The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-21


There is talk of organizing an American
brass band here, and Chas. Hubbard has
been mentioned as leader. 1t is hoped it
will be successful.
Robt. Young got too much benzine
aboard and was locked up by officer Teller,
This morning he paid IS into the treasury.
A. F. Swander was the man who assessed
the fine.
Ed. Curtis, yesterday, was up before
Police Magistrate Swander for being
drunk. His fine was assessed at IS,
which he promised to pay and was re-
leased. Officer Olsen made the arrest.
The Moulder's Union. of Moline, give
dance Nov. 10Th. The dances Of this So
ciety are always enjoyable and it is the in.
tention of the committees having the mat
ter In charge to make the coming affair one
of unusual attraction. Davenport will furn-
ish the music.
Yesterday afternoon about o'clock
man. named Lewis Newman, met with
painful accident which resulted in the loss
of three fingers of the left hand. He was
brushing away saw dust from saw in
keatur's new saw mill, when his hand &C
cidentally caught in the machinery. result
lug as above stated. DR.. Foster dressed
the wounded hand.
Chas. F. Hemenway does not need any recon-
mendation from us. We all know him. he has grown
up among us,-Gazette.
Just SO! We all know him, and the peo-
pie understand the he is the pet of the
monopoly ring that seeks to perpetuate
their arbitrary rule and have hit upon him
as the most pliable agent to consummate
their pet schemes and measures. The
people are alive to this fact and will re-
member it at the polls. He is not the
mercenary clique that has ruled Moline
and retarded its progress for years.
Postmaster Wells takes occasion to de-
ny, through the Gazette, any completely in
the grand hush-up of the case of Walter
Benson, the post Office thief. Will Mr..
Wells deny having been paid the money
he was out Will he pretend to say this
is not completely ? His reply to the arti-
Gle in THE ARGUS is an evasion of the
question, as were his remarks to the re-
porter who interviewed him. THE ARGUS
persists in stating that the case has been
mysteriously managed, and that grand
hush-up has been practiced. Did you 0l
did you not get your money back ?-that
is the question.
/ The rapidly increasing trade of the Mo
line FIGURING Mills has made it necessary
to increase their capacity and add mum
Der of improvements. The firm of Wal
tiers Il First is among the most reliable il
this section and the large and continuou
demand for their celebrated brands o
-four is proof of their honorable dealing
as we'll as establishing the merits of tn,
commodities offered. Messrs. Walters {
First use only the choicest wheat, ant
with their enlarged facilities, are enabled
to offer splendid inducements to the trade
1hesevening paper of Rock Island continues it
labors to create a breach in the harmonious re
lations of capital and labor in Moline, and talk
full of mercenary property holders and kindred
trash. Not manufacturer of Moline s in an
sense monopolist. There is not wealthy man il
Moline but has earned his wealth by brains and In
dustry. And as to the property-holders Of Molin
being a "handful' and "mercenary" it is suficien
to say that half citizens are owners of real es
tate, and that their reputation for generosity an
public spirit is as high as any in the country
Union.
1t is all we'll enough to charge THE AR
/ GUS with trying to create feeling between
capital aud labor; to deny the existence O
monopolies, etc, ETC., but to prove tina
there is not and does not exist regularl
arrayed monopoly, as against the people
cannot, and as yet has not been done by tn
Rings Own''-the Union, There is
clique in Moline. Capital and labor doe
not harmonic. The wealthy manufacture
8 does not regard as an equal the commo
artizan, and the Union, when it assert
the contrary deliberately misrepresents
The people are beginning to realize tn
: necessity for concerted action: the oil
y tongued speeches Of the leaders of tn
- money kings are not received with tn
e same relish as they have been in the pas
;; AS compared with this clique OF. ring VIII
i. think they own the town, the people-th,
mechanics, artizans, lab,rers and sma
J. business men outnumber them more tha
i twenty to one, and they begin to feel tina
5, they have right to be represented in tn
+ management of public affairs. The cliqu
y feel their Unlimited power gradually leay
I; ing them; they realize the necessity for or,
= ating false sentiment and find the Unio
ready advocate of their monopol
IS schemes, The course of that paper ha
y always been on the side of moneye
cliques and rings as against the people
u 1t has always been the driSt0crdt's oaU7
r, and its rapidly decreasing circulatio
j. proves its growing unpopularity with tn
masses. Its weak opinions have very lii
tie weight in this community. 1t is in
q possible for the Union to advocate tn
y cause of the people. Its supporters al
# a few big manufacturers and money chan,
Is ers, and, with meek submission. it bows
80 H.,