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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
THE PRICE OF MIR. MORGAN's
SERVICES

THE PRICE OF MIR. MORGAN'S
SERVICES.
An expert accountant in the service
of the Stanley committee investigating
the steel trust reports that J. P. Nor
gan's fee for organizing the trust was
s7O.OOO.OOo cash.
Pause a moment while that fact
sinks in.
Now let the effort be to understand
what s70.OOO,Oo0 represents in terms
of Iowa crop values for 1911.
He got
$4,000 more than the farm value
of the dairy products;
$40,00O,O00 more than the value of
the butter and eggs;
SOS ,50O,oOO more than the value of
the wool production;
One-half the total farm value Of the
corn yield;
S10,714,597 more than the farm value
Of the hay (tame) yield;
SCI, 100000 more than the value of
the fruit crop.
In short, Mr. Morgan got for his
work about one-seventh of the total
farm value of everything produced on
/ the farm and in the orchards and gar.
dens. on the pastures and grazing lands
in the richest agricultural state in the
whole union of states during 1911.
With that s7O,0OO,OO0 Mr.. Morgan
could, were he of mind to do so, pro
vide a six-foot stage Of water in the
Mississippi river from the rivers
source to the gulf.
Perhaps these relative statements
serve to assist in appreciation of What
is represented by $4,000, 900.
If anything were needed the state
ment that 10000 men, earning the
average American wages. would have
to work an entire year TO earn $40,
100000, will meet the omission.
Mr.. Morgan was able to collect thi.
fee of $7O.000,O0O first, because his con
troll Of banking reserve in financial in
situations dominated by him enabled
him TO get the money needed to under
write the trust and 70 market the secur
tiles; and, secondly. because the re
publican party, in control of the gov
eminent of the nation, never put I
Limitation upon promotion stock o.
fees.
These facts may be considered il
explanation of how in making possibl,
profit of $7O.OOO,oOO in one deal, so
cialists are also made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

One OF the most remarkable sales Of
farm lands OF recent date in the cen
trail section Of the state was that Of a
few days ago when the Rhodes farm
of 20 acres, located one mile north
OF Monticello. was sold to Charles
Boats of Oklahoma at $500 per acre.
The land is good corn-producing land.
but the improvements are ordinary.
This, says the Dwight Star, is believ.
ed 20 be the highest price yet paid for
a corn farm in Illinois, and would
seem to give some inkling OF the ulti
mate fulhllment OF a prophecy of $500
per acre for black soil farms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
TALKS tuftl--
WOMEN PEADERS
b0
Edna. K.WOo1Q1

ing no unions to demand just wages,
must take what they can get.
We must reckon with the fact that
the workingwoman is here to stay.
Her number is increasing.
Men with daughters are expecting
their daughters to earn money as soon
as they are old enough-and these
fathers don't seem to care particular
ly whether or not their daughters are
working for less wages than men, or
if they are taking the places of men
who have families. Possibly this same
bookkeeper, if his baby is girl, would
! in time expect his daughter to take
! a place in the working world, and
work for as much as she could get,
/ even if that much" should be consid-
erably lower than what would be paid
to man in the same position.
! AS long as employers have this
power, they will "cut down expenses"
by hiring women, even though the
women prove as efficient as men in the
same positions. 1t is not only unjust
to the men, but to the women. And
why our men voters do not find way
to demand equal pay for equal service,
when such a matter is so vital to
them, it is hard to understand. Per
haps this will be one of the issues
taken up by progressive women when
equal suffrage is obtained.
1t is all very well to say that men
should be breadwinners and women
the homekeepers. That would be the
ideal condition-the proper relation OF
men and women. But we must face
the fact that more and more women
are being forced to be self-supporting
The average mans ideals have less
and less to do with married life. Even
: if he is caught" as the expression
goes, he doesn't always stick. The
number of deserted wives is the great
!, est problem of the courts and the
: charitable organizations. Then there
: are widows, wives who have found il
necessary to divorce evil men, and
that sad, increasing army of work
t ing wives" All this in addition t
1 the girls and unmarried women who
must make their own living, anC
make it at whatever rate the employ
) er dictates-a rate so pitiful, often
S that the girl cannot live decently up
: on it, which ofen sends her to tina
hopeless lowest level that is no
S spoken of in polite society.
4 There are two things that men car
: do to protect themselves and thei
women:
r One is to demand through their pc
T litical representatives, that minimum
s wage for women be established in re
: lation to their various occupations.
4 The other is for men to abandon
d work which seems especially fitted TO
r women, and betake themselves t,
n heavier physical labor or work whicl
y temperamentally cannot well be pei
a formed by women. AS an instance
S woman can do bookkeeping, but sh
l. wouldn't make much of a success 4
e carpentering.
/, Today the carpenter is as highly re
il spected as the bookkeeper, and h
d certainly can command a highe
= wage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

The idea OF changing the national
democratic convention to suit the con-
venience Of the republican convention
is absurd. The democratic party is big
enough TO have a convention Of its own
regardless OF what the opposition may
do. Let the democrats hold the con-
vention. nominate candidates, adopt a
platform and 90 forward with the cam
paign regardless Of what the other fell
lows are doing on the other side.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

The following letter addressed to me
is deeply interesting to the average
family:
81 am going to ask your opinion on
a matter that came to my attention
today.
can old acquaintance Of mine
dropped into the Office today for brief
visit, really to tell me he was out OF
work. To use his own language:
They laid of five of us Saturday and
put FIVE girls in our places today
HE had worked in the bookkeeping
department of one Of our large whole
sale concerns for a number of years.
Recently this firm reorganized and the
newly elected officers Immediately be-
gan the work OF cutting down ex-
penses, and the salary list offered
large opportunities for pruning. The
pruning knife has finally reached the
bookkeeping department, with the re-
suit that five men were cut off at a
days notice and FIVE girls substituted
and simply because the girls can
be hired for about half the salary paid
the men.
81 do not know the circumstances
of the other men, but l do know this
one man has a wife and baby depend
ing on him and there is nothing
saved for the rainy day.
"Off-handed one is tempted to say:
oh, well! He can easily find another
position
THAT is not so easy when put tc
the test, and meantime the butcher
grocer, coal man and landlord have
to be considered.
Now, does it seem just and right
that woman should step in and, sim
/ ply because she is willing to work fol
less, take a position away from mai
who is struggling to support family
81 do not wish to place myself in thu
position of being antagonisic to WON
ans rights and freedom, but l do sa!
where men labor and strive for a liv
ing, they should compete in an homes
and square manner by demanding
mans wage for a mans work, ant
not offer cut rates"
This case is not exceptional. 1t i
only part of the situation which i
growing in gravity throughout the ma
ton.
At first thought the only remedy
for men TO seek work in which wome
cannot compete physically or temper
amentally.
Heretofore we have educated on
boys to soft handed work. Any othe
kind has been called labor" and ha
been considered rot fitting for gentle
men. But the indoor, clean collare
positions are being gradually usurpe
by wCT-n. The woman bookkeepe
has been found as efficient as the ma
bookkeeper. She works for less pa
because employers will not pay her
mans wages. The employer justifie
himself by a number of one sided rel
sons; but the fact is, if she had tn
power to enforce equal pay with mel
she would be only too glad TO ava
herself of it. Women, being classe
with minors and incapables, and ha
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

LEFT THE PROFESSOR ALONE WITH MISS
SCRUGGINs.
woman, between whom and himself
there are harmonious amatory wave
currents, both feel these currents pass
ing through their arms"
"At what age do these amatory
wave currents cease?"
"I can answer only for myself.
Mine are still capable of being excited,
but only with a woman younger than
myself That may be accounted for
by the fact that between youth and
age an average Of strength in the
amatory waves may be maintained
that is not possible between two elder
ly people"
Mrs. Terwilliger rested for moment
from her work and looked at the pro-
fessor.
And you don't think these amatory
waves can exist between an elderly
man and an elderly woman?'
Not in ordinary cases. You love
your husband, but it is questionable if
you should meet tomorrow for the first
time at your age you would make a
match"
81 see. And you don't think you
could fall in love with q woman of
your own age or older?
81 am sure 1 could not
One day Mrs. Terwilliger repeated
the conversation to her husband
"Oh, a scientist is just as big fool
when he gets off his beat as any one
else" remarked the plain Mr.. TerwilIi-
ger "You can't bulge John on any Of
his theories, no matter how ridiculous
| they are"
I'D like to make a match between
| him and woman of his own age or
older"
"You can't do that Give him young
| bird"
81 know what I'm going to do. I'll
give him a young bird dressed in old
plumage. I'll mix him up with Marian
| Barbour. She's twenty-five. I'll bring
her here for a visit, made up as wOm-
an between forty and fifty, and Wen
have John here. too. during her stay"
"And I'll bet you new fur cloak
against a box of cigars that he doesn't
tumble to her"
"Done. And I'll bet you another box
against a silk dress that If he does
he'll find some way of making his tum
BILE accord with his theory"
"All right; I'll take that, too. just Ia
please you
In due time Miss Barbour. who was
let into the secret and was not averse
to making the experiment, arrived al
the Terwilliger home. She had beer
made up by an artist for a homely wo
man of fifty. She wore a wig sprin
killed. plentifully with gray hairs. some
of her front teeth were discolored. anC
wrinkles had been so realistically pu
in that no one but sharp sighted wo
man could tell them from the rea
thing She wore spectacles. and he
costume was plain Terwilliger pre-
vailed upon Oldershaw TO take up hi:
Mrs. Terwilliger. II bet you would
make the demonstration accord witt
your theory"
abode at the house for awhile. and
the experiment was begun.
For a few days tile professor tool
no more account of Miss Barbour
who passed under the name of Miss
Scruggins and as an old maid, than o.
one Of the servants. But she won hi!
attention by listening TO him intent!
whenever he opened his mouth. On
evening. when he was airing his scien
tific theories, Mrs TerwilIiger excused
herself on account OF some household
duty. Mf. Terwilieer left the room
without any excuse at all, and TIA
professor was alone with Miss ScrUs
gins.
The lady. as usual. proved a goo
listener. making but an occasional r.
mark. and these were intended to tur
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
BETTER RURAL HIGHWAYS.

In striking contrast with conditions
in most European countries the coun,
try roads OF America are unsightly.
This is especially true in the west
where a country highway is usually
hedged on either side by dilapidated
fence overgrown with scrubby brush
or berry bushes. The rank weeds
grow 20 the edge OF the beaten path
OF travel. This condition detracts
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
March 4 in American
History.

discount Casimir Pulaski. Aineri-
Gun Revolutionary soldier. born in
Podolia. Poland; died of battle
wounds near Savannah. 1873
1TS9-Tbe United States constitution
went into effect.
1882 - Alexander H. Stephens. vice
president of the Confederate States
of America. died; born 1872.
1909-Inauguration of William How
ard Taft twenty-seventh president
Of the United States.
All the news all the time.-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

Roosevelt denies that he informed
Secretaries Stimson and Meyer of
President Tafts cabinet that he
would not be a candidate for the
presidency again. But then what do
Roosevelt's denials amount to? Is
he not a self-convicted falsifer?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
And Cross Eyed.

BILLY is the bravest boy l know"
BILLY? Huh"
"WelI. he is"
whats brave about him?"
He took Liz Riley home from the
moving picture show"
what of thatT'
But she's got red hair"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
Disiilusion,


We think of spring
With buds entwined,
Its paths and corners
Primrose lined,
But when 1t comes,
A second flood,
The world is mostly
Made of mud.
When winter grips
With icy claws
We long for dear
Delightful thaws.
When bottomless
Its mud we find
The dear delight
Is in our mind.
J
The skies above
Are blue and bright.
But underfoot
1t is a fright.
If to the woods
For buds We stray
Our feet become
Great balls of clay.
Oh, gentle spring!
Who called you that
Was talking through
His winter hat.
Grown up you may
Be kind enough,
But in the start
You are a bluff.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
Advising Her.

Advising Her.
"Know what am going to do?"
mo"
Propose to a man"
WHY"
81 am tired of doing a mans work
about the house"
Don't do it. You can hire a man to
do chores. and if he doesn't do them to
suit you you can fire him without aid
of the divorce court"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

go to the hospital. A son, Attorney
Shaw, who was engaged in the prac-
tice of law with his father, was one
of the attorneys for the defense in
the Schrader murder trial at Cam
bridge, but was Obliged to withdraw
several days ago on account of the
serious illness of his mother and
sister.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

Everybody will be glad James
Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet,
who was stricken with paralysis
some time ago. has improved lately
and is able to be out and around.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

Steel prices were fixed at the Gary
dinners. II those dinners in Wash
ington cost as much as some of them
do in New York, there is no reason
to doubt that the steel combine had
to put up the price of steel in or
der to pay for them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

The Roosevelt boomers must be
disappointed that the rough riders
words OF acceptance have not set the
prairies ablaze.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
He Was Experienced.

He Was Experienced.
ibid you land that job:''
"Sure That's what went after"
"But the ad. said an experienced
salesman was wanted, and you never
had any experience
There's where you are wrong. l
have sold all my friends for the last
ten years"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

London-The British admiralty is
planning TO build a cruiser equipped
with 100000 power gas engine,
according to rumors circulated after
Winston Spencer Churchill and 9th
ers visited the motor driven vessel
Selandla, as it lay in the Thames
after successful trip from Copen-
hagen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.

TERMs.-DaIIy. 10 cents per week.
Weekly. 81 per year IN advance.
Complaints OF delivery service should
be made to the circulation department
which should also be notified in every
instance where II is desired to have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority in the premiseA
All communications OF r-gumentative
chs racter. political or religious. must
lave real name attached for publica-
ton No such articles viii be printed
ever fictitious signatures
Telephones IN all departments: Central
Union. West lI5 and has: Union Elec-
trio. 5145.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
No Chance.

Mrs. Browns husband tells his wife
everything"
Maybe she makes it easy for him.
You won't give NE chance TO get
word IN edgcyiSe. "-Detroli Free Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

Taft's tariff board will furnish one
OF the chief planks of his platform.
After the democratic house gets
through with II, It will be sadly in
need of repairing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

There are people who pay taxes
cheerfully and others who think they
would be willing to do so if they had
any property to be taxed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
In Practice.

The man who fights and runs away
MAY live 10 fight another day.
But not-that's always understood
IL still he finds the running good
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

Men may pass a law permitting wo-
men to vote, but just let the egotistical
creatures try compelling women to
votei
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
UnfeeIinu,

Unfeeling.
81 can recommend this alarm clock"
81 lost lots of money by my old one."
Didn't wake you up on time?''
at always got busy just as was
dreaming that had a million"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

1t is almost time for the bosses to be
quoting spring prices on politicians.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

How to cure cold is a piece Of flc.
ton that rivals any Of the six best
sellers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

The man who gets in with the auto
mobile crowd frequently gets out with
his landlord.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

Some marriage ties dissolve easily
and noiselessly, while others explode
and re-echo from one end of the coun-
try to the other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
Humor and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
~ DUNCAN n. SMITH

GRAFT frequently leads to a bank
account and thence to the room of
the investigating committee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

March is coming in like a roaring
lion with the fleece of a white and
woolly lamb.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
Quite Evident.

Connected: / should say so! She
thinks she is prettier than / am"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
Monday, March 4, 1912.

This is the time for the spring
poet TO write his verse on the beau
tiful snow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
Not CurrencY

"a penny for your thoughts"
Pardon me; | am not thinking
sense"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

To accept good advice is to increase
ones own ability.-Goethe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
The Naked Truth

at is never too late to mend"
Yes. but it was always too late for
me to want to-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
For the Contrary Sex.

For the Contrary Sex.
You don't like the young man your
daughter has selected|
Yes; he is a fine chap"
but l heard you running him down
to her"
"Just boosting his game little"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily ana weekly at 1879
Second avenue. Rock Islana. Ill len
tered at the postofhce as second-class
matter.l
Rock IsIaad Member of the Associated
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-04

Many people who are able to work
aren't willing, and those who are will
ing often turn out to be unable.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-02-22
THE STRONGEST CANDIDATE.


Even were the third term not bar
to the resuscitation of the former
president as an available candidate
the absolute necessity, the logical
force of the nations demand would
place William Howard Taft again be-
fore the people. He is the one best
fitted to stand by his record and his
is the best testimony to the splendid
services he has rendered the nation.
Much is yet in the stage of progress
that will be for the wide good of the
keople, and the Democrats know well
that their surest prospect for defeat
is to have placed before them the
man and the record that are unassail-
able.-Baltimore American.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-02-22
Notice to Teachers.

The regular examination for teachers cer-
tIficates will be held at the West School
building, Greenvile, Ohio, on the first sat
urday of each month, unless il fails on n
Legal holiday in which case the eXamina-
tion will be held the second Saturday,.
For IL teachers Special certificate, the eX-
animation will be held the tlTstSaturday of
April, 1912, and the first Saturday of Septem-
ber, 1912, at the same time and in cOnjunc-
ton with the regular examination.
By order of Board of Examiners.
j.. c. LONG, President.
Versailles, o.
G. A, WILT, Vice President
Arcanum, o.. r. ID. 8.
q. II. GARRISON, Clerk,
Ansonia, ..
Sept. l, 1911.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-02-22

According to the post Of
flee ruling subscribers must
keep their credit within one
year of time of expiration OF
their subscription, or we
must charge $3.50 a year for
the paper. Uncle Sam de-
mands this and we can do
nothing in the matter but
obey.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-02-22
AS TO STRAW VOTES.
The Wish is Father to the Count.

The results of straw vote are al
ways pleasing to those who take it,
or they are not published.
An example: Colonel Nelson, own
er Of the Kansas City Star, found by
a straw vote on coupons an over
Whelming sentiment for Roosevelt.
This. colonel is free trade Demo
crat who voted for Cleveland and
holted Bryan, supporting Roosevelt
with, his paper. His 100000 subscrib-
ers for years had been reading edi,
torials which were favorable to
Roosevelt. This prejudiced them in
his favor. And, too, each knew that
a vote against T. R. would displease
Mr.. Nelson and put the sender on
the Stars black list. So the small
proportion who did vote showed a
majority pleasing to the owner of the
paper.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-02-22
SNUBBED BY SILENCE.

A headline over the account of the
governors speech to the con-con
reads:
Harmon is snubbed by suffra-
gettes."
Delegates sit in silence as COVER
nor concludes his speech
The fact of this snub is not so sur
prising as the method of it-women
attacking with silence.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-02-22
FlN Ing Men Fall

victims to stomach, liver and kid
ney troubles just like other peo-
pie, with like results in loss of
appetite, backache, nervousness,
headache, and tired, listless, run
down feeling. But there's no
need to feel like that as T. D.
PEBBLES, Henry, Tenn, proved.
six bottles Of Electric Bitters, F"
he writes, "did more to give me
new strength and good appetite
than all other stomach remedies
I used" So they help everybo-
dy. It's folly to suffer when this
great remedy will help you from
the first dose. Try it. Only SOC
at VIM. Kipp's Sons Co.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-02-22
LAEoLLETTE TRIcKED.

The fact is clear enough that the
men who organized the LaFollette
movement never were sincere, and
from the first were planning to
spring the ex-president on the con-
vention. By accident the dynamite
exploded a little too soon for the sue.
cess of the conspiracy. Philadelphia
Record.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-02-22

Would not the minimum wage"
proposal, if fixed by the constitution,
or by legislation, prevent the feeble,
the aged and the crippled-all who
could not do an ordinary days work
earning any part of a living?