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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-13
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A Boston dispatch says that kilograms
to private perties in that city report that
Gen. Grant has failed. 1t is rumored
that his brokers sold him out, he not
being able to further guarantee them.
The report, however, is not credited and
probably arose from General Grant
having recently made over his Long
Branch property to his wife for $40, 900.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-13

A project is on foot to demolish the
ruins of the Tulierlc1 and to build on
the ground a gallery for the reception Of
the works of modern painters SO poorly
housed at present in the Luxembourg:
Mr.. Charles GARNER has been requested
to draw up plans for the proposed build
ing.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-13

The Republicans Of Iowa are asked to
consent to divide the State so as to give
the Democrats at least one district, but
not enough contiguous territory can be
found anywhere in Iowa to make q
Democratic district. The very dIstric!
suggested by the Democrats, it is claim
ed, could be easily carried by popular
Republican majority of not less than
9 OO0
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-13

Bail in the case of star route Brady has
been fixed at $4,000. His attorneys
made light of the Indictment, and held
that 81, 900 was sufficient bond, but the
court took a different view.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-13

The Secretary of the Treasury viii,
on Tuesday next. issue the one hundred
and eighth call for the continued SKIES
amounting to S15, OOO. 600.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-13
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07

Mr.. Springer. of Illinois, made an admir-
able speech in support of the plan for in
slant reform by putting raw material for
manufacture on che free list and revising
the rate of duty so as to lay none higher
than is needful to compensate for the differ
ence of wages at home and abroad In a
speech which bristlcs with well arranged
figures and forcible reasoning is impossible
to rectify all the points that deserve atten-
ton, and the following is only the main
line of the argument.
Mr.. Springer arraigns the committee of
way and means for negligence and infrm-
ity with entire justice. If Mr.. Kasson's
averment is true that the tariff E'has be-
come too vast subject" for the committee
to grasp, that amounts to a notifying
confession of the intellectual feebleness of
its members to execute the plain duty i'm
posed by the constitution on the house of
representatives to originate revenue bills.
The proper course for committee which
confesses incompetency is to abdicate and
let another be appointed which is compe
tent. But the project of this committee is
to shift its duty to tariff committee of
outsiders" That means indefinite de-
lay, and meanwhile a surplus revenue of
one hundred and fifty million dollars a
year is to be drawn from the people. and
arising as it does from tariff duties, the
burden falls on them, not in pro-
portion to their ability to bear it,
but in proportion to their consumption of
the taxed articles. So long as such sur
plus revenue continues to be extracted it
lays an unnecessary tax of more than $780,
600 year on the inhabitants of every con-
gressional district. The shame of Con-
gress, if it adjourns without lifting this
burden, is the greater because of the length
of the session and the fact that the i'm
mediate diminution of the revenue was
recommended to it no less than five months
ago by the Secretary of the Treasury, who
certified in his annual report that the sur
plus was embarrassing his department, and
advised an immediate reduction of taxa
ton.
That the prominence of the
agricultural interests of the
country entities it to eonsid
Grafton in tariff reform is illustrated by Mr..
Springer with census from the ce nsus bu-
reau which show that the number of men
engaged in agricultural pursuits in the
United states is 1909, 212. as against 8, 519,
647 in manufacturing, mechanical and
mining occupations. Last year $739, 900,
900 of our exports or 80 per cent. of the
whole amount of them, were contributed
by the agriculturists. They demand tariff
reform that the necessaries of life which
they consume but do not produce may be
cheapened.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
AN OPINION.

Hon. James Wilson, of Traer, has given
his opinion on the proposed Iowa consti-
tutional amendment. He says: THE
amendment win carry. You do not meet
representative man now in days travel
that says he will vote against it. Party
has absolutely nothing to do with it. Lead
ing democrats all favor it, and scorn the
idea that their party is to shoulder immor-
atty. Those pecuniarly interested are
being left alone, with what influence their
money win bring to help them. Iowa never
had such an advertisement as this step for
ward tow ard clean living viii bring her.
One million foreigners are coming this
summer. They win mostly tarry in the
eastern, middle and states east of the Missis-
sippi, but, they win induce . movement west
wardsof native born, who viii divide on this
principal to great extent. The clean edu-
Gated family viii head for clean educated
Iowa. The personal liberty kind that are
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
THE COST OF 1T.

Protection and protective tariff are en-
inently selfish considerations, they can on
ly be defended on the ground of self inter
est, and would receive support from no one
were it not for the reason of hoped for
personal gain. They can be defended on
no ground of a broad and vigorous policy.
and no one has ever attempted to argue on
that basis. The simple argument was that
a protective tariff conduced to higher
wages, and the only way to meet that ar
gument is to show the contrary is true.
In the first place the protectionists tell
the farmers that they get better prices for
their produce under high tariff, and that
this is the effect of protection. In srder to
demonstrate the falsity of this statement.
it is only necessary to take ten years-five
years of democratic tariff for revenue pol
icy, and five years of republican high tariff
policy. For the former we viii take 1854
to 1858, inclusive, and for the latter 1874
TO 1878, inclusive. These yeare are the
fairest that can be selected for comparison,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
THE ANT1-MoNopoLrsr.

In will be remembered that of late, Mr..
John Kelly has been blatant anti-monop-
olist-in name-and has been aiding the
chief of the anti-monoplists Thurber; but
now comes news from Albany that a new
trade has been made, and Kelly has desert
ed Thurber in order to go over to Cornell.
Tammany has sold out Thurber on the
railroad commission bill, and will vote to
strike out the provision which had been in
serted to enable Thurber to name one of
the commissioners and vote to give the
Governor unrestricted power to name all
the commissioners. They are to go clean
over, and in return for their votes Ito give
the Governor the use of the railroad COM
mission as political machine, the Gov
ernor's friends agree to put through the
Tammany charter for New York city. SEN
ator Pitts has been selected TO lead the
republican Senators into the Tammany
camp.
The charter scheme takes away from
Mayor Grace many appointing powers,
and puts them where Tammany can con-
troll them. This bait is big enough for
John Kelly. and anti-monopoly can go to
the wall now This is the kind of patron
saint that our demagogical friend Of the
weekly Hypocrste worships.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07

evening service. No evening service at
the First Presbyterian church; in the
morning Dr. Clute's subject win be God
our Help Atthe TDurteenth street M.
e. church, at 1890 a. m, DR.. Head win
speak of THE Temple of Man, or the
Human Body as the Habitation of the
Triune God. no evening service. Gospel
service at the Spring street chapel, East
Davenport, at Z 80 p. M; subject why
Sleepest Thou?' Nopreaching at the First
M. E. church Services at Trinity Epis-
copal at 1890 a. m. Grace Cathedral,
Episcopal, services at II a. m. and 7:30 p.
M At the English Lutheran church, Rev.
r. W. Goodlin will preach morning and
evening. At the four Catholic churches,
masses will be held at 7:30 and 10 a. M,
and vespers at 800 p. m. At the Y. NJ.
G. A rooms, Sunday school at $50 p. m.
Evening services are dispensed with in
most of the churches, to attend the lee.
ture of Miss Francis E. Willard, at the
Opera House, Sunday night.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
PUBLIC BUILDINGs.

Rock Island, Peoria and Quincy all made
up their minds at about the same time that
the best interests of the govergment would
be conserved and liberty of thought,
speech and action alone kept sacred by the
federal government building in the respec-
tive cities public buildings, costing from
one to two hundred thousand dollars each.
In each case the inspiration was a happy
one, and the citizens of each city looked
forward to the erection of the said build
ings as both entailing happiness upon
themselves and their children, and as con-
conclusive evidence that we live in free
and great country. Consequently each
city pressed forward its bill for adoption,
urged on by the aforesaid patriotic motives
and the possible chance that some INDECENT
n-in-law might get the contract. the
localities that had no hope of government
buildings, or else had not gall enough to
ask for one, told us that it was raid on the
treasury, a steal, and applied to our honest
and patriotic endeavor terms of such op-
prODr10uS 0Qlum, LnaC were IL not LOT our
consciousness of right and holy motives,
we could not have survived under them.
And then in order to still further advance
the public building and thus build up the
future greatness of this free country,
ring was formed by the different congress
men to vote for each others schemes and
thus secure the needed appropriation
These congressman banded themselves to-
gether and tickled each other and exchang
ed ideas and votes, and the success of the
public buildings was assured. but alas for
Rock Island, our congressman forgot to
get inside of it, and while Peoria and
Quincy luxuriate in public building and
have in their possession massive columns
and expensive stone steps on which any
number of happy couples can sit moon
light nights and study astronomy, Rock
Island is out in the cold. 1t is sad, but
we must blame our congressman. If Rock
Island county was to be in his district
under the new apportionment things
would be different perhaps.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
CAPTURED.

Chief Kersler came in on the 700 o'clock
place he went in the morning after one Al
bert Schwartz, who is wanted here from
destruction of railroad property. Early in
February Schwartz and Moses O'Neil
smashed time clock in Southwestern
baggage car. O'Neil was arrested at the
time, and served sentence of sixty days
for his fine. Schwartz was captured by the
marshall of Dewitt, and held for the Dav
export authorities. He is a hard looking
customer. and has bad reputation. He
will probably receive the same sentence as
his partner O'Neil.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
THE MT. JOY FAIR.

The premium list and regulations of the
twelfth annual fair, and sale of the dis
trict agricultural society have been issued,
and are now being distributed by Secre-
tary Walker. The fair is to be held, as in
years past on the grounds of the association
at Mt. Joy in this county.
The days selected are September 12, 10,
IA and 10, and parties in all of Scott
county Comanche, Eden De Witt, Alvin
and Spring Rock townships, Clinton
county, and Fulton and Montpelier town
ships, Muscatine county, are entitled to
make entries and compete for premiums
The officers for 1882 are ]. w. McCaus-
land. President; T. Sindt, vice president;
James G. Walker, Secretary; w. B. Muir
ray treasurer. The directors are Fred Mey-
er, A. III. Lamp, Geo. d. Slaggs, Lorenzo
Rogge, B. f. Seaman, and Claus Stolten-
burg.
Premiums to the amount of 1850 are
offered, and are distributed among farms
and farm crops, prizes for blowing, horses,
mules. cattle, swine, sheep, poultry agri-
vegetables, pd0try
stores, fruit, flowers, and domestic arts.
Special premiums are offered for sour
Darlings," meaning the babies, five prizes
in all; four prizes for driving by farmers
sons and daughters: Especial premium
of fifty dollars to the first, and twenty five
dollars to the second best conducted school
outside of the corporate cities and towns
within the district examination to be made
in February 1883.
Peter Weise, of Mt. Joy, offers pre-
MUM of five dollars for mile race, and
RENDERS the bootblacks in nurse for their
benefit, in a foot race of one-third of q
mile.
The Mt. Joy fairs in the past have been
very successful and if the weather be ia
vorable this year, they promise to Guido
all previous efforts. The c., H. 81 st. p.
win run special passenger trains for the
accommodation of attendants, at reduced
rates of fare
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07

So far as the general citizen is concern
ed, the day laborer, the mechanic, the
merchant, the professional man, there can
be no doubt of the effect of the high tariff
upon them; they simply pay two prices
for what they use and receive no cores
ponding benefit Under our present tariff
none are protected except few manafac
turers, and they are practically monopo-
lists. They however force the farmers
and mechanics, the laborers and business
men to all pay toll to them, and while
they have their greedy hands in their
pockets, robbing them. exclaim ''it is all
for your benefit.
In view of all these facts, and with its
previous tariff experience to show its sin
cerity, the democratic party has placed
itself squarely on the side of a tariff for
revenue only. 1t thinks that the people
have been robbed long enough, and will
remedy it.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07

inspired to human liberty through the prof
itsand sensations arising from drink that
warns up will shun Iowa. This movement
that rejoices every goodman and woman viii
put five dollars on every acre of land in the
State Our temperance people are perhaps
building more wisely than they anticipat-
ed. Fverybody's eyes are opening now,
and the State Is rising grandly above party
sophis7ry, appetite and self, to the level
that man made in Gods image. oftener
rises individually than in nations.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
NICELY DONE.

A very agreeable surprise awaited Mr..
w. ]. Browne. superintendent of the Dav-
export Plow Company's ironshops yester-
day forenoon. Quietly and unknown to
him the employees contributed and pur-
chased a set of draughting tools, silver
mounted microscope and gold pen and
holder, and requested Mr.. Browne to &C
admiration, which he did in a graceful and
well-worded speech. The tools are elegant
and handsome, costing fifty dollars. Mr..
d. Latter, foreman of the painting depart
ment, made the presentation speech. The
employees, at the invitation of Mr.. Browne,
enjoyed royal good supper after work
had been suspended for the day.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
DECORATION DAY.

Next Wednesday afternoon at -four
O'Clock public NEE ting will be held al
City Hall, to take preliminary steps for a
proper observance of Decoration day, May
80. The Commander of August Wentz
Post, G. A. R.. received the following or
der from the Department Commander al
Newton, which explains itself:
Comrades should remember that memorial Day
established to preserve the memories of those
only, who fought in defense of National unity.
Posts and Comrades are required to observe Me
mortal Day-but posts in the same place or near et
other may properly combine for joint observan
of that day.
All flags hoisted on Memorial Day should be at
half mast
Each recurring year that passes SO swiftly by,
adds to the lengthening roll of those already
gone from ranks TO join the invisible hosts be-
yond the past year has taken many OF our beloved
comrades that were in the vigor of manhood and
sisted in sad duties of last Memorial May.
Remembering the service and sacrifice of our de
parted comrades to their country, for their country
good let us devote one day to their memory and be-
deck their graves with the early offerings Of an open
ing Spring,
By Command of
N. TOWNSEND, GEO. B. HoeIN.
Ass't Adj't Gen1. Department Commander
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07

VI course the prices fiuctuated during
these years in both cases on all the pro-
ducts named. During the democratic peri
cd the lowest prices for the products
named were: Beef, $500; pork. $1,000;
corn, 5Sc; wheat, $1.20; and wool, 25c.
Then, on the other hand, the lowest prices
paid during the republican period of high
tariff were: Beef. So 90; pork, SO. rs; corn,
3Se; wheat, S3c; wool, zoe.
But this does not show the full extent of
the benefits that the farmers enjoyed un-
der free trade tariff. Under the low
tariff articles like sugar, salt, coffee, mo-
lasses, and all other articles of daily con-
much cheaper from fifty to four hundred
per cent, and in addition to this all the
articles they use like clothes, blankets
plows, house building materials were
corespondingly cheaper. and if we had a
tariff for revenue only, barb wire fencing
would also suffer mighty fall in price.
So far as the farmers go, there can be no
doubt of the benefits they would derive
from low tariff, getting better price for
what they sell and being ableto buy cheap
er what they consume.
Another fact woth noting is that during
the low tariff years when wheat was selling
at high price. flour was only $500 per
barrel, and afterwards when it was as low
as eighty-five cents flour sold at S6.
Then again they comeback to the wage
question and say that higher wages are
paid under protective tariff, in fact when
a protected manufacturer wants to make
ment he at once comes to the poor laboring
man, expresses a solicitude and care for
his interests that would pat to shame the
philanthropy of Howard and give to the
credulous nearer the impression that his
entire life's work was the uplifting of the
condition of the working man. 1t seems
a pity that when they have glutted the
market with goods this extreme solicitude
does not prevent them from shutting down
and throwing their men out of Unemployment
for months at time.
1t is impossible at present to give any
comparative figures between Great Britain,
free trade country, and the United
States, because so many elements besides
the tariff enter into the calculation. The
difference in density of population, the
varying recourses, the comparative age,
and the standard of the wealth of the two
countries, all affect the wage question, and
are all outside of protective tariff. But
a fit and proper comparison can be. made
between England and Germany that in all
except the tariff are exactly alike in con-
ditions, climate, situation, population and
natural advantages. England is a free
trade country and Germany a highly pro-
tected one-protected, the advocates of
the tariff would tell US, so that working
men could receive higher wages-Now look
at the comparative wages paid in the two
countries. The figures are from the Off
cial reports of each country, and give the
average weekly wages paid during the
year 1878, in dollars and cents:
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
THE WEEKS DEATHS.

Clerk McSteen issued permits to bury
for the following during the past week
Ell. w. Schmidt age one year and six
months, German. plueritis; Baby Renfeldt,
nine months, American, malarial fever
Mrs. Proestles, forty-two years, Irish,
chronic rheumatism; E. Margaret Dismer,
one month, American, gastritis; Ernst L.
Wattenburg, two months, German, scarIa-
tina and menegitis; Mary Kulfcr, thirteen
years three months, American. commissions;
Willie L. Metzgar, eighteen months, Ameri-
can, cerebral congestion; Claus Henry
Plambec, forty seven years eight months,
German, pneumoni.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
The New York Herald calls attention te

The New York Herald calls attention to
what it styles the manipulation of the As
ISOLATED Press reports of Mr.. Blaine.s tes-
timony in the Peruvian scheme and says:
They were written out in way to save
Blaine's ease-to put the case against him
blandly-to represent him as virtuous
man pursued by evil enemies, and even to
give him the small triumph of putting the
laugh in his favor ever witticisms that
even veteran clown in circus would
despise. VIII 1t be the same with the ties
timony of Senator Blairsn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & SIT. PAUL.

(RAeTNE AND SOUTHWESTERN DIyIsIoN.1
Leave for Racine and Milwaukee s:25 a. m, and
II, 90 p. m.
Leave for Dubuque, winsna. st. Paul and Minneap-
oils, 6 100 q.
Leave for Mcefregor, Portvife, Calmas, Sioux City
and Yankton, II 90 p m.
Arrive from Racine and Milwaukee s: 05 g.. m. and
6 rs p m.
Arrive from Minneapolis. St. Paul, Wfnona and Du-
buque, sos p. m.
Arrive from Yankton, Sioux City Portville and Nc
Gregor, :05 a. m.
Through sleeping cars run on all night trains.
The Night Express leaving Rock Island every Sun
day night, at IL O0 p connects with the train ar
irving in Chicago early Monday morning. No lay
over checks given through tick cts from Rock Is
land to Chicago. Through tickets only good on this
train.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
THE MoREY LETTER.

1t is again claimed that the true author
of the Morey letter has been discovered
This time it is one FL. I'll. Hadly, of New
York, republican, who the story runs,
palmed it off on the democratic committee.
If the story is true it exonerates the demo-
cratic party, and especially Mr.. Hewitt,
who was so long accused of its author,
shin
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
Is a Really Reliable Rem
edy for Wasting and
Nervous Diseases.

After numerous experiments Mr.. Fellows sue
ceeded in producing this combination Of Hy9o.
phnsphiies, which has not only restored him to
health, but has since been found successful in
the treatment of disease emanating from loss on
nerve power, and consequently muscular relays
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Chronic Diafrh9a, hopping Cough,
Dyspepsia, Congestion of the Lungs
Fever and Ague, Palpitation Of the Heart
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