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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
HOME MARKET" FAKE
How the Protectionists Havs
SwindIed the Farmers.
BACK PEDAL1Ne THE MACHINE,

Statistics which Show That Amerf-
can AgricuIturists Have Had tO
Depend More and More Each Yeas
Upon Foreign Markets-Tt Was Noe
So Under q Low Tariff.
The manufacturers have for forty
years been telling the farmers, PAY
us to build mills, give us enormous
bonuses to run them, and our work.
men will eat your produce and give
you a home market for all you can
raise" Well, we have had ''protec'
ton since 1861, and the manufacture
ers have thrived and grown wealthy
to an unprecedented extent. They
have formed themselves into great
trusts to get the full benefit of the
high tariff and to prevent the farmers
from getting manufactured goods at
reasonable prices, such as the manu-
facturers could well afford to give and
such, in fact, as they do give to the
unprotected foreigners. Now, what is
the result on the home market?
The statistical abstract for 1902 does
not give the total values of farm prod
ucts farther back than 1870, though it
gives the values of the exports of agri-
cultural products much farther back:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
OUR CATTLE FOR BoERs.

How the English Government Ii
Helping TransvaaI Farmers.
The revived Transvaal government of
South Africa is being furnished Ameri-
can cattle and mules on credit by the
English government, says a New Or
leans dispatch. The steamship Attain
tan arrived recently at South Africa
after two record breaking voyages
loaded with cattle. The steamer left
New Orleans last March for Galveston,
where she took on 2.549 head of cattle,
the largest shipment on record. Said
Mr.. Maule, one of the men in charge:
''These cattle were shipped under the
supervision of Major Maud, who came
over from England to purchase cattle
on behalf of the British government,
which desires to restock the farms of
the Transvaal by selling cattle to the
farmers on time"
People in the Transvaal are begin
ming to recover from losses sustained
during the war, it is reported.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
A POETS ALOoFNEss.
HTle Manner In Which Wordsworth
Was Regarded by His NeighbOrs.

RTbe Manner In Which Wordsworth
Was Regarded by His NeighbOrs.
The worthless of Wordsworths vii
lage in the lake country of England
had their own ideas of his value as a
man and poet. When questioned
after his death as to his personality
they readily admitted that he was kind
TO those who were in sickness or need.
They could count on him on a pinch.
But he did not hobnob with his neigh
bors.
'He did not notice them much,' said
an old man in answer to questions
asked by the author of Lake Country
Sketches
"a Jem Crow and an aud blue cloak
was his rig" continued the old man.
And as for his habits, he had moan.
Niver knew him with pot his hand
or pipe i his mouth"
After deep probing the author brought
out:
Yes; Wordsworth was fond of
good dinner at times if you could get
him to it. That was the job
Then the poets aloofness was again
touched upon.
HE was forever pacing the roads
and his own garden walks and always
composing poetry. He was terrible
throng in visitors and folks We mum
ken ut times. but if he could get ava
fra them a spell he was out upon his
walk.
And then he would set his head a
bit forrad and put his hands behint his
back. And then he would start album
ming. and it was bum. bum, bum. and
go on cumming for long enough right
down and back again. L suppose, We
ken, the cumming helped him out
bit"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

From the mountains of Camden, Me-,
comes a story of a Philadelphia mer-
chant who has a summer cottage in
that village and who wished to ex-
change a lively horse which he owned
with a French Canadian who had
more gentle animal, which women and
children could drive. The Frenchman
was willing to trade, but for some rea-
son insisted upon repeating to the Wis
itor that the local horse did not ''look''
as well as the one belonging to the
Philadelphia man.
An exchange satisfactory to both
parties was eventually made, and the
first time the visitors wife took the
new horse out for a drive she discov-
cred that the beast was as blind as a
mole. A few days later, when the rus
tcator met the Frenchman, he said:
See here, you rascal! That horse
you snapped with me for mine was
stone blind. Why didn't you tell me
of it at the timer
s'Ah'm bin try tell you all Ah'm bin
know how fer to tell. Ah'm bin say my.
horse was no look lax you horse-say
so seek, nine tams. Ah'm no bin blam'
eef you no hear me-" Philadelphia
Ledger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
UNTTED sTATEs STATISTICS.

In 1870, then, we exported 1S.4 per
cent of the total value of our farm
products and in 1900 22.5 per cent.
Thus out of every 500 worth of farm
products sold we sold in 1900 $22.50
worth abroad, while in 1870, at,the be-
ginning of high protection-to some
body-we sold only $3.50 worth
abroad. The protected home market"
of the farmer appears to be getting
farther away from home.
A similar result can be shown in Oth-
err ways. While population has in
creased only 229 per cent since 1850 or
143 per cent since 1850 the value of our
agricultural products exported has in
creased go per cent since 1SJOtand 226
per cent since 1860. This indicates
clearly that our farmers are more de-
pendent upon foreign markets today
than in 1850 or $780, during our low
tariff period. Again, taking the aver
ages for the first five and for the last
five years given in the statistical abb
stract, we learn that from 1871 to 1875
we exported 3.13 per cent of our corn
and cornmeal, while from 1893 to 1902
we exported SD per cent. For the
first period we exported 23.22 per cent
of our wheat and for the second period
3612 per cent. These figures indicate
that "home markets for farm prod
ucts are not crossing the ocean rapidly
in this direction at the beck of ''protec-
ton" In fact, they are back pedal
ing" and getting farther away The
farmer must now use long distance
telescope to see his protected home
market"
The protected home market is, in
fact, a fraud and swindle on the
farmer. High tariffs never did and
never will do anything but decrease
the home market for farm products in
a country like ours. What is best for
the country as a whole will increase
the population most rapidly and thus
increase the size of the home market.
Statistics show that both our popu-
lation and the value of our farm prod
ucts never increased as rapidly as dur
ing the so called "free trade period
from 1850 to 1860. Under this low tar
if both our home and foreign markets
increased as never before This was
our most prosperous period for the
whole people. as James G.. Blaine adj
mitted in his Twenty Years of Con-
gress." 1t is astonishing that the farm
ers have forgotten this decade and have
not voted for their own interests ever
since, as the manufacturers have al
ways done. BYRON w. HOLT.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

Island Empires Fleet Compared
With That of Russia-Why the Jap
anexe Are Great SaiIOrs-FieId Mar
shall Viscount TarO Katsura.
While war between Russia and ia
pan may not be so imminent as the
massing Of shi., .. and troops in the far
east would indicate. there is a general
feeling that ut best the trouble is only
postponed and that sooner or later the
two powers will settle their differ
ences by an appeal to the arbitramept
of arms.
Japan has never forgotten how she
was cheated out of the fruits of her
victory over China by the Russian bear
and for the past eight years has been
diligently working to improve and
strengthen herself for the grapple
which seems inevitable. In both her
army and navy Japan has made won
derful advances, but especially has she
come to the front as sea power.
At the close of the war with China
in 1895 Japan's fleet consisted of forty
three vessels, with an aggregate of
77,7O0 tons, including one battle ship.
Today, exclusive of torpedo boats, she
has total tonnage of 100000, many of
the vessels being battle ships and ar
mored cruisers of great power and of
the most modern construction and
equipment
Russia's fleet available at present for
service against Japan includes some
large ships, but her battle ships are
smaller and older. Practically all of
Japan's navy would be ready for use
in a fight with Russia, the fleet being
stationed at home for the most part,
the cruises of vessels being chiefly in
waters adjacent to the empire.
The Japanese have two qualities
which Russia or any other nation must
consider before engaging in conflict
with the islanders-they are warlike
and love the sea. Since the Japanese
boys home consists of a group of is
lands densely populated and since he
lives largely upon fish or other products
of the sea ne is bred to a familiarity
with things marine such as few pos
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

sess. His physical courage was am
ply proved in the war with China and
in the march with the allies to Picking
in 1900. Other qualities which the
training of the sea develops in the
Japanese boy are presence of mind and
readiness in emergencies
To keep pace with her shipbuilding
Japan also instituted an increase in
the naval personnel, and officers and
men were ready as soon as her new
ships were completed. The officers are
educated at the Imperial Naval col
lege at Tokyo, the Engineering college
at Yolxasuka or the general naval
schools at Kure and Sassebo. The sys-
tenn of education is very similar to that
pursued at the United States Naval
academy. Indeed, many of the officers
were educated in America and Europe.
Russia ranks third as among the
naval powers of the world and Japan
seventh. 1t is believed, however, that
Japan's strength on the sea is not
greatly inferior to that of Russia, be-
cause the navy of the island empire is
practically new and equipped with
modern armament, while Russia's list
VI A6htAhs OAdlI many OA0
vessels, which would be of little value
in a sea fight of the present day.
No one man ilI>Japan has contributed
more to her advancement as a power
than Field Marshal Viscount Taro Kat
sura, premier of the empire since 1901
and before his advancement to the
head of the cabinet minister Of war.
Field Marshal Katsura was educated
at a German military school and is one
of the foremost soldiers of the empire.
He entered the Japanese army in
1867 and participated In the war of
restoration. After that he was for a
time military attache of the Japanese
embassy at Berlin. AS vice minister
of the army from 1856 to 1891 it was
he who achieved the great army re-
forms that enabled the soldiers Of ia
pan to so readily dispose of the Chi
nese. During the war with China he
was commander in chief of the Third
division and after the war was made
governor general of Formosa. Since
1898 he has been a member of the i'm
perial cabinet Viseount Katsura is
fifty-six years of age.
Japan has made great strides for
ward and with her Industrious and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
As She Understood 1t.

A pretty rosy checked country girl
entered one of our large department
stores. 1t was bargain day, and the
crowd was greater than usual. She
had wandered about from floor to
floor, little bewildered at the magni-
tude of the establishment, the largest
she had ever seen.
Seeing her, a floorwalker approached
and said, 'Ts anybody waiting on
your
eyes, SIR said the girl, blushing to
the roots of her f1axen hair. Hes out
side; he wouldn't come ."-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
The Hunting Season.

IT'S now the modern Nimrods
Put on their hunting toys
And to the woods go hiking
With guns and frisky dogs,
For tbs the open season,
When they're allowed to sIay
The creatures of the forest
That chance to come their way.
For squirrel quail and pheasant
The hunters eyes are peeled
AS YEARLY they're trudging
Through wooded tract and field,
But often when they're seeing
The signs of game appear
They bump against a notice
That says. Don't Trespass Here"
Most bitterly they censure
The grouchy farming man,
And onward they go plodding
AS eagerly they scan.
AT last there's seen a movement
tbs squirrel or a quail
And shot are perforating
A COW that wagged its tail.
Quite hasty is departure;
In fact, tits speedy run
Until a mile is covered
From where the deed was done.
There's sudden exclamation;
Another bang is heard,
And in a horse is lodging
The charge that missed bird.
Again a reckless Nimrod
Is sprinting far away,
Well knowing if he fingers
There'n be the deuce to pay.
He later sees a pheasant;
A bang is heard again,
And in the road is dropping
A dead and mangled hen.
OF course there are some hunters
Who know just when to shoot,
But many are the others
Who blaze away, then scoot,
And therefore it's no wonder
That worried farmers knock
And swear that all the gunners
Make targets of their stock.
Theodore H. Boice in Pittsburx Chroni
cle-Telegraph.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

farmers to try to raise -Angora goats as
q substitute for sheep. They are tell
ing New England farmers that these
goats are just the thing to reclaim the
many abandoned farms in their terri
tory. The Republicans have already
begun to call the hair of this goat mo-
hair wool and to include it with the
genuine article in their statistics. But
for this statistical fiction our wool fig
ures would make a more sorry spec
tacle than they now do.
Will calling a goat a sheep make it
one? Will the farmers bite at this
goat bait? How much longer can the
Republicans fool the farmer? These
are vital questions.
BRYON w. HOLT.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
RUINED BY PROTECTION
Wooden Industry Blighted by
Outrageously High Tariff.
sHoDDY AND COTTON BOOMING.

Startling Facts From Our Last Gem
sus-Use of WoOIens Rapidly De-
c1ining-Industry FIOurished Under
Wilson Bill as 1t Has Never Since
FIOurished.
No important industry better illus
trates the blighting effects of tariff tax
alton than that of the manufacture of
woolens. The high duties placed upon
its chief raw material, wool, in 1887,
have been but slightly changed since
except for the three years 1895, 1896
and 1897. The duties on raw wool
have averaged about Al per cent since
1867, while the duties on manufac-
tured woods have averaged over so per
cent. During the last three years the
duties on raw woods have averaged
over % per cent, while the duties on
manufactures of wool have averaged
about "a per cent under the Mckinley
and Dingley bills. Surely the virtues
of protection must show in this gov
ernment favored industry! What are
the results?
The wooden industry has been declin.
ing rapidly as compared with other
important, though less protected, in
dustries and as compared with our in
creasing population. In the following
table the increase in population is COM
pared with the increase in the value
of wooden manufactures, and with the
increase in cotton manufactures the
other important textile industry and
one whose chief raw material, cotton,
is on the free list:
PER CENT INCREASE SINCE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
Empress Taitou,s New palace.

Empress Taitou of Abyssinia, the
wife of Negus (king of kings Menelek,
recently completed a splendid palace in
Jerusalem at a cost of 100000, says
the Cairo egypt correspondent of the
New York World. The furniture, which
was brought from France and Eng
land, cost $4,000. She will leave Abys-
sinia soon for a visit to the Holy Land.
expecting to remain three months in
her new residence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

chance to picture them in the hoop
skirt guise. The French artist, realiz-
ing this, has given the 1880 effect with
out the erinoline cause.
Black chiffon goes into the making
of this recent creation. The lingerie
tucks on waist and skirt harmonic
perfectly with the quaint ruchings.
The undersleeves and sloping yoke are
of white guipure. A high girdle of
panne velvet finishes the pretty toilet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

patriotic people viii continue to ad-
vance. AS Russia sends ships to the
far east to support her diplomacy, so,
it is believed, Japan will increase her
navy in the determination TO be ready
for the struggle which her people re-
gard as inevitable.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

ders, and is an Irish point pattern with
an introduction of modern grape eff
feet. The sun ray skirt is made with
panne yoke, and the waist is plated
and bloused, with embroidered girdle.
The collar is of cord passementerie.
with two silk tassels in front This is
one of the seasons novelties.
The new small fall hat of brown
panne velvet, with a knot of brown
satin under the brim, is trimmed with
fur covered With dotted chiffon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
SOME FALL FASHIONS.

The SIOping Shoulder Eject of 1880
Again Coming Into Vogue.
According to the dictum of fashion,
square shoulders for women are no
longer the thing, and in the newAstyles
is noticeable n tendency to return to
the sloping shoulder effect which was
fashionable away back in 1880.
The lace bertha illustrated is in the
1880 style. with closely fitted Shout
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
OLD STYLE REVIVED.
skirt Eject Achieved with

Balloon Skirt Effect Achieved With
out HOOpskirt Accompaniment.
Paquin in the charming gown illus
trated has very successfully repro
duced all the best effects of the crino-
line age without using the objectiona-
BILE stiffening itself. The 1880 styles
were graceful and alluring, all save the
balloonIike hoopskirt, but with this fea-
ture eliminated all cause for grum-
bling disappears.
The women of today have too high
ly developed a sense of the ridiculous
70 knowingly give the caricaturist a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
CoDservatisu1.

wasn't the execution Of the man
who stole horses a trifle irregular?"
''It was jes' as reg'lar as we could
make it, answered Bronco Bob stoutly.
"Course we didn't have no judge or
jury handy. But we captured the Teller
on Wednesday an put off the hangin'
till Friday. SOS to have it accordin' TO
custom. w Washington. Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
The Boy. In Grav.

A question often asked, according to
the United Service, is why the army
cadets at West Point wear a gray uni
form, while the uniform of the army
is blue. The origin of the distinction
dates back to the war of 1924.
when the commissary general of the
army could not procure the blue cloth
required for General Winfield Scott's
brigade, and so they were clad in gray.
So distinguished was the conduct of
that brigade at Lundy's Lane and Chip
pewa that when. after the war of 1912,
a reorganization of West Point Mill
tary academy was made, out Of compli--
ment to General Scott and his brigade
the uniform of the corps of cadets was
changed from blue to gray.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
The BRIDES Critics.

'tNow that we are married, dear"
said the bridegroom. "you have a seri-
Gus task before you
''Why, George, what is ftp
you must prove to my three sisters
that you are worthy of me."-Philadel-
phia Press
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

Amusing instances of widespread in
terest in the prophet and his followers
were plentiful the other day. One
youth on the ferryboat Easton gallant
ly tossed away his cigar when implor-
ed to do so by comedy Sister Marie
Johnson, fresh from Zion City. The
young woman gave him n card eX-
horting him to Join the hosts of the
faithful" and expressed q desire to
''see him in the Garden" He blushing-
ly promised TO be there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
WITH DowlE's HOST.
Incidents of the RestOratiOnists'
Visit to New York.


Visit to New York.
Soon after the stock market in New
York closed the other day score or
more Dowie pilgrims stopped in front
of well known jewelry shop on Broad
way at Liberty street and gazed in
open mouthed amazement at the gilt
tering array of watches and jewels on
exhibition, says the New York Her
aid. They soon attracted large crowd,
ond one of the clerks, pleasant aged
man, invited them inside to inspect
the place Both the men and women
enjoyed the privilege of looking at the
display. Some of the women became
quite interested in a tray of stick pins
brought out for their inspection. They
did not touch them.
"They are for sale, ladies' said
clerk. IF you don't see just what you
like we might show you some others"
Never mind" exclaimed a stern fea-
tured matron who seemed to be in
charge of the group. Father Dowie
does not wish US to cultivate our van
ity by wearing these useless baubles."
Turning to her companions, she said,
"Come, sisters, let us be on our way"
and, muttering their customary saluta-
ton, peace to thee" they filed out
into Broadway and continued their
journey.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

Hoodlums who gathered in the side
streets were very much amused when
ever any person who was smoking ap-
preached, and they yelled out words
of warning.
''Wait till Dowie catches your was
the usual yell.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

Some people make money by spend.
Ing ft.-Atchison Globe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

An interesting arrival among the
Dowieites is short man with griZZled
whiskers who gave his name as Dea-
con II. r. Harper. He is mayor of
Zion City and the general manager of
the Zion Building and Manufacturing
association.
"Are you a Republican or a Demo
crat?" Mr.. Harper was asked shortly
after his arrival.
Neither" was the reply. I'm the
ocrat''
"Then 1 suppose that you were elect
ed unanimously"
The deacon's answer was nod and
a smile.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
JAPAN'S SEA POWER.
HOW HER NAVY HAS GROWN IN
THE PAST EIGHT YEARS.

Island Empires Fleet Compared
With That of Russia-Why the Jap
anese Are Great saiIOrs-FieId Mar
shall Viscount TarO Katsura.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-06-26

A CHEMIST has determined by
painstaking analysis that human
body of the average size contains
three pounds and three ounces of
calcium. The current value of cal
cium IS $500 an ounce, which would
give us each value in the retort of
SIS, 300, or one-fourth our weight
in gold. You save the premiums
while you are alive, and have your
self made into calcium after you are
dead and it won't hurt much. Why
hide your calcium light?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-06-26
RULES

either of the publishers shall
be eligible to enter the con-
test.
4-No votes will be permitted
to be put in the ballot box
until the cash is paid on the
subscription.
5-Numbered subscription re-
ceipts, ballots and stubs will
: be furnished contestants,
with which to solicit votes
and will also be keptin this
Office. Persons who send in
their su Inscription money by
mail should cut out and fill
in the following blank and
send it with their money.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-06-26

AN exchange says s'the boom for
Grover Cleveland was taken out of
cold storage too soon. Yes, and it
has already been out too long. Put
it back, you republicans; it smells
bad already.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-06-26

ANOTHER negro ravisher and
murderer was burned to death by a
mob of about 5000 people, at
Wilmington, Delaware, on the 22d.
He had confessed to the crime.
Again let us suggest to such republl-
can papers as the partizan blind
Hutchinson News, that nearly all the
lynchings and burnings of negro men
during the past year have not been in
southern states-the South has not a
monopoly on that business.