The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19
HASH A LA GATH"
Short News Paragraphs on a Mum.
Der of Interesting Subjects.
The apprenticeship 80
Presidential Crooked Business
Cheap RaiIs.--Ruehanan and
the SecessiOnistA

New YORK, Dec. 19-Gath says: Last
weeks flattening out of railroad stocks not
only arose froa the Wizards dropping, but
from the western railroad war, which shows
the necessity of radical readjustment of the
mutual relations Of all the great railroad sys-
tens of the west, forced upon the managers
by the great growth of the systems within
the past three years. Old boundaries have
been overpassed and old landmarks thrown
down. Pooling arrangements made
according to those standards are no longer
workable, and new ones must be made. A
bitter and widely extended railroad war may
be an incident of the reimbursement. The
Union Pacific monopoly has beeu destroyed
by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy build
ing to Denver, and thence looping to Ogden
by the Denver g. Rio Grande, and at the same
time claiming It's old share at Omaha, where
six lines contest for the Union Pacitic's bust
ness.
Meeting Howard Hinkle, of Cincinnati, l
asked him: ''What DO you think of American
boys not becoming apprentices as formerly. Ct
All, said Mr. Hinkle, 'why should they
become apprentices when they cannot learn a
whole trade? When my father was an APP
prentice he learned to bind a whole book, but
now, by division of labor, workman only
attends to some one little matter, which he
continues monotonously, and, therefore, your
American boy, if he became an apprentice
would not grow in mind and become the per
feet mechanic you expect"
Mr.. Wright, late United States senator
from Iowa, whom saw in the supreme couTt
at Washington City during the week making
an argument before a full bench, remarked
in answer to my question: "Iowa has moi
determined her presidential choice. l thin5
she does not regard Mr. Blaine as a candi
date, to whom she has given her support a
two conventions. If Judge Miller or Mr.
Allison, both Iowa men. should come III
Iowa will doubtless support either. Judg.
Miller is especially strong among the people
| His firlnness and moral courage speak fol-
themselves He could have been the riches
lawyer in the country, perhaps, hal he re
| signed and gone to New York to practic
law, whereas he IS probably not worth
! So, 1000
/ There are said to be next to 10 impoTtin,
| firms here able to maintain themselves in tn
ribbon trade against the banker smuggleTs o
I the continent, who set up firms Of straw il
| New York, consign to them UuCer-inyoice,
! goods on which large but partial advance
! have been made, take no American clerk
| into employment, and rotate member on
| with a fortune every now and then Thi
! system invariably ruins the manufacturer
| tempted into it, but it also damages the hon
est importers The silk Manufacturers AsSc
citation, in times of stagnation, has the hes
! fn ~ IN, {
foreign trade, which they can do by forg g
ting their own competitions, and eomb:nin
! against the most insidious invader.
| Steel rails have during the past week sol
at $50 which is 5000 below the lowest prize
reached after the panic of 1873, and it
within s. of the price at which foreign stet
can be sold in this country, or, in ether word;
at which any protection whatever would b
necessary to the American manufacturer
The price viii go mp again, but probably nc
very much. 1t has occurred under a hast
protective tariff and in the twenty third yea
of the greatest protectionist experiment tn
tariff, therefore, has cheapened prices, but &
great sacrifice in the past.
Some comment has heen caused by til
republication Of paragraph from tt
Southern Historical society papers, Ricl
mond, Va, in which the edition, in referrm
to what Mr. Curtis has said in his life
Buchanan's sympathy with secession, d
clares: 1--WE shall find it an easy task to Sho
that Mr.. Buchanan along with noTther
Democrats generally fully believed in Il
right of a state to secede, and cid not hes
tate to say I'VE shall publish an autograp
letter from him to that effect that unless Il
southern states had full guarantee that the
rights would be protected in the Union the
would be fully justifable in seeding.
| heard bet made that Arthur would III
get a vote in the National convention Tn
state he will never get. Logan will run be
ter here John c. Miller can be nominated
the states vest of the Mississippi river Su
port him. He viii draw a great deal Of Ii
Blaine strength. 1t is said here that Blair
is going to the convention for Miller Mill
and jim Wadsworth viii present a fl
stereoscopic view. Law and war. low
and New York. A southern man with mort
ern horoscope and a northern man with &
agricultural bias.