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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-09
warning. warning.

Beware of substitutes offered by
INSCRIPTIONS dealers in place of Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar, Foley's Kidney
Cure and Banner Salve. Dishonest
dealers for a little extra profit will
try to palm off worthless prepara-
tions in place of these valuable med
icines that have stood the test of
years, and thus jeopardize the lives
of their victims. For sale by all
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-09

Salt Lake City is about to lose one
of its landmarks. The old school
house where the children of Brigham
Young were educated is to be torn
down to make room for a modern
structure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-09

The keenest disappointment re-
garding the coronation ceremonies
must have been that felt by the mag
azine editors who had prepared their
snapshot photographs in advance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-09

Generals Botha, Delarey and Dewet
are reported to be on the way to
Europe on board the steamer Kan
zler. They are expected to visit
''Oom" Paul at Utrecht, August s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-09
Wednesday, July 9.


Wednesday, July 8.
Democratic Nominations.
STATE TICKET.
Clerk Supreme Court,
JOHN L. PICKERING.
State Treasurer,
GEORGE w. DUDDLESTON.
Superintendent of Public instruction,
ANSON j.. BLISS.
Trustees University of Illinois,
JULIA HOLMES SMITH,
f. S. MAXWELL,
DIR. j. f. WHITE.
COUNTY.
For Representative, Thirty-third Dis
trict,
WILLIAM r. MOORE.
For County Judge,
..............
For County Clerk,
BENJAMIN FOUNTAIN.
For Sheriff,
CORNELIUS DONOVAN.
For Treasurer,
GEORGE w. HENRY.
For Superintendent of Schools,
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Steel Trust and Protection.

The steel trust is an .sinfant in
dustry" 1t claims it cannot get
along without protection. 1t con-
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TERMS Daily. 10 cents per week. Weekly.
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Ancommunicationso of political or argumen-
tative character, political religious, must
have real name attached for publication. No
such articles will be printed over fictitious
signatures.
ship In Rock Island county.
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Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Catsertic, cure constipation forever
tocs Tz 49, 9. fail, druggistsrefundm money.
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LECTURERS AND ENTERTAINERS.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, ADDRESS,
S. w. ODELL, Secretary, Moline
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26

the Dominion of Canada, which has no
standing army, but which maintains an
effective national police, being protect
ed on its long border line and on the
Great Lakes by the common interest,
and by the commercialism which con-
trolls both the government Of Canada
and Of the United States, in spite Of the
absurd obstruction of tariffs which now
stand in the way Of the greater mutual
service which each might render to the
other. Canada is protected upon the
Great Lakes by the simple agreement,
entered into at the instance Of John
Quincy Adams after the last war with
Great Britain, by President Monroe and
the British cabinet, to the effect that
Sin order to avoid collision and to save
expense" no armed naval force should
be permitted by either nation upon
these interior waters, over which
commerce vastly greater than that of
the Mediterranean sea or of the Suez
canal now passes peacefully, to the
benefit of all and to the injury Of none.
When Great Britain and the United
States propose to neutralize an ocean
ferry-way from port to port in either
land, and give notice to other states
that their united nayies forbid any In
reference with their commerce in such
neutral seas, every other state in Eu-
rope will ask to join in the agreement;
then "the ships that pass from thy
land to that shall be like the shuttle of
the loom, weaving the web Of concord
among the nations"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26

though in less Degree just as surely
have their responsibilities to the pub
lie. The right Of the individual to dig
his own coal has been relegated to
them, and in accepting the employ
ment they tacitly agree to supply the
need. Here, again, the question is not
one Of Individual preference, but of
public necessity, and the miner has no
more right to inhct a hardship upon
the public by refusing to pursue his
occupation than has the operator to
permit the coal to be mined. Such a
menace to public interests cannot be
admitted as inherent to any private or
personal occupation. There can be no
doubt but that the miner has the same
right to concentrate and augment his
power through the medium of COM
bination as has the operator, but when
in the employment Of the force result
ing from such combination the supply
of a necessary commodity is affected
the superior right of the public must
control.
It is Just possible that the operators
have mistakenly exercised themselves
in an attempt to control the price at
which this public commodity shall be
delivered to the consumers. AS stated
in the outset, they are entitled to a fair
return for the capital invested and for
their own work in handling the bust
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26

last. They are the sweets at the ban
quet, and as it's mamie implies, one
does not begin with the dessert, or
make whole meal of it. B OF course
there are novelists and EnoYelists, poets
and poets, and these and the drama
lists, who are formaot both, have,
among infinite trash, Written what is
worthiest to be read, though this loses
in worth by being read outEof time, or
all the time.
had better read history, which, ever
since Gibbon imagined his Decline
and Fall Of the Roman Empire" the
greatest in it's kind has been so de-
Hghtfully written that fiction itself can
scarcely outmatch it in masterpieces,
though the century pastShas been the
heyday of fiction.
It is no doubt well to- begin with
Greece and Rome, but after some out
line of the classic story has been got
into the mind, one cannot go amiss,
however one wanders. Any time, any
country, any people, can as well fol-
low as another, but the great coun-
tries to know of are Italy, England,
Spain, France, and the English, Span
ish, and French Americas, Holland,
Germany, Russia. Let girl read any
thing concerning these countries that
she can lay her little or large hand on;
but if she chances on a charming book
land she can hardly fail of one or
more) about the Scandinavian coun-
tries, or Switzerland, turkey, or
India, let her not fail to read that be-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26

by strong and aggressive nations, Is
the pursuit Of gain by force or fraud.
Commercialism is the pursuit Of gain
by service and fair methods In the con-
duct of commerce. What is commerce?
Is 1t not the method by which human
wants are supplied? What are these
wants? Are they not a supply of food,
clothing, shelter, light, heat, and, In
another field, music, pictures, gardens,
flowers and all that makes for beauty
in the world as we know it? This
world is the only one we can know.
If the power that makes for righteous
ness has placed man in this world for
maleficent purposes, then mankind may
only consent to be damned under pro-
test, If he has not instinct or reason
enough to condemn such conception
of a dishonest God as the meaneSt work
of man. But if the purpose of life in
this world is to make the most Of a
world that is filed with the means Of
human welfare, of beauty and of hap
pineSs, then man may work out his
own salvation from poverty and want,
and may develop his mental and spir-
itual capacity in so doing.
Now, since the mental endownlents
of men vary and are unequal, it follows.
as President George Harris has SO
clearly proved, that inequality and
progress must be reconciled, as they
are by the facts of life. Mental energy
is the prime factor in all material
progress. 1t gives the power of direct
ing the forces of nature to the fncreas-
ing welfare of man. Captains of in
dustry" are few in number but rare in
ability They render service to those
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26

ed train, reading daily newspaper
quite as If she were man. 1t gave
me little shock which was promptly.
realized that she was possibly employ
ed as usefully and nobly as if she were
reading book, certainly the sort of
book she might have chosen. Journal
ism is contemporary history, with no
larger infusion of falsehood than the
other sort Of history; like this it forms
the consciousness Of civilization; it is
the story of humanity. AS far as its
material is concerned, it is as decent as
the annals of the past; and should be
less troubled at girls knowing its
general facts and opinion upon current
events than if she kept herself to those
departments of the paper which are
supposed to be of special interest to
her sex. She would take less harm
from the account of murder, or a
battle, which is murder on the large
scale, than from the society intelli-
gence, which, in awakening her silly
ambition and foolish envy, would be
far more depraving. I should not so
much mind her devouring stories of
burglaries, accidents, catastrophes, fire,
blood, or even divorce trials, as I
should mind her absorbing the con-
tents of the Woman's Page, which
seem addressed to the lingering minor
ity of her mind, and suppose her in an
immaturable intellectual infancy In
fine, outside of the Wowan's Page, a
girl, If she is good girl, may read al
most anything she likes.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26
BY Sdvard atkinson.

The progress Of law Is indicated by its
very name, Jurisprudence, the science
of rights. The barbarism and brutal
ity Of war have been expressed by the
common phrase, Inter anna silent le-
ges." In war the merchant possesses
no rights which the commerce destroy
er is bound to respect.
Among the nations this country
stands almost alone in the freedom of
its commerce on a continental scale,
with greater number of civilized peo-
pie than ever enjoyed it's benefits be-
fore.
If this is an age in which CONNER
cialism rules, we may well be thank
full. If the generals of armies will be
forced to give way to the captains Of
industry, If the admiral in the navy has
become the subordinate of the engi-
neer, If the line officers of the army
have been forced into the ranks with
the privates in order to be saved from
the sharpshooters, whom skilled me-
chanics working solely for profit have
supplied with guns of which the dis
charge can neither be seen nor heard
then we may be we'll assured that the
peaceful forces of commerce will sup
press the barbarity Of war. May we
not also be well assured that as COM
mercialism more and more governs the
thought and directs the acts Of an in
telligent community, a war Of tariffs
will become as absurd and out Of date
as a war Of weapons has always been
brutal and noxious.
It follows that both the preacher and
the politician must mend their ways if
they are again to become leaders in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26
1oard q. Smith. Sdhor Of the Railway and Engineering Review

uonable that because of the public ma
ture of the employment that the public
has the right to decide in both cases.
The Inauguration Of such a policy
would no doubt upset present values,
but. that is a minor consideration.
Public utility must be served regard
less Of individual convenience or profit
1t is easy to perceive that this line
Of argument points to permanent
courts of arbitration to which all such
questions shall be referred, and that it
includes all quasi public utilities. 1t
is just for this reason that the subject
Is treated in these columns. Railroad
operation comes in this same category,
and if the Interruptions to traffic which
are constantly occurring because of
disputes between the so-called en-
ployer and employee can be prevented
by reference to such court, there is
ample reason for it's establishment To
come back to the original proposition,
a man may do what he will with his
own, but there are good many things
which are not his own, and among
them is the coal which is in the earth,
and the opportunity for transporta-
ton, for the performance of which
railroad is construed. In both of
these things, as In many others, the
public, because Of it's paramount in
terest, should be the final arbiter.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26

that, extended to its ultimate, the di-
rect antithesis of primitive conditions
logically obtains, and from barbarism
we have come to socialism, the one as
Objectionable as the other. Where is
the happy medium, is the problem,
and to it's solution the minds Of stu
dents at this time naturally are
turned.
To substitute the concrete for the
abstract, the present anthracite agita-
ton affords an excellent object les
son. AS society is organized in this
country, it is impossible for men to be
independent on the question of fuel.
Although there is an abundance of coal
in the country it has come under the
control of a comparatively few indi-
viduals. Originally it was owned by
the people in their associate or govern
, mental capacity, but it has been sur
rendered for a stipulated consideration
to the control Of those who are now in
possession. The whole trouble has
arisen from the lack of a distinct I'M
| derstanding as to the obligations that
necessarily follow such transfer. AS a
matter of fact, the coal itself was not
and could not be transferred; all that
was involved in the transaction was
the privilege to mine and distribute it.
It was impossible that the individual
user of coal in the country should do
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26

sance. The transactions of this nox-
ious kind are, however, but a small
fraction of the great trade of the world
in which men and nations supply each
others wants.
The unthinking persons who con-
denim commercialism from the pulpit or
the rostrum merely expose their own
ignorance Of the true function and the
interdependence of the merchant, the
manufacturer, the workman, and the
laborer, by whom the modern condi-
lions Of society have been evolved.
Commerce stands for all that is good in
modern society, and in the progress of
human welfare so far as human well
fare rests upon the supply of physical
wants. War stands for all that is bru-
tai and barbarous in modern society,
however necessary it may have been in
the past in making way for the present
commercial age.
Napoleon denounced the English as
a nation of shopkeepers, but by the
very strength Of their commerce they
developed the power by which he was
beaten and suppressed. Spain, in her
day the greatest military power in Eu-
rope, tried to conquer Holland, but by
the force of their commerce and indus
tries the Dutch developed yet greater
power, enabling them to defeat their
oppressors.
In every age Of recorded history from
the time of the Phoenicians to the pre-
sent date, the states in which COM
merce has been most fully developed
have been those which have eXcelled
not only in the common welfare of the
people, but also in art and literature
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26

T IS the habit Of the politician
who desires to put on an appear
ance of patriotism to depounce
greed and commercialism as II
they were synonymous terms,
and to hold up for emulation the career
Of the soldier as one of the highest
merit and renown. 1t is the custom Of
the preacher who has little knowledge
of affairs to denounce commercialism
as of the world, the flesh, and the
devil" and to hold up the man who
gives away all that he gets In charity,
as if that were the best use of wealth
the world, the flesh, and the devil be-
Ing held by the preacher to be alike
evil. The man who deyotes himself to
trade is called upon to separate relig-
ion and life by giving his. Sundays to
devout purposes so as to atone for the
pursuit Of gain during the week days.
He is asked to prepare for a future life
in the next world, in which 1t is as
sumed there will be no work to do, by
,discrediting his work in this world.
The emblem of perfection put before
him is the cherub, with head and wings
put without any organs of digestion,
and without any conceivable way Of
Sitting down for quiet rest, there
fore possessing no material wants to be
supplied by trade.
What is this commercialiSm which is
so often held up to present scorn as if
the pursuit of wealth had not been the
motive of action in former days? The
effort Of autocrats, the motive of feu-
daliSm and militarism, the motive of
the modern lingo and of the warfare
which he promotes upon. feeble states
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26
BY %. y. Hovens

cause these are not the first countries
of the world. Arabia is almost one of
the most important Qittle as she would
think it), because of the rise of the
widest-spread superstition in the
world, and Ockley's History Of the
SaracenS' is feast. I would not have
her try overheard to read history in
course; there is delight certain in
seeing how the pieces Of the great puz-
zle fit into one another, but no passage
Of history is really irrelevant to the
rest. I should say that the only his
tories to be avoided were the dull
ones; they are the useless ones; I
would not read such one myself, for
love or money.
History is biography depersonalized,
not wholly, because that Is impossible,
but partly; or, rather, it is an essence
Of biography. It has only an alb
stract or secondary life; yet it is WELL
fancy, to read history first, in order
to get a perspective. and after that to
read all the biographies that amuse
you, carefully avoiding those that bore
you; in fact, avoid all books that
bore; they alone are the really worth
less books in every branch.
Novels are now for multitude as the
sands of the sea, if not rather the dust
Of the earth, and some choice must be
made among them. The best novels
are not many, however, in all the Ian
guages, and one may quickly read
them. But when poor girl has read
them, what shall she do? Go on from
them to worse novels? By no means;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26

experience the darkest passages OF the
race biography are without effect upon
the ingenious mind. Innocence gath
ers only honey In the fields where ex-
perience sucks poison from the same
flowers.
There is no book which more openly
tells the human story than the Bible.
It is a tale Of murder, incest, adultery,
rapine, treachery, cruelty, revenge, of
all the crimes and all the sins which
make men, when they think of them
in their fellows, ashamed to be men.
1t abounds in such plain speaking as
no modern author could venture upon.
Yet ever since the Reformation, good
Protestant fathers and mothers have
put the Bible into the hands of their
children to read through, again and
again, without restriction; to be got by
heart, as much Of it as could be cram
med into the memory, without regard
to facts impaired in language which, II
the children had used it in their own
parlance, would have shocked the piety
enjoining it's perusal upon them. 1t
was not because the children were
miraculously, but because they were
naturally defended that they got no
harm from 1T.
1t is the same, in some degree, with
the profane masterpieces, and purity
takes no faint from them. A child, no
matter of what age or sex, if unspotted
from the world, will scarcely receive a
stain from Homer, Virgil, Dante,
Chauser, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Mil
ton, or even Goethe, or from the minor
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26
4)hat should Girls Read'

masters who are perhaps the major Of
tenders. The innocent remain scath-
less from De Foe, Swift, Sterne, Byron
himself, and all their kindred brood In
all the languages Of the continent. I'm
conscious purity Is safest from their
worst; conscious purity less safe; 1T
is only impurity which is in serious
danger of contamination. The things
which defile are from within. While
the heart is clean there is little fear
that what enters the mind from itera-
ture will corrupt the heart or sully it.
This was sometime a paradox, but
strange as 1t appears, it is matter of
experimental science. Therefore, I
would almost say, but not quite say,
let a girl read everything she finds in
her fathers library. If he is the right
kind of a father she will be in no dan
ger from his favorite authors.
One speaks of the works of the i'm
agination as If they were the chief part
of literature, or were mainly to be con-
sidered in the question Of what girls
should read. They are indeed so &C
copied and considered, and that is a
great pity. The choice among them is
less important than the choice between
them and the works which are equally
literature, as histories, biographies,
travels, studies in the speculative and
exact sciences, and philosophic and
critical essays. People seldom think of
these in asking or saying what girls
should read; they think of the nov
elists and poets. Yet these are the au-
thors whom girls should read least and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26

erly the subject of public concern and
adjudication. This is why such an
exigency as at present exists. The gov
eminent has right to determine what
shall be done, and it is at least debat-
able If the government is not bound
to see that interruption of the supply
Of this public necessity shall not be
allowed to seriously affect the people,
even to the extent Of taking temporary
possession of the property. 1t will be
remembered that on certain occasion
when a railroad in Iowa temporarily
abandoned service on one Of its
branches because of long continued
and severe snow storms making the
cost of operation greatly in excess Of
It's possible earnings, the people locat-
ed on the line in their distress appeal
ed to the governor of the state for aid.
He in turn requested the railroad to
resume operations, setting forth the
necessities Of the people located there
on, but the railroad company declined
to comply with his suggestion. The
answer of the governor was vigorous
and to the point. He said, "if you do
not open that line within twenty four
hours, I WILL" and the line was opened.
It should be understood however,
that all Of the obligations in connec-
ton with this question does not rest
upon the operators. The miners, al