The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-12
Hiram, of DavsapOrs, Plying the
Eagle.


The Hon. Hiram Price, the member
from across the creek. when the resumption |
bill was before the house the other day, treat |
ed the members to one Of his good old |
fashioned 4th Of July speeches which
sounded very much ike the tailend OF
the speeches he used to make in his joint
discussions with Hon. j. H. Murphy, dur
ing the Tilden campaign. In his opening
remarks on the bill, he said that this
topic of silver and resumption wanted
some light shed upon it, and he proceed
ed to shed some. He poured light over
il like bucket of water. He exuded
light from all his pores and snapped it in
lordly gestures from the ends of his fingers
till the topic was covered with it; bathed,
saturated, whelmed and lost in the splsn-
doris Of his eloquence, In fact the topic
itself slipped out of sight in the glowing
glories of Prices acknowledgement as
If it had been pewter pot cast into the
great caidron of incandescent iron over q
foundry fire. He declared his indifference
to all that had been said before. He did
net know anything about the elder Peel's
opinions and did not care anything about
his sons" Men who are prepared to
favor the world with deluges of light have
this disregard for ancient prejudices as
naturally as chickens have the pip. But
Price favored the house with the reason
for his Indifference to the opinions of Peel.
Peel lived in England. That was what
allied him. For England is a very little
country, mere geographical pimple as
one might say, 1t is clear that it is sim
pie impertinence for people who live in
little countries to pretend to opinions,
and absurd to assume that
opinions which originate in such coun-
tries are Of any account in big countries.
I'm England" says Price, you may take
railroad car in the morning and start out
in straight line and before sun sets you
will run over the edge" an observation
which proves at once that they can know
isn't room. But how different it is with
81 Step QUIT is Price that invites
US in these terms-"step out from
yonder eastern limit and see the
King Of Day shaking the water from
his wings. He takes his course
westward-not six hundred miles only, nor
one thousand miles, nor two thousand. nor
three thousand miles only, but he has
traversed nearly four thousand miles when
he sinks to rest behind the golden waves Of
the Pacific" There may be some persons
not thoroughly convinced by this line Of
argument. For them there is this further
defiance; Take your stand up at the
frozen north where che ice king reigus, and
follow down through all degrees of latitude
till you have reached the land of the orange
and the pine. and there you have a coun-
try which, for diversity of cline aud pro
ducts, has no equal on the globe" Thi:
is an account of our country that will cause
the minions of despotism in foreign parts
to quake with wonder, But let them moi
rashly hope to get W such country OF
their own acoouut; for, las Price Justly OBJ
serves, you cannot make such country
anywhere else, for there is no other plac,
to make it ID" We have the exclusive
patent right for the country and for one o
its grandest products, Price himself
There is nothing like this country else
where, aud nothing like Price elsewhere
and only two or three like him here.