The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-08
CURRENT GOSSIP.

| Timothy Titcomb-J G Holland
TrGsta-Elz. Stuart Phelps.
Veteran Observer Mansfield.
CURRENT GOSSIP.
Charity covers multitude of church lot
| teries.- Wilkins.
| .Trichine continues to give good deal
of trouble in Germany, but it is a little
thing to make fuss about.-LosoeU Coar
ier.
| Don Cameron is said to be very angry.
Very likely Whom the Gods would de-
stroy they first make mad.-Boston Post.
Queen Victoria gave away no India
shawls at Mentone. and the inhabitants are
IN doubt as to her Identity Cincinnati
| Commercial.
| A lawyer in Ohio has been disbarred for
| stealing sheep. The Ohio bar thinks the
| line should be drawn somswhere.-Lara-
ME Boomerang.
General Sherman's wife is the only
American to whom the pope has ever given
that renowned religious emblem-instituia
ed more than five centuries since-the-
| golden rose, although il has been bestowed
on queens and princesses Mrs. Sherman
once collected for the pope a Peters
pence of 100000.
If the proof can be established that
| young Walker, who was killed near Knox
vile, Wednesday evening. had spoken de-
| famatory words concerning the sister of
| Evans, at whose hands he met his death,
he merited the fate which overlook him,
| and Evans should be set at liberty. The
law is not rigorous enough to meet the
case of such cowardly and scurrilous libels
on humanity.-NashUi11e american.
A cablegram says: THE bulk of the
Zulu warriors, having married, desire
peace" Just the same with Zulus as other
folks.-Boston Post
Wherever it has been tried it has been
! found to pay to have women given share
| in the management of state and local
charitable and reformatory Institutions
| st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Philadelphia Neacs says: Pitts
burg is to have May musical festival in
June" Nevertheless, it is believed Pitts
burg win sufficiently catch up with the
almanac to celebrate the Fourth of July
about the middle of the month.-NoSTts-
torn Herald.
The abstract" politician is very much
laughed at by him of the older school, but
| he is very much in earnest, which is some
thing that the practical politicians do not
understand as they might, and, what is
uIOTt W puiHcSC, AAC 10 o0dAhf, w hAo
numbers at a very rapid rate.-BestOa
Journal.
! A petition has been generally signed by
| the merchants of Boston recommending TO
the president, General Francis A. Walker,
| late chief of the census bureau, and now
president of the Massachusetts institute of
technology, for appointment on the tariff
commission, as the signers believe him to
f1x-
mercial, financial, and manufacturing in
terests of New England.
Matthew Arnold's taunt that American
/ literary taste is gagged by the success of
Mark Twain's books viii have to be taken
home to England for reflection. During
/ the first six months after Mr.. Clemens
book, prince and Pauper," was brought
out in London, 200 copies were sold,
and in two years AZ 900 copies of his re-
cent books have been sold in England on
which the author has received from the
English publishers royalty of $21, co.,
Springfield (Nass.) Union.
In speaking of how protection fails to
protect the workingmen, the New York
World says:
1t is hard to understand why the work
/ ingmen employed by our protectionist
friends in Pennsylvania should be talking
about strikes and such things. Have not
Mr.. John Roach and his brother employ
| ers mainly based their defense of the pro-
| tective system on the ground that they de
sire protection only that it may enable
/ them to pay liberal wages to the American
artisan, menaced by the competing spau-
per labor of Europeg Yet the American
artisan now arises with his pockets full of
money and declares that he is not paid
what he considers Iibersl wages, and that
| the patriotic and philanthropic Mr.. John
Roach is the man of all men who stands
| in the way of liberal wages. Can it be
| Oh, can it be-that while our Pennsylva-
mia friends have been demanding protee
ton in the name of the down-trodden arti
san, they have been steadily pocketing all
| the profits which should have been divided
with him.
The Detroit Free Press follows in the
same strain as given below:
The strike of the hundreds of thousands
of iron workers in this country is absurd
and ridiculous. Their wages are high
| higher than those of any other coun-
try on the. globe This is the paradise
of workingmen' Protection has made it
so. Protection gives them their high
wages; assures them employment; feeds
them and clothes them, lnxuriously; makes
them contented with their lot; assures
them home market" SO that they not
only need not be out of work, but they
can always obtain work at wages which
enables them to live like princes. Two
Two years ago the shops and manufactur-
| les which are now abandoned by or shut
| against these workingmen were placarded
with the comparative prices paid to this
country and in Europe. The men were
told that unless they voted as their en-
ployers wanted them to vote, either their
wages would be reduced to the scale of
foreign wages or their employers would
shut up their shops altogether. No change
/ has been made in the tariff since then.
| The rate on iron is still as 1t was then,
nearly the highest imposed On any protect
ed article, and yet these men want higher
wages. They say they cant earn money