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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
CAPITAL COMMENT

eminent, and defeating the ends of JUS
tice is easy as long as they can work
in the old legal channels. But when
the committees of congress haul these
trust managers squarely before the
white spotlight Of publicity, and ask
them questions about their methods of
conducting business, and about the
wages they pay and the conditions of
employment they impose, they become
truly alarmed. They laugh at the law,
but they fear the light
Chairman Stanley of the steel trust
Investigating committee is amused at
the desperate efforts that are now be-
ing made by the reactionaries to dis
credit the work of these democratic
investigating committees.
INFORMATION SECURED,
Not a single one of these commit
tees has failed to accomplish some
good result" said Mr. Stanley. "The
facts uncovered and the vast amount
of Information brought out has given
| the individual members of congress a
| better knowledge of trusts and trust
methods than they ever had before,
and this knowledge will be of vast
value when it comes time, later on
to adjust the tariff schedules and fix
the terms of the antitrust laws.
| 1T is also true that the voters OF
the nation, merely from reading the
facts brought out by these committees
have a better knowledge of how the
trusts and monopolies of this country
are exploiting the common people al
every turn, and the benefits of this
knowledge will find expression in the
ballot boxes next November, or will
miss my guess. The reactionaries are
complaining of these investigations
simply because they have nothing else
to charge against the democratic party
but no harm is being done, because
the people are not being fooled BY
their complaints"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

alarmed by cries
of the standpatters
that congress has
gone Investigation
mad" is proven by
the sincerity and
earnestnesS W I h
which the money
trust inquiry has
been undertaken.
Ever sin C e the
d e N era is came
into power in the
mouse Ine reaction
aries have pretend
ed that the various
Investigations IN
dertaken and sue.
cessfully prescott
ed by the demo.
cratic leaders have
been without re
suit, and that they
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
The Field of Literature

Many improvements in the new mag
azine Cartoons are to be seen in the
May number, especially the pre-
sentation Of more full-page reproduc-
tons OF recent cartoons which are es-
pecially meritorious, the number OF
pages of the magazine being increased
TO make up the difference. Partisan
and other European caricature and art
is given much space to advantage In
the field Of politics alone, which is
but part Of the magazine, Cartoons is
collecting a wonderful record Of the
present campaign. Portraits and bi.
ographical sketches OF Rogers, Of the
New York Herald, and Fox, OF the
Chicago Post, are other features.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
Militant Woman.

NNoHtaUs
The suffragette has gone to war;
On English soil the fighting,
II not as bloody as can be,
Is really too exciting.
And II II Is not ladylike
AS some acts you might mention.
When she arises In her might
She does attract attention.
No feeble hatpin Is the lance
With which she is In training.
She has hammer or a brick
When she goes out campaigning,
And II the listener does not hear
Worlds at her football crashing
There viii be, you can bet your curls,
Some fancy window smashing.
The suffrage is her end and aim.
Her forceful ways disclose it.
She wants a vote, the same as men,
And doesn't care who knows II.
And If one way she cannot quite
Convince the man and brother,
By argument and winning smiles,
Then she will try another.
oh, woman, stored better half
OF man, the voting member.
You have him on the Goals the while
You feed with oil the ember!
And as you clamor for your rights
Both in and out OF season
You're going to have a chance to vote
Or understand the reason.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

]. Pierpont Morgan says there is no
such thing as a money loss. Apparent
ly Mr.. Morgan never saw his last
nickel disappear on the floor of a
crowded street car just as the conduc-
tor was coming for his fare.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
Hunor and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

OCCASIONALLY we get our faults
so giaringly expounded that we are
even tempted to run away from them
ourselves.
Getting in bad is often followed by
falling out in the same way.
The reason why some persons can't
get along without a drag must be that
they are such light weights.
When you can't get what you want
change your sense of values.
When fortune smiles Ill luck seems
like some weird bad dream made up
Of the ghost of myth.
Being efficient is easy If you have
the goods.
Temptation that doesn't tempt is an
enemy that is easily knocked out.
Getting the best Of Il is by no means
easy, but it beats getting the worst OF
1t all hollow.
Keeping in touch with good luck Il
enough to keep any man busy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

The fact that Harry Thaw has been
behaving himself in Matteawan prison
is given as a reason why he should be
released. But isn't that pretty good
reason why he should be kept there?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

The Way With Most of Us.
81 do like expensive things"
81 didn't think you cared for them"
"Why not?'
Because you never seem to buy
them
'Oh, it isn't because l don't care for
them that | don't buy them. 1t is be-
cause they are expensive"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

Proof.
care you my friend?"
81 trust am"
prove it,"
GLADLY, but haven't q cent"
THAT doesn't matter. Listen to my
tale of woe
'Oh, sure, as long as it doesn't cost
anything"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
Not So Useful,

Not So Useful.
1.-THE schools are deteriorating in ev-
cry way"
For one thing?"
''The Biographies are not more than
half as large as they used to be-"
What is wrong about that?"
"a bright boy cannot so readily hide
the dime novel he is reading behind
one"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

Willie-Mother always carves when
we have company to dinner. Bobby
Isn't your father able to? Willie
Guess he amt able to without sayin
things.-Boston Transcript
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

II Overseer Voliva is really in earn
est in his attempt to Danish smoking
from Zion City, why doesn't he import
the cigars left over from the last polit-
ical campaign in Chicago?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

Masked robbers got $4,000 from a
bank in Colorado" Crude work. The
masked robbers of Wall street would
not have been satisfied with any such
petty sum.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

Mrs. Belmont has abandoned her
farm. Evidently she found it impossi-
BILE to convince her young women far
mers that COWS are as benevolent as
they look
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

A Kansas farmer advertises for "a
good mixer who will not swear at
the cows" After next month he may
be able TO find a campaign financial
manager who is out Of a job.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

A Chicago doctor says there is never
a time when it is sensible to drink ice
water. Which makes it evident thS,.
he never experienced the sensations of
"the morning after"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
Couldn't Be.

Couldn't Be.
"A boys best
frien d is his
mother"
And a girls
best friend is her
mirror, eh?"
Not q bit of
it,
why, | thought
that was all you
girls b eliev e d
about it."
Certainly not!
Isn't it always
casting reflections
on us z"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

An Englishman predicts that in a
few years all Americans will be left
handed. Those Britishers always did
have trouble with our vernacular. I'm
doubtedly he meant fore-handed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
No Kiss In Two Months

Waukegan, May "a man at wau-
kegan brought suit for divorce in two
months after marriage, declaring in
that time he had not had a kiss or a
kind word.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
His Simnle Needs.
anything.

His Simple Needs.
att is awful the way the necessaries
of life have gone up"
81 think that is all talk. hadn't no
dced it."
where have you beenT'
Fright here, and I can still buy good
cigars two for a nickel"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

The personal physician of King
George says that Chicago is "a pretty
place" What in the world can it be
that George wants Chicago to do for
him?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

from $500 to $1,000 a year and making
the money payable in advance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
A Hint.

You want to do the best you can
To clean the party states.
And that EiIl be, Oh. worthy man,
To can some candidates.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

suddenly was missed. Foul play is
feared, as his clothes are at his hotel.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
May 3 In American
History.

1742-Manasseh Cutler, noted New
England clergyman. botanist. pio-
neer. etc, born; died 1898.
1S63-Battle of Charlottesville decid-
ed: Federals under General Joseph
Hooker defeated: "Stonewall" Jack
son mortally wounded by the fire
of his own men while he was recon-
noitering the lines in the night
Be useful where thou WEST that they
2aay both want and wish thy pleasing
pressscs siiIl--CeoE=e HerhS1ss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
Raise Saloon License.

Morrisonville, May 3.-The Morris
onville village board has passed an
ordinance raising the saloon license
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
A Girls View,

A Girls View.
what is your idea of leap year priv
ilegesF'
Going round and watching the
young men swell up with conceit every
time a girl looks In their direction"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

Now that the Massachusetts strug-
gle is over, what will be next arena
for gladiatorial combat?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

Don't express positive opinion IN
less you perfectly understand what
ara talking about
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
Foul PLAY Is Feared.

Joliet, May Be A Dingeman, rep.
resenting a Detroit directory firm
went TO Joliet to make deliveries and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
THE ARGUS.

published Daily and Weekly at is7,
POND avenue. Rock Tslana. Ill 1En.
Ssred at the postomce a. second elias.
matter.J
Rock Island Member Of the Associated
Press.
BY THE ). w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
Canned Meat PoIsone

Joliet, May 3.-Seven persons were
badly poisoned in Joliet by eating can
ned meat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

TEREs.-DsIly. 10 cents per week
Weekly, 81 per year IN advance.
Complaints OF delivery service should
be made &c tile circulation department.
which should cIso be notified in every
inetance where II is desired to have
paper discontinued. as carriers have nc
authority In the premises
AL communications OF e-gumentative
character. Jolitics! or religious. must
have real name attached for publica-
ton No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Telephones In all departments: Contra
Union. West I45 and 1l45: Union Eleo.
trio. 5I45.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
Too REGULAR.

Too Regular.
"What is the matter with Jenksw
He is no good"
But l hear he is man of regular
habits"
well, he beats his wife every day"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
BY CLYDE n. TAvENNER.

- VII - nv
Especial Correspondence of The Argus.)
Washington, May THAT the DEM
ocrats in congress are not in the least
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03
They All STAYED In,

~Any fish in that lake?"
There are for all of me- I've been
fishing here a week and amt took
none out"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

Getting in bad is often followed by
falling out in the same way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

The reason why some persons can't
get along without a drag must be that
they are such light weights.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

Friday May 3, 1912.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-03

When you can't get what you want
change your sense Of values.
The Ordway new era., 1912-03-01
Minor Mention.

Durango Is to have an 100000 su-
gar beet factory.
Horace W. Ferguson. a pioneer OF
Evans. Is dead.
A glove factory will be opened in
Loveland March l.
The next municipal election in La
mar will be held in April. 1913.
Georgetown Is to have a plant for
the manufacture of concrete brick.
Buckingham is making a hard fight
against the division OF Weld county.
James H. Smith. one OF the wealth.
est citizens in Mesa county, Is dead.
There were 1000 fewer deaths IN
Denver In 1911 than In the preceding
year.
The cornerstone Of the First Baptist
church at Grand Junction was recently
laid.
Richard Richardson. one OF the
earliest settlers OF Cripple Creek, is
dead
The turkey trot and the bunny hug
dance hav been introduced in Grand
Junction.
A man. his wife and four sons are in
jail in Walsenburg awaiting sentence
by the court.
Four children of Diego Scracina, an
Italian miner OF Segundo. have died
within a week.
The Mineequa steel works at Pueblo
has received an order for 1000 tons
OF steel rails.
The twenty-first annual fair OF the
Arkansas Valley will open at Rocky
Ford September 3.
Rudolph Unholz. the fighting Boer.
and Eddie Johnson. fought ten rounds
to draw at Pueblo.
The state fish hatchery at Steam
boat Springs has just hatched out
100000 brook trout.
Italian. Archuleta county's famous
sub-chief. died recently at his home
near Pagosa Junction.
Kersey farmers and business men
will cooperate in the organization Of
a commercial club.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Camp Of Platte
vile. recently celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary.
Ben Peck. aged sixty-three, at one
time county assessor OF Routt coun.
ty. is dead at Hayden.
James A. King, a well-known pio-
neer Of northern Colorado, is dead at
his home near Boulder.
The three-year-old son OF Dan Van
derpool at Greeley. fell backward into
e tub Of boiling water and was fatal.
ly injured.
The Ordway new era., 1912-03-01

The Borah bill to reduce the time
for residence on homesteads to three
years and to grant entrymen six
months leave Of obsence annually has
found new advocate in Speaker
Clark OF the House.
President Taft has informed Con-
gress that he does not approve Of Post
master General Hitchcock's sugges-
tion that the government buy and op-
crate all telegraph lines as an adjunct
Of the postal system.
President Taft. speaking at the
peace meeting OF the Navy league in
Washington declared the time had not
come for this country to be economi-
cal at the expense OF an adequate
naval establishment: expressed the
hope that the present Congress would
authorize the construction OF two bat
tleships. and said he gladly would
sign a bill that carried such an author
ization.
The Ordway new era., 1912-03-01
SPORT.

Joe Ketchel, the prize fighter who
collapsed after recent bout with
Billy Walters near Waukegan, Ill !,
died.
Jim Flynn, who is to battle with
Jack Johnson during the coming sum.
mer, blasted the aspirations Of Wal.
ter MacLachlan for pugilistic honors
in a three.round bout at the Star
theater in Milwaukee.
Mike Gibbons of st. Paul knocked
cut Willie Lewis Of New York in the
second round of a scheduled ten-round
bout in the latter city.
A new champion was born to pugi-
lism in the Vernon arena at Los An.
geles when Johnny Kilbane of Cleve.
land. Ohio. decisively outfought, out
gained and outpunched Abe Attell in
their twenty-round contest, and at the
close was awarded the featherweight
title by Referee Charles Eyton. XII
bane led from start to finish, and at
no time was the result in doubt.
The Ordway new era., 1912-03-01
WEEKS NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS

Thirty thousand bales Of cotton
burned in one of the big warehouses
In Bombay.
While the memory Of George Wash.
ington was celebrated by Americans
throughout the civilized world. the
new Chinese republic took cognizance
Of the event and sent a cablegram Of
greetings to the State Department at
Washington.
Believing that all the instructions
against the government are largely a
result OF the publication Of sensation.
al news. President Madero and his
cabinet have appealed to the perma.
nent committee in congress to sus-
pend that article of the constitution
providing for q free press and have
been given a negative reply.
Two hundred Mexican revolution
ists were killed in an attack on San
Pedro. garrisoned by 200 federal troops
and 100 rurales. Four thousand poems
surrounded the town. They attacked
portion OF the city left unguarded
by the defendants. All Of the seventy
rebels leading the attack fell at the
first fire. More than 100 who followed
were moved down with the second
volley. The Vasquistas beat n retreat.
Two assaults were made on the town.
The Ordway new era., 1912-03-01
GEN ERAL.

In an explosion and panic In a NOV
ing picture show at Albrightsville, w.
Va. twenty-nine persons were in
jured.
Capt. Theodore F. Townsend, one Of
the most noted weather experts in
this country died at his home at Cape
May. N. J. aged seventy-four.
John Harmon, a laborer was a VIC
tim OF the storm in Chicago. His
body was found frozen in a snow
drift in the yard OF his home.
Poisoned by her mother, who gave
her strychnine, believing it to be
quininc. Miss Agnes Johnson, nine
teen, the beautiful daughter Of a
wealthy contractor Of Pasadena, Cal,
died
Earl Sandt, youthful aviator, the
first bird-man to fly over the Great
Lakes from the United States to Can
ada, came to grief when his machine
turned turtle and he fell 1000 feet to
the Ice.
Black Hand murders. safe crackers.
burglars, footpads, pickpockets and
daylight bandits have operated in St.
Louis almost without molestation for
two weeks. The police have been ut
terly unable to cope with the situa-
tion.
Death by the hand of the law voids
all life insurance policies of the Grim
inal. Tho Supreme Court so held in
the fight of the children Of James s.
McCue. mayor of Charlottesville, Va.
who was executed for the murder of
his wife in 1905. A policy for $4,000
was carried by McCue in the North
western Mutual Life Insurance Compa-
ny of Wisconsin.
The Ordway new era., 1912-03-01
WASHINGTON.

A bill authorizing the withdrawal of
sovereignty OF the United States from
the Philippines has been Introduced in
in Congress.
The Department OF Agriculture will
participate in the National Corn Ex-
position to be held at Columbia, s. c.,
next January.
President Taft and the German am.
bassador, Count Won Bernstorff, both
heartily favor the earliest consumma-
tion of an arbitration treaty with
Germany.
Only Congress and not the Supreme
Court OF the United States may object
to the initiative and referendum meth.
cd of legislation in the states, so the
court decided.
An official order for changing the
stars CT the national ensign and the
union jack in use by the navy to show
the addition of two new states to the
Union has been issued by the Navy
Department.
The Washington National Monu.
mental Society has sent letters to the
governors of states which have not
placed memorial stones in the Wash
ington monument, and urging that
these states furnish memorials sim
liar to those already placed there. The
states not represented are Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona. Oklahoma, Tex.
as. Washington and Idaho.
The Ordway new era., 1912-03-01

Four trainmen are dead and Hoosac
tunnel at North Adams. Mass. is SO
effectively blocked that 1t may be days
before the tracks are cleared, as the
result Of a rear.end collision between
a freight train and Boston.bound
express on the Boston & Maine rail.
road.
The mystery Of eight deaths Of ba.
bies in the Brooklyn nursery and in.
fant hospital was solved. the police
say. by the confession Of Winifred
Ankers, a kitchen woman at the hos.
pital. admitting that she placed oxalic
acid in the babies milk bottles.
A binding snowstorm. backed by a
fifty.mile gale swooped down on the
Middle West. blocked traffic, played
pranks with the routine Of human af-
fairs and swept eastward in the direc.
ton Of northern Ohio. Pennsylvania
and New York. A temperature rang.
ing between twenty-nine and twenty
four degrees made the wind and snow
bearable and little suffering was re.
ported. Several deaths in wrecks are
attributed indirectly to the storm. The
storm reached its greatest intensity in
Chicago and northern and central ILL.,
nois. although eastern Iowa and Mis-
souri,, southern Wisconsin. Michigan
and Indiana felt the blizzard to a con.
siderable extent.
The Ordway new era., 1912-03-01
Bullion Thief Confesses.

Salem. Ore.-Gov. Oswald West has
announced that he had obtained full
confession from one Of the men I'M
plicated in the robbery Of the steamer
Humboldt. from which, in September.
1910, was stolen $4,000 worth Of gold
bullion. Twenty-Five pounds OF this
has been recovered and was brought
to Salem and placed in the hands Of
the governor, who turned it over to
Steve Connell, United States secret
service operative.
The Ordway new era., 1912-03-01
WESTERN.

At the opening OF an aviation meet
in Oakland, Cal, one man was killed
and six others seriously injured in an
accident.
Flames that destroyed farmhouse
rear Sapulpa, Okla. cremated two
children and probably fatally burned
three others.
Death by shooting was selected by
Harley McWhinney when the court at
Salt Lake. before passing sentence.
asked him his preference.
1t is estimated that fifty residences
were destroyed by fire which swept
the portion Of Houston, Texas, inhab-
tied by the working classes.
Tom Gun, the San Francisco
Chinese aviator, had narrow escape
from death at the meet in Oakland
when his biplane fell from height Of
$50 feet and buried him beneath the
wreckage.
To develop more thoroughly the fer
tilizer and potash resources Of the
United States. Secretary Wilson has
ordered the establishment at Reno.
New. of government laboratory.
where natural materials supposed to
contain potash will be examined with.
out cost. Those sending samples must
prepay transportation charges.
The total area OF the public do
main that up to date has been classi'
fled as applicable to the provisions
of the enlarged homestead act,
amounts to nearly two hundred mil.
lion acres. Last month, 10000 acres
in Montana and Oregon were desig.
mated as lands from which 32O.acre
homesteads may be selected, and
more lands are being classified ev.
cry month
Eight miners are known to have
been killed and the fate of score or
more imprisoned in mine No. Of the
Western Coal & Mining Company at
Lehigh. Okla, which is afire. is
doubtful. Seven bodies have been re.
covered. half dozen men had been
rescued, while several bodies, appar-
emily lifeless have been located. AT
the time of the discovery of the fire
200 men were at work in the mine.
The greater number were near the
mouth and escaped before the fire
gained headway, but others in the
ower workings were entombed