The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-12
THE WHISTLE NUISANCE.
Have We One Kind Of Justice for the Aich
and Another for the Poor!


r. B. Taylor and others petlloned the
Citv Council to relieve them from the III
tolerable nuisance of the water works
whistle-and the Union makes the petition
the occasion for blackguardism and abuse
of the petitioners. 1t is matter OF entire
Indifference to us whether that whistle, OF
any other whistle blows or not. But we
think if every man who owns steam boil
er was to use awhistle, this would be rather
disagreeable place to live in. Most OIL
the establishments using them do so mere
" to advertise themselves, Suppose HE
ARGUS Office and the Union office were TO
nut up whistles, and The ARGUS was 70
whistle every time it received new SUB
scriber or told the truth. and the mon
was to whistle every time it lost suoscrl-
her or told a lie, there would be no such
thing as doing any business in the vicinity
of those whistles.
In some cities the blowing OF wills
ties is prohibited entirely-and rightly So
too No citizen can be subjected to such a
nuisance if he goes at it in the right way,
If the City Council will not abate 1t the
eourts will All these whistles are out
RACES upon the citizen, and all ought to be
prohibited.
I We need little infusion Of lmparha
Justice into the heads of our people. l
that water works whistle was erect
ed by the side of the lot Oh
which stands the residence OF L
J. Robinson, ?. L. Mitchell. +
Gregg, P. L. Gable, J. B. Hawley,o or othe
citizens we might name, would it be per
mitted to annoy the families of these pee
ple? Not much we reckon. If the Coun
D ell allowed it, an immediate inlunctlo
: would be procured from the courts to sto
it. Are poor people whose ears an
e nerves and peace are being worn out b
n that intolerable nuisance any less entltie
to Justice than those We have named
Take another case: That hog var
nuisance was complained of day after da.
and nothing was done till attention, IN I
complimentary terms, was called to 1t
IL THE ARGUS, One of the sufferers cot
" plajned to Police Magistrate Smonso
V and that functionary told the complaina
- ''he had nothing to do with it-he had be
ter 90 to Cropper." The man went
Chopper and he promised to act, but didn
IN as he said the owner had promised to Ia
" the hogs away. The hogs were tax
~ away the next day, but the place has 7
IS been cleaned UP or disintected yet. Ii
n that hog yard been under the windows
Hawlev. Robinson, Gable, c. VI. Osbol
DR.. Gait, or score of other people
could name, would they have been put
to day after day, and their families compel
to eat, sleep, and live in its stencil?
much.
Nuisapces which annoy and make mis-
able the lives of the poor aud the unlni
=, eutial are no less nuisaneeS than If Il
u annoyed aud made miserable the lives
~ the rich and powerful; and we want to
just as prompt, efficient and impartial ]
tee done to one as the other,
Personally we don t care how much
CD whistles are blown-but we tell the pee
d" who are annoyed and made uncomtorta
w. By them that if the Council will not al
oHl them the courts will if applied to. II
'i'' are not necessary and ought not to
i permitted, when one citizen is incony
ni' fenced thereby
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