The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
COAL VALLEY LOGIC.
A Few Points Regarding the Elections,
Schools, Etc.
Coal VALLEY, April ;


pondent to the Union, when we take into
consideration that he has been disap-
pointed office seeker so many times and is
now stripped of most,of his political hon
ors, and it is not surprising that he again
has his secretary make this last sympa-
thetic appeal through the columns of their
party organ, the Union, the only paper
which can find space for such ribaldry.
He states that the other fellows say that
he and his confederates have very little
money and an over supply of cerebral
matter; in regard to the first charge we
would state that as far as their pecuniary
affairs are concerned, it is matter of very
little import; to be poor is no disgrace in
the eyes of those whom they charge with
the onerous crime of being rich, but simply
because man is poor it is no reason why
he should not act honorably with his fellow
men. In regard to their intellectual ca
pacites we have nothing to say farther
than this would be humorist can find no
better way of advertising the fact that he
comes under the brainless list than to
write few more letters to the papers.
Yes, their boys were weak, they didn't
know how to act around the polls, wheth-
er on account of the absence of accustom-
ed stImulants or from alopathic doses of
the same we will not say, but it seemed
that some of them who distinguished their
tickets only by their shape and size rather
than by the matter printed upon them
became so extremely weak that the side
OF building was very advantageous in
enabling them to maintain their equili-
brium, Gt was probably supreme nervous
depression) on account of seeing so
many democrats flocking to the polls.
Next in order of events came the school
election. This scholarly writer says it
was as good as show-that the tax pays
ers' sideboard was empty. This is true
in every particular, for it has been empty
from time immemorial Had it been kept
full to OVERLOOKING these many years, the
writer's associates would never tire of
: partaking freely of what is designated by
them as the water of life. We car
almost imagine we hear the foaming
spray phizzing while passing down theil
red hot outlets. Why, there would have
been no opposition at all had the side
board been kept full. If this literary
character is not guilty of ambiguity, he
says the boys made a raid ION their side
board) and took in the whole business,
! which must have been rather expensive
to them who are interested in the schools
from a financial tandpoint-almost as
expensive as the assessment plan OF
former republican rule. In regard t.
their buying votes at dollar apiece, the
correspondent says it is lie; tue again
r Nothing was said of their buying votes a
such high rates. 1t would be absurd t
make such a charge, for they couldn'
afford it. But it was said that one maj
) stated he was offered 81 if he would sta,
2 away from the polls, and he says so still
and will stick to it. We don't know
the exact cost of votes on that day,
but perhaps some bright SUDDEN
in the advanced classes, provid-
{ ing he knows the table for ale o
beer measure, and given the price per gal
Ion, might be able to solve the problem
The writer again refers to times pas
0 when the town was in flOurishing con
n dition, having 1900 inhabitants and fvr
or six hundred pupils in the schools; h
says that then there were no complaint
about high wages or teachers being poor
! Why? Because then we had an excelen
t teacher for principal. When satisfaction
is given there is no ground for com
}, plants. The teacher received 500 pc
month, earned his money, and the tow
+ could afford it. But things have change,
b now. How marked that change has been
6 the public can decide for itself w
would again ask the readers, does not th
s. tax payer have right to expect som
e representation il the community, o
y should he submit to seeing chicancry 60
4 ing on around him and be as the "shee
before the slaughter, dumb" The mic
young chap spoken of will continue t
express his sentiments regardless of as
saufts made upon him by the anointe
r one whom they call the principal of tn
Y Coal Valley public schools. Ye gods' hav
= things become so corrupt that we have
VI look to such source for the moral an
= intellectual training of our children, tina
IS we have to entrust them to the care q
n one who boasts that he has gained laurel
by his brute force. X.