The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-30

its few readers sound doctrine on support
ing home trade, home manufactures and
home newspapers. Particularly has it
used very pathetic argument on the latter
topic Every time the Davenport Gazette
captures fresh batch of its subscribers it
rushes frantically to the support OF home
trade, home manufactures and especially
homemade papers This is very proper.
The people should be taught, should be
educated to realize that to build up home
business is to build large city right here
at home, The Chinese nation operated on
this principle and China had its great
Pekin. John Chinaman builded big
stone wall to accomplish his big city, and
the big stone wall produced John China
man. Now If the Union could only get a
similar obstruction to the Davenport
Gazette it might have some encouragement
in making Judge Guyers out of the whole
Republican party. Bnt how in the name
of all that's logical can the Union expect to
stop this wholesale desertion of its sub
scribers, under its present management,
without resorting to John Chinamans
argument? Every dayit bundles up its ex-
changes and sends them over to the Daven-
port Water Works where they are perused
by an ex editor of the Gazette; Davenport
intellect brings all its profunditV to
bear upon them; they are CLEANED
by the inspiration superinduced by that
ponderous machinery, and the next morn
ing appear in the guise of leading editor
ial on the second page of the Union,
Republicans of Rock Island like it,whether
because it contains a strong element of
water, and less beer, as compared with
other matter Of the paper, or that they
prefer retired ION no pay Gazette talent to
English lumber, or because it is the only
genuine American goods offered them, is
difficult to tell. A fact however They
have discovered that the label Is spurious,
the goods second-handed and prefer to
purchase direct from first hands.
That our home manufacturers are not
we'll patronized Is not true. The pillow
shops are running full handed night and
day and cannot fill all orders. The reason
is Obvious; they make the best goods in
the world and sell them the cheapest, and
are making money. So of our wagon anG
carriage factories. So of the large soar
works of Warnock & Ralston, and the
same of every manufacturing enterprise
10 this city, Moline and Milan. No fail
ures take place among our merchants, 1
some of their trade goes to Davenport
there must be some good reason for it. l
is certainly an additional expense ant
trouble for our people to go to Davenport
buy goods and lug them home, as can b,
seen they do every hour, at the bridge, anC
at every trip of the ferry boat Examine
: that endless string of bundles from Peter
t sons. Are the goods better? Are tn
varieties greater? Are prices less? o
, does the snobish idea prevail in the mind
8 of the purchasers that their clothes wer
bought in some larger or foreign city
Who so bold as to answer these question
honestly2 A certain lady 10 this city toll
her friends she bought her dress in Da'
export, when she bought it at McCabe'
A certain Davenport lady induced tt
= papers to publish that her bridal trousea
, came from Worth's, in Paris. 1t wa
Il bought at the Boston Bazaar in this city
y These two facts may answer the last que
:, ton. Will some one who has purchase
:" goods in Davenport answer the other que
tons?