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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-12-21
No matter what your trade may De
An terbalist or halter

An terbalist or halter
Or something eiee. say to thee
II you have ausht the matter,
Don't take the old style gripping pills
That rather cause than cure your iiis'
but take Or. Piercs's Pleasant Pellets. Tor 'neJ
are very small and pleasant 70 take anc sIe
/, rompt end effective in their operation. 1sey
cure indigestion, sick headache. billousnese' a's
ordered liver and habisual constipation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-12-21
THE MARKETS.
New York Financial.

New YORK, Dee. "a.
Money on cal easy at 1dl1a per cent. Prime
mercant paper aAGil& per cent. Sterling
exchange firm. with actual business in
bankers bills at isSssG4ss3, for demand ard
4S7Is64s724 for sixty days; posted rates $500
4s9 and 4S9lsd sdisO; commercial bills iSjia %
4s6I@
silver certificates 5e5s no sales; bar sill
Yer 6O3s Mexican dollars %.
United States government bonds as regular,
us; SIS coupons llSl4; As regular III: as
coupons ll5l4: rs regular 81; Pacifi. IS Of
30, leo
Chicago Grain and Produce.
CHICAGO. Dec 81.
Following were the quotations on the Board
of Trade t1day: Wheat-De 'emb.r, opened
54c. closed 53i4c; May, opened 5sssc closed
5S1sc: July, opened 5gsc- closed o3is:. Corn
December, opened 45c. closed 46ssc; Janu-
ary. opened 46lac, closed 46,s Sc: May. opened
4glsc. closed s9c Oats-Dccember. opened
2g1sc, closed &c; January. opened sssc.
closed 2gl4: May. opened 1,Isc. closed 32lsc.
Pork-January. opened Sll 50. closed sll...le.
May. opened sl2l2la. closed SEQ. Lard
january, opened SGs5 closed S6.S!ls
Produce: Butter-Extra creamery. &c per
lb; extra dairy. 20c; packing stock l0Gllc.
Eggs-Fresh st ,ck. .lc per d5z. loss of. Live
poultry-Chickens. 5}sG.c per lb; turkeys.
1Qsc; ducks. .es,sc; geese. sl.UG6O per
doz. Potatocs-Burbanks. 43d5Dc per bu:
Hebrons 4'6sisc; early rose. 43aeisc- Sweet
potatoes-Illinois, sl.2sfll.0 Crauberrics-
Cape Cod. fair to ice, $s.0ef19W per bbl:
fancy, s6G0aa15. Honey-wiite clover. l. b
sections, new stock, l3l5llic: broken comb,
lU0i2c: dark comb. poor packages, Sc; straine
California. 5G6c per Id.
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO. Dec. -
live stock-Prices at the Union stock Yards
today ranged as follows Hogs-Estiinated
| receipts far the day, a0,o0o; sales ranged at
81 2401iO5 pigs, $3.50 G4.35 light, si.W -
rough packing. StOOG4.55 mixed. and si.2Jfs
! 4.O heavy packing and shipping lots.
Cattle-Receipts for the day 1850; quota
tiols ranged at $3.50 q go Christmas
| beeves, s5O5Qt5.sO choice to extra ship.
| ping steers. $i.i0co500 good to choice do,
| So 365Gl4.35 fair to good, So IJlt;l.6l common To
medium. do. Sa.Sja3.5o butchers steers, 81.
| Gt30J stockers. s2.sD1l3 40 feeders. SIS Vs..a
| cows. S2.3pGD3.D heifers. Sl.5DGi5I bulls. Ss.sj
| aa,3.l0 Texas steers, $21Jsli25 western rangers,
aud S200d5.50 veal calves.
| Sheep-Estimated receipts for the day
| l4.o00; sales ranged at S2.0J1350 westerns,
sl..5d2W Texans, sl.40G3.sJ natives. aaS sssi
| Q4.as5 LAMBS
| Closing Quotations..
CHICAGO. Dec. 20. Wheat, firmer. Dec. !sis
May 5S9s;. Corn. lower, Dec. 4Gc. May 49isc
Oats. steady, Dec. e9,. Pork lower, Jan. el1
75. Lard, lower, Jan. $3.50. r bs, lower
| Jan. $5.S5.
Chicago Stock.
CHICAGO, Dec. 90. - Bogs, receipts $1,000
good, hrm; common, easy. Cattle receipts. Il
0oo; &c lower. Sheep receipts 1900; 8 TO 10
lower.
New York Money Closing.
NEw YORK. Dec. 20.-Aouey on call, cay Q
IL per cent; prime mercantile Paper. sx34<.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-12-21


judgment-do what best
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-12-21

CHICAGO, Dec. 90. - Bogs, receipts 1900
good, arm, common. easy. Cattle receipts. ].
00o; &c lower. sheep receipts 1900; 8 to II
lower.
New York Money Closing.
NEw YORK. Dec. 20-Aouey on call, cay
~ per cent; prime mercantile Paper. sa94&.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04


raised in the north. The citizens have
a perfect right to express their choice
in the matter. But until the Constitu-
ton is changed in this respect, United
States Senator's must be elected, if at
all, by the legislatures of the respective
states.
If they fail to elect, the Governors of
the states have the constitutional right
to appoint. There are exceptions to
this rule, as decided by a majority of
the United States Senate not long ago,
but we believe that decision was more
political than just, and more quibbling
than constitutional. But be that as it
may, there is nothing in law or in rea-
son to prevent. the people, if they de-
eide so to do, from expressing their
preferences for United States Senators
and choosing legislators who will put
their wishes into effect. AS to the
necessity and prudence of such a
course each party in each state must
decide for itself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
NOMINATING SENATOR'S.

The Republicans of Southern Idaho
seem to be as disunited as their breth-
rem are in Utah. We judge both by the
language of their own organs. The
Idaho dispute seems to be over the
nomination of United States Senator's
It is claimed by some persons, evident
ly talking for other people without
authority, that "the Mormon Republi-
cans" of Southern Idaho, are in favor
of such nomina tons at the party con-
ventions. This is denied very emphat-
ically-by others, and some sharp if not
short and sweet language is used by
the disputants.
|. There is a feature of this contention
which people generally ought to under
stand so as to save much controversy.
It is claimed by some of the news
paper debaters. that such a mode of
nomination would be unconstitutional.
And the clauses of the national Con-
stitution providing for the manner Of
electing United States Senators are
quoted with great flourish of po-
lemical trumpets. But that is so much
waste of time and space and effort.
1t is not proposed by any of the
advocates of nominating United States
Senators in political conventions to at
tempt to elect them there The sug-
gestion is simply that the people ex-
press their choice and then proceed to
do their best to elect members Of the
legislature who will carry the will of
the people into effect. That would be
contrary neither to the spirit nor the
letter of the Constitution.
AS TO the wisdom of such a policy
we say nothing. 1t is as to its consti-
nationality that the question has been
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
ANOTHER UTAH VICTORY.

A dispatch was received from San
Francisco on Tuesday afternoon, by
the manager of the Provo Woollen
mills. stating that the company had
s5een awarded the first prize, gold
medal, by the ommittee Of the Mid
Winter fair, for their splendid showing
of wocllens.
Inquiry Of Mr.. Cutler elected the
statement that the goods sent there
were merely samples out of their
regular stock There was nothing
special forwarded. neither did the com
pany enter into competition for prizes
with any other institution, nome or
foreign. Mr.. Mcguire was notified to
this effect in advance.
There was no other Utah manufac-
tory in the field, as we understand.
Therefore, this recognition of the ex-
cellence of our Provo made wooHens.
viii create no jealousy or disagree
s1ent. from any other establishment in
the territory. lt was Provo against
eastern and western goods that formed
the competition, and even that as we
have explained, was not intended by
the Provo people, who merely sent
some of their staple goods to be placed
on exhibition to help make up show
ing for this territory.
Thu under such circumstances they
took the first prize must be a source of
pleasure and pride to every Utonian.
AM it should stimulate the home in
dustry movement Our factories are
turning out splendid wares. Experts
only need to take hold OF them to tell,
even with their eyes shut, that the
goods are genuine and of first class
quality.
Our merchants and the public should
appreciate these goods, when they are
70 wen thought of elsewhere, and they
should have the preference over i'm
ported articles
The Deseret Woollen Mills, recently
started W are also turning out most
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04

:
excellent goods in gentlemen's and
ladies' cloths. blankets, hosiery, etc,
that recommend themselves to all who
inspect them. Other mills I'M the ter
ritory also are at work, and Utah is
forging to the front as contrast to
the shoddy-mixing, cotton-backing and
makeshift manufacturing regions,
which put so much inferior stuff upon
the market.
Utah ought to be genuine in
everything. She certainly is in the
quality of her woolien wares, and the
beauty of it is, that She completes in
price as well as in general excellence
with any other part of the United
States. We congratulate the Provo
factory people on the recognition ac-
corded them in California and wish
them continued success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
A SINGULAR WILL CASE.

A singular contested will case is in
progress in Boylestown, Pennsylvania.
1t turns on the validity of will said
to have ben dictated and signed by one
Griffith Miles, September Is, 1885, when
he was So years old, sound in mind
and understanding and well knowing
what he wished to be done" 1t gives
a number of requests and the bulk of
his property to Lydia Ann Miles
Weaver of Philadelphia, saying:
81 have known her all her life. She
lis named after my Sister Lydia Miles
I would have married her had / been
a few years younger she is also named
after her Aunt Ann Spencer, one L
would have married years ago but she
Died young. -
There are a number of peculiar ex-
pressions, ungrammatical sentences and
misspelled words in the document, and
experts have testified that the hand
writing Of the Signature and of the
body Of the will is the same. AS the
alleged testator was a man of good
education the genuineness of the docu-
ment was doubted, but man named
William B. Johnston, of Roxboro, was
named as the person who wrote it at
the dictation of Griffith Miles.
Johnston appeared in court and swore
that these were the facts in the case.
On cross-examination he gave some
very contradictory evidence, but held
to his main statement. At subse-
quent appearance, however, he broke
down, declared he had perjured himself
at the former examination, and had
been induced to tell the story of WRIT
ing the will at the instance of the chief
beneficiary, who had agreed. to give
him a fine brick house for his services.
1t is now claimed that there is an
other William b. Johnston. and that
he is the real write of the will, but
most people Acquainted with the case
believe him to be a myth. Mr. w. Ii.
Miles of this city, is a relative of the
deceased, and is strong in the con-
viction that the latter never wrote the
will 1t is a very singular document
and is printed in full in the Deyles-
town Democrat. The perjury of tn
witness Johnston is one of the remark
able features of the case and suggests
that both he and the person who SUI
horned him should be vigorously prose-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
Silver. 62 I-2. Lead, $3.Io,
HERALD Calendar for July.
THE DAY WE CELEBRATE.

The anniversary of American indie
pendence will be celebrated today
throughout this nation, and nowhere
with more rational pleasure and joy
full understanding of its meaning than
IN the Territory Of Utah, soon to be
one of the Sovereign states of this glo-
rious Union.
The day may be fully celebrated
without the traditional firing of guns,
explosion OF crackers, waving Of flags
and boasting of national valor and
power. But at the same time these
are pardonable if rather fantastic ex-
pressions of popular jubilation. For,
of all people in the world the citizens
of these United States have the great
est cause for jollification over their
freedom and the blessings they enjoy.
To those who are thoroughly familiar
with the principles of our government
and the causes which led to the war
of independence, it is enough that a
general holiday be INDUCED in with
recreation according to taste. But for
the youth of our country, and the for
eign-bora population which is ever COM
ing to our shores, it is fitting that the
old-time sort of celebration should be
continued, and be participated in by
the patriots and well informed citizens,
so that the spirit of '76 may be kept
alive and the superiority of our ma
tional institutions may be made clear
TO all
Then, let the guns roar, the bonfires
blaze, the bells ring, the Declaration of
Independence be read. the speeches and
orations be delivered, the juvenile fire.
works crackle and fizz, and the merry
dance go on. while the bands play and
the stars and stripes fiutter above all
in the breeze, in token of our liberty
and our devotion to the government
which affords US its protection and
claims our allegiance
To everybody but the newspaper man
this is a genuine holiday. And even he
viii snatch a few hours from the du-
ties that never cease, to celebrate the
day and join in the general glorifca-
ton of Americas grandest anniver-
sary, the glorious Fourth, the day of
national independence and the opening
of an era of universal liberty and
peacel
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
THE CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH.

Under the present system of society
there seems to be no way by which a
fair distribution of the wealth of the
world can be effected. It gravitates
unto the hands of the few, no matter
how much its volume may be increased.
Money buys anything and everything
that industry produces. Money attracts
money.
The trouble today is not the scarcity
of money. There is more actual cash
in the world, more gold and silver coin,
than there ever was before. The cur
rents of the currency seem to be chan
nels that run ito money centres, and the
masses have but little at their COM
mand.
There is no guaranty that with a
greater volume Of the currency, wheth-
er of silver or gold or both, the com
mon people will have more of it
among them very long. We may be
accused of desiring to limit the volume
Of money because we say this, but that
would be entirely untrue. We desire
the unlimited coinage of silver at it's
natural ratio, or thereabout, with gold.
We believe that would be a great pub
lie benefit But we do not believe it
would prevent the amassing of i'm
mense fortunes by a few, and the con-
sequent impoverishment of the many.
There is something behind and be-
yond the currency question that pro-
duces the inequalities which always
have existed in civilized nations and
always will until there is a radical
change in our social system.
AS to the concentration of wealth, we
clip the following from financial
paper, as it shows not only how money
gravitates to certain centres, but also
the justice of a tax upon large incomes
to support the burdens of essential gov
eminent:
An American statistician estimates
that there are seventy citizens in the
United States whose combined wealth
is $2,625 600, 900, or an average for each
one of $37, 50O,0 900. One citizen is esti-
mated to be worth $3.50, 600, 900, five
worth $100, OOO 900, one worth $40, 600, 900,
two worth $50, 100000 six worth $40, 000,-
900, four worth $4,000, 900, thirteen
worth 3O.OOO,ONO ten worth $26 900, 900,
four worth $22, 100000 and fifteen worth
$40. 100000 The average person is pow
erless to grasp the measure of these
figures. Such accumulation of colossal
fortunes was never before k~own in
the world. In front of such an army
of figures arguments against the i'm
lposition of an income tax fail away
like chaff befo~% the wind The pro-
tected monopon-ys have enjoyed such
freedom under the Mckinley bill that
it is hard for them 10 realize that they
as well as the workingman should be
made to bear their proportionate share
in the expenses of the government
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04

new and difficult duties imposed on
them by the novelties and complexities
OF our modern vessels. After all Is
said and done, in the future as in the
past the man is more important than
the material.
1t was the valor of the men of the
American navy in the war with
Tripol, the war of 1872, and the war of
the rebellion that gave the American
seamen a prestige unequalled. Ships
are much, men are everything. -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04

Rudy's Pile Suppository is guaran-
teed to cure Piles and Constipation, or
money refunded. 90 cents per box.
Send stamp for circular and free SAM
pie to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa
For sale by Godbe-Pitts Drug Co., Salt
Lake City
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
Herald congrafulates
The

Vo1TE5T dlu1dIes MdJOT
Daley on his confirmation by the city
council to the office of superintendent
of waterworks. The major has been
hanging on his eyelids as 1T were for
some time. He is now on his feet and
his many friends will be pleased to
learn of his success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04

The favorite route to all points east
is via Missouri Pacific railway. Close
connections and through sieepers and
chairs cars, Pueblo to ST. Louis S. ".
Derrah. G. F. g. p. A., 2, Morlan block,
Salt Lake city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
New Departure.


We are making boys suits to order.
$40 to SIS. Mems suits to order $40
to SIS. from Provo mills; all wool cloths.
Order a home made suit ~ W. s-G-ii e,
f5ssss JOHN c.. CUTLER & BROS.
4 So Main street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
The Chicago Dispatch, Qnd) says re-
garding the Pullman boycott:

garding the Pullman boycott:
The great boycott instituted by the
American Railway union against the
cars of the Pullman company is caus-
ing a great deal of damage to railroad
interests. Nearly all the great railway
lines are tied up and sadly handicapped
and business is paralyzed. The rail-
ways hold so intimate relation to all
branches of trade and industry that
anything which affects the great trans
portation lines Immediately influences
the business world. The Pullman boy
colt hurts. Common sense dictates that
the present bitter struggle should be
ended as soon as possible. Mr.. Pull
man should yield.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04

Shoddy enters so largely into the web
and wool of the Senate's tariff bill that
no wonder it has felt constrained to
provide appropriate protection" for
that virtuous commodity. The com
promisers" most graciously give the
New England shoddy manufacturers
the handsome bonus of Is per cent. ad
valorem on their goods made of "old
clo',," vile rags and woollen waste torn
up and converted by powerful ma
chinery> into new cloth. Doubtless the
exceedingly accommodating. Finance
lions will also cheerfully concede an
adequate protective" duty on wooden
nutmegs.-N. Y. Herald Qndo.
The protecting" tariff on wool and
woolens has killed the sheep industry
and wooden manufactures. But worse
than that the arguments and sophistry
by which that policy has been Upheld
for a third of century, have made US
more or less of shoddy thinking peo-
pie.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
The New York Mail and Express
Renl saws:


The members of the American Rail
way union have no grievances of their
own, it will be seen, but decided upon
their extraordinary action out of sym
fpathy with the striking employees of
Pullman. The determination of the
sympathizers appears to be to stop, if
necessary, all the railway traffic in the
west and northwest, in the south, and
ultimately, if possible, in the north and
east, unless few hundred employees
at Pullman shall be given the wages
they demand. No sympathy strike of
any Importance has ever succeeded in
this country. Every great sympathy
strike has proved to be great failure,
and in nearly every such strike the
great mass of the so-called strikers
and sympathizers have either been di-
rectly forced into-the movement or
have been carried along by the de-
-mands Of leaders whom they did not
have courage to disobey. -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
CastiIIa on the Fourtb.

e7 1tNHA<1 o t1Hc Uu1tH'
Castillo Hot Springs excursion via.
r. G. w, at 1000 a. m, July 4th. Fare
$1.25 round trip.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
POLITICAL NOTES.


The sugar tax in the Senate bill is
unnecessary, and it is. a cardinal point
In the Democratic creed that ''unneces-
|sary taxation is unjust taxation.
With the whisky tax, the income tax
land the sugar tax, as the Dill now
stands. the surplus revenue has not
been estimated at less than $50, OOO, 600.
Good authorities have placed 1T as nigh
as $50, GOO, 000
Taxation for a surplus is as foreign
to the principles of Democracy as is
taxation for private bounty.-N ..
World Oem.).
The great evil of protective tariff
is that it burdens consumers with tax
alton but affords small revenue to the
government. The result of this policy
has been to impoverisf both the peo-
pie and the government.
Concerning the movement of gold to
Europe, the Washington Post Qnd.)
says:
Gold is leaving the country because
every European investor who has
money placed in the United States is
drawing it out as fast as he possibly
can. 1t is leaving the country because
1.-THE outside world Is losing confid
| in the stability of our prosperity and
the safety of our Institutions; because
| the foreign creditor has become alarm
ed at the agrarian and -communistic
! tendencies of American politics; be-
cause he discerns the demagogue IN
high places and the surrender of the
legislative function to the agitator and
the fanatic. ~ SH4
There is something in this view OF
the situation no doubt, but the Euro
pean investor is unloading his Ameri-
can securities because they have ceas-
ed to be the paying investments they
were once and he can get better re-
turns on his capital elsewhere.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04

Speaking of the work of the joint
commission now investigating the needs
of the, navy, the New York Herald
Gnd) says:
( Knowing that our naval authorities
have achieved an astonishing success
in the creation of designs for warships
and in the embodiment of these de-
signs in material form, many people
imagine that we have little more to do
Except to-centiriue to build crack ships,
such as we have built in the last five
years. But we have now reached a
point where we must begin to look for
more men. and to train them for the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04

AS to the merits of the original and
the collateral controversy the average
citizen does not feel called upon to- e&-
press an opinion. = He does not know
which side is right, so divergent are
/, the statements made by either side
On the one side the refusal of Mr. Pull
man to arbitrate prejudices in ,favorvof
,tilel men and on the other the popu-
lar dislike of such an extreme and
drastic measure as the general boycott
against parties not in the first place
in interest prejudices in favor of the
railroads The whole dispute illus
trates the alarming tension which
everywhere exists between labor and
capital, between employers and the en-
ployed--Sioux City Tribune Rep.).
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04

Mr.. Debs thinks nothing of the in
convenience and suffering inflicted upon
millions of people by the strike that he
has inaugurated. With all such fell
lows as he the public beNd-d''' is an
axiom of life. If his vanity be minis
tered to. if his Importance be magni-
fed, if he be the temporary king of a
ideiuded nobs- il -matters- little totliim or
Itot such iasshe what HIS befall the pee-
lple.-Ch Chicago Inter-Oeean Rep.j .--- -