Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-01
THE LAST STAGES.
Falsity and Depravity Of the
Collins Mouthpiece.
TRYING TO STUFF LABoRIHe NEH

81 x00 ~ O4Oxx 4AOO04Q0 3oQs
An Dat ssd Out FAlsea0od Conceived for
the Purposs Of Deludiag N Ias1lt In
Itself to Consistent, Fair-mlnded Peo-
pie.
When the Union gets to the end of
its string, when all else has failed;
when the last desperate straits are
it becomes depraved and re-
sorts to fabrication. But not before
in its history has it published q
more bare-faced falseho0d. one that
it knows to be so absolutely false. as
the one it printed yesterday morning
under the head of s.Look Out! The
Stone combine sending money to
beat Sinnet aud Oberg on account of
the hone work resolutions" The
substance of the article contained is
that a combination of sandstone
operators has sent $4,000 to Rock
Island to defeat Sinnet and Oberg be-
cause they supported the resolution
in the county board to have the stone
for the new court house cut on the
grounds. The article is, as a me-
chanic says in a communication on
the subject, too absurd to receive
serious consideration. The incon-
sistency is probably as glaring as
the falsity. In the first place
Sinnet and Oberg did not vote for
the resolution for home labor. as
framed and presented by Supervisor
Rinck in accordance with the sugges-
tion Of States Attorney Searle with
respect to its legal status. They
FASTENED when the resolution was
presented to talk for it. and when it
came up for passage. recorded their
votes against it, as shown by the rec
ords of the board.
As 1t is Generally Delivered.
Beyond this, however, is the ridic-
ulousness of any stone company
sending a sum of money here that
would exceed the difference in the
cost Of the stone if dressed at the
quarry. But the facts are that the ac-
ton of the Rock Island county board
in favoring the cutting of the stone
provides for no unusual contingent
cy. The stone for all work of this kind
from that used by the government
down is sold by the dimension rule,
and with the exception of that
bought of quarries where convict la
Dor is confined, it is more to the in
terest of the quarryman to sell it in
the rough. The stone used by the
Rock Island arsenal has always been
bought by the dimension rule,
that is without being cut, and
the same is true of municipalities
and counties, and Rock Island county
will not do otherwise unless the
men. Sinnet and Oberg. are returned
to the board, which would be equiv
alent to q public sanction of their
past course.
The Unions Authority.
The Unions absurd statement has
come from such political blather-
sixties as Steve Hull. who thinks
more Of the party that gives him an
easy job than of the natural obliga-
tions to labor. and in this connection,
it may be said, there was no louder
proclaimer against the Collins tao
tics in the beginning from the labor
standpoint than Steve Hull. He I'M
hesitatingly asserted that il Collins
carried his point and was elected
superintendent. it would be a blow
to labor, and politically a very bad
break. But he has changed his mind
since-Steve, like the rest, is under
the Collins whip and ban.
A Mechanics vAws.
But. as the mechanic who has
written The ARGUS says. 1.-The pub
lie need not be afraid of being sold
into the hands of q stone syndicate
who would send $4,000 here to de-
feat as incompetent pair as the can
didates named in the Union. The
chances are they know nothing about
them at all; if they did, they
would know that they would
be beaten on general princi-
Piles. Men who are representa-
tives of the people and 60 behind
closed doors and transact business
that ought to be public, and vote on
spending money and letting contracts
for plans by secret ballot. have no
right to be on the board, and all
business so transacted BY such meth
DDS is contrary to law and is null and
void and ought to he set aside by the
next board. The only thing to be
regretted is that the people cannot
have a chance to vote upon all the
board and especially the building
committee, at this time, SO they
could teach them that star chamber
methods do not meet the approval oil
the people,"
There are q great many citizens
who have no new court house at
heart, who worked for it last fall ut the
expense Of great personal sacrifice,
and who after the matter was in the
boards hands found the door Of the
supervisors room bolted agains,
them. 1t is this class of men like the
laboring people. who are standing
firm in their righteous indignation
against Sinnet and Oberg, that the
Union is seeking to deceive through
such unbegotten falsehoods as thai
of YESTERDAY morning.