, thick preparation it is. If you cough use Kemp's Balsam. At all druggists'. Large bottles 50can1Sl. There is no danger of a cold resulting in pneumonia when Chamberlain's Cough remedy is used as directed "for a severe cold." It effectually counteracts and arrests any tendency of a cold to result in pneumonia. This fact was fully prov en in thousands of cases during the epU demic of influenaa last wiate -. For sale by Htrtz & Bahnsea. Great Clearing Sale FROM- February 2d to TO MAKE SPRING STOCK. Will e'e ent lirre lice of Bed Room ind Tar or Set t cost, i'. grtt Tartar uf ) 11 Chiirt wijt be colli cheap. I2!FDo not miss this opportunity. W. S. HOLBROOK, No. 103, 10o and 107 East Second St., Davenport, la. H. SIEMON & SON, -PKALZR9 IN- toves and yinware, IPTTIMIIFS, INA.IXjS, &0, Baxter Banner Cooking and Heating Stoves and the Genes eo Cooking Stoves. Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Work. 1508 SECOND AVE., ROCK ISLAND, ILL. J. B. ZIMMER, THE WELL KXOWN erchant Tailor, Star Block, Opposite Harper House. hi rr.ivhs.eJ for the i Spring and Summer of 1891, A lr,:trr.l izrr thn evr. Tbee , wl wi:i -rive in few dr. Wt:t and tee thria. PRACTICAL HOLIDAY GOODS. Believing that everyone, deem it- necessary to remember their friends with a useful Christmas gift, we have selected the neatest and largest line of LADIES' and GENT'S Ooze. Swede Kid, Russian Calf and Plush In all the modern stjlea and shades. Seond and Harmon Su ST. JAMES HOTEL, Corner Twen'.j -third trcct nd Fourth Tenn. J. T. RYAN, Proprietor. This hone ha ju.t born refltted thronghout and i. now io A Xo 1 coa.t.uon. 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