Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-01
HILLSDALE.


handsome organ for the church. They
bought it of Mr.. Hardin, of Erie.
Messrs. Liphardt and Schall, while com.
ing from Hillsdale last Saturday night, |
had their cart overturned by the horse |
choking down and falling. The cart |
was somewhat damaged; no other in
jury.
Mr.. A. ]. Osborne spoke at Hillsdale |
last Saturday night. His subject was
tariff and labor reform. The club here
has challenged Mr. Kempster to speak
against him, but K says the subject is
too long for two smart men to talk on
one night, but Mr.. Osborne could answer
his arguments in very short time. He
dares not speak and he knows 1t.
The Hillsdsle school district has finally
been divided after long and bitter strusa
gle in which Hillsdale was said to have
been boycotted, but everything seems TO
be satisfactory now. Trade has increased
and general satisfaction seems to prevail.
The Hillsdsle school house was appraised
at 800, and the Poplar Grove house at
800 We hope this will settle the con-
test. Messrs. Jas. Dillen, John Lip
hardt and Jasper Sell are directors of new
district No. Z.
Mr.. h. II. kempster, a prominent far
mer and stock RAISER of Henry county,
spoke at the Bethesda church last Mon
day night. He had previously said he
would put some new brains in the demo-
cratic heads if they would come out and
hear him, so we went, but were sadly dis
appointed, for we soon found he did not
have any to spare. His principal topic
was the Mills bill, which, he said, if
Cleveland was elected, would become a
law, and then would follow one of the
most disastrous cslsmities financially that
had ever befallen mortal man. while If
| Harrison was elected, all would be pros
porous and content. Then he went into
the lumber question in a way that one
would think he was logging in the pineis
les, and talked go fast and so loud that
his remarks were not understood by us.
| We understood afterward, however, that
he went at Roger Q Mills for propo-
| ing, as he (kempster) said, to rob the
poor man and making white slaves over
which the money king could crack his
whip as he mills had done only few
years before over the negro. After ex-
hausting himself on Mills he went at
| VIM. Prentiss in regard to some of his
remarks in his speech at Hlllsdale, espeC-
| tally the land question, and called him
the greatest falsitier that ever existed
and that he would warm his ears before
he get through. His reason for calling
Mr.. Prentiss liar were because he,
(Prentiss) in bis remarks had said that
| Cleveland's administration had recovered
millions of acres of land stolen by rail
road corporations Another reason for
calling him liar was that he (Prentiss)
had said lsborers of New England had
an average of 1927 in the savings banks
while the western people were grow
ing poorer Mr.. Kempster said he
was liar, and gave as an exam
pie three or four old pioneers of Dutch
Bottoms. and their descendants who
represented II 00n acres of land and
hundreds of horses and cattle, but he did
not say they were all paid for by any
means, which we learn is the case. Now
in order to show that Mr. Kempster Is
| wrong and Prentlss right, we will say
that the laborers of the east are compared
with the principal industry of the west,
that is farming. Now we will compare
it truthfully and honestly and we won't
| call Mr. kempster liar either; We re
spect ourselves too much for that. We
will compare the principal industry Of
the west, which Is farming, with the
principal industry Of the east, which is
manufacturing, and if there are hun
| dred farmers on an average that have as
much property as one manufacturer of
| the east, we will give it up. On the
| other hand the day labOrers Of the east
! have $127 in the savings bank, while YOU
can not find that condition of affairs
among the day laboTers of the west. and
| if you will compare even the laborers OF
! New England with the farmers you will
find that there is scarcely farm that is
not mortgaged for almost all it is
worth. And again, every farmer does
not represent anything near as much
property as the Kempsters, Butsers,
Arnetts, etc If Mr. kempster had been
sincere in his remarks be would not have
been so hasty in calling Mr. Prentiss q
notorious falsifer. Mr. Prenliss is the
superior of Mr.. Kempster on any politi-
cal question, and will tell the truth as
often as Mr. Kempstcr At the close Of
his remarks the latter almost got down
on his knees to the prOhibtionists, ask
ing them to vote for the only party thai
ever did anything for them and said the
free whisky plank of their platform
would cause the dishanding and ruin Of
the distiller's trust, and q lot more
stuff which we would publish
if we had space. He said if
any one had any questions Il
ask he would give as intelligent al
answer as he could. He was asked why
one million men had been out of employ
ment during the reign of protection, anC
his intelligent answer was that that wa
taken from democratic paper, and wa
not true. He was asked questions re
garding the tariff on lumber, and his yer,
intelligent reply was that he did not hsv
time to explain these matters, and b
took his hat aud coat and started home