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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
The Republican Policy.

The policy of the Republican party is
to becloud the issue of the campaign
with appeals to passion and a pretense
of patriotism. Daily the columns of
their papers bear evidence of this. 1t is
an old trick. There never was a time
when reform was proposed that those
whose privileges were to be cut down in
the interests of the common people did
not cry out treason" and unfortunate
ly there are always a great many we'll
meaning but unthinking people who are
misled thereby.-Seattle (Wash.) Tele-
graph.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
Protection - Robbery,

The manufacturing cost of the silk
made in this country in 1880. without
wages, was $31 $50. 800.
The foreign cost of the silk imported
in 1889. including foreign wages, was
S31 1854 276. A duty of so per cent was
levied both on the foreign cost and for
eign wages, making it cost to land $45,-
500, Ala. so that our manufacturers could
sell theirs for SAT, S29, 45O, and collect
$15, 943. $50 under pledge to pay it to
their employers as the difference in
wages" in addition to foreign wages.
The total wages they paid their workers
was 80. 146. 705. and the manufacturers
took from their workmen Sc, 796 AS,
getting their labor free of cost, The
public paupers in our psuper silk mills,
supported by public charity, were COM
PEELED to labor without pay and de-
spoiled of 40 per cent of the money con-
triOuted by the people for their support.
What is true of the protected silk-mill
is true of every protected industry. The
protected employer has absolute psuper
labor, and his main profit comes from
what he takes from the trust fund he coll
lccts from his workmen. A duty on the
foreign labor cost would protect his
workmen, but he wants and gets duty
on the foreign cost of material in addi-
ton, to protect" himself.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
THE NEW CHAIRMAN.
william f. Harrity, Who Will Direct
the Campaign for the Democrats.

william f. Harrity, Who VIII Direct
the Campaign for the Democrats.
Mr.. Harrity, the new chairman of the
committee, is the present secretary of
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
and has been most successful as poll
tician. He is courteous and obliging,
and a great favorite among newspaper
men because of his truthfulness. He
was born in Wilmington, Del, Oct 10,
1850, and was graduated from La Sale
college. Philadelphia. He studied law in
the office of the late Lewis C. Cassidy,
who was attorney general of Pennsyl-
vania, and was admitted to the bar in
1878. He helped to elect Robert E.
Pattison comptroller of Republican Phil
adelphia, and later assisted to make him
governor. He was appointed postmas-
ter of Philadelphia by Cleveland, and
made an excellent record. He, more
than any other man was responsible
for running Pattison for governor a sec
ond time, which resulted in the over
throw of Delamater. He is president of
trust company in Philadelphia and
has large law practice. He has an in
teresting family, and is handsome
man of stalwart build, who can stand
almost any amount OF physical and men
tai work without signs of fatigue.-New
York Herald,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
A Wonderful Machine:

There is no doubt that man is fine
mechanism, but like every other ma
chine he wears out by friction. 1t is
said that he is born again every two or
three years. His body is virtually re-
made from food. To retsrd this making
over is radically wrong, as a man loses
80 much vitality in the delayed process
that it takes long time to recuperate.
The process of making anew is 80 accele-
rated by purging with Brandreth's PILE,
that new man, as it were. may be made
in two or three months. and the change
In the mechanism is such that the worn
out part is replaced by the new without
the usual running down of the entire
machine. You don't have to stop for
repairs. Purge away with Brandreth's
Pills the old. diseased. worn-out body.
They are purely vegetable. absolutely
harmless. and safe to take at any time.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
The Colored People Suffer Also.

There are some 5000 colored voters in
Massachusetts,, enough to turn the scale
In years where the vote is close. The
same may be said of the 1 800 in Rhode
Island, the ?, 500 in Connecticut, the 49,
600 in New York, the 10000 in New
Jersey, the $4,000 in Pennsylvania, 49,
600 in Ohio, 10, 600 in Indiana and - 800
in Illinois. There is no reason why these
voters should give their solid support to
the Republican party. They are the
victims of the same ruinous economic
system which affiicts the white people,
and the Republican pretense to be their
friends is wholly hollow and insincere.
Louisville Courier Journal.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22

TIE new constitution of Mississippi
provides that in order to be entrusted
with the franchise the voter must be able
to read and write and pay his poll tax.
That is the constitution the republican
press inveighs against SO bitterly. II it
should be proposed in Massachus etts
they would be heartily in favor Of it. but
Mississippi-that's different II would
do no harm if the qualifications named
were the basis of suffrage everywhere.
The poll tax is. as the Q iincy Herald
says. an annoyance. but in the south. as
the same paper remarks. it is necessity.
There the masses who are responsible for
the bulk of the expense Of the admins
sration of government contribute nothing
to its support. Therefore. II they are
50 have Q voice in the selection of the
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
"IniQuitous and Unjust"

Under any conditions it is Ubiquitous
and unjust to legislate upon the theory
that an industrial class should be Ii
censed to appropriate the earnings of
any other class without making due
compensation. As the supreme court
has declared, for the government with
one hand to seize the property of the
citizen and with the other to bestow it
upon individuals to build up their pri-
vate fortunes is none the less robbery be-
cause it is done under the forms of law.
Chicago Herald.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
City CaucuSeS.
Democratic Senatorial Convention:

The counties of Rock Island and Henry, com
prising the Twenty first senatorial district are,
requested to send delegates to a convention to be
held at the court house in the city of Rock ISL
and, Ills.
ON TUESDAY, SEPT. 1892.
at $50 p m, for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for representative, appointing seDa-
toria committee and transactir such other bust
ness may properly come before the convention.
The basis of representative will be one dole
gate for every 200 fraction thereof of leo
or over of votes cast for democratic presidential
electors in 1885, as follows:
Rock Island county 81 GA votes-ls delegates.
henry county. 1868 - Ia
l.. G. BLANDISG,
NJ. J.McESIRY,
L. F. DIMMICK-
Rock ISLAND, Ills, Aug. IS, 1892.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
Relief Is Only in Democracy.

There is no chance for relief by affilia-
ton with the third party as it makes no
attack on the plundering schemes of Re-
publicanism. The great question of de-
iverance from our crushing burdens is
wrapped up in the overthrow of the rob-
Der tariff and an equitable adjustment
of taxation and an economical admins
tration of the government. This can
only be reached by defeating the Re-
publicans and securing Democratic
president and congress. Let every pa
triotic southern man aid in this great
work.-Athens GA Banner.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
Many Doubtful States This Year

The campaign of education has been
given a very valuable object lesson as
to the merits of high tariff protection
and whom it protects, and the results
will be far reaching There is good
promise tor the Democratic party in the
east and in all the manufacturing dis
tricts which have heretofore gone Re-
publican, and there is excellent prospect
in the west, where the revolt against the
Republican party seems to be perma-
nent. Doubtful states! There are too
many to attempt to enumerate them
Houston Post.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
NOW rs THE TIME.
One Months Treatment in Summer
Equal to Three in Winter.

The present warm weather is a boon to suffer
er- from catarrh. For these reasons:
In the first place, there is less liability, at this
period Of the year, to take cold than at any other
time Consequently there is irritating cause
OF delay in cure or probability of a relapse.
Secondly. the climate is all that can be desired
Thirdly, nature IS kindly in GUNNER and lends
its best aid to the efforts OF the phi, sician One
months treatment now is worth three in wint-r.
Now Is the time and the opportunity is inst
what lie desired for the worst cases. Do not let it
go, by thinking you will get well Uor with the
nret cold, Your trouble will return wor- than ev-
er), but place yourself under the treatment en-
pioyed at Scott Medical Institute and have done
for yOu in the next two months what might not be
p ssible to be effected until ext summer.
SPECIALTIES:-Cs Eye, Ear.
Nose, Throat. Lungs and sll forms OF
Chronic Diseases. no matter how long
standing. No case taken where there is
any doubt of complete cure.
Special attention given to diseases of
women and children.
SCOTT MEDICAL INSTITUTE.
Davenport, Iowa.
Office Hours-9 to II a. m, to p. m. 20 p.
m. Parlors over Amesican Express office, 221
Brady street. No Office hours Sunday evening.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
Thought He Had IT.

A well authenticated story is current to
the effect that young chroniqueur on a
Partisan newspaper was asked one morn
ing by his then director to take the Lon
don papers and prepare a review of English
opinion regarding some event of interna-
tional interest and Importance. But. sir,
I do not understand English" replied the
writer. poser, this, for the good direc-
tor. A little while he sat and pondered
then. triumphantly, ''Oh, well, just pick
out the most important passages and get
them translated by somebody who does!"
-Argonaut.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
An Unw.rrnnted A.,umption.

Nobody has any right to assume that
the Democratic party will kill the reci-
procity system" If any good has been
accomplished under Harrison's private
dickers the good will be preserved. The
system itself, would, under Democratic
rule, be perfected and enlarged. It
would be made to confer benefits upon
consumers in this country equally with
foreign commemorative Pa) Herald.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22

1t is as the leading representative and
exponent of this communism that Car
negie has begun a feudal war in Penn
sylvania; that he has employed mer-
cenaries as his vassals to shoot down the
wages of the workers in whose name he
collects toll from the American people.
He has revived in America the worst
features of the feudal system, and the
maintenance of this system is what his
defenders mean when they talk of the
''rights of property. st. Louis Repub-
lie.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
No Rainbow Business.

Mr.. Harrity's choice as chairman
means that the Democratic party is 60
ing to make an aggressive fight and a
winning fight from the start. 1t means
that the national committee is after
votes this year; that there will be no
rainbow business in the presidential cam
paign; that Cleveland and Stevenson are
going to be elected. Charleston News
and Courier.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
Expected to Die.
Was Told She Could Not
be Cured.

An instance Of what neglected Ca'arrh will lead
to is given IN the case of Mrs Anna Louison,
whose statements follow, and who suffered in the
most serious manner from HxADACHE. SORE
THRo T, DEAFNESS, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA. UNG
TROUBLE, CATARRH OF STOMACH, and NERVOUS
PRosTRATIoN.
Mrs Louison lives at the corner of River Road
and Bridge Ave. She says
my trouble began rea ly four years ago. with
catarrh Of the head. had VIC ent headaches. the
top OF my head being nearly split by the pain.
My nose and head stopped up. My nose was dry
and painful, and though enuffed up all kinds of
remedies could not make it moist or stop the
burning. Nv throat became go sore that found
It almost impossible to swallow. 1t was fever
isbly dry and my mouth WAS dry and hot also.
had severe pains in my breast and back and aw
full stitches in the side. / contracted a severe
cough which was very distressing. l had no ap-
p-tite and food distressed me. l also had faint
ing spells. Iva. told would die from coneump
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22

ARKANSAS farmers want some seed
wheat from Germany. but kick because
they have daty Of 25 Gel ts per bushel
to pay. Well. now, if the foreigner pays
the tax why do those farmers kick?
They should just keep on buying foreign
wheat and break up the monopoly that
those pesky Germans have. Isn't the
tariff beauty?
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22

THE American flag was raised over the
new Catholic school building at Ottawa
Monday with imposing ceremonies
Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, took charge
Of the exercises and the people of Otta-
wa. irrespective Of church belief. turned
out to witness the dedication.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22

A PHILADELPHIA real estate man is said
to be about to come into possession Of an
English estate valued at S1s7, 900. 600
just why the fellow who started this
store did not make il an even two hun
bred millions is not apparent.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
Mean Insects.

Little Girl Gin the park)-Those butter
flies is awful mean.
Mamma-Why so?
Little Girl-Quick as 1 go to chase 'em
they flies off the walk onto the grass,
cause they knows l mustn't go there
Good News
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22

THE author Of the anonymous cam
paign legend of 1883. Protection Fills
the Dinner Pail" has been discovered.
He is Andrew Carnegie, Esq, Of Cluny
castle. The motto will not be in general
use this year.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22

KEoKUK Constitution Democrat: From
the arguments being used by the repub-
licsn papers this year it is very clear that
they have guaged the intelligence Of the
American people entirely too low.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
How / Felt.

Why, two years ago I was just about
crazy, and no wonder that my wife and
children were afraid of me. You just
want to suffer with neuralgia With no re-
lief as did until used Sulphur Bitters.
They cured me. and now my wife says
am as meek as . lamb.-Robert Davis.
American House. Boston.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
Salt River Was Ignored.

President Harrison has signed the river
and harbor bill. He was doubtless sadly
grieved to discover in it nc provision for
salt river, which he will have to navi-
gate in November.-St. Louis Republic
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
A Method of Relief.

The Dilettante-You ought to see Mrs.
Thomson's magnificent home! It's just
full of Corots and Millets.
The Parvenu-Terriblel Why doesn't
she try insect powderr-Chicago News
Record.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22

judges that are to try the offenders
among them, it is but right that they
should pay Ihe poll tax the law demands.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
MONDAY. AUGUST %. 1892.
Democratic Congressional Convention

OOhiOCi dIlC SOhSIcSS1ohoi SOhSShsAOh'
The democratic voters in the several counties
comprising the Eleventh Congressional District
are reques ed TO send delegates TO q congress
sional convention to be held AT Monmouth, H.,
THURSDAY, SEPT. 1, 1892,
1t 10:3O o'c'ock, a. m, for the purpose of nomin-
ating a candidate for congress, member of the
board of equalization, and to transact such other
business may be presented for the coDsidera-
ton OF the convention. The several counties in
tine congressional district VIII be tied a
presentation the basis of one delegate for
200 votes, and one for q fraction of 100 votes or
cast for Edward ). Wilson for state treas
ir, follov
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-30
REMINDERS OF wITCHCRAFT.
Some Quaint old Relics of Dark
DAYS in America

Some Quaint old Relics of Dark
Days in America.
Memorandum for the authorities of
Salem, written by Cotton Mather i'll
1889:
This rampant bag, Martha Carrier.
the person of whom the confessions OF
the witches, and of her own children
among the rest, agreed that the devil
had promised her she should be queen
of hel.''
From the chronicles of Robert Calex,
a merchant of Boston, written in 1913:
The Both of June the court, accord
ing to adjournment. again sat; five
more women accused of witchcraft were
tried, viz. Sarah Good and Rebecca
NourSe, of Salem Village Git was the
pitiful fate of Rebecca Nourse that i'll
spired Nathaniel Hawthorne with the
theme of "'rhe Scarlet Letter. Ed.
The Press. Susanna Martin, of Ames-
bury; Elizabeth How, of Ipswich, and
Sarah Wildes, of Topstield. All were
condemned at that session, and were
executed on the 10Th of July. At the
execution Sarah Good was urged
to confess, and told that she was
witch, and she knew she was
a witch; to which she replied: L
aiiI uO HlOre q WHICH Lndu you are
wizard, and if you take away my life
God will give you blood to drink"
Sarah Cloyce was soon after condemned
to die for witchcraft, because on going
out of church the wind blew the door
suddenly shut after she went out. Giles
Cory pleaded not guilty, but was adj
judged a wizard. He was pressed to
death. In pressing, his tongue being
pressed out Of his mouth, the sheriff
with his cane forced it into his meath
again when he was dying. Eight witches
and wizards were executed az this time.
The sheriff turning him to the bodies,
said: What a sad thing it is to see
eight firebrands OF hell lying there"
AS he spoke the sheriff was smoking
tobacco. A great puff of smoke at this
remark, coming forth, flew into the face
of a woman who was praying aloud.
She choked in her prayers. The people
cried out that she was possessed of
spirit that would not let her pray. She
was condemned OF witchcraft. aud pres
emily her corpse was laying beside the
friend she was praying over"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-30
DIR. johnson on Sunday.

Sald ) JOuT0dl.
sunday" said DR.. Johnson, twas
heavy day to me when was boy. My
mother confined me on that day and
made me read The Whole Duty Of Man,
from great part of which | could de-
rive no instruction. When, for in
stance, had read the chapter on theft,
which from my infancy [ had been
taught was wrong, | was no more con-
WINGED that theft was wrong than be-
fore; So there was no accession of
knowledge. A boy should be introduced
to such books by having his attention
directed to the arrangement, to the
style and other eXcellences of compost
ton. so that the mind, being thus en-
gagged by an amusing variety of objects,
may not grow weary"
Was it this that suggested to William
Black the incident in "a Daughter of
Heth." where the boys at the manse
were always given ''Josephus" as a
book for Sunday reading, and evinced a
remarkable liking for one particular
volume. On examination 1t was discov-
cred that they had glued the edges of
the volume together, cut out the center
part, and converted the tome into cap
ital box in which they kept their white
rroinQ
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-30
And What of Whitman?

Courier-Journal.
IA contemporary, treating of the
poets of America, refers to E. G. Sted-
man as the disciple of Lowell. who was
one of Americas great quartette." 1t
strikes us that America has had five
great poets, according to standard of
greatness which would allow either one
of them to be so termed. They are
Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes
and Lowell. We are curious to know
which one of these our contemporary
would leave out. Some of our foreign
friends might also add Poe to the above
list. boston Herald.
But what of Sidney Lanier? The
verdict of time will be that he was Ger
who are included in this list.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-30
IN EFENSE OF OPIUM.
"A Woman Missionary Is an Apollo
gist for It's Uses.


Toronto Globe
At a recent session of the Woman's
Missionary conference a question was
asked as 10 the opium habit among the
women OF India. and all men present
were asked TO Withdraw while Miss
Beatty. a medical missionary from the
western part OF India, told what she had
seen i'll her practice. AS the only men
present were newspaper representatives,
1t was but very small procession that
made speedy exit.
Miss Beatty'S explanation put the
matter in different light from the one
in which we are accustomed to view
the wholesale consumption of opium.
She said it would be cruel to take it
away from the suffering womanhcod
until civilization had opened the door
of the ZenanaS to medical men or there
were enough women doctors to relieve
the terrible agonies which women suf-
fer and must bear without trea tment.
Opium is inexpensive. All women take
it. All babies are dragged with it,
and the poor little child wives are re-
leved by its aid. IL have SEEM" said
Miss Beatty, "a little girl of thirteen
with her own baby on her lap. 1t was
drugged and no trouble to her. How
could 1t be when it was asleep? And
she WO i'd put up her little hands and
plead ior a doll to play with while she
was free from the care of her little one.
While the present awful state of things
maintains in Indian opium is something
to thank God for.''
Some one in the audience arose to ask
if Miss Beatty considered the crusades
against opium of no avail.
mo. thousand times no." she an
swered; but let Christianity be sent to
do away with its need"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-30

as it is for others to turn pale on an
other. The same laws of nature that
govern the one rule the other.
The capillaries, or small blood vessels.
which connect the arteries and veins in
the body. from. particularly over the
cheeks, network so fine that 1t is nee
essary to employ microscope to dis
tinguish them.
Ordinarily the blood passes through
these vessels in normal volumes, leav-
ing only the natural tInge of the COM
plexion.
But when some sudden emotion takes
possession of the heart its action in
creases, and an electric thrill instantly
leaps to the cheeks. This thrill is moth
ing more than the rush OF blood through
the invisible capillaries; the color is
nothing more than the blood just be-
meath the delicate surface of the skin.
The causes that bring about this con-
dition in the circulating system are
called