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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02
TRATNs

C.iuton, Uububue, 81 raul
Milwaukee ara Chicago 200 an 1855 pm
Elgtn and Oh caRo IS. W
LiTn.ted) .....,..............F AIS an lo:35pm
Muscatine, w ashingto Kan
sas City. g. W. Llnited) 'i0;35pm Fi:15 am
MUs3aline, Washington, Kan
sas City .................... 1913 am 'n:5Opm
Fulton, Savanna, Eigin, Chi
cago...... .....'...... III ;5Opn 1913 sm
Omaha Sioux City. ChicaR'
and Milwaukee .......... i:5S PM '2:i3 pm
Muscatine- Washington, OF
tumwa. ...........t.........42 48 pm ti5s pm
Fulton, SavGnna Dubuque $50 pm " / ;JOam
Clinton, CEDAR Rapids, OAa
ha, FrcepOft ...... ........ +24 pm III :l0aTn
eDanz. DAILY ex.en. errnav
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02

WANTED-To rent a six or eight room
house. with modern improv@me ats, loCat-
ed between Fifteenth and Twenty-SeC ond
streets and Seventh and Twelfth avenues
Address H 81" this office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02
LOST AND FOUND

FOUND-Lady's astrakan fur collar. OwDe
can have same by calling at Argus ONCE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02

FOR SALE-A bargain in a new Groom cot
Lage with bath. well built, good residence
locality; - 600 $500 down. balance at per
cent. Goldsmith y Mckee
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02
TRAINS

ROCK ISLAND AID PEORIA DIvIsIOH.
Trains leave Twentieth street station Main
line tralns start from main depot on Film
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02
TnaINh.


= HICAGO, BURLINGTO Y n QUINCY -
- Dept Second avenue ard Twentieth
street TGle 5hone lit0 NJ J YOUNG, Agt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02

FOR SALE-Re friRerator. best make, cost
: Z. used years. owner left city, will take
- Call between and p. N. 1925 Xth
avPnne-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02

| FOR SALE-A good light wagon with pole
aud shaft. Call al G. w. Horton 5 grocery,
| Eleventh avenue and Fifteenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02

GEORGE Il. SIDWELL s CO.-Comunissiou
merchants. Grain. hay and provisions
Mem bers OF the Chicago board OF trade
and Chicago Stock exchange. Established
IS years No. $40 and 5f3 Rialto building
Long distance phone. Harrison 2eae.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

as houSekeeper in small
family or to take charge of one or two
children. by Capanle woman who can give
references No washing. Cal at 1923
Fourth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02

FOR 8 ALE-A curly birch bedroom suite
consisting of a Chiffonier, dressing table,
combination book case and two chairs.
Inquire at Ise Seventeenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02
A CINE PACKET co. Daily line for Clinton
n ana all points between.

fDanF. lDarv avfept SrrSav
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02

FOR SALE-Co~ner lot 1O0xlF0 feet. paved
on one side. three houses and a~ge barn,
rents TOR SO per month VIII trade for
small farm in Rock land county. Marion
T. Sweeney, attorney rooms 90 %, Mitchell
& Lynde block, Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02
FOR RENT-RooMS.


FOR RENT-Front ONCE INQUIRE al i7I41s
Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-02
FOR sALE-CITY PROPERTY.

FOR SALE-Best bargains in lots on Tween
ty-dtth street and Tenth avenue if taken
a. once. Easy payments. Inquire Reidy
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS.
They Receive Abuse of Democrats and
support of the People.

support or the People.
According to the Democrats, the Re-
publican Presidents, every one of them,
have been a bad lot, personally and po-
litically. Each and all of them were
declared to be running the country; but
when the day Of reckoning came, and the
verdict OF the people was handed in on
their ballots, Judgment was given-save
in two cases in forty-four years-for the
Republicans. Impartial history acQu1ts
every Republican President of criminal
inicnts and acts. In doing his duty to
the people MI. Lincoln became a mar.
tyr. No ruler was ever more vilified and
denounced. His body in life, his spirit
in Veath, represent the dividing line be-
tween loyalty and ~disloyaky, between the
cohesion of the States or their disinte-
grafton. When a Democrat, be he leader
or follower, writes or talks of the Re-
pubecan party as a nation-destroyer
through its measures or its Presidents, it
is because he does not know or does not
care to remember that Buchanan, who,
&c : Democrat, shaped the course OF his
administration so that the advocates of
secession might have a quick and easy
yictrry; it was this Democratic President
who left to his Republican successor and
the loyal people he had been chosen to
govern, an empty treasury, a corporal's
guard of an army, a wreck of a navy,
disneantled fortresses, and legions Of of
iceholders liberated with a disloyatty
that the stern lessons of war and years
OF Christian peace have not entirely Grad
.icattd. And before Buchanan were Dem
ocraic administrations whose acts were
seemingly studied preludes to his crime.
The lineage of the Democratic party is a
record OF broken pledges conceived in po-
ititil iniGuities and %strangled at their
birta. 1t is the Democratic party to
which the people owe four years of civil
war and eight years of such misgoyern-
mept that the rich became poor and the
poor starved.
II has been the province of the Re
publican party to undo the work Of its
opponents; it has again and again saved
the nation from degenerating to a low
grade in nationalties. and it has enforced
respect throughout the world for n coun-
try which the Democrats had brought in
to contempt.
OF curse the Democrats assail Repub-
lifan Presidents and their nominees for
the place of Chief Executive; they do
this more by innuendo than by direct ac-
cusation-a stabb;ng in the dark rather
than a fight in the sunlight. But there
is always this in favor of the Republican
party's Presidents from the time they
begin TO make history for the nation
that for their support in the ordeal OF
public criticism they have had the Con-
stitution Of the Union, its Congresses,
and the voice of the people.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

Of the excellence of Porte Rican cof-
lee over uhe cheaper grades from Brazil
and other countries, President Roose-
Welt and others have testified. Porto
Rico needs help, particularly in her cof-
fee Industry. Buying more of her coffee
would be an easy way for us to afford
some of the help she needs.
1t is now generally known that in the
Philippines there are many varieties OF
cabinet woods in profusion, equal in quail
ity and more beautiful in appearance
than those we now buy from Sonth
America. The forests OF the islands also
abound in gums of all the kinds we use.
The islands also produce indigo, dye
woods and extracts. and several of the
products named.-(See philippine Gaz-
eteer' and philippines. products Of"
Encyclopedia Americana, in press.)
In the face OF the above facts. the only
Imperialism" is our imperial need OF
tropical possessions to grow our own
tropical products.
WALTER ]. BALLARD.
Schenectady. n. Y.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE.
Another Evidence of President Roose-
ve1ts Sagacity.


Mr.. Roosevelt the President is prov
ing himself to be a long-headed man, 1t
seems he has anticipated the Emperor
OF Germany as to The Hague Peace Con-
y%ention, where war may be considered
in all its perplexities Of inception and
conduct. The American and German
rulers are looking to the future with a
view Of decreasing the causes for hostili-
ties; or, il there must be war, of chang
ing it's conduct beneicially for non-ccm-
hatant nations. Our government has
steadily and persistently herd to certain
propositions as to the rights of neutrals,
and is prepared to urge their adoption at
the convention. The positions taken by
the United States are for our future con-
Germ and welfare in case this country
should again be forced into fighting. This
action is a long look ahead, it is to be
hoped; but as long as war is q possibili-
ty it is statesmanlike sagacity that seeks
in advance to minimize its hardshipS;
and where we are neutrals it is business
Oh the part Of this government to know
beforehand the scope of a neutrality nee
essarily international. This move on Mr..
Roosevelt's part is not at all usurpation,
10 CuuSC dIhCI WOulu NC alhely W utuut
it If he were to be consistent. 1t is,
rather, a diplomatic move in the interest
of humanity, and a matter for approval
by people Of all nationalities, especially
those gathered in America. If Mr..
Roosevelt should be continued as Presi-
lent ms ideas in this matter will I'M
d~oubtedly receive consideration at The
Hague convention when held; but if a
Democrat be chosen to succeed him the
matter will be dropped for two reasons
at least-it being foreign to the avowed
policy Of the Democratic party as to in
reference in Old World matters, and
also because the proposition is Of Repub-
Gcan origin. 1t is well for the people to
understand that the advancement of the
nation as shown under Republican direc-
ton will halt under that of the Demo
Gratis, and then be followed, as in other
years OF their supremacy, by ~retrogres-
sion and by ruin as soon as the vitality
given to the country's affairs by the Re
publicans has been exhausted.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

E1ksA. sach ma - ~ p ~ cot was
given q bite to help him through the
cherries day ahead Of him.
1T g. q condition" that confronts the
people of Chicago more favored than
those for whom charity Is evoked. There
is no better advised man upon the de-
plorable situation than Col. w. p. Rend.
Early identifying himself with 'relief
measures" he has kept himself advised
about '.the gravest problem" as he de-
clares 1t to be, lever presented to Chi
cago for solution" Besides the thou
sands who have drifted into the city, he
estimates "over 100000 resident work
men in our city are out of employment"
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
Catholic. Prefer Roo,crsIt.

Archbishop Messmer OF milwaukee,
voices the sentiments of thousands OF
members OF the Catholic church when he
says:
II believe that President Reosevelt's
policy in regard TO the Philippine friars
has met the approval Of the Vatican au.
shorities, and that there is a feeling that
in case OF his election they would be as
surcd OF straightforward and consider
ate treatment. Personally / should be
glad to see President Roosevelt elected
President
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
wCRKINGMAN's FRIEND.
Fresh Evidence Of Rooscvelt,s Sym.
pathy with wnge Farmers.

rresu LvfIenCe or hOOscvSltNS sym
pathy with Wage Farmers.
1t has been repeatedly stated that
President Roosevelt never misses an OPP
'portunity to show his sympathy for
wage-earners. Here is a fresh evidence
of the truth of this assertion. Dur
ing the existing administrations" says the
Chicago Tribune. 1.-THE United States for
the first time has interviewed in q private
damage suit. Nothing WIS known of the
order until Senator Knox, late Attorney
General. mentioned it the other day. A
brakeman was injured, after the act re-
During the use OF safety appliances on
interstate railroads had gone into effect,
while endeavoring 80 couple cars which
had not been equipped in accordance
with law. lie brought suit for damages
in a United States court, but was unsuc-
~cessful. This case was called to the at
tension of tae President. and. as he saw
that the decision of the lower court nulli-
fed a great remedial statute, he directed
a petition for n writ of certiorari to be
fled 10 remove the case to the Supreme
Court. 1t will decide whether a law
which was passed TO protect the lives OF
hundreds OF thousands OF railroad work.
ers can lie violated with impunity."
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
The President Would DO.

Here is an incident that illustrates
one trait OF the Presidents character
trait that tends to make him popular.
While James jeffrey Roche was having
a chat with President Roosevelt in the
White House last week the telephone
bell was ringing somewhat persistently,
says the Boston Herald. There being no
attendant ut hand the President excused
himself and went to answer the repeated
call. This is the conversation that took
place on the line according to the testi-
mony of the distinguished gentleman at
the Presidents end Of it:
well, what is :t?"
"Hello, is Archie there?"
"No, he's not"
"Who's this I'm talking tog"
''Thc President"
"Well, you'll do. Tell Archie to come
over and play ball"
And the President proceeded to exc
cute the order, as directed.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
. o. P.-'TrrevocabIy N Firmly Fixed"

Pacific coast is going to float westward.
The Republican party is e~ndeavoring to
promote this trade in every way, and the
Democratic party, under the cry Of I'm
perialism," is trying to embarrass it in
every way. Well, the western fringe
of the States OF the United States is
peopled by intelligent human beings. Is
there any question as to how they will
yOfe2
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
BOOMERANG FIGURES.
DANGEROUS MATERIAL IN The
HANDS Of THE DEMOCRATS
Comparisons Showing How that Party
Increased Goverament Expenditures
More thar Oh Fer Cent. In q Twelve
Year Period.

The Democratic campaign writer's and
speakers are making use OF highly dan
gerous material when they use figures to
show the large increase in government
expenditures under Republican admins
tration. Alton b. Parker said to the
Democratic editors at R~osernount:
During Mr.. CieveIand's first term the av-
erage annual expenditure was about $685..
100000 For the last three years It has
been about $519,O0O.000. The governmental
expenditure last year mounted up 10 $751;
O0O, 600, which Is not equaled by any year
since the civil war, with the exception Of
the year Of the Spanish war.
Why did Mr.. Parker use the figures
merely Of Clevelard's first term? Why
did he not make use of the figures for
President Cleyeland's second term? Had
these entered into the comparison it
would have been shown that expenditures
gained with the same proportional rapid
ity in Democratic times as in Republic
can tfmes-and in some directions, like
interest on the public debt. they gained
more. The Democratic party, to nse a
legal term. is ~''estopped" from criticism
of Republican increase IN expenditures
when the figures comparing Democratic
expenditures, twelve years apart. show
Lila "A btLlOClstJS, Juot ihe the IsepuD-
iicans, were forced to follow the rapid
growth Of the country with increased ex-
penditures for the government.
The total expenditures of President
Cleveland's last fiscal year. 1897, were
$685., IA, $50 as against $242, 4S3, 1870 for
those of his first year rs President, 1886
"a gain of over 81 per cent. in the
~twelve-year period.
The total expenditures for the four
years of Cleveland's first administration,
1886 to 1890, were $1,052,G 65, 1914. Tho
total expenditures during Cleyeiand's
second administration, 1893 to 1897, were
$1,441, Ga, 1874.
Comparing the first year of Cleveland's
first term with the last year of his Sec
ond term, the following were the expendi-
lures:
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

"The wnce-workcr would do well to
remember that Ii protection In rob
berry, md - to be punished according
~, he will be the frst to pay the PEN
nityi for either he will be- turncd
adrift entirely, Or his wages will be
cnt down 20 the starvation point.n-
Rooseyeit's lettor Of acceptance.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

The Democrats are eycr!astingly -.
ferr;n= to Jackson and Jefferson as the
political demigols of the past. . No one
can tell what Jefferson would do were
he alive to-day. He was a good man,
and a schcner aud dreamer in politics.
Anyone can tell what jackson would do
were he alive to-day. He would be with
Roosevelt. He in a less educated war
vas the same kind Of man.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
The safest strip.

The strip of land which lies between
the Rocky mountains and the Pacific
ocean has practically already gone Re-
publican. 1t may be said frankly OF our
friends, the enemy, that they need not
waste time or money on the Pacific coast.
All the trade and commerce o. the
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

AS regards interest on the public debt,
the figures OF the Harrison administra-
ton that interviewed between the two
Cleveland administrations are of inter-
est. The interest payments for the year
1892, the last year Of Republican rule,
were S23.37S JIG, as against S51,5SO, 146
for the first fiscal year Of Cleyeland's
first administration. Then, during Cleve-
lands second administration the public
debt was increased $500, 900, 900, and the
interest payments, which in 1892 mount
ed to $23,3IS, 116, in 1897 amounted to
$37, T91, 40. But in 1904 the interest
on the public debt was only $24,646,490
this reduction having been due chiefly to
the economy rendered possible through
the financial act of March, 1900, which
nearly every Democrat in Congress voted
against.
The most important increase In expend-
itures under Republican rule has been for
the navy-aud this policy Of ~upbuilding
the navy was a pet policy Of the late w.
c.. Whitney, President Cleveland's Secre-
tary of the Navy, whom Democrats often
term the father OF the modern American
navy. During the Cleveland years, ex-
penditures for the navy increased $751;
100000, and the Navy Department ex-
penditures for 1901, compared with those
for 1897, Cleveland's last year, show
an increase Of $685. 900, the bulk OF
which increase is for construction of new
ships.
In consideration OF the fact that tbs
United States has increased nearly so
per cent. in population and more than
100 per cent. in wealth since Grover
Cleveland was first ~inaugurated, the in
creased expenditures Of government
would naturally seem to DO entirely JUS
titled.
If they are not. the Democrats SHOULD,
at least in fairness, be willing to criti-
else the increase in Democratic years just
as much as the increase In Republican
wears.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

"From time to time tariff schedules
must undoubtedly be rearrauGed and
readjusted to meet the shifting media
of h %countr~r but this can with safety
be lone ou.> oy hose who arc com m it
ted tn the cause of the protective sys-
Re m .r-Rooseyelts letter Of acceptance.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

An Associated Press telegram from
Boston, December IL. said: "a circu-
lar was issued to-day to landlords by the
associations for the unemployed, assert
tng that $4,000 workmen, having as many
persons dependent upon them. are unable
TO find employment, and asking that no
rent be required of such until they are
employed. Another appeal, addressed to
the citizens of Boston. asks them to see
that the city provides work. A move
ment is on foot for a procession of the
unemployed ON the Common. and a meet
tng in Faneuil Hall next Tuesday"
Sleeping in the City Hail.
Chicago Inter Ocean, Dec. IL, 1903.)
That contingent Of 'the arm of the
unemployed" which has found shelter for
q few nights in the corridors of the City
Hall returned to its old quarters again
last night, bringing along many recruits.
The night before, forty or more of the
Rodgers Thought to regale themselves with
sandwdchcs, but were set upon by their
less fortunate and famished comrades,
and a dread riot was precipitated
which called forth police officers TO quell
1t. Notwithstanding this ~ruction, the
chilled and starving applicant was not
refused lodging room last night. He
came up to police headquarters obviously,
but was admitted,
AT 10 o'clock the long first-foor cor
ridor from Washington to Randolph
street was covered with men and boys.
fast asleep on the cold. damp pave
ment. Men were half reclining on the
gtairways, and the poor wretclies on the
had others standing over and about
them, enyious OF the place upon which
lay. cramped. drawn up. and crowd
ed by others who shared their miser-
able bed.
Last night Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar
thought to give Editor Stead a lesson in
the problem OF unemployed and proposed
distribution OF 1000 sandwiches among
The night Iodgers~a< police headquarters.
This was forbidden, as q repetition Of the
previous nights riot was feared, and such
or other food that was sent
WAS stored away for the night, and
when morning came, and along with 1t
Ehe enforced exodus Of the sleeping hum
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

In some OF these raw products in
creases we see the value OF the pro-
%teetive tariff against foreign goods mad,
OF the same classes of raw products. Raw
silk, for example, thirtyfold increase n
a single generation. Hence our silk fssgs-
tories. Then fibers, a nearly sevenf@id
increase; india rubber, a skiold increfse.
In money values the main comparirons
are:
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

Or. T. ]. Mccoy, one OF the most
prominent Democrats in Warrick county.
Indiana, has created a sensation at Boon
willie by ~renouncng Democracy and com
ing out strongly for Roosevelt and Fair
banks.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

Only twice In forty years have the
American people placed the Democratic
party In power, and in both OF those in
stances its victory fell like a blight upon
the country. Why repeat the expert
mentf
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

Bryan, In likening Parker TO Moses.
who was slow OF speech, raped the
Democratic candidate very hard. Bibi-
cal authority say Moses never entered
the Promised L-
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
Hin Mnrninr PIuure.

When morning dawns, the next day after,
Then Parker win with chilly shiver
Dive whore he will not hear our laugh
ter
He'll take his swim In old Salt River.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
.s4S.777,319

Here we see that our present tropical
possessions are only sending us about IL
per cent Of the tropical products We con-
sumo. We not only need those islands
end all they produce, but we also need
to do all in our power to increase the
total and diversity OF their products.
More than that, we also need more pos
sessions Of the same kind. 1t would pay
us TO buy some more-the Danish and
other West Indies. for instance. 1t stands
to reason that as we must pay out so
large an amount each year, it would be
best to send the money TO our own pos
sessions, to benefit our own native and
American interests, rather than it should
go to countries On which we do not have
any personal ~pecuniary interest.
BY quantities, our main tropical i'm
ports in the years 1870 and 1904 were: