Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-31
ABOUT JosLiN.

the Upper End Of the County.
Joslin, Oct. 2S.-Thursday last
Charles Ward picked and cribbed ITO
bushels Of corn.
F. j. Whiteside is building another
new double corn crib, which IL
32l26.
&C. Whiteside went to Chicago
and returned with q car load Of
2-year-cld steers.
Friday evening last Messrs. HErs.
and McEniry were entertained by
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Hubbsrt.
Finance Osborn, OF Erie, was at
Joslin the other day and offered bis
services gratis to our people on the
political issues OF the day.
What our financial system shall
be is q question that can no more be
left to the control Of foreign powe y
than eau our ind ustrial system.
There was q republican rally It
the Adelphia school house Friday
evening last, which was addressed
by Jos. phi Haas, Of Rock I.lsnd.
There will be . repu biican rally at
Joslin Friday evening next. which
will be addressed by William Jack
son. of Rock Island.
Toere was quite q numbec from
this locality whO attended the Bryan
| meeting at Rock Island Saturday
last. Some went in their o~n con-
veyan AID some by train.
Thursday last F. f. Crompton.
ST., called upon Uncle Sammy and
Mrs. Wainwright, who are just able
to get around. Mr.. Wainwright is
80 years of age and has not been
quite himself since his accident.
Mrs. Wainwright Is SO and feels the
ipfirmities of old age.
Lincoln said: If q government
contracts . debt with q certain
amount of money in circulation and
then contracts the money volume be-
fore the debt is paid, it is the most
b. inous Grin a nation can commit
against q people,"
David Wstuey, testifying before
the royal commission in 1S66-67,
said: IL do not suppose all men to
be wise, but think of the folly Of a
great debtor nation like the United
states adopting the gold standard.
They know nothing about currency
matters. They do not know that it
vastly increased their debt"
There was quite an interesting sill
yer meeting at Joslin Friday even
ing LAST, which was addressed by
Hon. +. w. Hurst, of Rock Island, and
nj. j. McEniry, OF Moline. Horace
Bull was appointed chairman, and
introduced MIR. McEniry to the meet
ing. He said he was proud to meet
the citizens OF yuma, aud that he
had a warm place in his heart for its
people, it being his old home. He
would like TO see the farmers more
prosperous; Legislation had not been
in the interest Of the tillers of the
soil, but father in the interest Of the
| monied class. He entered largely
into the history Of coinage, touch
ing upon decentralization, saying
that it must have been accomplished
snrreptitiously because the newspa-
pers of that time had nothing to say
about it. lie concluded BY q refer
ence to international bimetallism as
being ridiculed by England. aud that
trusts and monopolies we're sll back
ing up the gold standard. Hon. f.
w. Hurst being then introduced said
in part that he was glad TO see so
many ladies present, for il we can
manage To get the ladies on our side
We are sure to get some Of the men.
In America every man is sovereign
and has a right to critici-e every
other man. The judges of the SUI
preme court being men aud liable to
err, they, too, should come in under
our criticism, Just rs they were crit
cised by repub leans for the Dred-
scott decision. Soon after the war
there was an income tax OF $3.50. 00).-
QUO levied and collected. and he
would like to know why that was
not unconstitutional. He quoted
from Judge Harland and Judge
Brown, a republican who denounced
the decision in unmeasured terms.
He reiterated that great crime was
committed in '73. and it was done SO
quietly that neither Buk. Thurman.
Conkling, Allison. Blaine, Holman.
Garfield. nor Grant, who signed the
bill, knew anything about it. He
read the letter which Mr. Prince
wrote to his friend to show that he
Prince) was a rank bimctsllist pc.
vioue to the st. Louis convention,
and stated that the republicans we're
seriously considering q, ore time
whether to bring lnfidel Bob and
Herr Most. the anarchist. tc
destroy the good influences produced
by Bryan's visit, and concluded 9
racy speech by saying that the dem
ocrat, could prove that they wer'
right from the mouths CT prominent
republicans, who we're making fre'
silver speeches mp to a recent date