Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-26
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ness ~ to Matfon.


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The Unions obstinate opposition
to the appointment of q police ma
tron in Rock Island led it to present
q ridiculous spectacle in its at
tempted reply yesterday to the array
Of arguments Cleaned from the let.
tiers in Saturdays ARGUS OF
chiefs Of police in other cities in
support of the need of such an adj
junct to our polite system. Taking
the various duties that are properly
assigned to the lfiice as a matter Of
convenience in addition to those of
necessity belonging to it, the morn
ing paper disrsgards entirely the
most essential requirements by
garbling The letters mat The ARGUS
had printed. 1t then insists that
inasmnch as AL Of The uses made Of
the mstron in some Of the other
and, and that as the chief aim is to
attend to women, and the women
she has to attend to are for the most
part the class Rock Island is not cul-
tivatiDg, we SHOULD not seek to
facilitate q change from condi-
tions essentially healthful and well
deserving of perpetuation." Was
there ever more senseless and silly
argument presented-even by the
Union? Yet the self same paper con-
tends that the duties of matron a.e
just what it imagined them to be.
The line Of reasoning to which the
Union abandous itself is just what
might have been expected of it, when
it was energetically opposing d paid
fire department as il is now the po-
lice mstron-that as long as Rock
Island was not cultivating fires it
did r OF need a reliab BILE, properly reg
ulated, paid department. Now its
argument is that because Rock ISL
and is not cultivating a certain class
# women whom the law is calle d
upon to deal with It requires no
proper means of treating with such
cases. On tho same theory dismiss
he police force on the ground that
Rock Island is not cultiva.ipg crimi.
nails or law violators. The thought
the Union advances that to provide
a police mstron would facilitate a
change from conditions essentially
healthful and we'll deserving of psr-
petuation" is unworthy of sound
N nd. nor can it be accepted as
emanating from such. Three
years ago the Union WAS denouncing
Rock Island as the most immoral
town in the country, aud for weeks
re. nf hn oil
smirched. and slandered, and lie d
about through the columns of that
sheet, and yet today the conditions
are SO essentially alshful, and well
deserving of prpe,uation shat the
appointment Of police matron
would facilitate change from such
conditions. The ARGUS is glad to
know that the Union has awakened
to find Rock Islaud is not such a bad
place nfter all, and it is particularly
gratifying to note that the same ad-
ministration which the Union ar
raigned for the state of affairs il
imagined existed, and consequently
bewailed in the past, is again in
power. But the fact that the morn
paper has esta olished it's own incon-
sistency in one respect only makes
its Inconsistency in another regard
the more apparent, and really
laugh provoking. Any person OF
average intelligence would not FOR a
minute doubt that If the moral con-
ditions of Rock Island are healthy,
the way to continue them so is to
engage moral influences; which
moral influences do not facilitate
u change from conditions essentially
heaithful," but on the contrary pro-
mote those conditions "well deserv.
ing of perpetuation." Every com
municstion The ARGUS published
Saturday night showed the police
matron to be a moral infiuen e
who has been found in other
cities to be useful in mar '
additional respects for the com.
fort and good OF humanity, iu-
stesd of finding time 80 heavily on
her hands as to make it necessary
to add janitor's duties to keep her
busy, as The Union suggested few
days ago would be the case.
| The Union is simply seeking to de-
lay the appointment of police ma.
iron, because its customary obsti
macy has led it to say the city should
not have one. bot it is following its
characteristic attitude, too, in giving
itself to the senseless arguments. q
course it could not well adopt other
wise in UNFOLDING position so abso.
lutely devoid of merit.
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