Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-12
LOOKING TO TOMORROW.
Master I'm c. aaeery W0odmsn IrJunotion
Comes Up at Oambsidge.


Tomorrow At Cambridge before
Judge Bigelow comes up the Fulton
master in chancery injunction, de-
signed to hinder the order of NJ dsrn
Woodmen further in its purpose to
move its Office to Rock Island. The
proceedings come up on the petition
of the order for relief, and defiuite re-
lief, from the shackles that have
bound it for so many years. The little
restraining writ in the face Of the ac-
ton OF the last general assembly OF
Illinois, aud the proceedings Of the
head camp meeting at Dubuque in
conformity with such Legislation as
was then accorded the great society,
cannot under any form OF reason
ing or sense Of justice hold.
Yet notwithstanding that tie law
makers of Illinois had deemed the
interests of the order Of sufficient i'm
portance to extend to it the special
legislation that was necessary to en-
able it to carry out such purposes as
we're for its highest good. a master
in chsncery has been called IN to
permit such course of procedure
as it is conscientiously believed
no jurist would have permitted
under the circumstances. And the
chief ground of the legal federation
of this further embarrassment to the
Woodmen is that none of the pro-
ceedipgs OF the head camp at Omaha,
Madison or Dubuque we're legal,
having been held out of the state,
n species in it. elf at least in so far
as both Madison and Dubuque are
concerned, of astounding inconsis-
tency. as Fulton went before both
gatherings and acknowledged
the authority Of both by set
ting up her claims to having
the head Office continued there. In-
deed, she went into both meetings
and stood with other contesling
cities for the head office location on
her merits, and then defeated she
has acted the part of the disgruntled
politician, who, having been repeat
eddy defeated by his party for a NOM
ination, goes into the field as bolt
ing candidate. Fulton has PLAYED
the dog in the manger all the way
through. She has pretended to act
in good faith when the head camp
was in session, and then has at
tackled the order af,erward, because
she did not carry her point. Her
disposition is now that of soreheaded
spitework entirely. She has been
beaten at every point, outgen, raled.
and Rock Island has won fairly aud
SO uarely. Her aim is henceforth to
menace and ipjure the order, by
keeping i. there, not because she
cherishes any fondness for it, but
purely to carry her point by hook or
crook.
There is no longer any feeling in
common between the Modern Wood.
men and the town of Fulton. Toe
Fulton Register. which reduced its
size one half few weeks sgo, giving
| as the reason therefore the fact tina!
Fulton business men had withdrawn
their patronage, now announces that
it Is forced to go out of bnsiness-at
least 60 far as the present editor is
| concerped-because of con tinuance
of the boycott. The Register sus.
tanned the NJ. W. A. head officers,
and because it manifested q broad
minded magnanimous disposition,
| instead of TIL spirit of clanishhess
characteristic OF the town. the p 20 pie
there have no more use for il. Re-
ferriug to the action of Head Clerk
HAYES in dismissing the Fulton at.
taches OF the head clerks office after
the last and uncalled for master in
chancery injunction. the Fulton
Journal, of which Bastian, one oil
tie obstructionists. is proprietor,
says: "Within a few minu'es he dis
charged the following employees;
Miss Daisy Tracy, who commenced
work in the head clerks Office pre-.
Vious to any of the present force. and
who contributes to the support OF
her widowed mother; Mrs. Martha
Neff. widow with two children
stephen Seaman, who contributes &c
the support of his mother and sister
Leona Denault. William Lovett, Mis-,
Elizabeth Cawthorne aud Arthur
eurt. Of Fulton. and John Kauffm man,
Of Mt. Carroll"
And Maj. Halves did per.
fectly right. He should have
adopted such course long sg-.
The interests of the order demand
that no one having sympathy with 9
town that has shown such spiteful
spirit toward the order be harbored
by it. Had the Fulton people be
haved themselves those people would
have come to Rock Island with the
head offices and kept their position,
as it is the offices will come without
them. In the light Of all these cir
cumstances it is difficult to conceive
however, what benefit the retention
OF the offices at Fulton woulG
have been to that place longer. Bu'