The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-22
The @aitg Argas.
ALEDo CORRESPONDENTS.
Violation of license Law--Rowdies and
Roughs---An Energerie Marshal
Needed--Sounda and Sensible
Views on Finance.

ALEDo, Sept 18th, 1875.
The Council, or, as called here. the
Board, is in special session tonight, with
especial reference to imputed Violations of
the license law. Aledo has three saloons.
licensed to sell only wine and beer, and
these under the most careful restrictions.
The drug stores are licensed to sell whisky.
only tor medicinal and mechanical pur-
poses. Many OF the temperance people
OF the town have been asserting lately
that the saloon-keepers were dealing in
whisky, sotb-rosd,-hence the special ses-i
sion OF the Board Tonight. The public,
generally, were invited to come forward
with any information showing violations Of
the license law. There has been consider
able drunkness on our streets of late, and
nightly acts of rOwdyism, which calls for
increased vigilance in the execution of the
law. Only fortnight ago, band of half
a dozen intoxicated roughs. from a little
corner village enjoying the euphonious
name of ''Dogtown," took, as it were,
possession of the town, making night
hideous with their bachanalian revelries,
and deiying the authorities to keep them
quiet This, with other outrageous pro-
.eeedings. caused the "city dads to take
some action looking to the repression OF
lawlessness. What we need is good city
marshal, and he will never be procured
until a remuuerative salary is attached to
the Office. Rg. s-a Il
Among all the paradexes in politics,
there are none so absurd as those on the
question of finance. While the people are
arrayed on one side or the other of the
two parties which for short we will say
represent paper money and hard money,
no two Of our leading statesmen can come
together on this important topic, while al
most every politician in the country has
views in many respects exclusively his own.
Each OF the partisan organizations is
divided up with .dissenions in it's own
ranks on the financial issue, as are the two
leading national political parties on funda.
mental questions of democratic government.
With all the regeneration characterizing
the average politician, at no period in the
history OF this country have we witnessed
such gymnastic evolutions in the financial
arena as at the present time [ cannot
designate a single prominent politician now
taking part in the Ohio campaign, who
holds to the same views on finance he did
one year ago. This condition of things
either argues woful amount of ignorance
or, still worse, frightful amount of politi
cal chicanery. - ... .t--.- 5st.
The watchful care of our national cur.
rency rebounds more to the prosperity o
the government than almost any other &C
Of state polity. At the present time, tn,
political campaigns in the different state
are conducted exclusively upon this issue
and the more general the discussion, tn
more absurd the new theories advanced
the more complete the decentralization
Whenever, and only whenever, we get bacI
to the first general principles of commo
honesty in business transactions, and trea
the subject Of our national finances as VI
would our individual. money matters, the
we may hope for the financial millennium
arrive. Weshave SO many different kind
lOf money, urged upon the patriotism O
the people, III the emergency Of war an
since Increased for lack Of financial sagaci
ty, that only those who give the matte
close attention can tell anything about il
The masses are SO confused in the MAJ
labarynths of greenbacks. national notes
five-twenties, seven-:hirties, and so on, az
infnitun, that they are, easily duped int
swallowing almost any plausible theor
put forth By the politician for party capi
tai AS during the war many actuaiI
accepted the doctrine of Jay Cooke
that national debt is national bless
ing SO now, many believe that an add
tional issue of paper money would be ps
nacea for business distress. Give to any {
! these same men your note for certai
amount. payable in six-months at ten pc
GENT interest, and when due pay him wit
another note, at six per cent interest, an
so on. without limit to this extension pr
cess, and you are bringing the thing hon
to the mans understanding in way til.
he will not fail to appreciate. The Gloss
we approximate national policy of fnant
with that of individual business transa
tions, the nearer we get at the only tru
and honest mode of regulating govern
mental currency with what its face Walt
represents to be. ~ ALEDo.