The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-08


Mr. W.D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, re-
minds one very much Of the incident re-
corded by Mr.. Disraeli in Lothian. Some
countesses and peeresses went on a winter
tour 10 Rome and went over to the Church
of Rome, whereupon their husbands went
in hot pursuit after them to reclaim them,
and also went over. When Messrs. Fos-
ter, Phelps and Wheeler went to the south
they certainly came back as converts,
and proclaimed that the south was
traduced, that it was oppressed by a
yillainous regime of thieving carpet
baggers and scalawags, and an utterly
ignorant negro rabble; Mr.. Kelley was
loath TO believe it, and showed his disbe-
lief by voting for the enforcement bill.
After the close Of the session he went
to the south and investigated for himself
He has now returned to Washington loudly
proclaiming that there is no more necessity
for q military rule in the south than there
is in Pennsylvania; that his greatest re-
morse during fourteen years OF service IN
the house is for the vote he gave for the
Enforcement actin short he has gone
over"
We by no means wonder at this change.
An average amount of conjunction against
false swearing, or the hearing of false wit
nesses, is sufficient to convince the northern
observer in the south that the curse of the
fairest portion Of the country is to be found
in handful of thieving rascals who have
used the political power of the land to op-
press millions Of our fellow-citizens. We
rejoice to find that there is great hope now
that such lying scalawags as Hays, who re-
ported men dead who lived to contradict
him, and such abbettors as the political
unfortunate, Joseph w. Hawley, may in
future be powerless agents to fan fratri-
cidal war between the northern and south
ern sections of the country.
But Mr.. Kelley, although he went over,
whereat we rejoice greatly, has neverthe-
less come back from the south not only
with one flea in his congressional ear, but
with whole bushel of insects singing the
great Pennsylvania statesman. He has
made the original discovery that the south
needs money; and that the only way to
supply the south with money is by his
great invention of printing bonds and ex-
changing them for rag money, and ther
exchanging rag-money for bonds,etc His
noble heart is almost broken to think thai
so great a country as this should be on The
eve of bankruptcy for the want of money
when we could all be made happy anC
fourishing at the following trifing expense
100000 small slips of engraved paper,
original cost, engraving, printing and
On each Of which beiD printed 800, there
will be produced 100, OOO, 90
Cost ..i.................... 6OOO
On each Of which 10 printed $50 1OO, O0O, 90
10000 600 slips at cents cost ...,.., 10000
in NJ WI Ia nrintad ID
10 600, 600 slips ut 8 cents cost ........ 10000
On each OF which is printed $40. 100 coo 90
100000 900 slips at cents cost .......... 10000
On each Of which Is printed $5....,... 100 OOO, 0O
Now, at an otlay Of 81 100000 Cor en-
craving and printing, the beggared south
and the semi bankrupted horth could b.
put in possession of no less than $500, 900,
600 of the best money the world has eve
seen. How awfully sick must that biz
heart of Kelley's be when, seeing a way 81
easily to enrich his country, he finds him
wisdom craftsmanship and benevolen
Mr.. Kelley was last winter as great
believer in southern murders and outrage
has cured him of his first error. Suppos
he should take trip to England this sum
mer-to that benighted country that ha
free trade and hard money-and invest
gate for himself the outrages perpetrate
by the bloated aristocracy on the unfortu
nate pauper laborers, and the swindled an
deluded people who have to handle gol
and silver as currency instead of the bes
money the world has ever seen? We pre-
dict, should MIR. Kelley undertake the trip
he is as sure to go over and come back
free trade and hard money man as b
came back from the south an honest think
ing man about southern outrages. ~ ]