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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ACT.
Urges Legislation to Safeguard Work.
men Both on Land and Sea-Points
Out Needed Economical Reforms.

Urges Legislation to Safeguard Work.
men Both on Land and Sea-Point.
! Out Needed Economical Reforms.
Three or four matters of special i'm
| portance and significance l beg that
! you will permit me to mention in clos
| ing.
Our bureau OF mines ought to he
equipped and empowered to render
| even more effectual service than it rem
ders now in improving the conditions OF
mine labor and making the mines more
economically productive as well as
more safe. This is an all importan Mt
| part of the work of conservation, and
the conservation of human life and en-
erSy hes even nearer TO our interest
than the preservation from waste OF
our material resources.
We owe il in mere justice to the rail
way employees of the country to pro-
vide for them a fair and effective en-
plOyer's liability act; and d law that
we can stand by in this matter will be
no less to the advantage of those who
administer the railroads OF the coun-
try than to the advantage of those
whom they employ. The experience
of large number of the states abun-
dainty proves this.
We ought to devote ourselves to
meeting pressing demands of plain
justice like this as earnestly as to the
accomplishment OF political and eco
nomic reforms. Social justice comes
first. Law is the machinery for its
realization and is vital only as Ii ex-
presses and embodies il.
An international congress for the dis
cussion of all questions that affect safe
~ nc sea is now sitting in London at
the suggestion of our own government
So soon as the conclusions of that con-
gress can be learned and considered
we ought to address ourselves, among
other things. to the prompt alienation
OF the very unsafe. unjust and borden
some conditions which now surround
the employment of sailors and render
it extremely difficult to obtain the
services of spirited and competent men
such as every ship needs If it is to be
safely handled and brought TO port
May 1 not express the very real
pleasure / have experienced in coop
ernting with this congress and sharing
with it the labors of common service
TO which it has devoted itself so unre-
servedly during the past seven months
OF accomplishing concentration upon
the business OF legislation? Surely 1t
is a proper and pertinent part Of my
report on ''The State OF the Union" TO |
express my admiration for the dill |
gence. the good temper and the full |
OF public duty which |
has already been manifested by both |
the houses, and hope that Ii may not |
be deemed an impertinent intrusion |
OF myself into. the picture II say with
how much and how constant satisfac-
ton ! have availed myself Of the priv
Ilege Of putting my time and energy
At their disposal alike In counsel and
In action. WOODROW WILSON.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02

We have a deep down feeling that
nature knows her business and
never makes mistakes. Could we
but know natures laws and did we
obey these laws, we are pretty sure
that we would escape sickness.
Then il follows that sickness is a
sin of Commission. That we have
committed some breach of natures
laws when the head aches-when
the breath is bad-when the stomach
rebels. But we compound the offense
by the besetting sin OF Omission.
We omit that preventive minis
tration that would correct the sin OF
commission-that would relieve the
headache by loosening the damned
up bile in the Liver.
In the coated tongue, headache or
dizziness or bad breath we had am
pie warning that the Liver was not
performing properly. But commit
ted the greater sin by emitting the
simple preventive measure that
would rectify the sin of commission
Possessed with fear OF losing time
from our daily duties, we say: Il
would take some medicine. but
haven't the time to be sick"
We think of the sickening effects
of Calomel (mercury) or of the
gripping and subsequent nausea Of
Podophyllin. We sin and continue
to sin.
Knowing man and hiS besetting
weakness-thefe fear of sickness -
science is ever at work on new prep
arations for his relief.
The old Podophyllin or May Apple
Root treatment never failed to loosen
the damned up bile in the liver.
Doctors and laymen pronounced this
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02
IS SICKNESS A SIN?
If So, Is It a Sin of Omission or
Commission, or Both?

the best Liver medicine of all the
remedies. hut the intense gripping
that accompanied it's work and the
nausea that followed was worse than
the disease.
Now comes PoDoLax-a new Podo-
phyllin formula in which the grippe
has been taken out and the sicken-
ing overcome.
1t is a liquid pleasant TO taste and
easy to take. 1t loosens the damned
up bile which in turn cleanses the
bowels and makes the tissue antisep-
tic. The blood abounds with new
life and vigor, the brain becomes
easy, the skin clears and you are
all smiles without griping-without
neutrality-suspicious. loss OF time
and at trifing cost.
But it is expected that you watch
carefully for those warnings-the
headache-the bad breath-the bloat-
ed stomach-and avoid the sin OF
omission by acting at once.
You, yourself, must practice Pre-
ventive Medicine - your Physician
is entitled to the job of curing. Your
job is Prevention-so. on the very
first warning secure a bottle OF
PoDoLax and prevent the need of
Doctor.
j. B. Davis, Lockhart, Texas, writes:
I've haven't been out a cent for
a Doctor since we began using
PoDoLax. I personally recommend
it to my friends"
When we say Insist on PoDoLax"
it is to save you from the use of
mere laxatives that have no effect on
the Liver and that fan utterly In
loosening the damned up Bile.
The e. E. Sutherland Co.. Padu-
cab, Ky.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02
UPHOlOS ANTITRUST LAW.
Recommends That 1t Be Supplemented
With More Explicit Legislation to
Facilitate It's Administration.

Recommends That II Be Supplemented
With More Explicit Legislation to
Facilitate It's Administration.
Turn from the farm to the world OF
business which centers in the city and
In the factory, and l think that all
thoughtful Observers will agree that
the immediate service we owe the
business communities OF the country
Is 90 prevent private monopoly more
effectually than it has yet been pre-
vented think it will be easily agreed
that we should let the Sherman anti
trust law stand, unaltered. as IL IS,
with its debatable ground about #.
but that we should as much as posi-
BILE reduce the area Of that debata BILE
ground by further and more explicit
legislation. and should also supplement
that great act by legislation which
win not only clarity IL but also faciI-
tate its administra ton and make q
fairer 10 all concerned.
No doubt we shall all wish, and the
country VIII expect, this to be the
central subject OF our delibera tons
during the present session. but IL IS a
subject so many sided and so deserv-
ing Of careful and discriminating dis
cussIon that / shall take the liberty OF
addressing you upon It in a special
message ut later date than this It
is OF capital importance that the bust
ness men of this country should be re-
lieved OF all uncertainties OF law with
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02

nation f. the production Of its food.
Our thoughts may ordinarily be con-
eeDtrated upon the cities and the hives
Of industry, upon the cries Of the
crowded market place and the clnngor
Of the factory, but it is from the quiet
interspaces Of the open valleys and the
free hillsldes that we draw the sources
of life and OF prosperity. from the
farm and the ranch, from the forest
and the mine without these every
street would be silent. every office de-
serted, every factory fallen into disre-
pair.
And yet the farmer does not stand
upon the same footing with the fores-
ter and the miner in the market OF
credit. He is the servant of the sea
sons. Nature determines how long he
must wait for his crops and will not
be hurried in her processes. He may
give his note. but the season OF its
maturity depends upon the season
when his crop natures and lies at the
gates OF the market where his prod
ucts are sold And the security he
gives is OF n character not known in
the brokers' office or as Familiarity as
IL might be on the counter of the
banker.
The agricultural department Of the
government is seeking TO assist as
never before TO make farming an eff
cient business, of wide cooperative ef-
fort. in quick touch with the markets
for feodstuffs. The farmers and the
government will henceforth work to-
gether as real partners in this field,
where we now begin to see our way
very clearly and where many intelli-
gent plans are already being put into
execution
The treasury Of the United States
has by a timely and well considered
distribution OF its deposits facilitated
the moving OF the crops in the present
season and prevented the scarcity of
available funds too often experienced
at such times. But we must not allow
to depend upon extraordi
nary expedients- We must add the
means by which the farmer may make
his credit constantly and easily avail |
able and command when he will the !
capital by which to support and ex-
pand his business. We lag behind I
many other great countries of the mod /
ern world in attempting to do this I
systems OF Turdl CreulL nave peeu I
studied and developed on the other
side OF the water while we left our
farmers TO shift for themselves in the I
ordinary money market. You have .
but TO look about you in any rural dis
trict TO see the result the handicap
and embarrassment which have been
put upon those who produce our food.
Conscious of this backwardnesS and
neglect on our part. the congress re-
GENTLY authorized the creation OF
special commission to study the vari-
,us systems of rural credit which have
been put into operation in Europe. and
his commission is already prepared
% report. Its report ought TO make it
EASIER for us to determine what meth
IDS will be best suited 10 orr own
armers. / hope and believe that the
OF the senate and house
will address themselves to this matter
With the most fruitful results, and !
,elieve that the studies and recently
ormed plans of the department of ag-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02

Washington, D. Gin his message.
delivered at a joint session Of the
houses Of congress at the beginning Of
the second session OF the Sixty-thIrd
congress. President Wilson urged i'm
mediate currency Legislation. devoted
considerable space 10 the needs OF the
farmers and referred 70 the Mexican
crisis. The Sherman antitrust law, he
said. should be changed so that its
exact meaning would be clearer. The
president also urged the choice OF
presidential nominees by the direct
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02
PROBLEM IN ALASKA.

Urges Development by Nation of Nat
uraI Resources and Full Territorial
Form of Government.
A duty faces us with regard to Alas
ka which seems TO me very pressing
and very imperative; perhaps / should
say a double duty. for IL concerns both
the political and the material develop
ment Of the territory. The people of
Alaska should be given the full terri
torial form OF government and Alas
ka. as a storehouse. should be unlock
ed. One key 10 II is a system Of rail-
ways. These the government should
itself build and administer. and the
ports and terminals ii should itself
control in the interest Of all who wish
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02

ference of purpose between them. The
resources in question must be used.
but not destroyed or wasted; used, but
not monopolized upon any narrow idea
of individual rights as against the
abiding interests of communities. That
a policy can be worked out by confer
ence and concession which will release
these resources and vet not leopard
or dissipate them 1 for one have no
doubt. and it can be done on lines OF
regulation which need be no less ac-
ceptable to the people and government
of the nation at large. whose heritage
these resources are. We must bend
our counsels to this end. A common
purpose ought to make agreement
easy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02
PRESIDENT MAKES KNOWN
HIS PHILIPPINE POLICY.

President Wilson's policy to-
ward the Philippine Islands 10
made clear in his message. He
urges the development of the
Philippines, always keeping in
view ultimate independence of
the islanders. While he does not
believe they are ready for self
government today he believes
that eventually they will be. He
points out Improvement that has
recently been made by calling
attention to the fact that more
natives have been appointed on
the Philippine commission than
was the case previously.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02
URGES CURRENCY REFORM
TO BENEFIT THE FARMER.

President Wilson in his mes
sage urges the Immediate pas
sage of currency legislation. He
asserts that business interests of
the nation are waiting on the eN-
pected law before making large
new investments or developing
resources. The president also
calls attention to conditions as
they exist at present, which
make Il very difficult for the
farmer to finance his crop. He
urges in his annual message pro-
visions that will safeguard the
farmer, help his credit and pre-
vent q repetition of the neces-
sity for the governmental to de-
post large sums of money in
the southern and western states
so Is to aid the producer, as was
the case last fall.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02
Oyster Shells az Medicine.

Ground oyster shells were given by
the medieval doctors to children suf-
fering from ricketts, and scrofuIa. Now
IL appears that they were right The
shells contain lime. nitrogen. iron. sui
phur. manganese. msgnesia, -four, bro
mide. phosphoric acid and iodine. all
excellent for feeble children. They say
that IL growing children were TO take
powdered oyster shells in their food
the teeth would be improved.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02
PRIMARY NOMINATIONS
FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

urge the prompt enactment
Of legislation which will provide
for primary elections through
out the country al which the
voters Of the several parties may
choose their nominees for the
presidency without the intsrvsn-
ton Of nominating conventions.
venture the suggestion that this
legislation should provide for the
retention of party conventions,
but only for the purpose of de-
clsrins and accepting the YER
dict of the primaries and fornnu-
iatins the platforms Of the par
ties. and I suggest that these
conventions should consist not
Of delegates chosen for this sin
gle purpose, but of the nominees
for congress-, the nominees for
vacant seats IN the senate Of the
United States. the senators
whose terms have not yet closed.
the national committees and the
candidates for tire presidency
themselves, in order that plat
forms may be framed by those
responsible 70 the people for car
rying them into effect.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02

regard to their enterprises and invest
ments and a clear path indicated
which they can travel without anxiety
1t is as important that they should be
relieved of embarrassment and set
free to prosper as that private monop-
oily should be destroyed. The ways of
action should be thrown wide open.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02
PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE TO
CONGRESS 4:

Chief Executive Discusses the
Mexican Crisis. the Currency
Bill, the Sherman Law. Nomi-
nation of President by Direct
Vote at Primaries and Other
Matters of importance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02

riculture may be made TO serve them
very greatly in their work OF framing
appropriate and adequate legislation.
1t would be indiscreet and presump-
tuous in any one to dogmatize upon so
great and many sided a question. but
/ feel confident that common counsel
will produce the results we must all
desire.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02

establishment Of new treaty obliga
tons and the Interpretation OF those
already assumed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02

Advertisement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-02

Predicts Downfall of ~Usurper" Who
Cast Aside Even Pretenss of Legal
Right and DeelaredsHimseIf Dieta-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-26
ACTION MUST BE PROMPT.

Nothing more timely could have
been taken up by the Chamber of
Commerce at its meeting this week,
than the saving of Hammond's
shade trees, but unless prompt action
lis taken by the city administration
it will be too late.
The maple scale which is infesting
the trees all over the city will ruin
the incest tree in two or three years.
Ordinary spraying has been found
ineffective to combat the pests, and
experts have suggested force pumps.
Such an equipment is rather expen-
lsive and the private individual can
not be expected to buy it to save the
one or two trees that he has. Even
| If he would go to the expense he is
not insured any protection against
his neighbours carelessness, who may
not care enough to kill off the pest
We have too few trees in Ham
mond as 1t is, and while most oil
them are on private property, they
are nevertheless one of the city's as.
sets and the best way for the city tx
save them is to help the owner take
care of them. Indiana has a Law
which provides that the city may
cut down any tree on which thu
owner permits the pest to exist. Blu
the Hammond people will not have Il
be coerced by any laws; they would
be only too glad to cooperate. TIL,
lcondition of our parks alone war
Irants the purchase of an equipmen
land the hiring of extra men to oper
late it.
i The matter was referred to tn
committee on parks and boulevard
and within few days it is to b
hoped that some beginning will hav
been made to save what is yet to b
Isaved
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-26

in speeches by the Premier and the
Crown Prince, is the fact that Bull
garia is unwilling to accept the arbi-
tration of the Gar of Russia offered
in his recently strongly worded note
to the monarehs of the two countries
or even to attend the meeting of the
Balkin Premiers at ST. Petersburg.
King Ferdinand feels with justice
that if the matter is settled by arbit-
ration some at least of the claims of
IServia will be recognized.
1t is hardly possible to believe that
Bulgaria will persist in q policy
which practically amounts to a def
ance of the great Slav Power to
which all of the Balkan States have
In the past looked as their protector
1t seems most probable that King
Ferdinand is playing a waiting game
as did King Nicholas is the Scutari
question, and that peace depends now,
as 1t did then, upon the Powers OF
Europe acting in complete accord
The danger is that King Ferdinand
may wait too long and the situation
get beyond his control.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-26
THANKS FOR THEM WORDS"

The Lake County Times has
just celebrated its eighth birthday.
It is a good paper, and getting
better all the time. 1t was started
in difficult field, right under
the shadow of Chicago, but with
local interests of its own which
justify the belief that some of
these days Lake County will have
as good newspapers as Newark, N.
J., which the Lake County group
of cities will after while equal in
population. The Times is in the
forefront of journalism in Lake
and when the territory becomes as
populous as it is destined to be,
not far into the future, it will
doubtless become one of the big
daily papers of the state. The
Times maintains bright, inter
esting and wholesome editorial
page which makes it a welcome
visitor to other newspaper offices
throughout Northern Indiana
Muncie Press.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-26
NO COLLEGE DRINKING.

A bugaboo of lang standing to
the idolizing parents who sees in his
son the reincarnation of Little Lord
Fauntleroy and Martin Luther has
been chased down strangled. Those
charges of Incorporate living
against college students, lodged by
Mr.. Crane of Chicago, caused no lit
tie stir. Even though the denia,s
were immediate and emphatic the
Islander still persists to the effect
that college boys are no far super
Iior to the rest of our sons. In order
to make doubly sure that this is not
true we have secured a few inter-
views with university students home
for the summer vacations.
1T is outrageous" said a well
known Wabash freshman Drink is
absolutely unknown at Wabash, as
are poker, rhummy, kelley pool and
lother low-brow vices.
A sophomore at Lafayette who is
known for his extreme caution said
| in regard to the situation at the
| state school, Il will admit that there
was time when we sang drinking
songs such as Give Us a Drink Bar
itender, but no bartender ever paid
the slightest attention to them
There is no record of a case where i
student ever entered a saloon, drums
or sober, and / doubt if many oil
them, linguists though they may be
know the meaning of the WORD
I"stein."
| An old graduate of Yale, now {
physician in Hammond was seen
l"Perfect nonsense" he said in dis
Igust II will not say that there ii
mo drinking at Yale but the better
Iclass of students do not indulge.
liz a we'll known fact that those stu
ldents who have to work their wa,
Through school are drunk most O
tire time The rich students how
lever are abstemious. Indeed I ma.
lsay excessively abstemious-"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-26
GIVE THEM TIME.

In several of the cities of Indiana
progressive" politicians have effect
ed party organizations and named
partisan municipal tickets, and then,
under instructions from Indianapolis
have invited the public to consider
their partisanship non-partisan. On
call string beans orange blossoms
and keep it up persistently enough
some sucker will ultimately believe
it-Muncie Press.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-26
MORE FoRWARp-LooKING MEN

Last fall Maury I. Diggs and Drew
Caminetti, of California, took a
couple of foolish little high school
girls from Sacramento up to. Reno,
New. 1t was an elopement in one
sense, yet it was not an elopement
for the purpose of marriage, for
both men left wives and babies be-
hind them. It was simply one of
those very sorid Opponents where
experienced men of the world take
advantage of childish innocency,
trusting to the dual standard of NOR
atty to set themselves right In so
lciety when finally firing of their VIC
Tins they should return to their de-
serted families with crocodile tears
of repentance. In this case, how
ever, they miscalculated. The peo-
lple of Sacramento were terribly
taroused and the clippers were finally
located and arrested, the girls being
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-26
JUST A HINT.

See that veteran railroad
baggageman, well and favorably
known along the line of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railway, had his
right leg and left foot cut of at
Maysville, Ky.
His son, says that account of the
accident, was the first to reach him,
and he found his father smoking a
cigar and tying his mangled limbs
up with a handkerchief.
We are a hardy race, take us ali
|around.
Suggest that cheerful stories such
as these be collected and printed in
tract or ieaflet form for distribution
on the trains of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad.
They would while away the ted.
jun of travel and teach one now tt
act in emergencies.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-26
p- lITuEl
FoEM= 20 p ! ~ |

LIFE Is so SHORT.
Life is short and there's SO much to
say
We dare not waste the time, for twill
soon be yesterday.
Humans yearn for Kindness,
Words of wisdom. love;
Words that help the weary heart
And point to heaven above.
So let's watch our lips, my eomrade.
May each day close with the thong hit
That some one is more eontented
Through the work our words have
wrought.
Life is SO short and there's so much To
do
We must be industrious and to our
duty true.
We must build character
That shall stand for aye.
We must leave the human race
Better for stay.
So let's watch the minutes, comrade.
Let us use our time so well
Thus, through life is very short.
We can make each moment tell.
c. NJ. BARNITZ.