Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-06
ROOTS PAINTINGS.

craft Who Oppose Him, and Says
some Things.
In the current issue of the Echo, the
official paper of the Modern Woodmen of
America and the organ OF Head Consul
Root absolutely aud exclusively. consid-
cradle space is given to the county con-
vention of Modern Woodmen camps held
IN this city. with an unbiased object Of
guarding the best interests of the order
aud of setting the society right before the
world through the fundamentally Of o
81 ecial meeting of the head camp. Here
is the way the Echo. alludes to the con.
vention in question:
1t is enough to make one tired, very
tired, TO see the folly OF deluded men
when they are swayed by prejudice and
passion. A self-constituted committee
at Rock Island issued 4 circular that dis
played the following scurrilous attack:
There is some wrong somewhere
some great and grievo Is wrong. If you
doubt it. take your last number of the
Echo show it to your postmaster aud ask
him about camp III, Forest City. Neb. (;
TAG. Maquon, Neb.; $40, Westerfield,
ILL.,, and ne will tell you that there are no
such postoffices in the states named.
Then ask Root and the Echo why these
fictitious. non existing camps are on the
roll. ETC."
Now the truth of the matter is that
there are no fictitious, non-existing camps
upon the rolls, but he printers have
blundered in giving above camps correct
ly in the Echo. and a penny postal card
addressed to F. G. Brayton, head clerk,
Fulton, H.. would have received cour.
teous attention aud in an instant expla-
nation, but these vilifes have no use for
the truth; it would not serve their pur-
pose.
The camps in question are located as
follows:
III Linwood Camp. Forest City, Iowa,
"a members. G. II. Kelly. clerk.
746 Maquon Camp, Maquon, H.. 10
members. s. G. Dennis clerk.
s94 Primers Camp Chesterfield, ILL.,,
35 members, l.. G.. Collins. clerk.
The animus of the instigators of the
vindictive statements v hich have been so
recklesslY published is self-evident, and
so long as their inventive faculties are
exercised to evolve fal5ehOods instead of
truth, just so long will it prove boom.
erang TO strike the vilitlers instead of the
innocent persons whom they seek to in>
jure.
Meanwhile the Modern Woodmen con-
tinues to pay its losses in full with only
eight assessments per annum Nearly
5000 new members added during the last
sixty days and with conscious conf
DANCE m tho ftt aoonraA hy an nonl
clean record in the pas we court INQUIRY
and with truth upon our side we shall
expect to continue the good work and 10
commiserate the envious, jealous and un-
scrupulous gentlemen who find nothing
but Islander without fou ndstion to try to
palm off in furtherance Of their vindictiye
and base designs.
The list of names of and location of
camps as published in the Echo has here~
tofore contained numer Gus errors mostly
typographical. The matter composing
the greater portion was electrotyped
months before the present editor had
ANYTHING to do with the management of
the paper. Head Clerl, Brayton informs
US that the additions TO the list were
made out, as he supposed. correctly, but
in the rush of other work pressing him
he did not always receive and read
proofs. A united effort was made this
month to correct all mistakes, but it is pos
sible that few may have escaped the
proof reader. Rest assured neighbors,
there are no fictitious camps.
When the Rock Island county commit.
tee were hunting for fictitious camps, il
is certainly strange they did not discover
that camp No. 247, Carbon Cliff, Iowa. in
the Echo list and publish that to the
world as mon existing fictitious camp"
Was it because 1t is in Rock Island
county, and because a member of that
camp is a member of the committee? II
they knew this mistake was Topographic
cal only, why did they not suppose the
other cases wero also2
In another part of the paper the head
consul comments on the recent official
examination of the books of the order by
the state auditor:
Ii is some six or seven weeks since the
examination of the Woodmen books were
made by the auditors assistants, but for
some reason no report has been made,
though the auditor has stated TO differ.
ent parties that 1.-The or Ter Is all right,
Whatever his report may be, IL this can
he assured that as a matter Of fact no
fraud will be found. and no charges can
be made detrimental TO the order that
will not be either techn cal or which, on
examination In the courts, will be found
to reflect on the integrity OF our officers.
no doubt an unbusines s-like system OF
bookkeeping may have been found. but
that the officers have been seeking to
remedy for year past, and that no
harm has resulted from IL so far, Is shown
by the fact that our ins urance has been
as cheap as it could b. under any syss
tenn. When we consider that the order
is organized not so much for the purpose
J of bookkeeping es for the payment OF
death losses 10 benefi1iaries, and has
paid them promptly. the matter of the
Importance of this particular system
should not be too much exaggerated.
The amount of money lost by neglect
OF duty by the late head physician in ap-
proval of doubtful risks, aggregate thous>
ands of dollars. The loss by the Ber-
mum conspiracy is mere bagatelle in
comparison. Eight hours pay for one
hours work has been the cry in the
medical department of he order. The
new head physician con ;racted to work
for 800 per month"; clean saving to
the order of from $500 to $40O per