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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14

mend the commission of any one of the
above named offences. We appeal to all
who have no connection with secret So
cieties, bat to oppose them as alike hostile
you that the national movement purged
of what is criminal shall have the earnest
support of the clergy. A considerable in
staliment of justice has been, within the
last few years. conceded to the tenant
farmers, but TO them and to other classes,
particularly the laborers, much more is
due. It is the duty of both clergy and the
people to press their claims in every peace
able and just manner, but the clergy can
countenance no illegal meansnor be sewers
of dissension."
The bishops express the belief that the
late crimes would never have occurred if
the people had not been driven to despair
by evictions justly described by the pre-
mier as sentences of death. and which
must be a fatal and permanent provoca-
tive of crime, to which it is the duty of the
government to put an end as speedily as
possible, at any cost. The address con
cludes with the pastoral blessing. 1t is
signed by Cardinal McCabe Archbishop
McGettigan, primate of all Ireland; Arch
bishop Croke, Bishop Nulty and twenty
one others
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
MASONIC RELIC.

The free masons in the city will be very
much interested in pitcher that is on ex-
hibition in room A in the Art Museum,
corner of Eleventh and Main streets 1t
was made in England in 1888, and bears all
the emblems of the work of ancient, free
and accepted Masonry, of York Masonry
and the foundation work of the Scottish
rite. To the Mason it is very interesting
Nothing that is published nowadays
shows so much of the work of the masonic
degrees as are given in these pitcher pic
lures. It was made by the great grand
father of its present possessor as a present
to his son, and has been in the family ever
since. The owner was, not long since, of
fered thousand dollars for it by wealthy
gentleman in New York city who wished
to present it TO the grand lodge of the
state for preservation in their temple in
New York city-but it is an heir loom he
would not part with for any amount of
money. 1t is Invaluable as evidence that
Masonic work, though ali unwritten, but
handed down from master to master in the
lodges, is the same in its essentials, cords,
last word, and the record of the fate of the
Grand Master at the temple. a hundred
years ago as it is to day. There is an
hours study insthe three medallions on that
pitcher for any Master, Royal Arch, or Con
sistory Mason.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14

the government to furnish the cheapest
facilities OF transportation, AMI that it
would be Il novel departure in 8, stem
for congress- to adopt the policy of collect
ing toll from the people direct, when its
treasury shows an ample revenue.
We protest that this bill, although under
the euise of yielding a revenue, is in reafi-
ty in the interests of a corporation that
seeks nv this enactment to compel the peo-
pie to pay tribute to their already plethor-
ic treasury.
Wherefore we petition the congress of
the United States to defeat a measure in
furious to our commercial interests, detri-
mental 10 the growth and business of this
locality and thus protect the people from IA
corportion that seeks to make their pecun
iary gain paramount to the rights of the
people
Afterwards they were put into the form
of IA petition and printed for circulation
and signatures. Following is the form of
the petition:
To the Honorable Members of the Senate
md House of Representatives in Con-
gfess assembled:
We, the undersigned, citizens and bust
ness men of the city of Davenport, do most
earnestly protest against the passage of the
bill providing for the Ievying toll on the
Rock Island Bridge, between Davenport,
Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Illinois.
The bills opposed to the commercial in
terests of this locality; Its passage will
enure to the benefit of the Ferry Company
alone; and will retard and endanger the
future growth and business prosperity of
this entire locality. We protest against
the pecaniary interest of corporation be
ing placed above the rights and privileges
! of seventy-five thousand citizens.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
THE STRIKES AND THE TARIFF.

The tariff system stands condemned by
its results. Among those results are the
glut in the iron and textile markets and the
present strikes. We are not alone in this
belief The Christian Union says:
A serious strike has taken place in the
iron mills. The intimate connection of the
various sections and the thoroughness of
the organization of the Workingmen is in
dictated by the fact that the strike in Pitts
burgh was followed almost Immediately by
similar ones In Cincinnati, Chicago, Mil
waukee, St. Louis and other points Prac-
tically, it may be said that the iron mills OF
the country are to-day idle. The ayowed
grounds of the strike differ somewhat in
different localities; each party. of course.
accuses the other Of being responsible for
it, and avoiding or evading the former
basis of agreement between the employer
and the employed. For the real reason,
however, one must look beneath the sur
face Prices have advanced, expenses of
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
LAND GRANTS.

Canada Is beginning to perceive the evils
that follow large grants of land to rail-
roads. This country has had its expert
ence and it would have been we'll for the
Dominion to have profited a little from our
history.
1t was at one time very vigorously urged
that the grant of %, 000, 900 acres of land
by the Dominion government to the Cana
da Pacific railway would result ultimately
in the formation of great landed monopoly
and system of landlordism carrying with
it all the evil features of the system in some
secuted by the government party and is
still secuted by them notwit hstanding the
fact that the railroad syndicate has recent
1y sold II 100000 acres il one lump to a
land company of which the duke of Man
chester is the head. If this is not intended
to establish landed monopoly with control
of the most desirable lands and the design
of renting, what is it? The company is
said to pay So per acre. The railroad land
was valued at 81. The design therefore is
hardly to speculate by reselliag immediate
ly' More likely it is to hold the land for
many years. This sale may put money in
to the Golfers of the railroad company with
which to complete the road, but it will
certainly retard the settlement of the coun-
try and be in effect drag upon the bust
ness of the road for great length of
time.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
RENT REDUCTION.
one other.

When the Irish land bill was under con
sideration one Tory argument against ii
was that upon many estates, especially
under the Ulster tenant right, 1t would be
found there were few grievances. The
duke of Abercorn was held up as a bril-
liant example of the liberal landlord whose
tenants declared they had no complaints
to make, yet who had been assailed as bit
terly as other landlords and threatened
with reductions. As matter of fact a
land court was set up in this model land
lords domain and the examinations devel
oped some things that surprised tenants rs
well as landlord. A single case will illus
trate. 1t was shown that in 1884 Patrick
sisting of So 1-2 statute acres of waste or
moor land at a rental of Fl los. This rental
was gradually raised till 1860, since which
time it has been f10. The cause of the in
crease was that the tenant reclaimed, drain
ed, ditched, fenced aud rende red arabic Il
1-2 acres and erected buildings at his own
cost. The rest of the land is pasture. The
land court reduced this mans rent SO per
cent, and now the cry has been raised
that this is spoilation. 1t is undoubtedly
an invasion of what has been always con-
sidered private rights, and yet it would
seem TO be necessary if the land is to be
occupied by tenant at all. The fact that
such case could be found on the duke of
Abercorn's estate is made much of by
friends of the land bill, for all agree that
the duke is well meaning, practical man
and as good landlord as any.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
SMALLPOX

This lothesome disease is beginning to
make serious inroads into Davenport. Three
new cases were reported yesterday, one
on Third, and the last at Sixth and Harri-
son. How mulch other people have been
exposed is not as yet known; but it is fear
ed others are liable to infection. Rumor,
cases and the reports are much exaggerated
1t was thought that the sadvent OF
warm weather would prove an effectual
stop to the plague, but Davenport is get
ting her worst experience during the sum
mer months. The authorities are taking
every precaution to avert, further spread
and is to be hoped their efforts will prove
availing
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
NATIONAL DEMOCRACY.

Colonel Fred A. Conkling, democratic
brother of Roscoe Conking. made speech
last week in Germania hall, New York, to
the anti-Kelly Tammanyites, in which he
took occasion to arouse the democrats to
the necessity of broad and liberal views in
the matter of organization He warned
democrats of the dangers of monopolies,
and, in referring to the dangers ahead,
said:
HAS the time not come for the demo
cratic party to revive the essential princi-
Piles of popular government? We cannot
close our eyes to the fact that, through
corporate monopolies and unequal laws,
the wealth of the country is centering in
the hands of aprivileged class, TO the great
deprivation of the masses of. the people.
This is due in large measure to venal
legislation, controlled, as it has been. al
most uninterruptedly for twenty years by
a republican majority. have here
a letter from u gentleman who has
sat in congress, Hon. w. B. Mclean,
which gives the startling information that
since the republicans have had CONTROL
296, 100000 acres of the public domain, an
extent of territory large enough TO contain
at least dozen states of the Union. have
been given away to corporations and mo-
nopolies, besides $64 900, 900 in govern
ment bonds. In addition to this, million
aires by the hundred have been made at
the expense of the general government.
The inequalities in the condition of our
people have become as great as they are
in England, or on the continent of Europe
It is my firm conviction that if the cor
ruption of the past twenty years is to be
checked before it destroys our rights and
liberties as free men, it must be done by
the democratic party. [Applause.l Its
history, its traditions, its principles, all fit
it to- sustain the rights of the people as
embodied in the constitution. lRenewed
applause. To accomplish this result it
will only be necessary to act in accordance
with the original law of the land. The
terrors of the French revolution, the hor-
rors of the Haytien revolt, have no place
on our soil. Oul method of redressin9
wrongs, of ending the oppression of unjust,
unwise, or venal and corrupt legislation,
is the best of all methods-the ballot.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
BRIDGE TOLL.

Davenport has made up its slow and
hesitating mind that it will not indulge in
the luxury of toll bridge unless forced to
by act of congress, and it proposes to in
fiuence said act of congress so far as pos
sible. A meeting of the Board of Trade
was held Monday which passed resolutions
given below, and meeting of the Produce
Exchange is to be held this afternoon to
similarly resolve. In addition to this, pc
titions to be delivered from the abomination
are being circulated throughout the city
and have already received numerous sig
natures The citizens of Davenport take
the ground that a toll on traffic across the
bridge here would mean government Iegis-
lation in favor of monopoly, and
are too good free traders to be
willing to legislate to put a tax upon them
selves to protect what is not ever shome
industry They feel that a toll bridge
would be detrimental to the interests of
this entire locality, and that the only one
to be benefited would be the Ferry Com.
pany. and it is certainly wrong that the
interests of the people should be sacrificed
for the benefit of one single corporation.
that has certainly reaped rich harvest on
its investment. The manner in which the
Ferry Company attempted to reach its
ends, namely by representing that they
were doing losing business and would
have TO stop running unless helped, is
severely criticized, as 1t is well known that
were this company TO stop, another one
would be formed the next day.
The Board of Trade adopted these reso
buttons:
Resotued, That the Board of Trade of
the city of Davenport do hereby protest
against the passage of the bill introduced
into the house by Mr.. Chalmers, and Sen
ator Kellogg into the senate of the United
States. providing for rates of toll over the
government bridges between Davenport,
Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Ill
We protest that the said bill is against the
commercial welfare of the people and det
rimental to every interest of this locality
It is framed and pressed by parties who
seek monopoly for their own personal
gain; a monopoly that would subserye the
interests of ferry corporation that has for
q long term of years yielded to its owners
q revenue that has made them the wealth
lest men in this locality from the profits
of this privilege alone. With the bridge
free the ferry has yielded u revenue that,
instead of proving detrimental, has enabled
them to build new ferry for future divi-
dends.
We protest that it is an unjust policy on
the part of congress to make the interests
of 10, 600 people subseryient to the rights of
-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
oMNIPoTENCE REBUKED
Chicago Times

NHICs5U IIIIIVs.
So engrafted upon the Pennsylvania
mind is the idea of protection for the pre-
vention of outside competition, that even
so liberal an editor as Colonel Mcclure re
Dukes Omnipotence for pouring forth the
oil from the bowels of the earth. He ex-
claims, in massive type: Too Much Oil.
The Wonderful Wells struck in the Warren
districts prostrating a great industry"
Dame Nature must be wholly tributary to
the monopoly of the Standard Oil company
or the Pennsylvanians viii have fit. Into
what a terrible frame of mind they will be
struck in Kansas it is painful to contem-
plate.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
CHILDRENs' PICNIC.

The festival and picnic of the German
English school win be held at Brooks
grove next Thursday afternoon. All man
ner of childrens games. bird shooting.
dancing, distribution of prizes, and refresh
ments will be in order. Street car fare will
be only five cents to and from the ground.
The Moline Turner society win be present
and participate, and most of the local so
cieties of Rock Island will participate All
the friends of the children are invited to
attend
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
Wednesday. June Il, 1882
HAS TO BE WATCHED.

1t may be that the hot weather will kill
off Robesons jobs, but the democrats in
congress will have to look sharp in the
grand rush to close up the business of the
session. That is the time of all times that
the lobby selects for its work, and never
before has there been such an accumula-
ton of work so late in the season as this
congress has got piled up. While some
of Rsbeson's schemes can only be got
through by the ordinary methods of legis-
lation, the reports of conference commit
tees can be made to hide many things that
viii cost the country millions of dollars.
1t will take ceaseless vigilance to head
Robson off by this path.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
NonruroRr. Wis. May 6. 1879.

JAMES /. FELLOWS, Esq.
SIR:I have been using your medicine
for over . year now aud with the best
effects, | have used IL bottles of the Hy-
pophosites, and it has made a new man of
me. / have been ailing over six years
with number of diseases, but lung diff
Guilty was the most prominent. 1 have
been under the care of great many doc
tors, and have taken quantities of medi-
cine without any apparent benefit, but APP
peared to be still growing worse and weak
err until I accidently came across one of
your circulars, and was constrained to try
your medicine, and I found its effects were
almost magical upon me, and was sur
prise to myself and friends, having gained
so rapidly in flesh.
remain respectfully,
LAWRENCE DoRAN.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
A sUFFocATING COUGH.

In letter from Mrs. Charlotte Lisle, of
Chicago, lady well known as centribu-
tor to the Western press. she ascribes the
cure of a dangerous cough, accompanied
by the bleeding of the lungs, to HALE's
HONEY OF HoREHoUND AND TAR. MY
cough" she says, Threatened to suffocate
me but the Honey of Hore-
hound and Tar has removed every trace of
it. The letter was to lady friend in this
city, who has placed 1t at the disposal. of
G. n. CRITTENToN, New York
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
THE STAND OF THE CHURCH.

The Irish bishops have issued an inn
portant address promising the support of the
clergy to the peacefully agitating for their
rights, but condemning as the worst enc
mics of the countrymen who recommend
ed illegal courses, particularly those be-
longing to secret societies. The bishops
condemn the recent horrible murders, but
believe they were due to evictions which it
is the duty of the government to stop at
any cost.
The bishops point out that what is NOR
ally wrong cannot be politically right. 1t
is the indisputable right, they say, of the
Irish to live on their own soil. It is the
right, and often the duty of those Cypress
ed, either by state or by individual, to seek
redress by lawful means. On these grounds
the national movement has the approval of
the priests and the bishops, and even the
pope, and of all just and generous men,
without distinction of race or creed. But
it is the notorious means often employed
which are utterly subservive of social order.
The address specifics these means as re-
fusing to pay just debts, preventing pay
ment by Others, injuring neighbors in per-
son or property, forciblY resisting law and
forming secret societies and obeying or
tiers thereof The bishops say:
Under each of these heads
numerous offences have been
committed, fearfully prominent among
them being the hideous murders, which
at the present moment, disgrace our coun-
try, and provoke the anger of God and
his church. We declare it is your duty to
regard as the worst enemy of our creed
and country the man who would recon-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
poLrCE POINTS.

The force had rest yesterday, their
only haul being Wng Hugh and VIM
Moonan, for disturbing the peace. The
offenders were little under the influence
urally lying dormant. were brought to the
surface. They were arrested by Officer
Rnmsey, and lodged in the cooler, The
worldly possessions of the two, when
searched. were fifty-fiye cents and a
knife
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
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guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With each
order received by us for six boxes, accompanied
with five dollars, we will send the purchaser our
written guarantee to return the money il the treat
ment does not effect cure. Guarantees issued
only by McCabe q Wheaton, Druggists, Rock Isl
and. Ill. Orders by mail at re ulaT price. d&u
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14

This accomplished equestrienne gave. an
exhibition of her Workmanship yesterday,
at the fair grounds, riding a half-mile
dash and then dash of five miles and a
half, changing horses; The last in twelve
minutes.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14

All Druggists should have DR. Sykes
Sure Cure for Catarrhss and Atmospheric
InsoffIator.. but if they have not you send
direct to the Doctor, 169 Madison st., Chi
eago, for them. Catarrh has at last found
q Master.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14

Disease is an effect not a cause Its origin il
within; its manifestations without. Hence to
Cure the disease the CAUSE must be removed,
and in no other way can a cure ever be effected
WARMERS SAFE KIDNEY AND LIVER CTRE
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
DAVENPORT.
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~ West Second street, under Newcomb House,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14

The soluble phosphites ard the other life sustain.
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
ROCK ISLAND & PEORIA RAILWAY.

(sHoRTEsT ROUTE TO THE EAST AND wEsT.)
LEAVE. ARRIVE.
Way Freight. 6 100 A. NJ.
Fast Express 8 AS A NJ Mail and Elk =. ~ As p M.
Mail and Elk. j :35 NJ. Fast Express. 10 p. NJ.
Freight and Accommodation 100 p. M.
The AS p. train makes close connection at
Galya with the c. B. & O., for points west; arriving
at CSalesburg at % p m; Burlington 40 p. m
Keokuk 10 rs p. M; Quincy 10 :o5 p. M; also max
ing close connection at Peoria with l. b. d w, and
T. P. u W.. roads for all points east and south.
ROCK ISLAND & MERCER CO., II. r.
LEAVE
Rock Island 900 A. M. Cable t0:55 A. NJ.
:" % AGO P. M. - ......... 5:45 p. M.
cable,........ 500 Rock Island, SIC s5 a NJ
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14

DAILY, by ....-.....-.- $3.50. IS %
by the week delivered by carrier -. 15c
per year, by mail $1.5O
VI. W. PARKER business Manager
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-14
CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE & sT. PAUL.

(RACINE AND SOUTHWESTERN DTvIsIoN.)
Leave for Racine and Milwaukee SIS a. m, and
II, 90 p. m.
Leave for Dubuque, Winona. St. Paul and Minneap-
oils, 500 a. m.
Leave for McGregor Portville, Calmas, Sioux City
and Yankton, II 100 p.
Arrive from Racine and Milwaukee, :05 a. M, and
6:25 p. IN.
Arrive from Minneapolis, ST. Paul, Winona and Du-
buque, 9:05 p. m.
Arrive from Yankton, Sioux City, Portyille and NC
Gregor, 5 :05 a. m.
Through sleeping run on all night trans.
The Night Express leaving Rock Island every Sun
day night at II 100 p M. connects with the train ar
irving in Chicago carly Monday morning. No lay
over checks given on through tickets from Rock Is
land Chicago. Through tickets only good ON this
train.