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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

test, although it was unjust. If it was
just for them to raise my tax $4,000,
why did they not raise it $4,000, for
that was the amount of the credits?
All the bank stock which I own was
assessed in the regular way and taxes
paid. AS to personal tax in the town
ship live in, this was on my house
hold goods, ETC., as l have no other
personal property here. Most of my
personal tax is paid in Point Pleasant
township, where my farms are, and
my personal property assessment in
both townships was 1925, and paid
the tax. This does not include the
$1,000 raise.
/ am like large majority Of farmers
in this community-have been a Dor
rover of money instead of money
loaner-and have always paid my
share of taxes without protest, as any
one can find out If they will investi-
gate the facts.
| still stand by my first statement,
that the corporate interests defeated
those at the primary who had worked
against their interest, and Mr.. Brown
knows where his support came from.
ELI DIxsON.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
The Youths Companion for 1909.

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
Dixson Pays Double Tax; Not Tax Dodser

To the Voters of the Fourteenth
Congressional District and Mr.. Brown :
In reply to an article published in the
Macomb papers and elsewhere, Oct. %,
l beg to say that l paid double taxes
in 1907 instead of being tax dodger,
as Mr.. Brown would have you believe,
and If Mr.. Brown had stated the facts.
his article would have shown the in
Justice of the present tax system.
In the year 1907 Harry H. Brown
of Calistoga, Cal, held a mortgage on
the east half of section 10, township 8,
range 8, for $4,000, for which I was
endorser. also held a mortgage for
$4,000 on the Patton block in Mon
mouth, Illinois. due March IL, 1909.
explained to the assessor, George F.
Meacham of Roseville township that l
ihad debts which would more than Off
set this credit, and as it had not been
the custom to file deduction sheets,
Mr.. Meacham told me it would not be
necessary. / also explained it to the
board of review and supposed it was
satisfactory, but after the board had
adjourned found that my assessment
had been raised $4,000.
! paid the excess tax without pro
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
The Argus Daily Short Story
AN INDIAN SUMMER ROMANCE BY MARGARET FOX
by Assoc Press
Copyrighted. 1908. by Associated Literary

1t had not been an eventful summer
for Marion Leigh. She knew it would
not be when she saw it looming up in
all its inevitability-an invalid aunt, all
isolated mountain retreat and herself
in the dual role of nurse and compan-
ion.
But she was wise enough to recOg-
nize the time old truth that "beggars
cannot be choosers" and to accept il
graciously. AS a dependent orphan
she had little voice In the ordering OF
her own career.
But now as she watched the leaves
falling silently, somberly. and thought
over the long. tedious days she had
lived through and the longer and more
tedious ones to come her bright cour-
age seemed all at once to leave her.
The proverbial melancholy of the sea
son controlled her mood, and she be
came retrospective.
There had been just one bit of bright
ness that stood out as relief against
the dreary background of that monot
onous summer, and whether she wa:
glad or sorry for it Marion herself
hardly knew.
She had welcomed Bruce Woicott',
coming with spontaneous delight, no
because 1t had any special Significance
for her,. but because he stood for al
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
ROCkEFELLER'S AID
LIKE A HOT POTATO
Roosevelt Makes Haste to Plead I'M
munity for Taft, Declaring it
Plot to Injure "Heir."

Washington, Oct. 31.-The announce
ment that John D. Rockefeller favors
the election of Taft drew the following
announcement from the White house
yesterday:
"At the White house the announce
ment of Mr.. Rockefeller, through the
press agent of the Standard Oil com.
pany, was regarded with some amuse
ment in view of what the administra
ton has done to the Standard Oil com
pany and of the bitter hatred borne
by the Standard Oil company to the
administration. 1t is a PERFECTLY pal
pable and obvious trick on the par
of the Standard Oil people to try te
damage Taft-a trick so palpable thai
it can deceive no one"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
Taft as Labor's Friend.

Mr.. Taft has always been the con-
|sistent friend of labor-subject to in
junction. In 1889, in the superior court
in Cincinnati, Moores & Co. sued the
lbricklayers' union for damages for
boycott instituted because Moores con-
ltinued to supply lime to Parker Bros,
against whom there was strike.
Judge Taft, aged 80, decided against
the bricklayers.
In 1898 locomotive engineers on the
Ann Arbor line went out on strike. The
on connecting lines to or from the Ann
Arbor.
Judge Taft, aged &c, ruled the whole
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
to be criminal conspiracy, and issued
an injunction against them.
In 1894 the American Railway union
declared strike against the Pullman
company and railroads using Pullman
cars. F. w. Phelan, an official of the
union, went to Cincinnati to start ,he
strike there. The receiver of the Gin
cinnati Southern railroad argued that,
as the road was under receivership,
Phelan was in contempt of court
Judge Taft, aged 81, went farther
than the receiver had asked, and sent
Phelan to Jail for 60 days, on the
ground that he had been guilty of
criminal conspiracy.
| In tho soma uaor fn,r ,,,;,,a,e x,.rro
arrested at Wheeling Creek, charged
with interfering with traffic during a
strike. They retained an attorney and
appeared before Judge Taft at Column
bus. The Judge read the hearsay aft
davit of United States marshal and
refused to hear any defense.
Henry and Charles HEIDI and the
two other men were sentenced to six
months in Jail, without an opportunity
to bring single witness or give evil
dence themselves.
| 1t was Judge Taft who, in 1895. or
wages of employees of the Cincinnati
railway. which was in the hands of a
receiver He didn't abolish unneces-
sary officers, but cut the wage-earners
Ismall stipend.
Drawing $4,000 year salary from
the American people as governor gen
eral, Judge Taft abolished trial by jury
in the Philippines. In Panama the
same right of every freeman was done
away with, and Judge Taft tried te
lprevent the establishment of an eight
hour day.
Here is the record of the candidate
who calls himself the friend of labor
land appeals to wage earners to pu
Inim in the White house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

floor at Twenty-sixth and Broadway.
and were the most sumptuous in Man.
haitian.
The failure of A. o. Brown & Co.
revealed their desperate scheme 20
| tide over the republican hard times
era by using money of their clients
secured on pretense of investment in
a paper mining scheme. Chicago had
the Booth case for an example.
| An experience of 43 years shows
that one out of every 20 national banks
| fails from dishonest banking.
| When Wall street and the banks
cry Bryan and hard times" they are
simply trying to detract attention
from their own shortcomings. They
know their clamor is baseless. But
Ieven if the election of Bryan should
Icause business hiatus, would it moi
be justified by the enforced honesty
of the bankers, the curbing of trusts
land preventing Wall street faker:
from further robbery of the credulous
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

that she had known of youth and free
dom and jollity, Of which there was
so little now in her surroundings, so
much still In her natural makeup.
But Wolcott had proved more than
merely young and care free and jolly
as she remembered him; he was alertly
sympathetic and unfailingly generous.
In recalling the many thoughtful.
sweet things he had done for her
Marion refused to blame herself for
misinterpreting them as acts significant
Of deeper purpose.
The change had come almost In a
day, it seemed to her now. 1t was NOT
that his generosity ceased, but the per
sonal note that had come SO near trans
forming kindness into love had sudden
ly dropped out of it.
The comparatively cold courtesy that
was left chilled Marion's heart. Hel
pride nevertheless forced her to accept
It as IL she noticed no difference.
Her lips trembled row as she fell
again the bitterness of the disappoint
| Lent and the resignation. but she
knew that she must not give way ut
terly. For that. for surrender to un
happiness and despair. there was n,
time or place allotted In her life,
i
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
Carnegie Supports Taft.

at would be a national calamity to
elect Bryan" Andrew Carnegie.
The man who amassed 100000 900
out of the steel monopoly, which sells
steel at a lower price in Mexico than
at its mills, would support Taft, if he
had a vote He spends in Europe the
millions he took from the people of
America. He hobnobs with kings and
earls in his castle at Skibo, while the
toilers who helped him roll up his
colossal fortune are still toiling among
the furnaces at Homestead. Which dc
you prefer, president who pleases the
steel trust, or a president who will try
to please the people?
| Remember Carnegie supports Taft
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
bryan and Hard Tines

Chicago Journal: This meaningless
slogan of Wall street and the banks,
the one afraid of its grand larceny
record, and the others anxious to
avoid closer supervision under a sys
TEN of bank deposit guaranty, is not
likely to harm Mr. Bryan much
among thinking business men.
Colonel William C. Greene, stupen
dous spendthrift and maker of mil
nice, quiet rest somewhere in the hills
of New Mexico. This mornings dis
patches tell us that the Greene Gold
Silver company, possessor of fabulou:
mines, took in $25,000,000. It's asset.
consist of $4S6 worth of furniture ant
$1.4S in the Importers and Trader.
bank. which Colonel Greene mus
have overlooked. The company's sec
rotary on oath says that Greene mad,
away with all the company's assets
in 1906, before the initial dividend o
per cent was declared on the pre-
ferred stock.
This is the same Colonel Green'
who threatened to go to Boston ant
shoot Thomas w. Lawson. when tina
gentleman dared to tell the trutl
about the monumental Greene fake.
Cardenio F. King, another gentle
man adventurer in the world OF higl
finance and easy marks, is on tria
in Boston for gathering in few mil
lions from the poor. Two years az.
he maintained daily newspaper il
Boston to further his thefts. and hi
New York Offices Occupied Who'll,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
Railway Brotherhood on the
Trail of the Republican Candidates

Sept. 5, 1908, w. S. Stone, grand
Morissey, grand master, B. of r. T.,
issued letter to all divisions of their
organizations, ordering that there
should be submitted to candidates for
congress in their respective districts
throughout the United State, certain
questions which appear in said COM
munication and which communication
lis as follows:
Dear Sir-As a consequence of the
numerous instances of the abuse of the
power of injunction by federal judges
in labor disputes, and the years of
fruitless effort of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen and other organiza-
tons of labor, to secure the enactment
by congress of legislation which would
prevent the abuse of this power in the
future, we, the undersigned joint COM
mittee, have been appointed by.
....... Division No. ..... Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, and
!! Lodge No..
Brotherhood of Railroad. Trainmen
whose members are residents of this
district, to respectfully submit TO you
the following questions, and will ap
preciate it if you will please make an
swer thereto in writing.
Il. If elected member of the con
] gress of the United States, will you
' as member of that body, use your in
fiuence and vote towards securing the
passage of a law which swill prevent
the abuse of the power of injunction
by. federal judges in labor disputes?
I ...........-,
.'2. If elected a member of the con
gress of the United States, will you, a:
a member of that body, use your influ
ence and vote towards securing ths
passage of a law which will proven
federal judges from issuing restrain
ing orders and injunctions without Civ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

And now comes the great candy
trust and sends out a letter to all its
employees and customers endeavorins
TO frighten them into voting the re
publican ticket. 1t declares that only
by the election of Taft will there be
g. return of good times and an improve
ment in business. The trusts are
growing desperate and will not hest
tate at any sort of coercion which will
continue their power to fatten at the
expense of the public
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
Il. of X. 7. Committee.


The committees which were selected,
complied with orders and all candi-
dates were requested to answer.
To date not single republican can
didate in the United States has answered
in the affirmative so far as known
while ali democratic candidates have
answered in the affirmative as desired
by the railroad men.
In Chicago the following democratic
candidates for congress answered
l"Yes":
| Frank c. Wood of the Sixth Illinois
congressional district.
Frank Buchanan of the Seventh Illi-
nois congressional district.
Thomas Gallagher of the Eighth 1lli-
nois congressional district.
E. C. Stillwell of the Ninth Illinois
congressional district.
| Western Starr of the Tenth Illinois
congressional district.
The following republican candidates
refused to answer Yes:
William Lorimer. Sixth Illinois con.
gressional district.
Frederick Lundin, Seventh Illinois
congressional district.
Phillip Ksyoki, Eighth Illinois con
!gressional district.
Henry S. Boutell, Ninth Illinois con
lgressional district.
George Edmund Foss, Tenth Illinois
congressional district.
This iS fair sample of result al
lover the country.
What else could be expected? me
Questions propounded embodied the
principles declared for in the demo
cratic platform, which were rejected
lby the republican convention. Repub
Iiicans can hardly be expected to de
clare in favor of the democratic plat
form.
No stronger indictment of the re
publican party was ever drawn thai
the language of Stone and Morisse.
when they refer to the numerous in
istances of the abuse of the power o
injunction by federal judges in labo
disputes, and the years of fruitless ei
fort of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, Brotherhood of Railroa
Trainmen and other organizations c
labor. to secure the enactment by COZ
gress of legislation which would pre-
vent the abuse of power in the fl
ture."
Will railroad and labor men vote fo
the party thus indicted by Stone an
: Morissey, or will they vote for th
lparty which answers Yes" to labor
dem and3 for justice?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

his income of $5O,OOO,OOO year to the
republican party and its tariff. His
statement is proof that not dollar of
Standard Oil money went into the
democratic campaign fund. Which do
you prefer in the White house, presi-
dent who pleases the oil trust or a
president who will try to please the
people?
Remember. Rockefeller votes for
Taft.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

ing the adverse party an opportunity
to be heard?
3. If elected a member of the con-
gross of the United States, will you,
as a member of that body, use your
influence and vote toward securing the
passage of law guaranteeing trial by
jury to persons accused of contempt
of court, if such alleged contempt be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

A fourflusher is the most likely per-
son in the world to accuse others OF
fourflushing. Hence the attempt on
the part of Theodore Roosevelt to dis
credit the position of John D. Rookie
teller in favor of Taft.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
Variable.

A song for Indian summer!
When it is gay and fair
I'd like to thank the Indian
Who kindly put il there.
When il is cold and cheerless,
The skies 4 weepy gray,
I'd like TO meet that red man
And take his scalp away.
The trees stand out hand painted
BY nature, artist rare,
And odors as of incense
Float on the hay air,
And. sailing in the distance,
A hawk appears in sight
That's looking for a chicken
To stay its appetite.
Out in the mellow stubble
A plump and tempting quail
Is tuning up its whistle,
The passersby to hale,
For. seeing city sportsmen
-Four fenceposts in advance.
II calls to them. well knowing
1t does not take a chance.
Tie SKIES above seem closer,
The sun has lost its fame.
Where once 1t was a Furnaces
Now il is dull and tame
Winds sing dirge for summer,
Gray clouds obscure the scene,
Thus giving us a sample
OF autumn being mean.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

Spiteful Willie Hearst has devoted
the burden of his campaign to declar-
ing Standard Oil to be with Bryan.
But John D. Rockefeller says different
Who of the two knows the better, the
attitude of Standard Oil?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

Do you begin to realize now why the
republican national committee has
steadfastly declined to make public the
list of its campaign contributors until
after the election?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

Whose advice will the people follow,
that of Samuel Gompers or that OF
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Car
negie?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island. Ill IEn-
tered at the postofice as second-class
matter.1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

Do you hear anything from Judge
Taft, the father of the federal injunc-
ton. repudiating Rockefeller and Gar
negie?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
Rockefeller Votes for Taft.

81 support the republican position on
the tariff. l expect to vote for William
H. Taft John D. Rockefeller.
The president of Standard Oil owes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

The republicans are not at all fright
ened at this stage of the game-not
at all.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

No Woman Can.
II never argue with a woman"
do you mention that as fact or
claim as it as virtue:"
Why"
Because as q fact 1t is stale and as
a virtue it is a pretense. No woman
ever argues"
Higher encouragement.
"What shall We do with the sub
merged tenth?",
"Submerge them some more"
you cruel thingv'
II mean in bathtub."
Where He Was Strong.
'What complaint did the heiress
make against her husband?"
"a most outrageous one"
Indeed! What was itT'
"Nonsupport."
That's Why.
II hear that he failed IN business."
Eyes. believe he did"
"But didn't know he had q busi.
{: aess."
"He didn't"
Bring on your wireless telephone
! without pole or line
When nevermore the man who callG
Can get the busy sign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

Will President Roosevelt be impelled
now to answer Bryan?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
Hunor esa Philosophy.
D. DUNCAN N. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

The man who makes a great deal of
his fails doesn't make much Of sue
"ess.
Kindness and courtesy need elbow
room and are smothered to death in
crowd
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

The clocks I'm some households suffer
SO much from congestion of the face
that it seems impossible for any men,
bers of the household ever to be on
time.
People who have no brains are fortu-
nate, indeed, if they can draw on their
bankers for what passes for brains.
Most women are fond Of men, but
so many of them are SO particular as
to what men.
1t is extremely trying to be obliged
to associate with people who always
and invariably would rather not.
People who keep their feelings out in
| the road where they are sure to get
| hurt should be presented with a small
iron bank to keep them in.
| The man who is skillful in SideStep-
ping an obligation presumably hus-
bands his resources in order TO be able
! to incur further obligations.
Some broad minded people are never
theless so thin minded that their lib
erality Of opinion ayails little.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
Saturday, October 81, 1908.

DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
[sHALL THE PEOPLE RULE'l
NATIONAL.
For President OF the United
States,
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
OF Nebraska
For Vice President,
JOHN WORTH KERN
or Indiana
sTATH.
For United States Senator-Lawrence
B. Stringer.
For Governor-Adlai E. Stevenson.
For Lieutenant Governor - Elmer A
Perry.
For Auditor-Ralph Jenries.
For State Treasurer-John 3. Mount
For Clerk Of Supreme Court-John l.
Pickering.
University Trustees-Edward Tilden
A. L; White. Isaac s Raymond Qons
CONGRESS.
For Representative in Congress - M
For Member of State Board Of Equal.
fzation--Eli DiXson.
LEGISLATURE.
For. State Representative-Henr L
Wheelan.
For States Attorney-Robert r. Rey.
nolds.
For Coroner-Dr. NJ. j. O'Hern.
For Surveyor-George II. HICKS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

ssMr. Taft is handicapped by the Jealous
advocacy of his cause by the predatory rich.
Honest wealth and business have nothing to
fear in Bryan's election New York World
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
a Boon,

Bring on your wireless telephone
Without pole or line
When nevermore the man who calls
Can get the busy sign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
NO SCARES THIS YEAR.

mo one fears that Mr.. Bryan's cleo
ton would provoke an industrial. commercial
and financial cataclysm.'-New York Herald
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31
TERMS Daily, 10 cents per wee

BY THE J. w. POTTER co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

TERMS - Daily, 10 cents per week
Weekly, 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character. political or religious. mus
have real name attached for publica'
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township In Rock Island county.
Nu1EHl1M
<7kA6Esl lp Iss2s eo9EcTS
Saturday, October 81, 1908.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

(contlnued on Page Eight.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

Most women are fond Of men, but
so many of them are so particular as
to what men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-31

1t is extremely trying to be obliged
TO associate with people who always
and invariably would rather not.