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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
Whence Does the Money Come?

The standpatters, Taft, Cannon,
Aldrich, Wickersham, ct al, are boast
ing of the largely increased revenue
produced by the Payne-Aldrich robber
tariff. Mr.. Taft calls it ''the best that
ever was,'' because it is bringing the
sheckles into the federal treasury
Uncle Joe' shakes his fist under the
noses of the insurgents and defies
them to turn him out of office in the
face of the prosperity the country
is grooming under as a result of the
operation of his nenchmen's handi-
work on the robber tariff. Wicker
sham and the smaller fry of special
interests boosters join in the jubila-
ton over the increased revenues
which they attribute to the robber
tariff.
But there is one thing lacking in the
speeches of these standpatters. They
neither explain nor attempt to explain
where the money that is flowing into
the federal treasury comes from. If
the robber tariffs producing the in
creased flow of gold, whom does it get
the money from, and how?
1t can come from no where else but
from the pockets of the consumers of
the articles on which the customs
duties are paid. And who are they?
They are the people of the United
States; the people of Illinois, of Rock
Island county, of Rock Island, of every
town, city and county in the land.
They pay it over the counters of the
dealers who sell the articles. the deal
ers sharing the payment by decreased
profits. The increased cost of every
article consumed in the households of
the land is a tribute exacted by the
robber tariff, and it goes into the fed
eral treasury to be used to meet the
extravagant appropriations of billion
dollar congresses.
Is this a matter to boast of? VIII
the people who pay the money that
produces the increased revenue feel
grateful that this additional tribute is
being exacted from them? Hardly
1t would be better far II instead of
increasing the taxes of the people to
produce larger federal revenue. the
congress had abandoned its extrava-
giant policies and reduced its appropri-
ations of the peoples money to an
economical basis
Instead of boasting of the increased
revenues from a robber tariff, those
who are responsible for it should hide
their heads in shame at this disclosure
of their per1dy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
Press and Baseball.

No one business gets so much gratis
advertisement as baseball. The news
papers have done much to make the
game what it is. Yet some owners
and managers fail to comprehend or to
appreciate this fact. Some of the
sport writer's are aroused to dis
cussion of this subject because of re-
cent orders promulgated in the Ma
tiona1 league to keep staff photograph,
erB OF the field A Chicago Tribune
sport writer aptly says eff the news
papers should all discontinue printing
pictures of ball players and stories of
games their calculations would not be
affected seriously, but a strong stimu-
liant to the public's interest in baseball
would be withdrawn and would be felt
at the gates. There have been IN
stances were club owners have be
grudged baseball reporters the space
they are compelled by their occupa-
ton to occupy, because each seat might
be sold for one meg or possibly more.
Put the club owner could not Duy
with the revenue from 10 times the
space occupied by the press box at
any ball park one-hundredth part of
the gratis, revenue producing adver-
Using which is written by the working
occupants of the deadhead seats. It is
well to remind baseball men occasion
ally of what the game owes the pub
licity it could not possibly get in any
other way than gratis"
Perhaps in reference to press and
baseball which the above writer dis
: cusses it is the same old proposition
that "the more you do for some people
the less they appreciate it
Newspapers in the United States to-
day are giving baseball and publicity
of the game more space than any
other one news feature. If there is
any criticism to be made of the papers.
IL must be that they are devoting too
much space.
To have it not appreciated by those
most directly benefited as indicated
in the above quotation from the Tri-
bune, is indeed remarkable.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
KicIkers ard knockers.

Spare Moments: The kicker is
often said to be disturber,
and we often hear the term ap-
piled to aggressive men as though
to be a kicker were sin. Some men
are kickers by nature. They are al
ways seeing things not to their liking.
They let the fact be known, soon at
tention is drawn, discussion begins
and continues, and in the end ad-
yanced ground is taken and something
is accomplished.
Time was. when his surroundings
became irksome or distasteful to him
the kicker went west where he found
ample opportunity for the display of
his restless energies in the strenuous
enployments incidents to the settle
ment of that new country. Now that
the country is settled and emigration
less active he stays at home and
directs his energies into other chan
nels. The pioneer spirit today finds
expression in business, invention and
reform.
1t is the knocker, not the kicker,
who is the mischief maker. He is
neither progressive nor reactionary,
radical nor conservative. Indeed,
principle does not seem to enter into
his acts. He shifts as his interest OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

fancy dictates. He Is always critical.
He lives In dfsapproval and will die in
opposition. 1t Is the knocker. not the
kicker, who stands in the way of so
cial order and true progress. For in
stance, 1t was the knocker who gave
aid and comfort to King Georges sol
diers while Washingtons freezing and
starving army of kickers suffered at
Valley Forge. It was the knocker who
said Columbus was crazy and invited
him to go hang with his newfangled
notions.
The kicker in business adopts new
ideas and tries new methods. The
knocl1er assumes a superior knowl-
edge and says the new way will fall.
The kicker In politics tries to be de-
cent, has no use for the corruptionist
and tries to put out of business the
bride taker and the bribe giVer. The
knocker says, You can't change human
nature, leave things alone" The
kicker in society encourages discus
sion Of public questions and works for
every needed Improvement. The
knocker says, THE cost is too great;
the game is not worth the candle"
There will always be both kickers
and knockers and always they will
be arrayed on opposite sides. AS op-
position is necessary to true progress,
knockers, perhaps, have their legiti-
mate use. So long as there are differ
ences of opinion between men society
will advance. 1t is only when these
differences are absent that we have
need to fear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
catarrh Cannot Be CURED

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is not Quack medicine. 1t was pre-
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in this country for years and Is q
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Serd for testimonials free.
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Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, price Use.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
The Argus Daily Short Story
The Last of the Batch.-By Harriet L. Geddis
Copyrighted Literary PresA

hadn't seen Il decent woman in years
some of 'em--and they wasn't used to
such beauty. 1t was like angels comm
down from heaven. The men was re-
spectful, you bet. There's no place
where a good woman is so reverenced
as where she's 81 rarity. A way was
opened from the coach to the tavern,
and the gals went inside, but there
was SIGH a howl for 'em that they
come out on TO a balcony and stood
there, while the men at an order from
Huggins, the old Teller who had spoken
to EN- a short time before. took OF
their hats. The gals looked kind of
funny, as If not KNOWN what to make
of the reception.
eff the manager had sent for
enough gals to go round in the first
place there wouldn't likely have been
any trouble. Asst was, several of the
most desperate men each saw among
the lot gal he wanted, and some OF
'em wanted the same gal The gals
hadn't more'n gone back into the tav-
ern before there was half a dozen
fights. Higgins he goes of to the
manager, and he says:
"'Mr. Parkhurst, I'm afraid there's
a-goin' to be commotion in this yere
camp. Why didn't you send for enough
for a feed?'
"'Wbat do you suggest. Higgins?
1.-The most natural way. the way
the men would take TO easiest, would
be to rattle EN-
Mr.. Parkhurst looked glum. You
forget, Higgins, he said, that wo-
man has the right to marry whom she
chooses. To rattle them would be to
give them away without their consent.
That wouldn't do at all
well, Mr. Parkhurst, all I've got
to say is that if something isn't done,
and that pretty quick. there won't be
enough men left to furnish husbands
for this lot of gals
I'm afraid weTl have to send the
women back, said Mr. Parkhurst.
"I reckon said Higgins. scratch
In his head. we moght git the men to
draw lots for a Chance to git some
one on EN-
"'That's a good idea; try it.
'Huggins went away and called
mass meetin' of the suitors. He told
Llem tudI Il QOLGn LuGn OS CAO-
sen by lot to offer themselves each to
a girl. If a man failed to find any
one of the girls he wanted and who
wanted him that left girl for
a second DRAWN of chances. Many
of those present would rather have
fought for their chance; but, recogniz-
in the deiicacy OF the situation and
the plan bein' the nearest that could
be suggested to n raff1e, 1t was unani-
mously approved. Blanks and ten
prize slips were placed in a hat and
ten men were selected. Every one
of the lucky ten was ordered to black
his boots. take his trousers out of
them, wear a coat if he had one and
report at the tavern that eVenin' for
introduction by Miss Bowers.
1.-THE next mornin' Mr.. Parkhurst
called for Higgins.
"'WelI. Higgins he said when the
old man appeared, how did it turn
out last night?
"'At, the counting Tolable. sir.
tol'able. Three men proposed to gals
as tux 'em. four men was too or'nary
to go down with any of the gals. two
men wanted the same gal and was
killed in a shootin' match afterwards.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

I'm the early days Of the Colorado
mimi camps said the old prospect
or, zone of the best payin' holes In
the groun' before it ran out was the
Last Hope mine. Its name was given
it by the man who struck ii. who was
much down at the heels at the time
and fully intended that If it didn't re-
lieve his necessities he would hang
himself TO the limb of a tree that ex-
tended directly over it. He sold his
claim for 100000 to a company and
retires first off from this here story.
The president of the Last Hope
lived in the east and sent out a man.
ager from that region. Mr.. Parkhurst,
superintendent of a Sunday school
Naturally he didn't like the appear
ance of a Colorado mimi camp The
cussin' that was going on was Just
like fireworks. The saloons did bet
ter business than the store. When
ever the wind riz the playin' cards
filed the air like snowstorm. AS for
Sunday. there was no work on that
day, but instead of services there was
gamb1in'. There was a few women
In the camp. but they was worse'n the
men.
"Mr. Parkhurst looked the ground
over and sized up the situation. What
that camp needed was wives. He ar
gied that men without the restrainin'
influence of women would naturally
turn into wild animals, and he resolv-
ed to send for some gals. He called
the miners together and told 'em that
If they would turn out the women
there was in camp he would send for
carload of real good. true members
Of the female sex to be helpmeets for
'em. The miners agreed, and Mr..
Parkhurst wrote Miss Amelia Bowers,
who had succeeded him as head of his
Sunday school, to come out with
dozen of the best behaved and best
lookin' young women she could pick
up. Her influence was far more need
ed In the west than where she was.
Husbands would be provided.
Miss Bowers, middle aged. con-
SNACAIASOo tAdL IL
was her duty to accept the situation
and proceeded to collect dozen young
women who would rather get married
than work. She also Shipped several
hundred Bibles and hymn books. The
company paid all expenses and give
each gal a hundred dollars to sit up
housekeepin' with.
1.-THE day Miss Bowers arrived with
them twelve gals was a .screamer. Not
man would work, and every one of
'em went to the tavern where the
coach was to unload. While they was
waitin' Ben Higgins, an old feller
who was a leader among 'em, made
'em speech remindin' 'em that they
mustn't be in too much of hurry to
wed and that gals liked to be court
ed. There wasn't enough gals to go
round by any means, but any f1ghtin
for 'em would spoil the whole bust
ness. If the men behaved right an
other lot would be provided; If they
didn't those who had come would go
back.
When the coach drove up to-the
tavern door there was yell. Some of
the gals was on top, and they was
mighty good lookin'. Them miners
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
Hunnor and
Philosophy
UNREALIZED.
1y DUNcAN ~. .SHfITH

WHEN was young and full OF hop
w And life was warm and new
/ used TO sit around and think
or things that would do
When 4 had grown to mans estate
And was unhampered quite
BY notions that my parents had
OF what was wrong or right
wanted 10 go forth and chase
The red man up the trail.
Make for myself a name TO cause
The savage heart TO quail,
And when the last lone Indian
Had by my gun been slain
I wanted for excitement then
To rob a railway train
A pirate on the Spanish main
Was just about my size.
To capture gold and now and then
A maiden as a prize,
And when a bloody war broke out =,
/ would be there at hand.
And natural IL then would seem
For me to take command.
oh. those were bloody days indeed
When / was young and bold.
A trusty weapon in my hand
That never did get cold!
But. having grown TO mans estate.
I've lost my taste for gore.
And my excitement now consists
In loafing round the store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
April 10 in American
History

1T21-Roger Sherman, ''signer'' foa
Connecticut, born; died 1893.
1775-Beginning of American Revolu
ton; battles at Lexington and Con.
cord. Mass.
1S13-Benjamin Rush, "signer'' for
Pennsylvania. died; born 1745.
1S61-Baltimore rioters attacked the
Sixth ssachusetts volunteers
marching to the defense of Wash
ingtoD.
1S9S-Cuban intervention resolution
passed congress; ultimatum to
Spain.
19O6-Fires continued in San Francis.
co; many buildings dynamited
The regular army assumed control
of the city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

A correspondent OF the Chicago Tri-
bune writes and asks: Might we not
perhaps have a little less Roosevelt
served Up to US every morning. The
former president is trying to avoid
monotony by giving as much variety
as possible, but it all savors decidedly
of the much ado about nothing"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
Worse Than Bullets,

Bullets have often caused less suf-
fering to soldiers than the eczema.
L. w. Hartman, Burlington, Me-,
got in the army and suffered with
40 years. But Bucklen's Arnica
Salve cured me when all else fail
ed" he writes. Greatest healer for
sores, ulcers, boils, burns, cuts,
wounds, bruises and piles. Twenty
FIVE cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

That suffragette who declared that
10 years hence it Will be as great a
disgrace to be the mother of nine chill
dren or more as it Is today to be a
drunkard, probably is guarding against
having grandchildren who will be
ashamed of her, by not having any
grandchildren.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

Is Rock Island going to lose in the
proper census showing again because
there Is no one to see that the enum-
orators get the cooperation they need?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

II the South Americans grew them,
they might have made Mr.. Bryan hap
pier by putting an elephant in his bag.
He has been cunning the species a
long time without success.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

Senators Aldrich and Hale are to
retire at the end of their present
terms Is it not possible that they may
be prevailed upon to remain-in the
service OF their country
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

Liked to See Him In Character.
81 am n regular rolling stone"
"Are your"
"You bet" ~
"Well. roll along, then"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
Curious.

Curious.
''You have insulted me?'
What are you going TO do about
it?"
81 shall scorn you"
Heavens! wonder what you
would do If were to take a punch as
your
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
Explained.

Explained.
''Why is the hole in the doughnutT"
That's easy"
sit tsp
"Sure!"
swell. elucidate."
"For the protection OF the consumes.
There won't be any indigestion where
the hole is"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
What Il ResembIed.

81 can't make out this letter"
1T begins by saying. 4 take my
pen in hand"
: Look again and see If she didn't say
she took her shoe brush"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
Employed.

Employed.
"Why don't you do something. boyT'
81 am busy all the time"
"You busy all the timer
"Yes"
"Doing whatl"
Running up bills"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
A uauaI.

"Gossiping is a vicious habit"
isn't It? despise it myself"
$50 do l."
"By the way"
"WhatT
"Have you heard what they are al
saying about BrownT
Brown? Mercy me! MOL What n
it,"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
EoiIed.

''What are you going to do when
you see him"
II am going to kill him"
"Have you a permitT'
81 hadn't thought OF that"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
Do not let the census
man pass you by.

One way to boost the town is to see
that every man, woman and child is
counted In the census.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
Helpful Hint.

Helpful Hint.
at don't want any truck with him."
said the fair young creature.
mo truck with himY'
mo truck with him"
81 see. He might as well prepare TO
haul his hopes out on a truck"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
Your tongue is coated.

TOUT UItdLu ID IOuI.
Headaches come and go.
These symptoms show that your
stomach is the trouble. To remove
the cause is the first thing and Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
will do that. Easy to take and most
effective. IA by all druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

1t must be admitted that Teddy is
about the best advertisement the coun-
try could have sent abroad.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19
WARNS The PARTY
Gen. Garrison, Retiring from
Post as Surveyor of New
York, Talks.
REPUBLICANS IN DANGER
Quits In Order to Be Free to Speak
His Mind About Things He
Does Not Like.

New York, April 19-In retiring
yesterday from the post of surveyor
of the port which he has held for eight
years, General James S. Clarkson is
sued a statement that contained both
a warning and an injunction to the re-
publican party. The general fatty re-
fused to continue to hold office on the
ground that the time had come in the
republican party when he could not
bear being hampered of speech by a
political job.
Much to Talk About.
'1 believe" declares the retiring sur
veyor, that the coming three years
hold more opportunity for political dis
cussion than has been offered for a
generation past, and l have not yet
reached that stage when an inactive
view of life appeals to me.
I'm respect to the political philoso-
ply of the present day l may be per
mitted tosmake a comment on politics,
nationally considered. Formerly we
republicans made our campaign by
straight-from-the-sh politics, by
actually and honestly gaining for the
party a majority of the votes in the
nation.
Needed Little Money.
I'VE then had little money on which
to make a national canvass. In the
Blaine campaign, for example, when l
was a member of the executive COM
mittee of the national committee, we
had less than 100000 half of which
was contributed by Mr.. Blaine him
self, from the proceeds Of the sale of
his book, Twenty Years in Congress,
with which to carry on one of the Bit
terest fights in American political
strategy, as against the millions used
in recent years. Lately national cam
paigns seem to have been made large
ly on funds swollen beyond necessity,
and perhaps beyond strict ethical re-
quirements and on the plumbers of the
democratic party.
Hints at Party Defeat.
''The democratic party, by the way,
does not seem TO be enjoying it's lone
illness of the past generation with re-
gard to political influence and pros
poets. The republican party is, in my
opinion, in a more critical condition
than at any time in its history. What
1t needs to do now is to retrieve its
mistakes of recent years, and not to
enter into explanations.
aside from the solution of economic
questions our party must, to maintain
its existence, reassert, redeem and
carry out its pledges on certain lines
bearing inevitably upon human rights.
Must Show No FavOrs.
THE only way in which the republi-
can party can hold it's own is to put
it's house in order without fear or IA
vor all along the line, no longer con-
fning itself to issues largely sordid
and mercenary, and thus relieve itself
from its present position of self-de-
tense, the most humiliating passage in
the destiny of political party
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

Diarrhoea should be cured without
loss of time and by medicine which
like Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy not only
cures promptly but produces no I'M
pleasant after effects. 1t never fails
and is pleasant and safe to take. Sold
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

CONTINUED from Page One.)
ing into such manufacture, or manu-
facturers of iron and steel and the
various products of iron and steel, and
would be benefited in a general way
at least through the passage OF the
ship subsidy bill.
Yet Harvey d. Goulder, the former
president of the Merchant Marine
league, who himself is interested In
the ownership of four or five ore car
rying fleets, declared while a witness
that up until the time he entered the
committee room it had not occurred to
him in the remotest degree that he
might be directly benefited through
the passage of the s5,O0O,00O ship sub
sidy bill.
One Real Patriot.
John A Penton, secretary of the
league and leader of the ship sub
sidists, appears from his testimony to
be the most patriotic Of all the phi
lanthropists. He testified that he
could not in any possible way profit
through the passage of a ship subsidy
bill, and he declared that he had lost
9oV,VOU tnIS year dS result OF neglect
of his business.
Mr.. Penton admitted writing an ar
ticle printed In the American Flag,
magazine issued by the league, in
which Representative Halvor Steiner
son was bitterly attacked because of
his opposition to ship subsidy. He
stated there had been a meeting of the
officers of the league and it had been
decided to make an example of Mr.
Steenerson. This testimony practic-
ally substantiates the charge made by
Mr.. STEVENSON that the Merchant Ma
rine league has attempted to '1ntimi-
date, terrify and influence" him into
abandoning his opposition to ship SUBJ
sidy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-19

A self satisfied man is a great dis
couragement TO other persons who may
have deep and dark designs on him.