The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
The Daily Bulletin.
LOCAL NEWS.


all billiard and pool tables in the city must
be mum to-day and every Sunday hereafter.
The order will doubtless be cheerfuly
obeyed by all concerned, probably more
cheerfully by those who own the tables
than by those who have been in the habit
Of using them. While it is likely that the
youth of the city might be engaged in much
worse past time en- Sunday, than punching
ivory balls, and while some Of the compare
lively few who INDUCED in that sport may
resort TO the various worse means of diver
sion, now that the tables are denied them,
yet it is eminently proper that the public
sentiment which pronounces against pool
and billiards on Sunday as vicious desecra-
tons, should receive consideration aud
be catered to. The religious people of the
city will probably pot be begrudgcd one
| day out of every seven, on which their ideas
Of city government may be as nearly
realized as circumstances will permit. We
take it that those upon whom the order
will act as a restriction are liberal enough
to coincide with US in this view and will
yield ready and graceful obedience.
The Argus pleads guilty to purpose
of becoming the coored society organ of
this city. 1t has suddenly discovered that
the colored population of the city furnishes
a wide, rich field for newspaper work, a
field which, it seems to think, the Gazette
is not competent to cultivate properly. 1t
admits that it aspires to represent the best
element of colored society and to encourage
social advancement in the race and it has
engaged "a competent colored reporter, an
educated man and good writer" who will
keep the community informed Of all the
details of colored social life. The Argus
aspiration is noble If it is not tainted with
selfishness and a primary purpose to an
nihiliate weaker rival We were always
of the opinion that the Gazette was "flling
the bill" very well. We thought that Scott,
Houser and Farwel could and did give
the colored people of this city as good a
paper as they could and would support.
We considered Scott q man Of much good
horse-sense; we always looked upon Houser
as a tolerably well-educated man--nearly
as well educated as he was handsome, and
very much handsomer than either of the
Argus editorial and reportorial staff not
excepting the late pumpkin.colored addi-
ton, who may be said to be the beauty
spot Of the crowd. Believing all this, we
very naturally looked upon the Argus en-
croachment upon the Gszettes field of use
fulness as entirely uncalled-for and cruel
in its certain direct effects upon that little
concern. We we're led to regard the Argus
course as bold, bad design against thu
Gazette, and through it against Mr.. Scott
We were supported in this idea by the fac
that the Argus had, in some mysterious
way, just previously "downed" the Gaz-
cite in the Republican City Council, in the
matter of the city printing, though both
papers bid the same; and, certainly, the
fact that the man with whom the Argus
has associated itself in its new enterprise,
he's been for years, and is still, SCOTS bit.
terest political foe, is not apt to impress
one so very forcibly with the grandeur and
purity of the Argus 10 We for Mr.. Scott, mol
is it calculated to convince one beyond the
possibility of doubt, that in its bold in
vasion of the Gazette's Legitimate field, the
Argus is actuated purely by kindly feel
ing for the colored people in general, anc
by desire to elevate them socially anC
otherwise. This much is certain, that i
the Argus persists in the course it has in
dicated, the poor little Gazette is doomed
We ask the Argus, therefore, to consider
we'll before it goes any further. Its course
is frought with great responsibility
greater, perhaps, than it a. first perceived
For when it has deprived the colored peo
pie of the Gazette, it will be in duty anC
in honor bound to supply the Gazette:
. place fully ever after. And is the Argu
prepared for such contingency