Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-10
JOSLIN.


Mr. Buli has rentei John Conley's
farm
R;v Hicks reputation as yea b, r
prophet can be moved a notch forward.
John MtConnell has been taken down
with pneumonia, He call d in DR.. Bon
ner
Samuel Bryant is moving upon Mr..
B ,wles' farm snd is making some i'm
p ovem MS.
On Friday evening last there was s
sci, CT evening party AZ the residence of
Gregory BroSn.
Nr johnson. section foreman upon the
| railr sd has rent, Fred Osborne's farm
| upon Rock river.
William Parker is moving upon his
| OWL place. John Rashburn N owes
/ into the residence that Ar. Parker is
| eaviDg.
The object and drift OF all legis' alton
| should be, Ito make it as easy as possi-
Bile to Go right. and as difficult as possi-
ME to DO wrong"
| JosLIN, Jan, 9.-On Saturday last a
number of tie Modern Woo linen met
| time with feast of oysters
Mr.. and Mrs Richard Clark and mi'y
OF Rock Island. have moved into Hon
William Psyne's residence for the pur-
ose of keeping house and looking afft r
the stock during Mr.. Paynt's absence in
Springfield.
Occasionally one or two novo back
| from III" city. whLe others are pulling
| up ,'akes, iu'euding 20 qq!: faru.i1g ard
! uove 20 the city. Cbauucey BrowR Las
decided 70 have 2 sale. concluding hat
! 'hrre is poor com .lens~tion Ia farming.
The people Of this neilbborboad were
very much startled on Saturday last to
hear IF the death of Charles Armstrong
| Il will be remembered at about three
years ago Charles mind became Edec;ed
! and he was taken % .he asylum, but &c
covered and returned home, ard has
managed and worked his farm un,il
about three weeks Ggo, when he ives ta~
ken dom with lang ftver and died Oh
Saturday morning last. He leaves q
wife and fv4 children. Charles Arm
s'roug was respected by all who knew
hiGl and was honest TO the fraction of q
cent.
Il seems to me tha' ole OF the N ost
| important reforms that could possibly
take place would be further reduction
in the legal rate Of interest. II would be
| inmcdiste relief to all those who have to
york on borrowed captal-both farmers
ard manufacturers Tue above would
answer very veil until he ernment
got ready TO loan money 10 the peop'c AZ
J . 10
should b. tax. n from the necessGr es of
life, heavily reduced an other articles and
he deisl. in the revenue should be :uc-
| piled by graduated income tex.
The following is ken from r4dics,
republican hi n aft advocate. l. Is ir-
tc5eStirg, IS il shows the state end CON
dition IF some bings in Europe: ~
sBcs 8 raoLtn and . hslf OF the work of
81 G rnsn lato5er 70 pay bis taxes fa!
bsepirC mp ibe army. The new army
dill which Cspr.vi il pushing is calculit-
q TO make i az ven 40 months, and
lLra simpiiflrs his bookkeeping hin
Rerespois Times How is it that the
editor of the Times is g. much concerned
with regard 10 he condition and st9'e OF
| hinCs in Germany and hiss nOthin 10
esy with regard To the taxation Of thi,
country. ard how much better { Fl we are
From an array of statistics before me
fiod that the national taxes amount to AT
average OF !:42 Ier family; state, county
and municipal taxes ar average of $4S
Der family; teal taxes paid for pub il
purposes by each family. of 500 year.
This is considerable over Two months pay
for the average wOrkingmsn. But in ad-
IN ~ ho
ment, our present system of protection
levies an additional tax for the benefit o.
a few specially favored classes OF sbou
$50 per family per year. making the to.
tai amount really taken from the average
family by taxation national. state, coun
ty. municipal and class. $170 year. Ii
view of this fact. ia it wonder that po-
liticsl calculations and the republican
party were ovefthrown7
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