Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-12-27
JOSLIN.

NohHuuo uis pIOlT6CJSQ meetings.
during the coming week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Wainwright are Wis
lung with their friends Ia Moline, Hamp-
| ION Township and LeClaire.
Ed Stephenson, who ak weeks age
| moved all his household Effects, hay and
morse teed to Moline, is moving all back
agaln-that is, all but the horse feed
ana mas come 10 the Conclusion that il l.
not ali sunshine In the city.
Joe Stephenson's son is still very low
with typhoid fever. DR.. Bruner is in
attendance.
W. Il. WhtesIde. our postmaster, who
has been confined TO his house for Some
Time. Is some better, and has been down
! 10 his store.
There was drunken man upon the
streets OF Joslin on Friuay last He
could not connect two sensible sentences
together in d sensible way. How rldlcu
lous man appears when he thinks he
Knows SO much and Yet knows so little
Whist wonderful country we live in .
While we are frozen up solid In Illinois,
the people of Louisiana are 1easllug
upon straw berries and cream, green peas
and new potatoes.
AnGnony FIlmer, who has had the
management of our creamery, nas beeu
transferred to Hillsdaie. Mr.. Hanson
takes Mr.. Filmers place at Joslin.
Wonder il Mckinley has been mea-
sured for his Inauguration suit for 1S9Sf
"Ah, how near and yet 30 far awayi'
TwentY-four members of Alexander
Dunbar's family took dinner together on
Christmas day.
We are told that cotton has advanced
cents per pound and that cotton plan l.
ers are corrssPon dinghy delighted. There
Is no ground to suppose that Cleveland q
| election had anything 10 do with the al
| vance, but If Harrison had been elected
would not that advance have been herald
ed all over the country as one Of The re-
suits OF a victory for progeciionf
In 1888, when Harrison was elected,
there happened to be drop in PORK.
AL" Said leading republican friend
we are getting down TO democratic
prices" but what shall we now say, con
sidering that the price Of pork has been
creeping up since the election? Isn't it Q
poor rule that won't work both ways!
All through the last campaign we were
told a thousand and one times that the
people from one end Of the country to the
other were rich and prosperous and hap
py. The republican party has given us
thet Information from the stump apo
through the press so continually that we
would not OF course dispute it The peo-
Die who talk Of the existence of poverty
-, To- aa1. M
less. once in a while little paragraphs
come out in the news columns OF even re,
publican papers which would seem to in.
dictate that by diligent search some peo-
pie might be found who were al least not
quite able to afford seal skin cloaks and
turkey dinners.
It 10 said Of an old woman who kept q
country store, that she was 10 the habi,
Of saying that "she lost BY everything
sbe sold, and when questioned ss to
how she managed to stsni it, replied,
because she did a very large business. :"
Aud the o Id lady's financial logic ia
just about as sound as is President Har-
rison's and Secretary Fosters. who claim
that because our ex ports amount to more
than our imports, therefore we are doing
q prosperous business and the balance OF
trade is in our favor, which shows no.
thing of the kind. Suppose a farmer
sells COW for $50 and buys q 2-yesr old
steer for SIS, of course he has SIS more
than he had before he sold bis COW, bnt is
that any evidence that he is IS richer
an he was? If he sold his COW for Jus,
what she was worth and did not psy any
more for tbe steer than it was worth, OF
course, as / see it. the transaction has
not made him any richer or any poorer
Blu, il the COW was worth $25 and the
steer was only worth $40. he is SIC
poorer than he was before he sold hi
COW. although he has SIS more in hii
pocket. Just so with regard to our ex
ports and imports II We have got fol
| our exports all that they were worth thai
il, oil that they bad cost US. and have mo-
paid too much for our imports. then the
transaction would not make us any
richer or any poorer But if high pro.
tective tariff has compelled US to pay too
much for that which we have bought
l and the wheat we have sold has no
netted the farmer over go cents pc
bushel. nor his pork over IS per HUI
dred. then say the balance Of trade il
against US, as I see it. notwithstanding
We have sold more than we have bought
or. in other words. if we have made &
| fair profit upon our exports. and have
not paid too much for our imports. ther
of course the balance Of trade would bs
| in our favor and not otherwise.
MULTUM IN PARvo.