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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-28
Five Rioters Stabbed.

MOUNT MORRIS, n. J., July 2s.-A gang
of Italians and Polacks, numbering over
a dozen, belonging to the Greigville salt
shift, engaged in free fight with knives
and stones while waiting for train here
Saturday. Three of the Italians and two
of the Polacks were stabbed Two of the
Italians were seriously injured, and one
may die. A number of arrests were made
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-28
Our Victorious Athletes Home Again.

NEW YORK, July 2S-The representa-
tive team of the Manhattan Athletic club
arrived on the Gallia yesterday. All of
the members returned in good health and
are enthusiastic over their treatment
while abroad They brought back fifty
six medals and trophies.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-28
ANY Significance in These Visits.

CAPE MAY POINT, n. J., July 2S.-Card-
inal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland called
and spent some time with the president
yesterday. The cardinal returned to Bal
timore in the afternoon.
BALTIMORE, July 2s.-This, afternoon
Cardinal Gibbons arrived here from Cape
May. His stay will be short one as he
has accepted an invitation to go to Bar
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-28
started with Non-Union Handa.

ALLENTOWN, Fa., July 2s-The Catas-
auqua rolling mill, which has been shut
down since July l, owing to the refusal of
the managers to sign the Amalgamated
scale started up to-day with non-union
hands, shutting out the 900 former en-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-28

CATLETTsBuRG, KY, July 2s.-Last Sat
urday battle between negroes and Ital-
ian workmen on the Norfolk and Western
railway, in Logan county, West Virginia,
was fought, in which two Italians and
one negro were killed and several wound
ed The trouble arose over an Italian
wife, who Left her husband and went to
live with the negroes Another battle is
looked for
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-28
Th.t French Explosive NIissal.

PARIS, July est was the wife of NJ.
Constans, minister of the interior, who
Saturday received the missal containing
an explosive, instead OF Mime. Carnot. SINH
lar Internal machines were sent to sew
eral other officials, but none did any dam.
age. There is no clue to the miscreant
who sent them.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-28
DRUNKEN FIGHT ON A TRAIN.
The Result Being That Three Men Were
Killed by the Cars,


Killed by the Cars.
CUMBERLAND, Md, July 2S--Sunday an
excursion train from Johnstown Pa,
brought about !, 200 people to this city on
a pleasure trip. They left at night at $50
on the return trip. When near Rock
wood, Pa, a fight took place between
some drunken men on the platform of one
of the cars, to quell which James Kelly, a
policeman from Johnstown. drew a re-
volver. This action angered the crowd
, and they made a rush for him and forced
him between the cars while the train was
running at the rate of forty miles an
hour.
Two Fall Under the Wheels.
The conductor signalled the train to
stop, the coupling broke, and Kelly
dropped under the wheels and was crushed
to death. Lucius Meyers. of Latrobe, was
| thrown from the platform under the
| wheels and killed. Milton Pyle, of Som
erset, was thrown against some rocks in
the ditch and had his skull fractured and
received a broken leg, from the effects OF
which he died soon after arriving at Som
erset.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-28
A WISCONSIN TOWN WIPED OUT.

MI the stores Burned and Fourteen Fam
lilies Homeless.
MILWAUKEE, July 2S.-The entire bust
ness portion of the little village of Blair,
Tremplealeau county, was burned yester.
day, not store being left standing.
Fourteen families are left homeless. The
loss is $50, 900; insurance very small.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-28

ITTANTED-An agent or canvasser in books
w lady preferred; SO to $50 per month. Ad
dress or cali on ST. 1925 Fifth avenue. So
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05

When we see Great Britain trayers-
ing all seas and lands and obtaining her
wheat and flour from others at higher
prices than from us we see a demon
stration that all trade is barter, and
that at the bottom it is but the ex.
change of one mans surplus. for that
of another.
Our people could not buy English
goods unless they could sell their sur.
plus agricultural products. Neither
could the English buy our agricultur.
al products unless they could sell their
manufactured products.
What is the inevitable result of ar
resting the importation of their pro.
ducts ? Our surplus agricultural pro
ducts increase on our own markets
The demand being the same, the price
falls. Our population is rapidly in
creasing. Our productive forces are
increasing at an equal pace. Our sur
plus must also increase, and being
locked in by tariff prohibition it il
anxiously sinking in price toward (
lower bottom. The prices of leading
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05
Slaves of the Tariff.

In a speech in the House of Repre-
sentatives the Hon. Frank II. Hurd
of Ohio, pointedly shows the slavery
to which victims Of protection are sub
iected. He said:
On what ground shall the Govern
ment interpose to help the business of
one at the expense of another For
you cannot increase the price of goods
of the seller without compelling the
man who buys them to pay it. l de-
ny the right of the Government to
build up one man at the expense of
another. If 1 am compelled by legis-
lation to pay $3.50 for that which
would otherwise cost me only 500,
the seller has been armed with the
taxing power of the Government to
take from me $40 for his own benefit.
l deny the right of the Government
to surrender the taxing power to an
individual. | deny the right Of the
individual to exercise it. When a
man has earned n days wages they
are his own, and he ought to have the
right to expend them where he pleases,
and where in his judgment they will
do him the most good.
If have by days labor earned
81, it is my own. 1t represents the
toll, the anxieties, the life of one day.
1t is all that / have in the material to
represent that day. With that dollar
l go to purchase from Frenchman
an article which l wish. The con-
tract is about to be consummated, but
the Government of the United States
steps in with its power and says !:
"You shall not buy of this French
man; you must buy of an American"
"a man, say, who manufactures this
article at Providence, r. l. I go to
him with my dollar and propose to
buy the article which for that sum !
could have obtained from the French
man. "No," says the manufacturer,
81 charge more than a dollar for this
article; you must pay me So"
If l would purchase from the Amer
lean ] must go back to my toll, and
another day must go out of my life in
order to get the additional dollar. /
earn it and with it buy the article
from the American.
What is the significance of this
transaction BY the power of the
law l have been compelled to work
one day against my will for the bene
fit of the American manufactured
All of my effort and all of my toll for
that day have been made his. In
other words, for one day l haye be-
come his slave. He might just as
well haye awakened me in the morn
ing hour and under the whip and the
spur and the lash have compelled me
to work for him until the setting of the
sun as to do what he has done. Ev-
cry dollar of increase of price which
the protective tariff occasions is day
of slavery. and every hour of unneces-
sary labor that it requires is stolen
from the invaluable time of individual
responsibilities and duties.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05
Suspendlng the Contract Labor Law


The Superintendent of the new Bu-
reau Of immigration has just made a
remarkable ruling suspending the law
against the importation of foreign con-
tract labor, in the case of the skilled
tin-plate workers, who may come to
the United States to work in the pos
sible tin-plate factories, which now
exist in imagination only. The SUI
perintendent by this ruling has far
exceeded any rights which he has the
power of exercising under the law Gre
ating the bureau, and has also shown
the tin-plate tariff to be absurd. The
tariff was imposed to "build up home
tin-plate industry" and now the bars
are to be let down and the new en-
ployment which was to prove so help
full to American labor, is to be given
to foreigners, not only imported from
but contracted for across the ocean.
What protection is offered against the
"pauper labor of Europe" if that la
Dor may be contracted for in Europe,
at European prices, and imported du-
ty free to the United States? What
does it profit American workmen if
Merthyr-Tydvil and Swansea pour
their thousands into the United States
to perform the labor in the new indus
try which all the people of the United
States are taxed to build up and main
tain? And if the contract labor law
can be abrogated upon occasion, why
might the Superintendent Of Immigra-
ton not suspend the Chinese exclu-
sion law at will and allow Monaghan
laborers to come over and drive
American workmen out of some of the
occupations that they now enjoy ?
The ruling of the superintendent is
unfair, illegal and ridiculous.-Detroit
Free Press.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05
Their Private Business.

Inc pennsylvania Oteel COMPANY
banked its fires Tuesday night anC
closed its works, throwing over 1900
men out of employment. There il
nothing either novel or surprising
about the proceeding. 1t is the ole
plan of meeting a threatened strike
with a peremptory lockout. In the
political campaign or when new tar
if bill is pending the employees of pro
tected capitalists are assured that the
business is conducted for their benefit
and that taxes levied on articles com.
peting with its products have no 9th.
err object than to insure them higher
wages.
This is politics. Business is anoth-
er thing altogether. When, after the
campaign is over or the bill passed,
the men ask for their share of what
has been gained in politics, they are
told that it is the private affair of
their employers. "These works are
ours" the employer replies in effect
and often in so many words, "and you
can't run them. Whenever we find
we cannot run them to suit ourselves
we will shut them down." And rath-
er than yield, the works are shut down
and the men locked out until they are
starved into submission.
The Protected Capitalist is not gen.
orally the loser by these lockouts.-
Under The trust system he is directly
a gamer by them, for they are a means
of limiting production and keeping up
prices. When one establishment in a
combine of capitalists shuts down the
combine goes on. and the managers of
the idle works are guaranteed against
loss.-St. Louis Republican.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05
Pitched Out of the Window.

The "panic mongers who are try
ing to destroy the credit Of the Gov
erumentin the hope Bipartisan advan-
tage" by talking about the impending
bankruptcy of the Treasury" have
been roundly denounced of late by
patriotic Republican newspapers
They can endure the denunciation
without personal inconvenience,
since they have no persons and no
bodily existance, being, in short, mere
myths and fancies of the Republican
Imagination. But neither have those
persons and newspapers for whom the
castigation was really meant, those,
namely, who have demonstrated the
nearly complete success of a Republi-
can Congress-carrying out with lit.
eral faithfulness the Republican.Party
policy-in emptying the National
Treasury suffered in feelings or repute,
for the truth of what they have said
about the state of the Government
funds is from day to day and from
week to week sustained by official
statements from the Treasury.
Mr.. John M. Carson, the Washing.
ton correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger, is Republican, and car
scarcely be accused of seeking a part
isan advantage" in the statement Of
the condition Of the Treasury which
he prepares for his paper. In dis
patch to the Ledger of Monday Mr.
Carson shows very clearly the inroad'
upon the Treasury balance made b,
the last Congress. The statement
issued on Saturday showed met av
ailable balance" in the Treasury o
s3,438,934, The amount held b,
banks and the fractional coin in th'
Treasury vaults, both items amount
ing on June 1 to s43, 100000, If added
to the net available balance make {
general balance" of nearly SAT 900,
600. This general balance" 1t vii
be observed, includes the small coin
that cannot be used in Treasury pay
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05
Sitting Immigrants.

We see it suggested by one of the
evening papers that the next Congress
will be much more likely to pass laws
regulating immigration than to appro-
pirate money to pay any indemnity
to the families of the Italians murder.
ed in New-Orleans. We have no
doubt that, if the executive depart
ment of the Government after proper
investigation comes to the conclusion
that money is due to persons who have
suffered from violation of the treaties
of the United States with any foreign
Government, that money will be duly
appropriated by the legislative branch.
We do not believe that any question
of the merits of the case will be raised
after the President and his advisers
have come to a conclusion and have
announced it. And we are confident
that the next Congress will be only
the more ready to meet any obligations
of this sort because the Administration
by whom the matter must be settled
is opposed in internal politics to the
majority the House of the Represen-
tatives. Whatever faults the Dem
ocrats may have to answer for, want
of zeal in maintaining the good faith
Of the National Government IN its re-
lations with other Governments is not
now one of them.
But if, after doing whatever is re.
quired in this direction-and it is by
no means certain that anything will
be required-Congress shall proceed
to overhaul the whole subject of i'm
migration, it will only be doing what
ought to have been done long since.
To take lesson from the immediate
occasion fthe present discussion. does
any one suppose for an instant that
there would ever have been any trou-
BILE with the Italian Government if our
own had taken the necessary steps to
shut out from our shores immigrants
that are not fit for American citizen
ship or for American residence 3
Surely we do not need many more
warnings that prevention is better,
cheaper, and easier than cure. We
have had evidence Of every sort. from
that of our own eyes to official re.
ports many times repeated, that from
one cause and another there is steadily
pouring into this country stream Of
immigration of the most undesirable
character. and in no small proportion
of cases of dangerous character. -
The chief cause of the stimulation of
this kind Of immigration is the com.
petition of the steamship companies
for steerage- passenger trade. On a
large scale. and when maintained
with considerable steadiness, this trade
is extremely profitable. and the COM
panies engaged in it can afford to keep
agents at every point where business
can be had. To them the character
of the passengers secured is Of no
more consequence than that of a lot
of cattle shipped between decks
] Naturally they prefer those of fairly
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05

agricultural products are now 20 pei
cent. lower than in 1880, 80 per cent
lower than in 1888, and A per cent
lower than in 1857. the year of the
great panic, that Republicans tell us
was produced by lowering taxes
But this is only half of the story,
Manufactured products which the far
mer has to buy have been increased
in price. That impoverishes the farm
err by prohibiting him from reaching
his competitor, and it enriches the
manufacturer by prohibiting his COM
petitor from reaching him.
Selfinterest is the great motive
power that moves all men. The west
ern farmer is not an exception. Turn
on and intensity the light. Know
ledge is power. Truth is mighty and
it will prevail"-after awhile.-R. @.
Mills.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05

docile temper, who will not kick or
fight on the passage, but so they can
land their live freight safely and get
their money they have no further in
terest in the matter.
As the steamship companies are the
chief agents in bringing about immi-
grafton, so they may be made the agents
for enforcing such principles of selec-
ton as may be fixed by law. 1t Is al.
ready provided that immigrants can
not be landed from the foreign steam
ers who are likely to become charge
upon the public, either from feeble
health or inability to support them
selves. 1t would be quite practicable
for them to refuse the privilege OF
landing to those who cannot furnish
prima-facie evidence of such good NOR
al character as would make them safe
residents Of this country. This is par
ticularly true of immigrants coming
from Continental countries, in which
every member of the population is
kept within the knowledge of the au-
thorities to a degree unknown in the
United States. A certificate from the
police magistrate or corresponding
official of his locality could be demand
ed of every immigrant to the effect
that he had never been guilty of any
offense against the law, or under police
surveillance, or in receipt of public aid
to his support, the certificate to be
authenticated by the Endorsement of
the United States Consul nearest his
residence. This condition alone would
probably have kept out of the country
every one of the Italians murdered in
New.Orleans. But this sort of safe
guard is not all that is needed. Con-
gress should at once revise the natural
+ization laws, take the privilege of be-
coming citizen of the United States
entirely under Federal control, fix the
requirements at much higher level
than at present, and provide for the
careful and vigilant enforcement of
them. 1t is shocking thing, and one of
which the people of Louisiana should
be heartily ashamed, that the majority
of the men against whom in their judg.
ment it was necessary to invoke mob
law were voters in New.Orleans. and
had had voice in the management of
the very Government that was declar-
ed powerless to deal justly with their
crimes. With proper system of sift-
ing at the ships side and decent, self
respecting naturalization system to
shut out unfit persons from the privi-
leges of citizenship, such outrages as
that that has brought so much trouble
and disgrace upon the country would
be rendered practically impossible
n. Y. Times.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05
MONTHLY REPORT.

The meteorological report Of the wealth
er, at the city of Alpena, is as follows for
the month Of July, 1891:
Highest temperature, 81 degrees. on the 18th.
Lowest temperature, 40 on the 3lst.
Average temperature, 50 degrees.
Highest barometric pressure, $685. inches.
Lowest barometric pressure, 2974 inches.
Total rain fall 2O5 inches.
Prevailing wind, from the northwest
Total movement of wind, 6,4o6 miles.
Greatest daily rainfall. 1.O3 inches. on the 3D.
Highest velocity of the wind, 40 miles, from the
so utheast, on the 10TH
Number of cloudless days,9.
Number Of partly cloudy days, Is
Number of cloudy days..
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05

ments for sums exceeding $40 and the
deposits in the banks that cannot be
largely drawn upon without inducing
business disturbances of which the
Administration would not like to be
the cause. After abiding to the well
known causes of this condition of the
Treasury, the extravaganza of Con-
gress. and the falling off in customs
receipts, Mr.. Carson says:
"The rapidity and extent of the
depletion of the Treasury will be APP
preciated by a statement showing its
condition on July /, 1890, and con,
trasting that with the present condition.
One year ago the net balance was $685..
400, TAO fractional coins. s23, 002. 008
making a total balance of S7S.411,757.
At that time the amount held for the
redemption of national bank notes was
5,6l9,360. Under the act of July
IA this amount was covered into the
Treasury cash, and since that date has
been counted as part ofthe net balance.
Adding the amount of this trust fund
held last July to the balance then on
hand would give as the general balance
$134,031,117 Against that the Treas
ury now holds as a general balance,
which includes all funds, SAT ,021, 7s1,
loss of $S7 600, 900 in twelve months.
There is due the national bank.note
redemption fund about $4,000 900,
which amount is not carried as a liza
bility. If this obligation should be
paid the Treasury would be cleaned
out ofall its funds, including fractional
coin, with the exception of about 3d.
100000"
In its headline the Ledger describes
this as "a dangerously narrow margin"
The description is just, and was pro-
badly not made for partisan advan-
tage." But it cannot be said with
confidence thu the worst is over
Mr.. Carson points out that the customs
receipts may continue to fall off, and
that the appropriations made at the
last session of the Fifty-frst Congress,
more wastefully and wickedly extrav.
agant than those of the first session,
will become available after July /, and
"the expenditures, therefore, will con-
tinue on grand scale for at least
another year, unless the President and
the::Secretary of the Treasury interfere
and prevent payments other than those
that are imperative and unavoidable. I"
AS these statements are made by
a gentleman who is Republican and
not a "panic monger" they deserve the
attention of intelligent Republicans
who are reluctant to accept statements
of established facts from sources Just
ly or unjustly suspected of partisan
ship. And since these intelligent Re-
publicans may not recall former low
tariff criticisms Of swollen Treasury
balances and large annual surpluses, it
may be proper to add that the present
critics of the Republican policy do
not raise the note of censure and
alarm because the money is out of the
Treasury so much as at the manner of
its getting out-though the window.
N. Y. Times.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05
Wednesday, Aug. 8, 1891.
How We Treat the Shipping Business

We "protect" our shipbuilders by
requiring every vessel flying the Amer
lean flag to be American built, and
then we tax them by imposing duties
upon the materials which they use,
unless they will contine themselves en-
tirely to foreign trade. Next, having
made it impossible to compete on even
terms with foreign builders, we try to
keep our shipowners from buying of
those foreign builders, even at the dis.
advantage of having to obtain for
eign registry, by putting a direct tax
upon their ships when they enter our
ports. And. finally. when we have
thus deliberately made the shipping
business Improbable, we try to get
people to engage in it by paying them
out of the public treasury for doing
so.-Boston Post.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-05
Meteorological Report

The meteorological report Of weather
at Alpena city, is as follows for the week
ending Monday, August Sd, 1901.
Highest temperature. 70 degrees, on the 10th.
Lowest temperature, 40 above zero, on the 3lst
Average temperature, SO degrees.
Highest barometric pressure, sO.0es inches.
Lowest barometric pressure, 29.767 inches.
Total rainfall, 0.57 inches.
Prevailing wind, from the northwest.
Total movement Of the wind, 1000 miles.
Greatest daily rain fall o 81 inches, on the LIST.
Highest velocity of the wind, 20 miles, from the
northwest on the 30th.
NJ. Nc P. BALDWIN,
Observer. Weather Bureau.