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Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
Totals .....445S.OoO s.OS6.221

How is the growth OF partisan so
cialism to be stopped? The Catholic
church, which has given much thought
10 this problem, answers with the
Christian Social union dedicated 20
the service of the men oppressed ana
resolved to secure such political and
economic reforms as are necessary TO
secure s square deal 10 him and equal
opportunity IL yields nothing to
the socialists in the intensity Of its
zeal in the service OF the common
man. Taking its position on the 90
vious truth that poverty is cause of
sin and desperation, IL proclaims hos
tiity 10 poverty anl all thet
makes for it TO the end that sin and
desperation shall be reduced to a mini
mum. We offer you" il says to
Catholics. means of obtaining all that
you hope 10 secure through socialism.
We recognize your needs, we are in
sympathy with your wants The
'church seeks 10 make itself a part OF
.yoursFife If you will permit il TO do
'so." Thus the effort is To bring re-
Higion. down from the realms of the alb
'stract 10 the plane OF the concrete and
make It force IN the lives and aspir-
sations Of its members.
This is q means by-which socialism
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

There IL in government some flaws.
You find odd iokers in the laws
The rich have things too much their ways
The poor man does not have his say.
Stern justice does not get the crook
Nor bring the criminal 20 book.
Though plentiful are wrong and crime,
Wen work things out Just give us time
There isn't any use 20 rise
And throw blue lightning at the skies
And try to rip things up the back
And every head IN sight to crack.
Because that will not help lot
40 s.raighten out the tangled plot.
No; this great work we must commence
With patience and a lot of sense.
The man who slashes left and right,
Rolls UP his sleeves and wants 20 hght
May fora time attract the crowd
BY his vituperation loud
And quite following may get
To find the mark that he has set.
But when his noise dies on the air
II viii not get them anywhere
The willing workers who will bend
Our system toward a better end
Are not the ones, as / have said,
Who make q noise to wake the dead
1t Is the patient little band
Who wrestIs with the things at hAnd
Cut OF some red and useless tape.
Who'll knock this old world into shape.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
A Man for a. That,

The snob, the fop, the cad, the
mucker. all came in for asssir snsrs Of
denunciation by direct attack and in
nuendo in the address OF President
Taft delivered at the Jewish temple IN
New York last week. Some Of the
most exclusive and Best Of Washing
ton clubs have seen 1T to use the
blackban on men Of worth and promi-
nence. high in the councils OF business
and state, for no other reason but thai
the radical characteristics or religious
beliefs Of the applicant did not 40
cord with those Of the majority OF the
club. The president sounded a note
Of democracy, made an appeal to the
nation as well as 10 the clubs which
mopolitan nature OF American citizen
ship and not TO allow narrowness and
rancor and prejudice to enter Ameri-
can life or institutions.
'T have had it happen to friends
Of mine-gentiles- have been
kept out of clubs by people who are
not worthy TO button up their shoes,
and who have no standing save in
clubs said the president.
1T is aggravating, agree, but 4
man is what he is by reason OF his
respect for himself, and If he knows
that some one who affects TO snuh
him and look down upon him is not
worthy-if he knows that that person
is not his equal and he cultivates any
of the philosophy that he ought TO call
to his aid-he will have the advantage
over his small-brained and narrow
minded critic always"
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
Growth of Socialism.

ia years the number of socialists
has increased nearly 100 per cent.
The claim is made in the national
headquarters of socialists at Chicago
tina there are 100000 men voting the
pCzty ticket In this country. In all the
,wo.Nd the membership is said to be
30,0d1,o00. In the several parliaments
the socialists have 900 members and
there Aare 9.400isocialists serving citv
councils.
This %'able shows the growth in this
country tand abnoadi during the last ! /
wears
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
ARAB CAVALRY MOUNTS
The War Department May Give Them
Trial.


Trial.
IN It's anxiety to develop better cav
airy mounts for the army the war de-
partment is considering giving a trial
TO Arabs. General Leonard Wood,
chief of the general staff, is negotiat-
ing with Spencer Borden of Fan River,
Mass. a breeder of Arabs.
At the present time the American
cavalry is far behind the cavalry Of
the European armies In the matter OF
mounts. England, Germany and
France have long paid close attention
to the breeding Of cavalry horses, and
especially mounts for officers, with the
result that their horses have reached
practically perfection for the work
asked Of them.
When the order came for the troops
TO go TO the Texas border General
Wood had 10 so into the market and
purchase at high prices horses for
many OF the officers ordered to the
maneuvers. The horse dealers Of vir-
ginia and Maryland reaped p harvest
as a result. II one Virginia town ST.
600 worth of hunters were sold at
prices ranging from 500 to $1,000
each.
The army stud farm already has a
good start with q couple OF racing stall
lions presented TO the government by
August Belmont. but General Wood is
anxious to see If an intermingling Of
the American thoroughbred with the
Arab may not produce a good standard
cavalry horse.
The ideal Of the American army Of
fcers is the type of cavalry horse used
by English officers. This type is close
TO the thoroughbred English hunter,
which has no exact parallel in this
country. 1t is bigger stronger horse
than the racing type and much harder
in every way
To supply the army with such horses
by purchase would mean an enormous
outlay. The animals would have to
be purchased from the country at a
minimum price of about $500.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

classed as Democrat until he went to
the postoff1ce department to ask about
certain patronage Then he was told
he was a Democrat, 1t is related, and
that he had been SO listed In about
5000 Congressional Directories that
had been put out
His very next call was on the print
ing committee Of congress. Several
committeeman tried to effect a COM
promise. IT is reported, SO that PRO
gressive" would be omitted and RE
publican" stand. But DR.. Akin aaid
no. Somebody had called him a DEM
ocrat and It had TO be taken back. So
these directories were recalled as far
as possible. and there was a new print
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
Hurnor and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
~ OVNcAN ~. ..snfIrH

THE trouble is that the person who
doesn't amount to much Is a lot
more ubiquitous than the person who
does.
There is never anything the matter
with the right thing in the right place
Economy is a thing you do now In
order that you may not have to dc
something worse some other time.
Marriage is a condition with SONS
people and a habit with others.
You can tell just by looking at some
people that their guardian angels are
having q hard time
The reason that so few persons get
rich quick Is because there are many
that have the same fever.
The man who Is always going 30 re-
form never lives long enough to catch
up with the motive power that reforms
him.
The man who has food for n0dSc-
tion seldom has the stomach for L.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
AKIN NO DEMOCRAT.

Congress Directory Late Because He
Was Not Properly Listed.
The delayed publication of the Con-
gressionaI Directory for the extra ses-
sion of congress was caused by the
fact that the editor had trouble in list
ing the political faith Of DR.. Theron
Akin. representative from the Twenty
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
May "A in American
History

IToo-Stephen Girard, eccentric mil
lionaire and philanthropist. found
er of Girard college, born; died
1881.
17e5-Silas Wright, governor OF New
York and United States senator.
born; died 1S47.
1So1-Colonel e. e. Ellsworth OF New
York Zouaves shot by southern
sympathizer.
1S95-Hon. Hugh McCulloch. secretary
Of the United States treasury from
1855 to 1869, died; born 1903.
A lie is a poor substitute for the
truth. but what other is there?
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

ffth New York
district. In his
c a m p aign DIR.
Akin was de-
8 crf b e d as a
D e m era t by
some, but since
going to Wash
ington he has sat
on the Republic
an side OF the
aisle and calls
himself a pro-
gressive Repub-
lican. 1t is said
he didn't know
that he had been
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
u Started the WorId

when the astoundings claims were
e made for Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
but 40 years of wonderful cures have
proved them true, and everywhere on
earth for burns. boils, scalds, sores,
cuts, bruises. sprains, swellings, ecze
ma, chapped hands. fever sores and
piles. Only 25 cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
UnroIIahIe Directory.

Unreliable Directory.
''who is that woman laboring UNDER
the idea that she can sing2" asked the
stranger at the social gathering where
he was trying to make himself agree
able.
"That is my wife," replied the one
addressed.
"T beg your pardon, sir."
mo apologies necessary. I knew her
falling"
"who IS that Old vixen over in the
corner?"
'SThat is my mother"
The stranger faded away. mopped
HIS brow and. hunting out his host,
said, "who is that little dried up man
was talking to, and what kind OF a
family has hep"
"He hasn't any family. He h an
orphan and a bachelor"
Say, is there any place near hero
where I could buy him a drinkr'
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

What peculiar things happen some
times Down in Washington recently,
with the mercury near the 100 mark. a
committee reported q bill providing
that residents of Washington must
shovel snow and sleet from the side
walks.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

In a spelling match which lasted u
hours and 80 minutes 12-year-old girl
has won the championship of Oklaho-
ma. One trouble about being cham
pion speller is that people will not flock
TO vaudeville houses for the purpose
of hearing a best speller spell.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

The little war some time ago be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain cost the latter a goodiy sum of
money. BAIT American tourists have
paid II back many times over. Still II
there was anything yet due, the snobs
and nabobs attending the coronation
festivities soon TO come would liquidate
the debt
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

It's doubtful If Chief Justice White
ever really knew all the things he said
IN that trust-busting decision until the
editorial writers and paragraphers
were through with 1t.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

The old steam roller which Joe Can.
non used 20 run at Washington seems
10 be moved 10 Springfield, and one Ad-
kins is threatening to test its flatten-
ing propensities.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

can successfully be combatted-by
working along the same Hines the so
cialists works in the service OF need
ed reforms Every man Of humanitsx-
ian impulses can do this. nor need he
part company with the socialists until
they have proceeded together far OF
the way TO better day.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
OIL PROPELLED BATTLEsHlP.

One Being Built Secretly, Or. DiessI
Tells Naval Architects.
In some corner of the world an oil
proreiled bat1ieshin Il AaE heiaS. hpflt.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

Mayhap Billy Lorimer will become
tired of the whole proceedings one Of
these days and put an end TO ii. He
knows how TO do it.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
Wednesday, May ~, 1911.

The mysterious feature about fly pa
per is that it never seems 10 decrease
the number OF flies.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

How old-fashioned the circus is, is
shown In it's inability TO utilize the
automobile in any capacity.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
Willing 70 Discount.

Willing to Discount.
81 am going to strike him for $10."
"You Will be lucky II you get more
than quarter"
',That is all want. II I asked him
for a quarter, though, wouldn't get q
cent"
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
ANRnd0d

Avenged.
"Why do you gaze on Brown with
such complacency?"
"Why should 1 notY
''I thought you didn't IKE him." =.
'T don't"
''Then why the satisfactionT
"1is daughter is learning to sing ana
thinks she Is an artist on the piano"
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

Thoroughly
Broke.
my daughteR
has Just return
ed from a finish
ing school"
did they do .
good JobT
Eyes. You cam
not understand q
word she says"
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

Merely a Suggestion.
"Can you hold your tongueT'
"MeP'
"Yes."
"What shall hold It within"
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

Likes the Sure Thing
We say the gambler takes . ohaoeAs
He does so at a pinch.
But not. you bet, II he can got
A copperplated cinch-
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

The Only CondHIon.
"Don't good inteRtions 90 herer
mot unless you make good inten-
tions good"
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
PasBed For More.

Passed For More.
'"The people here seem to be all on q
level"
"Yes; there is only one millionaire
in town"
How much IS he worthT'
"Well, at least $4,000"
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

There is never anything the matter
with the right thing in the right place
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24

Marriage is a condition with soms
people and a habit with others.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-05-24
THE ARGUS.

BY TIVE J. w. POTTER CO.
The citizen., 1911-12-15

dusky potentates were respienoant IL
the magnificent jewels for which they
have long been famous. Indeed such
a display of precious stones never pc
fore was seen in modern times. Inc
rajahs, after making their opeles-
ances. grouped themselves about the
throne, where also stood the govern
ors of the Asiatic colonies OF the
crown, other distinguished govern
ment officials and invited guests.
Queen Wears the kohlnoor.
The king was crowned king-emper-
or at Westminster, so he took his
throne already wearing a crown that
had been made especially for this oc-
casion, garbed in the royal robes OF
state, wearing the state jewels and
carrying the scepter. By his side sat
Queen Mary. on her brow the crown
that was made for her coronation and
in the front of which blazed the great
Kohinoor, the Indian diamond sup
posed to bring good fortune II worn
by a woman. Her jewels were even
more magnificent than those she wore
at the coronation at Westminster,
among her new ornaments being
The citizen., 1911-12-15
OUTSIDE FORCE
BLEW Up MAINE
Vreeland Board Reports Re-
suit of investigation.
NINE EXPLODED MAGAZINE
Verdict Of the Naval Experts Unan-
mous-Findings Of the Sampson
Board Confirmed In General-A
Low Form Of Explosive Used.

Washington. = That the primary
cause of the destruction of the United
States battleship Maine in Havana
harbor was the explosion of sub
marine mine or some similar contriv
ance is the verdict of the Vreeland
board of United States naval experts,
who have examined the exposed
wreck.
The board is unanimously of the
opinion that an explosion external to
the ship caused the explosion of the
vessels magazines. This conclusion
Havana examining the wreck. Their
report confirms in general the findings
OF the Sampson board, which investi-
gated the disaster in 1893. The Vree-
land board were able to examine every
detail of the wreck for the first time
exposed to view by the dewatering of
the cofferdam.
Findings Of Board.
For the present Secretary Meyer
limited official statements regarding
the Vreeland report to the following
brief summary:
"The board finds that the injuries to
the bottom of the Maine were caused
by the explosion of charge of a low
form of explosive exterior to the ship
between frames 2S and 81, strake B,
port side. This resulted in igniting
and exploding the contents of the six
inch reserve magazine, the contents
including a large quantity of black
powder. The more or less complete
explosion of the contents of the re-
naming forward magazine followed.
The magazine explosions resulted in
the destruction of the vessel"
The most striking difference be-
tween the finding of the Vreeland
board and that of the Sampson board,
as far as comparison of the two is pos
sible, with only the brief summary
made public, is in regard to the sup
posed position of the mine. The
Sampson board fixed the position of
the mine at about frame IS. The
Vreeland board puts it between frames
% and 81, position very considerably
forward of that estimated by the
Sampson board. Both boards agreed
in the opinion that the mine exploded
on the port side.
What Models Show.
The board brought back with them
models showing the Maine as con-
structed and her present condition.
The models disclose the surprising
accuracy of the findings of the Samp-
son Board regarding the displaced
portions of the Maine These findings
were based on the reports of divers
whose statements were interpreted by
officers familiar with the construction
of the Maine.
A curious feature of the uncovering
of the Maine is the fact that no trace
of the forward turret has been found.
1t is generally supposed that, detached
by the force of the explosion, the tur-
ret has buried itself in the soft mud
of the harbor.
The citizen., 1911-12-15
CLERGYMAN HELD
FOR SIX DEATHS
Leader of Holy Ghost and Us
Yacht Cruise Found Guilty.
USED PRAYERS TO SAIL BOAT
Rev. Frank w. Sandforu, Master of
the Yacht coronet, That Set Out
From Portland, Me-, With 40
of Strange Sect for Africa.

Portland, Me.-"Ages ago God split
walls to set his Apostles free. If
ask Him He will do the same for me
now"
This statement was made by Rev.
Frank W. Sandford, Elijah H., leader
of the Shiloh Holy Ghost and Us So
ciety, as he was led into the Jail to
await sentence following his convic-
ton on charges of manslaughter. Five
minutes after Sandford entered the
cell he furnished $4,000 bail and went
direct to Shiloh.
Sanford faces a possible sentence
of fines aggregating 100000, or i'm
prisonment for 60 years, or both, hav-
ing been found guilty by jury that
deliberated but 10 minutes, before
Judge Clarence Hale, of being respon-
sible for the death of six members
Of the crew of his Holy Ghosters yacht
Coronet from starvation and scurvy.
Sandford will be sentenced on Decem-
ber 1S.
He says, and his followers believe
him, that if sent to prison the walls
of his cell will be rent by the Lord
and he will again be free to lead his
scores of fervent followers in thsir
battles against wickedness and vice.
Sandford's trial was short. But it
was the most remarkable criminal case
in the history of the State of Maine.
Less than year ago he boarded the
yacht Coronet with party of those
of his Shiloh flock "who were nearest
to God"
God commanded me to visit far
off shores and show the benighted in
Eabitants the light" exclaimed Sand
ford at his trial. He refused to OBJ
ject to jurors and he refused to ques-
ton witnesses when they told how
they had begged him to seek port
when, one after another, his crew fell
i'll from insufficient TODD and exhaust
ion Only when three of his sailor
followers died, did Sandford finally
put into port. Then state officials
went aboard and took three other sail
ors off. They died the next day of
scurvy and starvation. 1t marked the
end of cruise which got as far as
the African coast, where the bark
Kingdom, another of Sandford's ships,
went down.
The citizen., 1911-12-15
NJ 'NAMARAS IN
A PRISON CELL
Begin Their Long Terms in San
Quentin Prison.
BAND PLAYS AS THEY ENTER
Tragedy of the Los Angeles Times
Explosion Changed John ]. Nc
Namsra's View of Life -
Brothers Placed in One Cell.

San Quentin, Cal-The Mcnamara
brothers Sunday entered San Quentin
Penitentiary, where James B. is con-
demned to spend the remainder of
his life for his confessed crime of
murder, and John j., secretary of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, is SEN
fenced to Is years Imprisonment for
dynamiting.
Whirled from Los Angeles on fast
train, the men were taken from it at
sunrise, put on little river steam
er and landed two hours and a half
later at San Quentin prison wharf, on
the shores of San Pablo Bay. The
shackles which bound them together
on the boat trip were slipped off and
they toiled up the prison hill beside
Sheriff William A. Hammel, of Los
Angeles county.
AS the prison clock struck 10, John
]. Mcnamara, preceded by Warden
John Hoyle, stepped over the threshold
OF the Jail door, with his brother di-
rectly behind him. In five minutes
James B. Mcnamara had become con-
vict 1884 and John ]. Mcnamara
was No. 25,315. They were measured
for Jail clothing, photographed in two
positions, given a carbolic tinctured
bath, put into stripes, shaved and
cropped and photographed within
an hour, and turned over to John Muir
ray, lieutenant of the yard, who took
them to cell is in a stone tier looking
out over the prisons upper yard" a
great flower garden.
The citizen., 1911-12-15
Sought Taft's Life, Is Report.

Washington.-Unit States District
Attorney Mccormick, of Los Angeles,
held an extended conference with
President Taft Saturday and is said
to have made detailed report on the
dynamite plot probe. 1t is stated that
the Los Angeles attorney has secured
evidence which will implicate the al
legged allies of the McNamaras in the
attempt to blow up the Presidential
special in California last October.
officials at the Department of Justice
refuse to affirm or deny this report.
The citizen., 1911-12-15
More Pay For Many Men.

Washington.-"B Believing the high
cost of living and continued increase
thereof makes it impossible for men
to devote their best energies because
of nagging anxiety" Admiral T. J..
Cowie, paymaster general of the
Navy, in his annual report asks salary
increases for all of his employees. Ad-
miral Cowie urges Congress to open
the Alaskan coal fields to procure coal
for the Navy at lower cost. To sup
port the Navy establishment, Admiral
Cowie says $11S,OOO,OO0 was drawn
from the Treasury last year.
The citizen., 1911-12-15
Plunged Into River.

ST. Petersburg.-Between $50 and
200 workmen were plunged into the
Volga River through the collapse of
railroad bridge near Kazan. The
bridge, which was in course of con-
struction, was carried away by the
pressure of ice. Only four corpses
thus far have been recovered. All the
towns along the lower part of the
river have been warned to keep a
lookout for survivors who may have
been able to Chamber on the foes.
The citizen., 1911-12-15
Sermon By Phone.

Mobile, Ala.-The First Baptist
Church at Laurel, Miss, near here,
was connected Sunday by telephone
with the Cumberland Telephone Ex-
change and the Jessie Gates Hospi-
tai. Two transmitters were placed in
the church, one on each side of the
pulpit stand, and in the hospital six
receivers with head pieces so that
the patients heard the minister de-
liver his sermon without having to
use the hands to hold the instrument
to. the ear.
The citizen., 1911-12-15
Diamond Ring In Pig.

Plainfield, N. IA 200-pound porker
which John Campbell purchased from
William Lee a few days ago was
killed Saturday and when the dressing
operations were in progress Campbell
found therein small diamond ring.
Lee, when he heard of the discovery,
demanded the ring. but Campbell is
said to have claimed ownership of
the ring. The ring, according to Lee,
was lost by his niece several wesks
ago
The citizen., 1911-12-15
Plumbers Trust Next.

Washington. = Assistant Attorney
General Fowler announced that pro-
ceedings would be filed in Los Angeles
against the Western Wholesale Plumb
ers' Association within the next week,
alleging a monopoly in restraint of
trade Federal District Attorney Nc
Cormick left Washington and within
few days after reaching Los Angeles
he will file this latest trust-busting
suit 1t is thought Mr.. Mccormick
will stop at indianapolis to become
better acquainted with the develop
ments In the dynamiting cases.
The citizen., 1911-12-15

for the durbar have been amusing
themselves for several days with polo,
hockey and military tournaments and
other festivities.
Display of Jewels Is Wonderful.
The durbar proper took place in
an immense semi-circular amphithe-
ater on the historic ridge where a
few Englishmen once made a heroic
stand against the revolving natives.
In the center of the semi-circle was
a throne of gold and silver surmount-
ed by copper dome. Taking his
seat on this, George received the hon.
age Of the rulers of the dim mil
Lions" of his subjects, about $50 rul-
ing princes OF Hindustan. These