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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-19
CUBS HIGHEST SALARIED TEAM
AND BEST PAYING IN BASEBALL

Phadpha Pa Oct 1From information gathered at the head
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-19

Cleveland the attendance in that city early
Psburg Carkes
until Chances
he'd at n
public
players The fol-
lowing areth figures:
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-19

WE'RE ALL GOING TO BUY TAGS
SATURDAY. THE MONEY GOES TO
SUPPORT BETHANY HOME, AN IN
STITUTlON WHERE HOMELESS
CHILDREN ARE CARED FOR AND
SCHOOLED.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-19
Two Games in Tournament.

Nicholas QOO) defeated Mullane
(65) in their game in the Arcade bill.
lard tournament last evening. The
score was 100 to 40. Mullane opened
the game with run of 10, the high
run of the tournament up to date, but
after that he fell down and gradually
Nicholas drew away from him and won
out. Spencer also defeated Mullane
during the evening by score of Go to
SO, both players being rated at g.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-19
REGULARS BEATEN
High School Scrubs Reinforced
by MacManus and Taylor
Wine to 5 Game.
ARE NOT DISCOURAGED
First Team Shows Usual Form, but
Two Strong Men Are Out and
Seconds Played Great Ball.

Coach Harmon put the local high
school football team through about 4C
minutes scrimmage last night and
when the smoke of battle had cleared
away the score was TO in favor OF
the scrubs. The latter had the best
of the argument throughout and the
varsity was lucky to hold them as well
as they did. There We're two first
team men playing with the scrubs
Taylor at center and MacManus at left
half. Grove and WOodin were out of
the game, so the first team was not as
strong as usual Nevertheless they
were outplayed and a penalty when the
scrubs had the ball within a foot of
the goal was all that kept the score
down.
The results of last night do not in
dictate a falling off in the first team as
much as an improvement in the sec
ond. MacManus was back in the game
for the first time after his injury in
the Monmouth game and the way he
plowed through the first team showed
that he is himself again. Keith Doc
ley. who has been sub halfback lately,
put up a game that makes it look as
though the regular men would have to
be on the jump or they would become
the subs. Hughes gets better every
night and any lineman who outplays
him this season will certainly be a
oOoJ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-19
WISDOM

U S displayed when you come to us for
4 money. The steady growth of this
company is simply the natural outcome of
our policy. 1t is the result of confidence
on the part of the people who know the
value of our quick, quiet, polite service.
Wen loan you SIS, more if you want it,
at rates consistent with justice. MUTUAL
LOAN COMPANY, suite 411-412 Peoples
National bank building Phone West 122.
Open Wednesday and Saturday nights.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-19
Rockford's bum Dope.

In a recent issue of a Rockford pa
per the statement was -RE.2S that the
game next Saturday wcss2 be little
more than a scrimmage practice for
the Rockford team, as the local team
was only a bunch of pickups with
whom they would run away. This has
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
Expert to Head the Economy Bureau

with which to carry forward the in
quiry. The final plans were not ap-
proved by the president until he had
consulted with a large number of
business men and had received writ
ten suggestions from numerous audit
companies.
The central staff, of which Mr..
Cleveland is to be the chief. will be
composed of four men In addition to
the chief. Its function will be to keep
the president informed as to condi-
tions in the several departments. Il
might properly be called a bureau of
inspection. The economy and efl-
cheney commissions TO be organized
in each department will undertake to
ascertain If greater efficiency can be
obtained without increasing the cost
of the service.
II is explained at the White House
that the general movement does not
contemplate the dismissal OF govern.
ment clerks. but the gaining OF great.
er efficiency. The president has come
to believe that the departments work
ut cross purposes In some instances
and that IL is frequently the case that
In n particular department money Is
wasted because the service is not or.
ganized or centered as Il should be.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
Lovers Weddind Caka

-Four pounds of our of love, half a
pound of buttered youth. half a pound
of good looks. half a pound of sweet
temper, half pound of self-forgetful.
ness. half pound of powdered wits,
half an ounce OF dry humor, two table
spoonfuls of sweet argument, half a
pint OF ripping laughter. half a wine
glassful of common sense.
Then put the -four of love. good
looks and sweet temper into n well.
furnished house. Beat the butter OF
youth to a cream. Mix together blind.
ness of faults. self-forgetfuness. pow
dered wits. dry humor into sweet argu-
ment, then add them 70 the above.
Pour in gently ripping laughter and
common sense. Work II together un-
I'll all is we'll mixed. then bake gently
forever.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
Opium Invades Army at the Preside

been made To the civil authorities.
Just how general the use OF the
poppy juice has become is not esti.
mated. but Il is admitted to be more
charming than ever before In the his.
tory Of the army, Acting Commander
Col. c. Deems said that In all his
career he had never encountered such
a general addiction To the drug. and
that at worst his observation had
never disclosed higher percentage
OF opium using than two To three per
cent II was at first estimated that
forty per cent, OF the men at he
Presidio were using the drug. but this
was declared excessive. more prob.
able figure after company aud hos.
pital statistics had been compiled. be-
ing ten per cent.
Alarmed al this high percentage.
appeals were directed by Colonel
Lundeen, eommandant At the post. to
the district attorneys once and 10
the office Of the chief 81 police. With
the result that raids on opium deus
by the civil authorities are Evias
made.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
SInnle Statement of Facts

The principal farm grains-barley,
corn, oats, rye and wheat-made an
average advance in price in 1909, com
pared with 1900, of 69.7 per cent. They
are usually exported in large quanti-
ties, yet while the exports were prac-
tically reduced in 1909. other coun-
tries absorbed our surplus even at the
advanced prices, and the exports dur
ing 1909 amounted to over $4,000. 900
with additional exports Of over $780,
100000 worth of wheat flour and corn
meal.
The price level of the livestock
group, consisting of cattle, hogs and
sheep in 1909, was 261 per cent.
above the price level of 1900. This
group also furnishes a surplus for ex-
port and at the advanced prices the
exports amounted to approximately
s20,O0O,000.
This amount exported is much less
than for previous years, but the fact
that exports of products of the farm
and of the forests continue in such
large quantities indicates that the
price movement is due not to the tar
iff but to worldwide movement up
ward in the price of such commodi-
ties.
Which Is the most inspiring sight.
the parade of Coxey and Kelly armies
or the march of factory and mill
hands going to and from work?
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
THE great movement for the cor

r HE great movement for the con-
servation Of the natural resources
OF the country, at the present time
exerting salutary influences upon
every important national activity, has
embraced a new field. A safe, sane
and successful method Of conserving
and finding method of caring for our
ex-presidents is the latest idea in the
conserving line. A provision in the
constitution Of the national conserva-
tion congress is responsible for the
proposal, and serious consideration is
being given it, not by the political
dreamer or theorist, but by the great
public figures of the country.
Bernard n. Baker, retiring presi-
dent of the congress, by virtue of
clause in the constitution, becomes a
member for life of the executive COM
mittee, and will, so long as the con-
crosses are held, continue to give the
benefit of his counsel and experience
to the president.
The suggestion has been made, and
has already crystallized into an or
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
VXTAsHINGToN.-The estimates of

WTASHINGTON.- estimates of
w Postmaster General Hitchcock
for next year show that the postoffice
department promises fair to pay it's
own way. The mail service comes
nearer to the people than any other
branch of the government, for It
reaches every home as well as shops
and Offices. 1t costs a lot of money.
Mr.. Hitchcock asks for $3.50, 49,, ,943,
and the appropriation for the depart
ment always Is set forth in the ex-
penditures for each year, but the earn
ings from the malls bring back the
outlay to the treasury. This business
is not reported In the current daily
statement of the treasury which set
forth only the deficit paid. This
amounted last year to $17,000,000, and
will be $6,000000 less for the current
twelve months, while it Is predicted
that 1t will disappear in the next
fiscal year. The department gets no
pay for the vast tons of matter which
1t carries for other branches of the
government. If 1t did the offset
against the deficit would be very
large. The rent of Offices in Wash
ington and in public buildings else
where does not cover this traffic.
The work done by the postoffice Is
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
Prices Not Governed by Tariff.

An official bulletin issued by the
bureau of statistics at Washington
shows an unmistakable tendency
downward in the price of certain COM
modities included among necessaries
of life. What Is particularly notice
able in this exhibit is the decrease in
rates for imported articles. The bull
letin says: "a study of prices quoted
by the bureau of satisfies shows for
the latest available date a definitely
marked downward movement in re-
cent months" OF the articles affected
there are mentioned wool, wool car,
peting. boards, copper pigs and ingots
rubber, Manila hemp and a whole lot
of other things which come from
abroad On the other hand, the same
trend is indicated as regards numer-
Gus domestic products, among which
may be mentioned various grains,
flour, copper in different shapes, cot
ton cloths, steel billets, rails and
other shapes, and so on. OF course
many causes contribute to the fiuctu.
ations in prices which are reported In
this country and elsewhere. But the
direct and very pointed significance
of the official report from the bureau
of statistics is that it refutes most
emphatically the contention that
prices are governed by our tariff and
that recent advances were due to the
present law. And, further, the facts
place the ay-it-all-to-the-tariff growl
ers in dilemma from which there is
no escape except by frank confession
that they have been wrong. IT, as
they have asserted, the tariff sent
prices up, must they not, to be con.
sistent, admit that the tariff, which is
still the same, has brought prices
down? What is the logic of their
anyway?
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
Good Object Lesson.

The motto emblazoned on the great
seal OF one Of our states IL; III you
seek a beautiful peninsula. look
around YOU" This motto might be
paraphased AS motto for the whole
country. IL you seek prosperous
aud happy people, look around you. 3"
The wan and wasted and hungry men
and women aud children that We used
70 see In the last Democratic days
are not In evidence now The work.
Ing mans wife and babies are not nov
begging for bread.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

NTHAT Is considered a real step to-
w ward greater economy and more
efficiency In the management of the
governments business was taken
when President Taft appointed Dr.
Frederick A. Cleveland. director of
the bureau of municipal research in
New York city. as the head OF cen
tral staff that will work on the econ
omy and efficiency problem under the
direction of the president. Announce
ment was also made that each of the
cabinet officers will organize In his
department n committee or commits
sion to be known as an economy and
efficiency organization.
These steps were taken under the
law passed at the last session of con-
gress directing the president TO con.
duct an investigation into the bust.
ness methods Of the several executive
departments. and giving him 100000
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
Has Plan to Care for Ex-Presidents

ganized sentiment, to adopt the same
United States, make him, for life, an
advisory member of the presidents
cabinet and give him a competence
sufficient to make him independent.
Speaking of this proposal, Mr.. Baker
said that 1t was really surprising how
thought that this method furnished
the solution of the perpetual perplex-
ing question as to what disposition to
make of our ex-presidents.
"On its face the proposition is GER
tainly a plaua!ble one. 1t stands to
reason that after man has been
president for four or eight years he
knows the problems and difficulties
which confront the man at the helm
of the ship of state better than does
his successor. If the ex-presidents
could be made advisory members of
the cabinet of the president, the lat
ter would get the benefit Of the ad-
vice of the former. No matter If
there should be a change in the ad-
ministration, this would make no diff
ference to broad-minded men.
"Of course, there would have to be
legislation providing that when a man
is elected to the presidency his sue
cession to the cabinet position neces-
sarily follows. All this is not mere
theory 1t is indorsed by some of the
political thinkers of the country"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
Hence the Name.

In the service of a Baltimore fam.
lily is an old negro cook known as
Aunt Sally, and not the least of her
achievement is the preparation of sea
food.
In the kitchen one day Aunt Sallyl
nephew, a nine-year-old lad from a
point where crabs are seldom seen,
was watching in breathless interest
the old lady's deviling of a dish of
such crustaceans.
"Aunty." said he, after much refieo
ton upon this mysterious point, does
debbil crabs come from de debbil?"
mo, chile" promptly responded
Aunt Sally; but dey is de debbil to
make"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

THE war department is advised that
! opium. the insidious enemy OF the
armies Of the world. has invaded the
ranks Of tho United States troops sta
toned at the Preside. near san Fran
cisco. to such an extent that a strong
campaign. In which are Involved more
than $500 men. has been launched IN
an EFFORT To crush II out
The officers admit the seriousness
Of the situation. and declare Il to be
the grayest problem they have been
called upon TO settle Drastic meas.
ures are nov being taken to rescue
those OF the troops who have fallen
victims 10 the subtle opiato with
all the energies of the department of
war bant 10 tho battle. All appeal hag
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
Question for Workinqman.

The Democrats compare prices now
with prices in 1896, and tell laborers
that we ought to get back TO the old
conditions. How does that strike
any laboring man who lived through
the four awful years OF Democratic
rule from 1893 TO 1897? It didn't mat
ter how low prices were then-mil-
lions of men were working on part
time and low wages or not working at
all and their families were hungry.
Thcy couldn't get the money TO buy
even the necessaries OF life.
VIM. Mckinley said: Cheap and
nasty go togethe. !"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
FACTS ABOUT FREE TRADE
Read and Consider Which Policy Is
Best for the Interests of the
Country.

Here and there a Democratic can
didate takes courage from the seem
ing drift toward his party and an
nounces that he Is for free trade-not
for tariff reform, but for no tariff,
except possibly, for revenue only.
Such tariff doctrine gets far, indeed,
from the faults and shortcomings of
the Payne-Aldrich law, grievous and
numerous as they are, in spite of its
betterment of the statute it replaced
and its promise of further improve
ment under orderly and scientific in
yestigation and amendment. But when
the issue becomes free trade, it is
time to look certain vital facts square
ly in the face
Wage-earners migrate from free
trade countries into protective tariff
countries. They never go in the op-
posite direction. They know where
they are best off. They migrate from
England to the United States, to Can
ada, to Australia-all under protec-
tive tariffs. Belgium has near free
trade. Belgian workmen go to
France, where there Is protection.
Germany is making strenuous strides
under protection, and Germany, al
ready with an immense population,
draws wage-earners from many ad-
jacent and nearby countries.
These fundamental facts cry out
against the folly of the free traders
Cleveland Leader.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
Eplurammatic and SlllY.


The college president who has
dropped into politics and is trying to
be elected governor of New Jersey
keeps right on saying foolish things
about the tariff. One of his latest alb.
surdities is this:
Trade does not rise and fall with
the tariff, but the bank accounts OF
some producers do"
Herein we may see how easy it is
to be epigrammatic and silly at one
and the same time. Fourteen years
ago. in the third year OF free-trade
tariff, trade had fallen far below the
normal. Trade had fallen with the
tariff. Inside of eighteen months, or
within less than year after the elec.
tion of Mckinley as president and the
prompt revision of the tariff in the
Dingley law, trade had gotten back to
the normal and was increasing by
leaps and bounds. BY 1900 bank
clearings had nearly doubled, imports
had increased so per cent, because
our people had more to buy with, ex.
ports had increased far more than i'm.
ports, and the country was on the top
wave OF prosperity. Trade had risen
when the tariff rose. DR. Wood
row Wilson simply displays his ig
norance Of practical business affairs
when he asserts that there is no rela.
tion between trade and tariff. Every
civilized nation in the world. save one,
holds a contrary view-that protection
to home labor and industry does stim.
ulate trade and make prosperity.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24
NOT DUE TO TARIFF
FACTS IN REGARD TO ADVANCE
IN PRICES.
For Political Ends, Democrats Have
Fostered Msconception in This
Regard-The Truth as Shown
by Government Statistics.

The tariff seems to have been no
material factor in causing the ad-
vance in prices during the past dec
ade The greatest advances have been
made in commodities upon which the
tariff has little or no effect, and the
absolute removal of the tariff on many
of these commodities could not have
afforded relief at the present time,
for the reason that prices of these
commodities, with few exceptions,
were as high or higher in other coun-
tries than in the United States
The advance in prices during the
past ten years appears to have no re-
lation to tariff legislation. Beginning
with January, 1900, wholesale prices
in general declined slightly, and the
decline continued through July, 1901
Beginning with August. 1901, prices
advanced very slowly through March,
1903, and then remained steady
through May, 1906. Beginning with
June, 1905, there was a marked in
crease through October, 1907. Begin
ming with November, 1907, prices be-
gan to decline and the decline con-
tinued through August, 1905 Begin
ming with September, 1908, prices
steadily advanced until the highest
point during the ten years was
reached in March, 1910.
The advance in 1909 as compared
with 1900 by groups of articles, was
as follows:
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

a marvel of cheapness. In volume
and in extent of territory covered
there is nothing to be compared with
1t. The reduction in rates since the
days when 25 cents was charged for
a letter from New York to Columbus,
o., does not cease to be wonder.
The system which for two cents de-
livers a message in writing weighing
an ounce from Maine to San Fran
cisco not only but to the Philippines,
or from the southern point of Florida
TO the northern extremity of Alaska,
is a model of efficiency at the mini
mum of cost. When we consider also
the burden of mails oversee to Ger
tain countries where the foreign rates
are the same with our domestic
charge, the challenge is bold that the
world presents no parallel to the
economy and to the achievement.
Europe is compact in population
with distances measured by hundreds
of miles only This is especially true
Of Great Britain. There penny post
age is proclaimed as a triumph and
an example. Americans forget that
the British penny is the equal in cur
rent value of two cents of our money.
The cent is often called penny, but
it is only half a penny, and thus the
term is a misnomer. Our postal rates
on letters are now just those of Great
Britain. Penny postage has long pre-
vailed here as we'll as there That
with free rural delivery and with
transmission over the continent and
to the islands, the earnings are to
cover the expenses, may we'll crafty
officials and citizens.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

The presidents final decision about
Panama shows his great interest I'm
the canal And the interest n lusti
fed The tarih should soon be out
of the way for awhile. and the trusts
aud the railroads may give further
trouble, but cannot master MS. The
canal We shall have with us for a.
least Ave years In a completing form
and then IN a completed form for
let us hope. as long as We remain
pulssant factor In the worlds af
fairs.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

when IL a hen not a birdY" sounds
like n prize puzzle or a funny game.
but it Is serious question With which
one of the Washington courts viii be
called on to solve OF course the Law
Is always a dignihed institution. bui
10 see is learned opponents strus
Eling with the aviation limitations q,
the great American hen Is something
a. tickle the liabilities OF tho nation.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

II the humble janltor. whom nat
dweliers would regulate with law and
order. ever asserts his prerogative
some cold winter morning, the fat
dweiier may be beseeching Instead OF
demanding
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

About the only creature capable of
tndulging in hobble skirts, aviation
and football without danger of frac-
turing something is the justly famous
boneless Goldfish.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

The astronomers have now formed
a star trust. This is no doubt a re-
suit Of the ruinous competition at the
time o. the visit Of the late Mr. Hal
ley's ghostlike luminosity.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

They are telling of romance which
began in an aeroplane. Still. that is
as poor place for tender glanees and
gentle pressures of hands as a canoe,
which is no place at all
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

The men who are safely married
should be thankful they have had
kheir travail and are through with IT,
Fashion decrees that hsreafter a man
must propose on his inees