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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-04
THE PROSPERITY FRAUD.
The Presidents Trip.


l sec have exhausted my time on
shLs subject II is not often that l dis
cuss II. 7 wish TO say just one thing
Eow in regard to the economic or in
.eustr!al conditions of America. Re
Gently the president has travelled
iEcross the country with his cabinet,
and has made the statement that we
.have today unparalleled prosperity.
That all they agreed to deliver in 1896.
all their promises have been made good
they have delivered prosperity, de-
Eyered everything they agred to de-
liver Well. il that is so 1 suppose
IKhe only thing left for you to consider
i8r whether you are satisfied with the
goods. daughter and applause.) Now
Il your folks here are all prosperous,
~ you are getting living prives for
your products. getting living wages
when you work. IL it is true that you
lave unparalleled prosperity. then
rE4ii have To confess that l am mis-
taken. I will congratulate you. I will
Aave TO express regret that somehow
~ other the reign OF prosperity did
not hit me- (Applause-)
Failed En- MAtrrIstIze.
Now let US look over the country.
AEst year after the passage OF the
Dtngiey bill. which you remember was
- restore prosperity. the great cotton
EniiIs OF New England shut down-the
greatest mills OF the earth--supplying
America and other sections of the
world with cotton goods. Why? On
aecounr OF wages, They said they
had 10 reduce wages. and investiSa-
Esnn showed that they were employing
women and girls down there in New
Engiand and paying them So. $3.50. 81.
$50 and So 4 week Rarely did one
~ Sc a week. Rarely. and yet they
zssd that they could not go on and
Bzy those wages. That they must
sake a further reduction of wages OF
6rsn 10 to 20 per cent. We ask Why
T>ey reply. there is no market for our
gas1s- We cannot sell our output
American people are not buying as
Es<y once did. One-half OF the Amer
3=zn people are farmers. and the farm
3rs people OF America are not buying
- they once did. consequently there
D 70 demand for our output We
Dst reduce expenses. and therefore
- must cut
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-04

and taxpayers and quite another for
national bankers, who are the non
taxpayers? One kind of money for
honest men and another for swindIers
and robbers of widows houses?
In what kind OF money do bankers
Pay their notes? What kind of money
does the law declare their bank notes
payable in? Does the reader know?
Does the farmer know? Does the Ia
borer know?
Now. what is the difference. in its
nature, between a bankers note and
a farmers note The banker. by his
example, should be the teacher of
honesty to the dangerous class
the farmers and laborers-for whose
control the great expense Of stand
Ing army OF hundred thousand men
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-04

TO do the worlds great business. its
great commerce and its industry with
one horse only. when in the past ii
was found frequently that two horses
could scarcely pull tiff you think that
has been tried long enough, if you
feel that this thing OF attempting to
meet billions on billions OF dollars
OF debts that were created under BIZ
metallic standard Of prices. that the
effort to pay these on gold standard
prices. which makes a dollar twice as
dear as II formerly was, If you believe
that that should be changed. that that
Is great wrong to the Industrial and
producing classes of this country. then
your duty as good citizens Is to go to
the polls and vote against the present
national administration gApptausal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-04
r''%er Hair Price HAIR as Mao.

Work
II the world now has only half the
money that it formerly had, then II
must follow that either the worlds
work must be done for half the former
price or else only half as much work
can be done. In either case the men
who do the work will be ruined. for in
one case they must work for half nay.
and in the other there will be two
men for each job; and as the debts In
terest, taxes. and other fixed charges
have not been lowered and will absorb
nearly all earnings, will ask is there
any hope for our agricultural classes.
for our manufacturers, for our great
producing classes OF various kindsr
Does not the single gold standard
mean the impoverishment OF these
classes and a permanent lowering a
their stat1sf
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-04
HONEST MONEY.

Honest money"-that is above and
beyond all else the desideratum.
"Give us honest money is the univer-
sal cry of American freemen. But
what Is honest money? Is it honest
money-one money for the farmers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-04
SPEECH.
ICONCLUSION.I

gambling and playing poker. CAP
Dlause.)
Where Is That 100000.
Ny friends. have dwelt on this too
Bong. There are a great many of these
shings, and recently the Chicago
Tfrnes-Herald (Republican) published
1he fact that in the adjutant's office.
somehow or other there seems to be
. shortage of $500. 900. 1t shows what
money there was there, and then it
points that there is a present lacking
about 500. 900. and no explanation Civ
en- for IL. They report the money ex-
AGagted, no money left, cannot pay
Sflts. and yet nearly 100000 of the
money that was on hand is unaccount-
I'd for and you cannot tell where it is.
That comes from a paper that is not
friendly to the Democratic party.
look AT 1T AS YOU WILL. THIS
SPIRIT WHICH IN RECENT YEARS
HAS BEEN SPREADING OVER OUR
COUNTRY PERBIEATING OUR OF
1TCIALS. AND WHICH HAS TAKEN
TIE NAME or EANNAISM IN THIS
COUNTRY. PRODUCES THE SAME
RESULTS EVERYWHERE - COR
6UPIION AND ROTTENNESS.
A HumH atinE SIP. c-aeIs.
e., One OF the Illuminating spectacIes to-
day, my friends. is to see At different
points In this state some men whom
the public feels down deep in its heart
are scoundrels. who are incapable OF
Going any honest work, who have been
selling legislation and selling the priv
.3lege and the rights that belong to the
subtle. are waving the American flag
Snd are shouting patriotism. Our peo-
Bss are patriotic. The great toiling
masses of this country are patriotic.
They are ready TO protect the flag.
They are ready to sustain our iusti-
'sutions, but the men who are SO con-
<Dicuous today In shouting patriotism
zr1 in waving the flag seem to De do
ing IL for the purpose of hiding their
thievery and knavery under it's folds.
tApplause.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-04
WHO The MINERS FRIENDS ARE
Vote in the State Senate that Clears the Matter Up.
Republicans Against Them

columns of this paper are open To
them:
BE 1t enacted, etc, That It shall
be unlawful for the sheriff OF any
county or the corporate authorities
of any city. town or village to author
ize. empower. employ or permit any
person to act as deputy, special con-
stable or special policeman for the
purpose of preserving the peace. who
is not a citizen of the United States
and has not been an actual resident OF
the county where such person is au-
thorized to act as deputy sheriff. spe-
cial constable or special policeman one
whole year before such authorization
THE VOTE.
On the roll call for the passage of
this law the vote stood: Ayes-Anen.
Arnold, Barnes, Brands, Caldwell.
Campbell. Coppinger, Farmer. Ford
Higbee, johnson, Leeper, Mahoney.
Manecke. Niehaus, Noonan, Paisley.
Reavill, Solomon. Seibert. Thiele and
wells-Democrats. And Anderson.
Coon, Dunlap, Ferguson, Hamer. Hunt
and Knopf-Republicans
Democratic-Ayes, %.
Republican-Ayes, z.
TOTAL NUMBER OF SENATORS
Total Democratic senators, az.
Total Republican senators, %.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-04

| Upton says: Wheat, whose recent
depreciation in value has been attrib-
uted to the fall in silver, was worth
nearly three times as much per bushel
in 1890 as it was in 1910, and nearly
double what 1t was in 1850, measured
by gold. There is no truth In the as
sertion that the price of farm products
has been deprecated under the gold
standard.
Quoting the data of the AIdrich re-
port, Mr.. Upton takes Chicago prices.
though in 1910 and 1850 Chicago was
not a wheat market, and he quotes
the lowest quotation for those years
and takes the highest quotation, not
OF 1890, but of 1891. He also takes
spring wheat, which, owing to the new
process of grinding. is now worth as
much as winter wheat, but which in
1910 and 1850 was worth very much
less.
Had Mr.. Upton taken the New York
market he would have shown wheat
higher, both in 1910 and 1850 than in
1890 or in 1891, when the price was
exceptionally high. I have here the
question my statement are at liberty
to compare with Mr. Upton's table. 1
give this as an illustration of the meth
DDS of our eminent and very respecta-
BILE official statisticiaIs.
Mr.. Bliss next quotes Col. Carroll
Dwight, whom he characterizes as
another of our very eminent and re-
spectacle official statisticians" Mr..
Bliss declared that. as commissioner of
labor, Colonel Wright persistentIy mis-
represented the cause of labor and
quoted an official communication of
that gentleman to the chairman of the
senate committee on census, in which
he admitted the incomparability of
census wage statistics, which in an ar
tiele in the Atlantic Monthly, he had
quoted as proof of the greatly i'm
proved condition OF wage-earners.
A speaker who had just preceded
him having quoted census statistics as
proof of an enormous increase of
wealth, Mr.. Bliss read a letter from
J. F. Carlisle commanding and en-
dorsing an article in the Journal of
Political Economy in which he had
demonstrated the fallacious character
of the statistics which the preceding
speaker had quoted and also census
wage statistics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-04
OFFICIAL STATISTICS .JUGGLED
How the Gold Standard Advocates Manage to
Deceive the UnWary Voters.

II. l.. Bliss, statistical expert, and
author of a number of articles in
criticism of official statistics. published
in the Journal of Sociology and Jour
nal of Political Economy publications
OF the departments of Sociology and
Political Economy of the University
of Chicago, addresses the monetary
congress at Omaha.
In his first address, which was on the
first day of the congress, Mr.. Bliss
said: Though having decided con-
victions upon the subject I appear up
on this occasion neither as an advocate
OF free coinage or of the gold stand
ard, but as a representative of labor to
protest against the methods adopted by
prominent advocates of the gold stand
ard.
Among wage-earners there exists
widespread discomfort and an almost
universal conviction that there is
something radically wrong somewhere.
While the advocates of free coinage
tell US that the conditions of which
we complain are the result of the de-
monetization of silver and the remedy
is free coinage, those who have as
sumed the defense OF the gold standard
deny the existence Of such conditions
and present an array of fallacious Of
fetal statistics as proof conclusive OF
the great prosperity Of the country and
OF wage-earners in particular.
It has been said that, like sausage,
whether statistics are good or bad, de-
ponds upon who makes them. l have
here a little volume entitled "A Coin
Catechism," by j. K. Upton, assistant
secretary of the treasury under Sec
retaries Sherman, Window and Folger,
financial statistician of the eleventh
census and author of Money in Poll
tics
This work was adopted by the Re
publican campaign committee In the
last presidential campaign as a cam
paign document, but so many protests
against it's circulation in the agricul-
;ural district were received from mem
bers of their own party that the COM
mittee deemed 1t advisable TO discon-
tinue its circulation. They
had evidently discovered that 1t was
proving n boomerang. that the farmers
could not be fooled with juggled statis-
tics intended to prove that which they
knew by experience 10 be false Mr..
TO do the worlds great business. its
great commerce and its industry with
one horse only. when in the past it
was found frequently that two horses
could scarcely pull tiff you think that
has been tried long enough, If you
feel that this thing OF attempting to
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-08-12

by the maid of honor, Miss Stella Love
and the bride on the arm of her bro
Their. The groom with his best man,
c. Montague Cooke, and the otiiciat-
ing clergyman, Rev. II. Isenberg, met
the party under the canopy. The
form of service used was the Episco-
pal service, including the giving and
receiving of a ring, the bride being
given in marriage by her brother,
William \. Love.
The bride wore gown of mousse
line de sole over white silk, the con-
yentional veil, and carried boquet of
white roses and maiden hair ferns.
The maid of honor wore burnt orange
organdie over white, and carried Cal
ifornia peoples. The bridesmaid wore
white organdie over blue and carried
boquet of white asterS.
Following the congratulations of
the guests refreshments were served
an orchestra meanwhile rendering an
excellent program of music.
When the bride and groom left foI
Luakaha they were stormed with the
usual shower of rice, and enough
good wishes to insure lifelong happi
ness. Those present were:
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Cooke. c. Mon
tague Cooke, Miss Alice Cooke, Rich
ard Cooke, Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Ather
ton, F. Atherton, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Ii
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-08-12

4 pretty wedding was that of Clar-
ence ii. Cooke and Miss Lily Love last
evening. And it was probably the
last wedding celebrated under the
Hawaiian flag.
The wedding was at the home of
the brides mother, Mrs. Fanny Love.
The ceremony was at o'clock. The
large grounds were beautifully illu-
minated. Double rows of japanese
lanterns extended down the carriage
drive, giving sprightliness to the
stately royal palms which border il.
The lanai and the drawing room We're
strikingly decorated with male sent
from Kauai especially for the purpose
by Mrs. Isenberg, together with
great palm leaves and flowers. The
bridal party stood under great ca
nopy of golden shower, the floor un-
der it being carpeted with the same
rich colored flower. The ribbons used
in the decorations extended from the
canopy to the corners of the room,
harmonizing in color with II. About
the room were banked marguerites in
rich profusion.
With the Mendelssohn Wedding
March, rendered by Mrs. +. \, Mott
Smith. the bridal party entered the
room from the lanai, the bridesmaid,
Miss Kate Kelley, and the groomsman,
j. p. Warehouse, leading, followed
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-08-12

Atherton and children, Miss Kate Ath-
erton, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Il. Castle, Miss
Beatrice Castle, George Carter, Miss
Cordelia Carter, Mr.. and Mrs. De La
Nergne, Paul De La Vergne, Miss Lulu
Cameron, Miss f. Gilman. Miss c.
Gilman, Mr.. and Mrs. j. \. Gilman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hoogs, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. II. Hoogs and family, Chas.
Hustace, Alex. lsenberg, Rev. Hans Is
enberg and wife, p. c. Jones, Miss
Jones, Miss Joehnke, f. johnson. Mrs
\. l.. King, Miss X. King, w. F. Love,
Mr.. and Mrs. f. j. Lowrey, Miss Hell
en- Lowrey, Miss Nell Lowrey. Mrs.
Lowrey, VIM, Levers, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Lucas, Mrs. j. f. Morgan and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. McCorriston and fam
lily, Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Mott-Smith,
the Misses Patty, Mrs. Hugh McCorrs-
ton, Mrs. NJ. f. Rice, c. l.. Rhodes.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-08-12
JOSEPH n. MILLER.

Rear Admiral Joseph n. Miller, the
ranking officer in the navy, was born
in the city of Springfield, Ohio, in
1896. He was appointed to the Ma
val Academy October /, 1851, gradu-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-08-12
HAROLD VI. SEWALI..

Harold NJ. Sewall was born in Bath.
Maine, in 1850; entered Harvard Col
lege in the class of 1882: was mem
Der of the Institute Of ITO; the Has
ty Pudding Club; and was on the
Board of Editors of the Harvard Ad-
vocate. He was one of the class to
deliver a Commencement Part. Upon
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-08-12

Nineyear-old Alexander had been
reading stories from English history.
He looked up from his book medita-
lively and said:
Mamma, the kings in olden times
always had wise men to consult with,
when they didn't know what to do.
Our presidents don't have wise men,
but then they have congress instead
of the wise men." Truth.
The age-herald., 1898-09-25
A Novel Fire Dance.

It must be rather difficult to introduce anything distinctly new in the way of skirt dance, but a New York performer seems to have accomplished something quite unique and distinctly exciting. This is called the "Dance du Diable." and the danseuse is represented whirl- ing and pirouetting surrounded by tongues of fire.
 At first it is only the hem of her white skirt which seems alight, and she ap- parently tries to put out the flames. They grow, however, and change from a pale yellow to the most fiery hue, while, as the skirts are shaken, clouds of sparks fly upward.
 Altogether it is a startling perform ance, finishing with the engulfing of the dancer in mass of fiery fragments aft CT tremendous explosion. The whole thing is a cleverly contrived illusion, managed by means of colored electric searchlights thrown on the performer.
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long to an aristocratic family at least she told me so. No doubt it's true.
 After having met some Of the aris- tocrats that exist in the beautiful coun- tryside and who consider musk a more desirable perfume than violet I am prepared for most anything. A country arstocrat can make you more conscious of your own smallness than the queen empress herself. Her grammar may be faulty, her style of dress lacking in taste, her hair arranged with an eye to the least trouble and her general air one of semidignity, but when she asks if you will take her to board with you she makes you understand that you have got to take what you can get, be happy in paying for it and realize that she and all her family came over to this country with the very first white peo- pie and have always lived with the very first ever since. What I wonder at is how dreadfully old they all must be, and yet-well perhaps they leaven the eggs with some of their age and in that way grow younger as the simple city boarder becomes the victim.
 I have often been called the creature of circumstances, but never until lately was l told that l was naughty, stuck up person, who didn't even belong to a ladies club, and what can you think of a lady who doesn't belong to a club?
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father is lively and, with a certain frivolty, is referred to as de guv- ernur' or de gent" Sometimes he doesn't care to be considered as a per- son of poverty, but he will give a casu- al look at your belongings, turn up the nose that is already turned up and give you to understand that he thinks a room half full of books is mighty poor and that if you should get acquainted with his sister she would do you real nice God Bless Our Home" in colored worsteds, and "she is Q girl as you would be proud of" You don't deny this, but you feel that this brilliant youth needs a little touch in the direc- tion of high art; hence away with the messenger. He will not be in hurry to "git'-his verbiage is peculiar-you can bet your last ducat on that. Hurry and he are not friendly.
 This is the time of year when the young lady who has been arranging an affair for the Sunday school festival, where she speaks piece, comes to New York and, with a bravery surpassed by no one, declares that she means to live a life of gilt edged vice and go upon the stage. She connects champagne din- ners, high heeled slippers. belts with the American flag on them and hats over weighted with white plumes with the stage. She t9lls that any work near or
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cal member of the family would have touched the messenger call, and, al- though the messenger is slow, the Span iard is slower. I back one messenger against five Spaniards any day. The gentle youth who wears the buttons ana a deyelopment of cheek known to no other tribe could, I feel certain, oust the Spanish nation. If all the messen- ger boys were sent to Spain with note Collect" they would quarrel so about the distance between the Philip pines and the White House that Spain would surrender everything in sight and the queen regent would retire as rapidly as possible.
 There were people who thought that many messenger boys would enlist, but I never thought of such a thing. It is much easier to sit on somebody's door step, allowing a bouquet of flowers to fade away in the sunlight, while three messengers discuss the war, speak fa- miliarly of the president as Bill" call Mr. Mark Hanna "a fat dude" and them there fool Spaniards-a dinky lot they ever was to go where they would have to work" Work and the messen- ger boy are not compatible. have of- ten wondered what becomes of them after they pass the age when they cease to be boys They don't work. Nobody supports them. The average messenger boy claims to be poor, but honest. Az we have no men in our establishment, have never contradicted him.
 He refers to 'his mudder," but his
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and bullets and parts of shells which had struck the ship and exploded.
 The vessel had not been in the harbor more than an hour when she was swarmed with visitors. Jacky is fond of the girls, and when they boarded the ship in great numbers he showed them everything worth seeing and incidental ly brought out his collection of relics, and that is where he made a mistake. It was then that the fad of collecting war souvenirs began. Jacky had no more than opened his "ditty box" when every girl who was near enough wanted something from the war. She got it. Jack gave up everything he had and was sorry he did not have more. The girls left the ship with everything they could carry away. Buttons and Mauser bullets were made into hatpins, while the ribbons from the mems caps were utilized to adorn the girls sailor hats. It did not take long for the news to spread that the tars had brought home relics from the fights they had been in, nor did it take them long to get rid of them.
 The fad has spread rapidly, and while some relic hunters can be found in near ly every city in the country, the craze has struck New York hardest. Nearly every girl one meets on the street has a hatpin made of a button from a soldiers or sailors uniform or a cap ribbon with the name of some warship on it fas- tened on her own hat, while a dozen or more buttons with the insignia of the
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about 1t is her achievement One aS-s pirant for the stage wrote to me one, day-theremometer 104-that she want ed me to lend her S4,000 so that she could achieve the desire of her heart. She might be called a modest girl She said that she was handsome and con- vinced that she was the coming actress. She added that she didn't think it poi lite to make comparisons, but that Mary Anderson was never as virtuous, Julia Marlowe nothing like as pretty, Mrs. Brown Potter could not compare with her when it came to bowling emotion, and. in addition to this list of virtues, she had a newspaper pull" She said she could control the press. l wish she could teach me how. Y5f
 She evidently could make that $4,000 go an awful long way, for she is abso- lutely economical, inasmuch as she nev- CT uses anything but small 'Ps" and doesn't even dot them. She might just as we'll ask me for $1,000,00 as $4,0O0. Where does she come from? She wears a ring on her foreffnger and carries her gloves, and after getting my ad- dress and forcing herself into the place I call "home" she said that she didn't think much of my style of dress ing and it wasn't check" If there is any gentleman who would like to for ward $4,0O0 to this young woman, he Is at liberty to do it, and if a man were really wealthy it would be worth his while, for he would get fully $4, ,000 worth of fun out of it. Her people be-