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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

this class of mail with a resultant
further increase of revenue therefrom,
would probably amply compensate the
government, particularly bearing in
mind that no reduction is contemplate
ed in postage on postal cards.
1T was never intended that the de-
partment should make a profit from
any class of mail.
Now, therefore, be it enacted by the
senate and house of representative of
the United States of America in con-
gress assembled, that upon all mail
matter of the first class postage shall
be charged, On and after the first day
of July, 1912, the rate of one cent per
ounce or fraction thereof"
The new bill for lower rate on first
class postage will be supported to a
finish by the National One Cent Let
ter Postage association, which has its
headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. The
organization has several thousand
members, comprising business firms
and individuals all over the United
States
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
~ To Make Move For Penny Postage \

Legislation looking towards a one
cent letter postage rate has been in
troduced in congress by Senator Theo-
dore Z. Burton of Ohio, who offered
bill in the senate, and Representative
John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, who
presented similar one in the house.
Senator Burton has indicated that
he will lead the campaign in the SEN
ate for the passage of the penny post
age bill. Representative John w.
Weeks of Massachusetts will look af-
ter the interest o. the bill in the house.
July l is the date set for the in
auguration of the new rate, provided
congress introduces the bill at this
session. The bill itself is brief, but
its preamble indicates very clearly the
reasons for a one-cent postage rate.
The bill is as follows:
The rate Of postage on letter of
one-half ounce weight or fraction
! thereof, if carried from New York city
to Buffalo, distance of less than 500
miles, was in 1S43 20 cents and similar
rates, high as compared with present
rates, prevailed elsewhere.
by successive and frequent reduc-
| tons this rate was reduced until by
act of March 8, 1888, becoming opera
tive October /, 1888, the rate was two
cents only for letter weighing one
half ounce or fraction thereof, to be
carried any distance whatever within
the limits of the entire country.
These reductions so stimulated the
| growth of mail of the first class that
no reduction, or only a small tenn
porary reduction, in revenue occurred
These manifold reductions all took
place in the first forty of the last sew
enty years, while no reduction in first
class postage rates, save an extension
of the weight limit from one-half ounce
or fraction thereof to one full ounce
or fraction thereof was made in 1885
but that no other reduction save this
above named has been made in the per
iod OF nearly thirty years that has
elapsed since Oct 1, 1888.
During most Of this time the frs
class mail has produced a revenue
vastly In excess Of the costs OF iti
service, as an instance of which tbs
revenue for the last fiscal year
ending June 80, 1911. has been owe
1852. o0o,0 900. Of which amount owe
$50, 100000 is estimated profit to tn,
department, thus indicating that a con
siderably lower rate, which woult
enormously stimulate the growth o
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
In Lawrence.

The strike in the textile mills at
Lawrence. Mass, involving great suf-
fering and disorder, is an object les
son as impressive as that which was
given at Homestead, Pa, in 1892.
The fact never TO be forgotten is
that this strike grows out of an at
tempt by state legislation to make
the chief beneficiaries Of the extor-
tionate tariff keep their promises to
labor
Manufacturers of wool and cotton
were the ones who received the most
favor from the makers of the Payne
Aldrich tariff OF 1910. AS is usually
the case with confidence men of their
type they asked nothing for them.
/ selves, but all for labor.
/ A standpat congress gave them ev
cry crooked and oppressive schedule
that they suggested, but, though the
/ law has been in force a year and a
half, not a cent in the way of in
! creased wages has gone to their poor
/ ~ paid employees. They increased
prices to consumers and they saw
their profits and surplus rise, while
labor's wretched dole remained sta
tionary
If wages could not be increased 6
little 1t was thought that possibly the
hours of work could be shortened anC
a bill was passed by the Legislature
reducing the weekly grind from sc t
"a hours. When this measure became
a law wages were at once cut to cor
respond and the strike followed.
In the misery and despair tina
quicKly ensued. for most workers il
highly protected industries are neve
far removed from the starvation line
revolutionary socialists found thei
opportunity, and the violence which
they stirred up soon made the pres
ence Of troops necessary.
Lawrence therefore presents tn,
spectacle of thousands of desperate
men, women and children overawed b.
many soldiers, of agitators preaching
the subversion of law and govern
ment and the perjured representative
OF privileged capital sitting tight an,
waiting for hunger to do its worst.
What a shame It is that the answe
to injustice can not always be Jus
tice, the answer to greed and graf
can not always be generosity and hor
esty and the answer TO tyranny ca
not always be liberty In this cour
try the answer never should be sc
cialism.
Monopolistic oppression ought nc
to breed revolutionary socialism.
ought TO raise up true American demo
= Gratis.
True American democracy can con
pei justice If II will.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
The Fight for Better Health.

The warfare against tuberculosis,
nationwide in its scope, evidences
awakened appreciation of the fact that
individual well-beins determines COM
munity well-being, that II We would
escape disease ourselves We must en-
able others to escape 1t in so far as
our power lies.
While a great deal is being accom-
plished by the anti-tuberculosis cru.
sade. II will not be possible TO wipe
out the disease until its causes have
been removed. The factors most con-
cerned in the perpetuation and propa-
cation of this disease are overwork,
child labor, poverty. want, intemper-
ate use Of alcoholic liquors and mar.
cotic drugs and all the various forms
of vice and debauchery.
Speaking recently in the Philadel
phia Academy Of Medicine, DR.. G
Harlan Wells said:
Until these conditions are removed
or vastly improved, tuberculosis vii
continue TO claim its victims. WheT
the wealth Of the nation Is so dis
tributed that each man receives
enough and no man too much; wheI
child labor shall have been abolished
and when factories are conducted
with view OF conserving the health
OF the employees. as well as for tbs
purpose OF earning dividends; wher
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

times drinks a little too much liquor.
He says he will stop after We are
married. Do you think he will?
ELSIE.
You could not do anything more
foolish than to marry a man with
the hope of reforming him. If you
wanted to wreck your life you could
not do it more effectively. If the man
with not mend his ways for your sake
before you are married, he is even
less likely to do so after. Give him
up while you can.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-Is there any
way to keep the odor from going
through the house when cooking cab
bage? MRS. H.
A piece of bread or a crust tied up
in a little muslin bag and dropped
into the kettle will obviate to a great
extent the smell of cooking.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
BY CLYDE II. TAVENNER.

Especial Correspondence of The August
Washington, Feb. 6.-The express
companies of the United States pay
60 per cent of their gross earnings
to the railroads, and of what is left, af-
ter all expenses are paid, they declare
dividends Of Al per cent on an invest
ment that is principally water.
These startling facts have been
brought out by Attorney Frank Lyon,
representing the interstate commerce
commission at the hearing now in
progress before the commission. Here
are some of the charges against the
express companies which Mr.. Lyon has
undertaken to prove:
Extortionate and unequal rates
over charges and over weighing; col
lecting at both ends; inefficient serv-
ice; combination with railroads for
the oppression of the public; usurpa-
ton of government, banking, and
commercial functions; unconscionable
dividends.
THE CHIEF BENEFICIARIEs.
Here are the chief benehciaries OF
the express monopoly, as enumerated
by Mr.. Lyon: J. Pierpont Morgan,
Henry C.. Prick, Cornelius Vanderbilt
George F. Baker, Jacob H. Schiff
Charles NJ. Pratt, Hartman estate, B
P. Cheney estate, Lewis Cass Ledyard
That the railroads are gradually
turning more and more of their bust
ness into the express companies
which are largely owned by the same
men who own the railroads over which
they operate, is indicated by figure:
gathered by Mr.. Lyon on the increase
in percentage of express business owe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

man shall have reached that stage of
moral development where he is able
to rise above the numerous forms OF
vice and debauchery that now de-
grade him physically aud morally
then only may he hope to see tuber-
culosis eradicated."
1t is evident that the conflict with
the great white plague must, to be
successful, embrace economics and
morals.
In the last analysis the main cause
of disease and immortality is that priv
lege gives to one what the other re
quires and thus impoverishes both.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
Comment From Capital

other activities of the railroads. This
table Of figures showed that the
percentage of increase in express bus
mess of 1910 over 1893 was 1S4.42 per
cent; from freight, 1925; from pas
senger traffic, 10S.7S, and from mail,
1907. The population of the country
increased in the meantime only 1925
per cent.
1t was also shown by Mr.. Lyon that
the bulk of the express business of the
country was in packages on which the
charges were from so to 20 cents,
thereby proving that it is the small
shipper who is hardest hit. The attor.
ney further cited proof of exclusive
contracts between the express and
railroad companies showing that be-
fore the latter could cut their own
melons they first had to turn over
60 per cent of their entire gross rev.
enue to the railroad companies.
THE EXPRESS MoNOPOLIEs.
William Savacoll, attorney general
OF New Hampshire, told the commits
sion the American Express company
had obtained a complete, monopoly in
his state, having bought up all rival
companies, and that since this monop.
oily had been in effect there had been
an increase of 100 per cent in rates.
Everybody Who testified against the
| express companies-and among the
witnesses were representatives OF
commercial and trade associations
from all over the country, told of the
monopolies the express lines had OBJ
tanned, and that there had been q
gradual increase of rates, varying al
the way from so to as high as $50 pei
cent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
Hurnor and
Philosophy
THE WORLD OF CHANGE.
- DUNCAN ~. .srsrB

T WONDER what Caesar. that grand
Roman geeser,
Would say from the clouds should he
fall.
And great Alexander-would it raise his
dander
To note that the world had grown
small?
Would Mr. Darius some new words supply
US,
Expressing his wonder, I ween?
Would Peter the hermit request for a per-
NIT
To travel by flying machine?
These fellows were greater and quite up
to dater
Than any one else in their day
They sloried in slaughter. and blood ran
like water,
And terrible things were to pay.
They had not rife or any such trifle
Their thousands of victims to scare.
No cannon with thunder made foes
knuckle under
So war was a two cent affair.
They had no inventions that any one
mentions
Who wrote up their lives less or more.
You wouldn't be willing to pay them a
shilling
For all of the clothes that they wore.
I hate to disparage their cheap two
wheeled carriage,
For really 1t was but cart
And not worthy the hooking, and, as for
their cooking,
They hadn't discovered the art.
The world has new vigor since they cut q
figure,
And It would astound them, you bet.
And how they would dwindle for Darwin
and Tyndall
Are bigger than all of their set.
And they would grow humble If they were
to stumble
In lodging a car painted red.
To be quite specific, the pace so terrific
Would bulge their eyes out Of their head
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
Parties in the Reichstag.

Oficial returns Of the second cleo
lions held in Germany for seats in the
reichstag, which met yesterday. in
dictate that the socialists Won IL out
of the 80 seats which they had the
right to contest for from the fact of
their candidates being first or second
in the voting at the first elections. The
strength OF the socialists has been in
creased from So to 10 in the reich
stag and gives them 20 more seats
than they have ever had before. The
distribution Of seats according TO par
ties is as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

Troubled.
"I'm in a quandary."
whats up?'
'The head of the firm is coming to-
morrow, and I've invited him to din
ner"
"Well?"
81 don't know whether to take him
to swell place and have him think
Pm living too high or to a cheaper
place and have him think / don't do
credit to the firm"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

sad things In life Is the way In which
the number OF those who call US by
our Christian name diminishes."
Dear Mrs. Thompson-Please tell
me how to wash white hair ribbons
so they will not turn yellow and get
fiimsy. BLONDE.
In the first place, only ribbons which
are bought for wash ribbons can be
successfully washed. Make a soap
suds of ivory soap. Let the ribbons
soak for a while. Then wash out and
iron while slightly damp. Cover the
ribbon with a clean cloth and iron
over that This process should make
them like new.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-Please tell
me how TO clean a gray aviation cap.
1t is trimmed with a red border.
Please tell me what to serve when
entertaining about ten or twelve girls
in the evening. Just a simple lunch
con. FOURTEEN.
0)-Wash the cap carefully and
quickly in warm soap suds. Hang
to dry so that the color from the
red cannot run into the gray (2)-
Sherbet and lady fingers.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-My lover al
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

Scientists declare that 100000 peo-
pie in the United States die annually
from poison introduced by mosquito
bites. The demon rum will have to
look alive TO its laurels. as IT is far
outstripped here, while the mortality
rate OF the housefy makes rum seem
by comparison a paDacea OF ills.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
Hats In EIizahnth,s Lima.


The oldest material used for hats Is
felt. which was in use at the time of
the Conquest. while in the Canterbury
Tales q merchant is spoken of as wear
ng "a fiaundrish beaver hattie" Ladies
probably did not begin to wear hats
until about the tenth century, if so
early. and then it was the lofty head
dress draped with some material.
which 1t must have been most trying
to keep on even indoors and quite i'm
possible to wear in a wind According
TO the Anatomy OF Abuses" written
In Queen EHZabeth's time. ladies' hats
were very nearly as perplexing then as
they are today. 1.-The fashions be rare
and strange, so is the stuff whereof the
hats be made divers also; for some are
OF silke. some of velvet, some of taft
fettie and some OF wool, and which is
more curious, some OF a certain kind
of fine hare. these they call bever
hates, Of XX, xxx or XII shilling,
price, fetched from beyond the seas,
from whence a great sort of other va
riety do come besides" In the reign of
Henry VIII. hats assumed a create
richnesse and beautie." but in the time
Of the first James they became even
more ornate. jewels OF price and occa-
sionally small mirrors being used In
their adornment.-London Spectator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

The board of education OF the city
OF Van Vert. Ohio, has a fund OF $685.
600. the interest on which is used to
buy books and clothes for poor chill
dren who attend the public schools.
The money is loaned at 6 per cent and
produces $500 a year The expendi.
ture OF this money is directed by a
truant officer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

Not guilty-and it's too late. any
how" is the gist of Andrew Car
negie's answer as co-defendant IN
the governments suit against the
Steel corporation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
Feb. 8 in American
History

1S20-General William Tecumseh Sher-
man, born; died 1891.
Confederate States of America
adopted at Montgomery. Ala.
1S77-Admiral Charles Wilkes of
steamer Trent and San Jacins1
fame died in Washington; born
1893.
1905 - A pact between the United
States and Santo Domingo signed
at Santo Domingo
All the news all the time-The Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

The conservatives and centrists
naturally will gravitate together, while
the radical parties inclination win be
TO vote with the socialists. The ma.
tional liberals, holding the balance of
power, can, by cooperating with the
socialists or the conservatives and cen
trists, create parliamentary majority.
II is assumed that Of the two alliances
the national liberals will prefer that
with the latter parties than with the
socialists. for their slogan is: The
foe stands on the left (socialists), the
opponent on the right (centrists).
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

1t is as easy for some men to lie as
it is for their wives to catch them at it.
1t is a good thing TO laugh and a
better to draw a salary for it.
A genius is person who derides
the normal life and gets away with it.
men out of a rut who are hardly worth
so strenuous thing.
The reason why some can't come
come back is that they have no point
of departure.
AS long as a man isn't afraid of him
self he is coming all right
Misery loves company, and so does
happiness. but it doesn't pick misery.
II speech were silver some of our
friends could keep sterling factory
supplied.
Why is it that a man who goes the
pace seldom arrives:
Do people use crow to make humble
bic:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

indianapolis at least is getting a
great amount Of free publicity over
its connection with the dynamiting
conspiracy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
So Save Expense.

doctor, what would you take for
my ailment"
Lets see You haven't paid me for
my last treatment, have you"
"Not yet, but will"
"For what ails you now take a walk
around the block"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

A shift in the Japan current is
giving Alaska a milder climate. But
those who go there for a winter re-
sort had better buy a return ticket.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

The entrance Of Burns into the Lori.
mer investigation has at least made
the reports worth reading
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
Her Enjoyment,

Her Enjoyment.
"What is the matter with his wife,"
"She is an invalid"
'But what is the specific trouble?'
"She is just an invalid"
"Can't the doctors cure herr"
''Do you think they want to mortally
offend so profitable a PATIENT"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

Colonel Watterson will undoubtedly
admit that president making" isn't
any longer what It used to be-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

To express it briefly, Judge Hook
got the hook.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

The Roosevelt boom is like the
measles-and just about as much Of a
nuisance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

Col. George W. Goethals. enEineo
In charge OF the construction OF the
Panama canal. has just held q con-
ference with President Taft at WASH
ington in regard to the progress of
the work. He Is still confident that
the canal viii be opened to inter-
oceanic trafic By January !. 1915.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

Easier.
81 can pay ice bills with better grace
than coal bills"
why? Because this isn't the sea-
son for ice bills, suppose"
mo; because ice doesn't make any
ashes to be carried out"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
Least Resistance

Ny hammers not for Robert Burns.
At him 1 would not fling it.
But. oh, the language that he used
It's easier to sing it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

An attack of the grip is often fol-
lowed by a persistent cough, which
to many proves a great annoyance.
Chamberlain Cough Remedy has
been extensively used and with good
success for the relief and cure of
this cough. Many cases have been
cured after all other remedies had
failed. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily ana Weekly at 1879
Second avenue. Rock Island. Ill Ten.
tered At the postofnce as second-cIass
matter.l
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
Eorethouqht,

"Goody, we have company! Wen
have lots to eat for dinner"
'Huh!'
"What?"
Just think of the leftovers for next
day"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

Stenographers for the senate judi
ciary committee at Washington were
left at the post when Mrs. Mary
peared before the body with a dele
cation OF W. c. 7. u. women to adj
vocate passage OF Senator Kenyon's
bill for interstate regulation of the
liquor traffic Mrs. Armor. known as
the Georgia Cyclone" talked 30 fast
the stenographers couldn't follow
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
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HOME
PROBLEMS
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CAS- we get older we find one OF the
sad things in life is the way in which
the number OF those who call US by
our Christian name diminishes."