Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-25
HOW WE Do HOWL.
A Much Trampied Upon Foot of the
Union has not Gotten Healed Yet---

A Much Trampied Upon Foot OF the
Union has not Gotten Healed Yet---
just Listen.
The Union gets awfullY riled up and
says lots of naughty little spiteful things
because the ARGUS trod upon one of its
sore corns again last evening in the mat
ter of its fruitless efforts to close the town
up and to keep outside trade out, but to
make fine showing for Davenport mer.
chants by belittling and insulting local
tradesmen. The poor old Kansas>eyed
concern yelps out:
The Union never sought to interfere
with the existing means of communities
ton between the citles-never once
shouted ''Scuttle the ferry or Burn the
bridget The ARGUS on the contrary has
been pronouncedly hostile to the ferry in,
terests-has said many unjust and unkind
pareutly, than that it is Rock Island in>
stitution. And as to the bridge, which is
crossed by thousand vehicles as well as
a thousand pedestrians daily, the ARGUS
has advocated the policy of giving over
its trans to line of street cars. to the
prejudice of general teaming and pleas
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. thousands of
our own people and jeopardislng their
lives, very probably, in order to swell the
profits of Chicago syndicate.
The reader will be obliged to study tina,
| over several times to see where it begins
and where it ends, and then discover the
connection if he can. Because the ARGUS
| proved victor in its fight for new enter
prises and public improvements against
the hirelings of the ferry monopoly as the
Union is, it has been particularly abusive
of the ferry, Ell? The ARGUS confesses al
the Union says that it has been hostile t
the ferry interests, just as it would be to
any interests that attempt to monopo'
lise public travel and run the town in 1T
own interests; for the same reason it il
often hostile to the Union, and tits for thes
same reasons that public sentiment ha
endorsed its course. The ARGUS ha
nothing in common against the ferry, no
does it entertain the least desire TO op
pose it or abuse it. On the contrary
has only praise to say of its accommods
it can make a good livelihood anC
contribute to the support of two paper
in Davenport and keep the wolf ava
from the door of one in Rock Island,
has no reason to grumble because tn
ARGUS welcomes competing means G
communication. which not only furnis
additional accommodations in the sum
mer, but are not at any time driven to tn
bank by the condition of the elements
As between 1.-The thousand vehicle
and the thousand pedestrians that Gro!
the bridge daily, according to the Union
statisticisn, the ARGUS is looking after tt
interests of the thousand pedestrians, tw
thirds of whom are poor people, and
is for them that the ARGUS has tried al
has succeeded in providing vehicle tn
may be as comfortable as the thousai
vehicles the Union has labored so yea
t. ously in the interest of. The thought tn
the Inauguration of street cars Won
impede or endanger travel over L
bridge would not find moments lod
e ing in the brain of sensible person.
al it does interfere to any extent whatev
u with pleasure driving, that can't
1t helped. In such case it will only i
b convenience the rich mans carriage
IS the benefit of the poor mans carriage
lie quite strange indeed-but the Uni
ID seems determined to make such pre-
a. pect the text of another vigorous b
or harmless k lex.