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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
NEWS OF THE NEIGHBORS

United Breweries company for an in
junction to restrain the district court
from issuing an order of abatement
against saloon property owned by
the petitioner in Princeton, and for
merly occupied by Leonard Smith. The
action in the district court is brought
by the Civic Federation. The United
Breweries company sets up the claim
in its move before the federal court
that it was not aware that Smith was
violating the provisions of the mulct
law, and therefore should not be made
to suffer for the sins of another.
Sues Her Fatherin-Law. - William
Kniegge of this city, wealthy retired
Scott county farmer, is made defend
ant in suit for $4,000 damages
brought in the district court by his
daughter-in-law, Lena Kniegge, and in
which she makes allegations of SEN
sational nature. The plaintiff was mar
ried March & last to Rudolph Kniegge,
a son of the defendant, and they were
living together in contentment when
the father, she charges, made accusa-
tions rejecting on her character with
the intent of poisoning the mind of
her husband. The plaintiff AYERS that
her husband is of an extremely jealous
disposition, and since the accusations
of the father, made in the presence of
the son, the latter has been cruel to
her, beating and choking her and
threatening to shoot her.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
CATARRH RECIPE.
An Eminent Authority Predicts Much
Suffering and Dis
ease.
GIVES SOME SIMPLE ADVICE.
Also Simple Home Prescription Which
Sufferers Should Make Up and
Try, as 1t Don't Cost
Much.

Here is a prescription which should
he valued by-all who are subject to
rheumatism, kidney and bladder trout
bles and especially catarrh. While the
latter is considered by most sufferers
an incura5le disease, there are few
men or women who will fail to ex-
rerience great relief from the follow
ing simple home prescription, and if
taken in time it should prevent an at
tack of cataTrh during the entire sea-
SON.
Anyone can mix the following: Fluid
Extract D&ndelian one-half ounce,
Compound Kargon one ounce, Com
pound Syrup Sarsaparilla three ounces.
Shake well in bottle and use in tea
again at bedtime. Get these ingredi-
ents from any phi armacist whom you
know handles only pure drugs.
This prescription acts directly upon
the eliminative tissues of the kidneys
to make them filter and strain from
The blood. the poisons that produce
|sll forms of catarrhal affections. Re
lief is oftel felt even after the first
few doses and it is seldom that the
sufferer ever experiences return at
tack within the year.
This prescription makes splendid
remedy for all forms of blood disor
Iders and such symptoms as lame back
Bladder weaknesses and rheumatism
Fains are entirely dispelled.
As this valuable, though simple, re
'cipe comes from thoroughly reliable
, source, it should be needed by every
reader who suffers from catarrh.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13

Kodol Is a pleasant, palatable,
liquid preparation, that helps the
stomach to do it's work in natural
way. Being a liquid, 1t starts d.
gestion at once.
Kodol supplies the same digestive
juices that are found in a healthy
stomach. This is why 1t will stop
the pains of indigestion quickly.
Your stomach, being weakened,
probably. by over feeding or over
work, is unable to do its work
properly, and the natural result is
indigestion, sour stomach, gas, or
belching, which will soon result in
chronic dyspepsia unless the stom-
ach is given help.
Nervous indigestion or dyspep-
sia It is not only annoying, but
dangerous. If let alone, the result
generally is gastritis, or oftentimes
that fatal neutrality-suspicious..
Don't neglect your stomach.
Don't take any chances. There is
no need for you to suffer, because
a little Kodol now and then, will
keep the stomach well, healthy and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
$70,000,00o WAS GRATED
Representative Lloyd Shows How tho
Congress Gave Railroads That
Sum Improperly.

Representative James T. Lloyd, of
Missouri, chairman Of the Democratic
national congressional committee, on
March 10, 1908, exposed the fragrant
theft Of the peoples money through
the unfair weighing Of mails when Of
fetal tests were made to determine
what compensation the railroads
should receive. He said:
"Mr. Chairman, in delivering nv ad.
dress few days since on postal con-
ditfons. in discussing the interpreta-
ton of tie law as to the weighing OF
the mail, failed to state the law on
the subject, and I wish to do so now:
The average weight to be ascer.
tanned, in every case. by the actual
weighing Of the mails for such n num-
Der of successive working days. not
less than thirty, at such times after
June 80, 1873, and not less frequently
than once in every four years.
Later the time was changed to
ninety days. Otherwise the law has
~AOt bNSi ILLS uule.
Until March 2, 1907, the depart
ment required the mail 70 be weighed
for ninety days. Sunday was not con-
sidered, so that the weighing covered
a period Of one hundred and five days
instead of ninety successive days. In
other words, working days were con
strued to mean week days. Postinas-
for Cnnnr.oJ u, =,
depreciation which had been accepted
as correct for over thirty years ard
issued the following order as his con-
struction of the law:
THAT when the weight Of mail is
taken on railroad routes, the whole
number of days the mails are weighed
Shall be used as a divisor for obtain
ing the average weight per day.
'This required in effect, that, in
stead of dividing the number of work
ing or week days in the weighing
period, the devisor should be the num-
Der of days on which mail was actual
~ carried during the period. If ii
was weighed one hundred and five
days. tie divisor to obtain the daily
weight was one hundred and five. If
the mail was not carried on Sunday,
the divis0r would be ninety. This. as
you can readily see, would give less
compensation for carrying the full
week than for six days, for the ac-
cumulated mail would be practically
the same whether carried in six days
| or in seven.
1.-THE present postmaster general
| seeing this predicament, issued another
order of construction. known as order
| 412,' which is as follows:
""That when the weight Of mail is
taken on railroad routes tie. whole
number Of days included in the weigh
ing period shall be used as divisoI
for obtaining the average weight pei
| day.
IF the construction up to last year
was right, then there has been with
held from the railroads this year over
| ST, 100000 that is theirs under the law
| If the present construction is the prop
er one, the railroads have received
over $70,OOO,OOO since 1880 that be
longs to the people; so that whichever
view is sustained money has beer
wrongfully withheld through the post
/ Office department"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13

tide of public sentiment, admit that
their own schedules. properly be
reduced fifty per cent or more without
hurt to their respective industries, or
to the country at large"
If the common everyday experience
Of the consumers is not sufficient to
awaken Republican voters to the
iniquity of the existing tariff system,
surely the confession in the letter re-
ferred to ought at least to challenge
attention and invite thoughtful inves.
tigation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
WHERE DID YOU GET TT
ssUncle Joe" Invites Demand That
He Show Where He Got
His Wealth.

Speaker Cannon intimated that Mr..
Bryan had become a millionaire. The
speaker was speaking in his home
town. Danville, Ill.
The following day Mr.. Bryan, speak
ing also in Mr.. Cannon's home dis
trict, opened his ledger to the gaze
of the American people and showed
that he is worth approximately $780,
600.
Having thus accepted Speaker Can
mons challenge to "'fess up" Mr.
Bryan demanded in return that
Speaker Cannon "snitch on HIMSELF
that is, that Mr.. Cannon also "'fess
up" and relate just how he got his
wealth.
1t is a perfectly proper thing. too;
for some people have been worried
that Mr.. Bryan has succeeded by his
great industry in upbuilding a COM
potency for his old age.
Salary, Lectures and Books.
''It was from what saved from my
congressional salary, and gained from
lectures and books and the profits Of
The Commoner' that 1 got what
money and property I have Mr..
Bryan answered, in substance "will
Mr.. Cannon now tell the people how
he amassed his wealth? He has been
hampered more or less by official
duties during his term of service in
the congress. yet in spite of that OBJ
stacle, he is commonly presumed to
possess considerable of this worlds
goods
Now "Uncle Joe's" Turn.
None will deny that it is now Uncle
Joe's turn to take the people into his
confidence. Down in DanvilIe, it is
true that Mt. Cannon and his brother
as bankers are thought each to have
amassed much more than S1,000,000.
Certainly, his credit in the financial
world rests on the general belief that
approximately that sum represents his
earthly possessions.
If that be true, it is to be hoped
that the speaker will give details as
to how lie got it. If it be untrue, then
let him tell exactly how much he is
worth, and of what his wealth con.
! sists, and follow Mr.. Bryan's example
in taking the people into his conf
dence.
Mr.. Cannon cannot gracefully re
fuse to do this. For he himself In
j vited the demand now made on him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
"May Be Reduced Fifty Per Cent

"May Be Reduced Fifty Per Cent"
On August %, 1907, Mr.. H. E. Miles,
chairman of the tariff committee of
the National Association of Manufac
turers, wrote to Senator Foraker q
letter in which Mr. Miles said:
about forty per cent Of all the
members of our association who have
by correspondence pronounced for re-
vision declare in their letters that
their own schedules MAY PROPERLY
BE REDUCED FIFTY PER CENT OR
MORE WITHOUT HURT TO THEIR
RESPECTIVE INDUSTRIES OR TO
THE COUNTRY AT LARGE"
How exorbitant must be this prec-
ious tariff fostered by the Republican
party when even forty per cent of its
beneEciaries, frightened by the rising
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
When Your Stomach Hurts
Take a Little Kodol
The pain will then cease-your stomach will feel
good Kodol stops the pains of Indigestion and dys-
pepsia quickly because it digests all the food you eat

strong. Do not diet or starve your.
SELF That is not the way to get
help.
Eat what you want Of the food
you like, and let Kodol help the
stomach do its work. You can't
be we'll unless you eat and unless
you enjoy your food. You can't
get nourishment from your food,
unless you digest it. Take a little
Kodol now and then. That is the
only safe and sure way.
You do not have to depend on
Kodol all the time. You only take
it when you need it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
Rheumatism Cured in Day.

DIR. Detchon's Relief for Rheuna-
tism and Neuralgia radically cures in
one to three days. Its action upon the
system is remarkable and mysterious.
1t removes at once the cause and the
disease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits. rs cents
and 81. Sold by Otto Grotjan, 1901
Second avenue, Rock Island; Gust
Schlegel & Son, 220 West Second
street, Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
A Wen Known Fac.

That not skin disease, whether from
internal or external origin, can long
Withstand the two powerful germicides,
Zemo and zemotone, they destroy the
germs that cause the disease, they al
ways cure. Write for sample. 3. w.
Rose Medical company, st. Louis. For
sale at Harper House pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
Our Guarantee

Go to your druggist today and get q dol.
lar bottle. Then after you have used the
entire contents of the bottle II you can
honestly say, that 1t has not done you any
good, return the bottle to the druggist and
he will refund your money without ques-
ton or delay. We will then pay the drug
gist for the bottle. Don't hesitate, all
druggists know that our guarantee is good.
This offer applies to the large bottle only
and to but one in a family. The large bot
tie contains 2l times as much as the fifty
cent bottle.
Kodol is prepared at the labora-
tories of E. G. Dewitt & Co., Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
THE CHINESE QUESTION.

MIR. Bryan says, keep the
Chinese out" Mr.. Taft says,
els it not the duty of members
Of Congress and of the Execu-
tive to disregard the unreason-
able demand of part of the
community deeply prejudiced
upon this subject in the far
west, and insist upon extending
justice and courtesy to a peo-
pie from whom we are deriving
and are likely to derive such i'm
mense benefit in the way of in
ternationaI trade" IN OTHER
WORDS TAFT SAYS LET THE
CHINESE IN.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13

Obituary Record.-Alice Margaret,
The 6-months-old daughter of Mr.. and
.drs. Ernest Six of 507 Eighteenth
avenue, died at the home yesterday
afternoon after an illness of two
weeks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
MOLINE

NSPt 6ao 6o9I rihSo.-l4dTS Dani-
strom of Forty-third street was fined
81 and costs yesterday by, justice H.
n. Williams for harboring vicious
dog. The complaint was filed by r. A
Etller, neighbor, and it is alleged
that the dog has bitten several people
AIR. Dahlstrom had been notified, it is
claimed to keep the dog tied, but neg
lected to do so. He has agreed to
dispose of the animal.
Former Resident Dead.-The police
department Of the city received word
from Undertaken F. f. Roberts, CSC
Wells street, Chiagoc, that he was
holding the body there of Gust Gus
tafson, who was thought to be from
Moline, as he carried a union card
from the local union No. 241 of the
carpenters and joiners. The authori-
ties have tried to find out something
about him, hut he has no relatives
here, although many of the local car
penters remember who he was. Gus
tafsOn came to Moline three years ago
end had his union card transferred
from Chicago to this town. He was
working at the Silvis shops while here
and froze his hands while at work
This necessitated the amputation of
several fingers. The only relatives
he has are left in Norway and just
where they are is not known
Get Publicity Man.-Frank Lowry,
g former Indianapolis newspaper man,
well known in the east and middle
west, recently signed contract with
| the Moline Automobile company OF
East Moline TO handle its publicity and
advertising. Mr.. Lowry has been con-
nected with the automobile game for
TWO years.
| Help Tampico Redmen.-Last even
ing nine members of King Philip tribe
of Redmen went to Tampico, HI.
| where they assisted in adopting a new
tribe at that place. VIII II. Bluedorn
great chief Of records for the reserva
ton of Illinois. and State Organizer
Colby of this state had charge of the
ceremonies.
Woman Chops Fingers Off.-Wort
comes to Moline friends of a grieyous
accident to Mrs. Laura Beckwitl
Wahlstrand, formerly of Moline ant
wife of Herman Wahlstrand, formerl!
lpatrol driver at the police station
While chopping wood at her present
home at Ashley, ~ D., Mrs. VAIL
sstrand had the misfortune to acciden
italy chop off two fingers Of her lief
lhand.
| Buys Another Piant.--In keepin:
with its recently adopted policy O
II anufacturing all the goods it sells
mot alone from its factory in Moline
bit from its various branch houses
the Moline Pillow company has addet
to it's productions line of grain drill
Through the purchase of the bushes
CT the Monitor Drill company of Min
lneapolis. Mimi, the deal having beel
consummated last week. 1t is the in
tention of the company to continue t
Icperate the plant at Minneapolis whic
will probably be enlarged and re
equipped. The company is now il
possession of superior line of drill
and seeders, besides owning tn
Mandt Wagon factory at StoughtoI
Wis. and the plants of the Henne
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13

Federal Court Convenes. - Judge
Smith Mcpherson convened the Octo
Der term of the federal court in this
city this morning at 10 o'clock. An i'm
portant matter was the petition of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
DAVENPORT

Have Greek Wedding. 1t was 3
O'Clock yesterday morning when we'd
ding festivities ceased at the home of
Gus Kagin, the Greek proprietor of
the Davenport shining pariors on
Brady street, who was married at 4
o'clock Sunday afternoon to Miss
Hariso Speropoulou of Greece. The
wedding was the greatest event in
many years in the social lives of the
Davenport Greek colony. There were
about 40 guests present at the we'd
ding, and all were Greeks except five
American women. Miss Speropoulou
arrived from Greece a few days ago
with her father, who will return in
few days. They came from the same
section of Greece from which Kagin
came five years ago. Though only IA
years old at that time, the girl was Ka-
gins sweetheart, and the young mar
has been working hard in this coun-
try to prepare a home for her. His
efforts have been more than ordinarily
successful, and the home to which Miss
Speropoulou came is all that she could
ask for. The wedding ceremony was
performed in the Greek language and
after the Greek custom by Amoroseos
Mandilares, priest from Chicago, who
was brought here to conduct the cere-
mony.
Cannot Interpret WilI.-James and
Gustav Grell, executors, have filed a
petition in the district court asking for
legal construction of the will of the
late Ernst Frederick Bauer They are
unable to determine from the wording
of the instrument whether the costs of
administration, funeral expenses and
claims should be paid from moneys left
in bank or whether a note and mort
gage, property of the testator, should
be converted into cash and the obliga-
lions paid therefrom.
o.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13

Buggy company and Freeport Car
rage company at Freeport, Ill.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-12-11

quate Government control and sun
vision OF individualA and especially
corporate, wealth engaged in int
state business is chiefly done unt
cover, and especially under cover
an appeal to States rights. 1t is
at all infrequent to read id the sar
speech g denunciation Of predatory
wealth fostered by special privilege
n defiant of both the public welfare
and law of the land, and a denuncia.
ton of Capitalization in the Central
Government of the power to deal with
this centralized and organized wealth
The proposal to make the National
Government supreme over, and there
fore to give it complete control over,
the railroads and other instruments
OF Interstate commerce is merely q
proposal to carry out to the letter
one of the prime purposes; If not the
prime purpose, for which the Consti-
tuition was founded.
Many laws are needed. There
should be regulation by the National
Government of the great interstate
corporations, including a simple
method of account keeping, publicity,
supervision of the issue of securities,
abolition of rebates and of special
privileges. There should be short
time franchises for all corporations
engaged in public business; includ-
ing the corporations which get power
from water rights. There should be
National as well as State guardian
ship of mines and forests.
There are many matters affecting
labor and the status Of the wag,
worker tr whit r'-o
yOv .
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-12-11

The ingenuity OF inventors and
manufacturers Is ever at work ii the
endeavor 10 reduce the egps 81,
production, and at the same tire io
improve the aualisy Of articles having
q large sale. This has been 50 in the
a os farm MACHINERY, clothing.
shoes, bleycles, etc. and n6w IT IS 8p
parent il the safety razor 69Id Thou
this style Of razor have been
on $3.50 to s. each and Civ
Il a~cssfactlU fsv~Saty manuIac-
tfFers have applied more scientific
principles ana Improved methods IN
their manp lure, and the result is
seen in tn Shrp shavr" razor. which
is sent POSTPAID for twenty-five cents
i'll stamps ny the Book Publishing
House sd Leonard stree, New
YorA. II Is sup .ot to any razor
SOLD. being bought largely By those
already owulue tbs hig priced
razors. Not every o05 knows that
the best results are obtained by hay
lng t9o or three razor \ alternat-
i4g them IN Use. This practice Of al
ternating possibly accounts foF the
large sale ~ this low priced TN
Element having N every section and
among ali class IS Of people.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-12-11
THE MESSAGE.

Washington, D. C.-The P~resident's
Message was read before both the
Senate and the House, following the
opening of Congress. 1t Is, in part,
as follows:
To the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives.
The financial standing Of the Ma.
ton at the present time is excellent,
and the financial management of the
Nations interests by the Government
during the last seven years has shown
the most satisfactory results. But
u currency system is imperfect, and
it is earnestly to be hoped that the
Currency Commission will be able to
propose a thoroughly good system
which will do away with the existing
defects.
The Presidents Message then
states that during the past seven years
and three months there has been a
net surplus of nearly n hundred
millions of receipts over expenditures,
a reduction of the interest bearing
debt by ninety millions, in spite OF
the extraordinary expense of the Pan
m Canal, and a saving of nearly
nine millions on the annual interest
charge. This is an exceedingly salts
factory showing, especially in view OF
the fact that during this period the
Nation has never hesitated to under
take any expenditure that it regarded
as necessary. There have been no
new taxes and no increases of taxes.
AS regards the great ornr-
y. ~~r in intorctot
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-12-11

changed far more rapidly than in the
preceding two centuries. The ina
mense growth of corporations, of
business done by associations, and the
extreme strain and pressure of mod
ern life, have produced conditions
which render the public confused as
to who its really dangerous foes are;
and among the public servants who
have not only shared this confusion,
but by some OF their acts have in.
creased it, are certain judges. Marked
inefficiency has been shown In dealing
with corporations and in re-settling
the proper attitude to be taken by the
public not only toward corporations,
but toward labor, and toward the So
cial questions arising out of the fac
tory system, and the enormous
growth of our great cities.
Real damage has been done by the
manifold and conflicting interpreted
lions of the interstate commerce law.
Control over the great corporations
doing interstate business can be eff
fective only If it is vested with full
power in an administrative depart.
ment, a branch of the Federal execu.
tive, carrying out a Federal law; it
can never be effective If a divided re-
sponsibility Is left in both the States
and the Nation; it can never be eff
fective If left in the hands of the
courts to be decided by lawsuits.
In no other nation in the world do
the courts WELD such vast and far
reaching power as in the United
States. All that is necessary is that
the courts as a whole should exercise
this power with the far sighted wis
dom already shown by those judges
who scan the future while they act in
the present. Let them exercise this
great power not only honestly and
bravely, but with wise insight into
the needs and fixed purposes of the
people, so that they may do justice,
and work equity, so that they may
protect all persons in their rights,
and yet break down the barriers Of
privilege, which is the foe of right.
The President devotes a long chap
ter to the subject of forests, declaring
that If there is one duty which more
than another we owe to our children