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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29

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blood. The correspondence in the
state department at Washington
shows that Spain had agreed through
Prime Minister Sagasta to withdraw
the army of Spain from the Island of
Cuba before congress declared war
against Spain. Not only does this Of
fetal correspondence prove this, but
ex-senator and eX-Cabinet Minister
John Sherman, then secretary Of state,
SO stated in q public address at Mans
field, Ohio. That spasm of military
Mysteries has already cost us the lives
Of over $4,000 stalwart young soldiers,
with a pension list to date aggregat-
ing over forty millions Of dollars and
over one thousand millions all told
/ worse than wasted in the far away
Philippine islands. And the end is
not yet.
There is not prominent public man
today Of either Of the three parties
who does not know that the acquisi
ton of the Philippine islands was the
greatest diplomatic blunder in our
whole 1870 years OF national life, and
yet that violent attack Of Mysteries
which precipitated the war with
Spain was largely caused by one too
many of our many useless battieships.
| Had not the battleship Maine" en-
/ tered the harbor of Havana there
! would have been no war. 1t was the
| wild excitement created throughout
the country by the blowing up of the
i Maine with its precious freight Of hu-
man lives that raised the war spirit
to such ferocity that President Nc
kinIey was overwhelmed
! General Fitzhugh Lee Of Virginia,
noble diplomat. then United States
consul at Havana, notified the presi-
dent not to send any battleship to
Havana during the excited condition
of affairs on the island of Cuba
| Hence I give it as historical fact
that the one battleship too many
Maine was responsible for our war
| with Spain, aided Of course and pro-
NOTED by that cruel propaganda of
the Army and Navy league and the
jingoes in congress.
I One OF our leading citizens Of To-
| ledo has recently received instructions
from Pine street, New York. emanat-
! ing OF course from that gigantic or
ganization of trusts that seek to DOM
mate the legislation of congress, to
organize the city Of Toledo for that
tremendous expenditure of our re-
sources for a big army and navy, I'M
der the humbug pretense OF national
defense.
There are millions in it," II 1t can
be fully exploited, for that powerful
array known as the Army and Navy
league. backed by the armor plate
trust, the powder trust. the steel trust
and allied trusts. Their combined
profits during the past 10 years, al
of the taxpayers OF the United States
for material furnished the govern
ment. are estimated at NOT less thar
} one hundred millions of dollars: fscar
these figures. sloe.oo0,oool. have
already stated there are millions in
this military propaganda for the biz
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29
FINES INCREASED
S235 IN ONE RAID
Rock Island Police Arrest Three Men
and Woman at Greek Coffee
House on Third Arenne.
TWO ASSESSED 500 AND COSTS
Authorities Charge Selling Liquor
without License and Also Main
tanning House of III-Fame.

A single raid upon Greek coffee
house located on the north side OF
Third avenue, between Twenty-seeond
and Twenty-third streets. will net the
police department $235 in fines, al
though only four arrests we're made,
Chief of Police Phil Miller and Pa
trolmen Berry, Ginnane and Kinney
raided the place at o'clock Satur-
day might Following were fined
Nick Paris, $50 for keeping disor-
derry house and $50 for selling liquor
without a license,
George Tantegas. $50 for keeping 4
disorderly house and $50 for selling
liquor without license,
Tony Stepulus, $25 for keeping a
disorderly house and $50 for selling
liquor without a license.
Lulu Edwards, $40 on a charge Of
being an inmate of a disorderly house,
Pound Men Drinking.
Police say they found men seated
in tie place drinking beer. They also
claim to have secured beer in an ice
box and charge that they found the
woman upstairs.
The ownership Of the place seemed
a mixed affair Paris admitted sell
ing the liquor. Stepulus admitted
owning the place Tantegas admitted
having formerly owned it. Other ar
rests were made, but none of those
unprecedented was held, being taken to
the station merely as witnesses.
Police said today that while all OF
the fines had not been collected. that
they would be The result of the raid,
therefore will mean a big boost in
monetary penalties inflicted this
month and will increase what other
wise would have been a sum under
the normal amount of fines collected
for month.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29
SELECTED By TAVENNER:
(BY GENERAL ISAAC
SHERWOOD OF 0Hl0)

CONTINUED from Page Four)
congress that he had secret or conf
Dental information that Japan was
contemplating war against the United
States OF course. the armor plate
trust and the powder trust and the
steel trust and their allies, through
the big newspapers they own and the
leading magazines they control. work
ed up a powerful sentiment in con-
gress and the country for a bigger
navy and more formidable army to
resist the imaginary warlike attitude
of Japan. In fact we had for that SEES
sion of congress an acute case of mill
tary Mysteries and we wasted some
seventy millions Of our hard earned
tax money for an increased army aud
navy. All wasted money and wasted
energy, as we all know now.
Then in 1912, we had very aggra-
waiting attack of political Mysteries,
largely fomented and led by Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, who made the
campaign for the presidency on a
more radical socialist platform than
Eugene Debs. He not only advocated
the recall Of judges, but also the re-
call Of judicial decisions by tNe rural
rosters in town elections This
spasm9dic system of hysteria enabled
Roosevelt to carry IS electoral votes
that year. while Taft only had eight.
Today there Is nj. citizen OF sanity
ana sense. or ordinary patriotic in
SEPARATION, who would not prefer IN
the present awful European crisis
Taft for president rather than Roose-
yelt
Today I. the midst of this terrible
war in Europe, every patriotic man
and woman in the United States real
| ICES that had Roosevelt been elected
president in 1912, he would today
have involved the United States in this
most brutal and barbsrous of al,
wars.
Again In 1898. we had the most
costly fit of military hysteria since
this republic was born. / refer Il
our war against Spain. II Is now
known to every Intelligent student O
] American diplomacy that Cuba voult
have been freed without var or with
/. out shedding one drop Of American
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29

would be on file right here. The CO.
operative branch in return would have
10 furnish man to occupy himself
entirely with the export problem. give
him any needed clerical assistance
make regular reports to Washington,
arrange for visits that may be made
by United States consuIg, comm ereial
attaches and agents and any foreign
commercial bodies visiting the United
states under the auspices OF the Uni
ted States government.
Prestige Ia Valuable.
The prestige given TO a city pos
sesstng cooperative branch is i'm
nense, but as / said before. we must
be sure that the manufacturers are
heart and soul in the proposition and
that II we send to your city daily all
the data that comes to US from foreign
lands, that same will be appreciated
and made use Of With very few excep-
tons your goods can compete In l.
most every foreign market and by
close cooperation you can with min
irnum expense and q minimum effort
get the products OF Davenport, Moline
and Rock Island into Europe. Asia,
Africa, Latin America and Oceania-
Cooperation seems 70 me TO be the
keystone of your eventual success in
the export field, cooperation among
the manufacturers with each other,
cooperation with your commercial or
carnations and adequate utilization
of the cooperation offered by the Uni
ted States bureau OF foreign and DO
mestic commerce at Washington"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29
FEDERAL BUREAU
MAYLOCATE HERE
s,erlal Agent of Department OF Com.
merce Points to Opportunity
Of Tri-Cities.
Trade POSSIBILITIES ARE GREAT
esysrnmeut Would Cooperate in
Opening Markets In Foreign
Lands tor Manufacturers.

Special Agent Stanley Fl Rose Of the
rnned States department Of commerce
r.r the tri-cities last night after
saenainr almost a week here inter
riaeirs manufacturers ana giving
8afa and suggestions on export trade.
Saturday afternoon the special agent
ssd long conference with Irving s.
garwood. secretary Of the Davenport
fomnerasl club This conference
gsg mainly f0r the purpose Of discus
sing the adgisabiiity Of the United
states bureau of foreign and domes-
Ne commerce choosing Davenport as
ere Of i-s cooperative branches. So
far she bureau has only FIVE Of these
cooperative branches namely Pllila-
sejphia, Cincinnati, Cleveland. De-
rot and Los Angeles,
@TAe great possibilities for export
which exist for almost ali the COM
modities manufactured in Davenport.
Rock Island and Moline would be a
great factor in the governments con
sant 10 establish such a branch in one
AZ the tri-C,ies," said Mr. Rose. "Of
eourse such q branch would have to
sarvs the three cities impartially. /
personally think. Judging from the
number Of visitors I have had during
nv stay in Davenport. that the Dav-
snport Commercial club would be the
logical center for such q cooperative
branch, tle more SO as the club pos
sesses the necessary machinery in
the way of clerical assistance, etc.
The benefit of having a government
cooperative branch i'm the tri-cities
cannot be oreresrimated, but in order
10 make such a thing possible the
manufacturers must arouse themselves
from their apparent apathy aud co.
operate with their commercial or
CARNATIONS and he ready to gel the
un benefit cut Of the arrangement
The cities possessing cooperative
branch Offices receive their foreign
trade reports from Washington as
quickly as do the government bureaus
in the various cities All specifications
and samples sent I'm by United States
consuls and commercial agents abroad
are sent to these cities. All conf
Dental circulars are sent to the
branches without having 10 he writ
ten for publications Of The bureau at
Washington are put e8 sale at tn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29

Warmers sub division of outlots 70 in
Mrs. L. N, Warmers first addition,
East Moline, slo0.
Jessie Benson to Martin s. Dondan-
vile and William Mcclellan, undivided
l-3 interest tracts in southeast Il
northwest a section 6-17-lw, 5000,
John w. Andrews and wife TO Oscar
W. Swensson, tract in northwest u
section 6-17-1W, sl0o.
K. n. Whitley and wife to Owen ].
Brien, Jr,, lot O. o. J. Brien's addition,
R. l., s1,00.
Elmore II. Stafford and wife to
Henry De Baets. lot 27-2S, block is,
first addition, Silvis, $3.50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29

CONTINUED from Page Four.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29
MERCER COUNTY ON
BOOTLEGGER TRAIL
Especial to The Argus.)

Aledo. Ill. Nov. 29.-At the time OF
the drawing of the petit jurors TO ap-
pear al the December term Of circuit
court in Mercer county there were
eirht matters to come before the court
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29

Shows More Desirable novelties FOL
men this season than ever before,
Artistic boxes with practical elf
articles slowed within
All are moderately priced
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29

Charge Customers may have purchases made Tues
day carried over to their January Ist statements
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29

Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-29
FREE!.

One Box OF Pozzonis Face Powder
free TO every customer making 4 pur
chase III our drug department during
this sale
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-01-22
FOLLOW LISTERS LEAD,
Idaho Political Leaders Propose Sim
liar Change i'm Legislature.

A radical change in the legislative
system of Idaho was proposed in the
house of representatives of the legis-
lature in session at Boise this week
with the introduction of a proposed
constitutional amendment which
seeks to abolish the senate and re-
duce the house to "a salaried men,
bers, thereby cutting down the pres
ent legislature just 70 members. The
amendment if passed will divide the
state into IL districts composed of
contiguous counties divided equally
as to population and each entitled to
two representatives. The plan is
known as the "one-house legislature"
and is in many respects similar to the
recommendation made by Governor
Lister in his message to the Wash
ington legislature last week, when he
suggested that this states legislature
be reduced to one body of 25 mem
bers, five from each congressional
district.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-01-22
NAME STEARNS AND CATION.
New Farm Bureau Completed Its Or.
ganization This Week.

George Z. Stearns OF South Bay
and A. S. Cation of the Westside, the
latter president of the Thurston
County Taxpayers league, were
chosen by the original appointees as
the farmers representatives on the
board of directors of the Farm Bu-
reau of the Chamber of Commerce at
a meeting Tuesday night. The board
now completed consists of Frank Lit
tlejohn, chairman of the board of
county commissioners; F.. r. Klumb,
c. ]. Lord, C. A. Marshall, Stearns
and Cat0n.
At this meeting the directors also
endorsed the bill backed by the
Creameries' association restricting
the use of their milk containers and
urged the Thurston county delegation
in the legislature to support it. The
directors will meet Saturday after
noon January 80 to discuss the work
for the year and outline a program.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-01-22
VAN HOUTEN TELLS
FARMERS HIS PLANS
EVERYTHING IN AGRICULTURAL
LINE TO BE STUDIED, EXPERT
TELLS so RANCHERS.

School districts of Thurston county
in which the pupils, teachers and
patrons want to form boys and girls
clubs for evening meetings, when va
rious agricultural and dairy subjects
will be studied. may now make appli-
cation to the Farm Bureau of the
local Chamber of Commerce, accord
ing to statements made by Expert O.
c. Van Houten during his address to
the meeting of some so farmers of
the county at the new Chamber of
Commerce rooms last Saturday.
AS an example of the work of these
clubs, at whose meetings the chill
dren's elders will also be welcome,
Van Houten referred to the judging
of dairy animals, saying that after the
judging had been made and to ascer-
tain If it was correct, careful study
of the animal would be made, includ-
ing making records of her products
and how to feed to produce the best
results.
The meeting was the "get-together"
session to enable the farmers of the
county to become acquainted with
Van Houten and the nature of the
new work and was presided over by
Secretary H. L. Whiting of the Cham
ber. Van Houten's talk was quite
similar in ma nyrespects to the ar
ticle in this newspaper two weeks ago,
he again mentioning the demon
strators" and "co-operators" and
noting the distinction, and his hearers
seemed not only favorably impressed
but quite enthusiastic as the nature
of the work was revealed.
Special emphasis, he told them,
would be laid on the growing of corn
and corn ensilage and later the feed
ing of the ensilage under supervision
so careful data on its value as dairy
feed could be noted. Market garden
ing, general fruit culture, soil, tillage,
output, the feeding and care of dairy
herds, pasturage, records of all milk,
butter and butterfat produced, in fact
every branch of farm production, he
said, would be covered by the Bureau
in it's work and exact data will be
kept of everything.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-01-22
POULTRY SHOW ATTRACTS.
Many Entries in Exhibition Draw
Crowds Of Visitors.

Poultry fanciers Of the city and
county and nearby cities have been
visiting in considerable number the
ninth annual show Of the Olympia
Poultry association. which was opened
in the Williamson building. under the
skating rink on Columbia street
Wednesday and will close Saturday
night. No admission fee is being
charged.
Olympia poultry fanciers are all
represented in the exhibits, as we'll as
quite a number from the county and
some from other parts of the state.
The show opened with about so or go
entries and these have ben increasing
daily. The Judging is being done by
Will Purdy of Ferry, Wash. The show
will be reported in detail IN the
Poultry and Pet Stock" department
of this paper next week.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-01-22
"0REGON" OFF TO CANAL
Famous Old Battleship to Garry Pres
ident at Formal Opening.

Freshly painted and polished, the
famous old battleship Oregon, the
"bull dog" of the navy, left the Puget
Sound navy yard at noon last Satur-
day to lead the international pageant
through the Panama canal and to
take President Wilson and his cabi-
net from the Atlantic to the Pacific
on March 10, when the big ditch will
be formally opened for navigation.
Stopping at San Francisco to coal
and at San Diego for orders, the Ore
gon will proceed to Balboa, the Pa
cific port of entrance to the canal.
She will then pass through the canal
informally to Cristobal, on the Allan
tic side, where the presidential party
will be taken aboard.
The Oregon, famous for it's dash
around the Horn during the Spanish
American war, is in command of
Commander Joseph M. Reeves, who
saw service on the old battleship in
'9S. The Oregon has been over
hauled in every department. Its
engines, dynamos, steering gear, etc.,
have been replaced with new equip
ment. Even her 13-inch guns have
been repaired and it will be a rejuve-
mated Oregon which will lead the
ships through the canal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-01-22
Scores Of out-of-town guests, legis

Scores Of out-of-town guests. legis-
lators, state officials and Olympians,
attended the state ball given at the
executive mansion Monday evening by
Governor and Mrs. Ernest Lister. as
sisted by Chief Justice and Mrs.
George E. Morris of the state supreme
court. The affair was the first impor-
tant social function of the legislative
season. Following the formal recep-
ton, the guests participated in dane
ing in the mansion ballroom.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-01-22
STATE LABOR MEN HERE
Federation Opposes First Aid" Bill
City Host TO 800 Visitors.

Unanimous opposition to the first
aid" bill as recently drafted by a COM
mission of employers and employees,
providing that employees bear part of
the cost, was voiced by the delegates
to the fourteenth annual conventions
of the Washington State Federation
of Labor, in session here this week.
This, together with report on the
number of unemployed, the causes.
and the appointment of a committee
for further investigation, were the
principal features of the early days
Of the convention, which closes today.
Some 800 persons, about $50 of
them delegates and the others wives,
families and friends, have been at
tending the convention, the big social
feature of which was the labor dance
at the Tumwater clubhouse Thursday
evening.
Action on the FIRST aid' bill fol-
lowed the charge earlier made by
President E. p Marsh in his annual
report that it was the influence of the
Lister administration which caused
the defeat in the last election of the
initiative bill on the subject. Marsh
had refused the governors appoint
ment to serve on the commission
which later drafted the bill to which
he Federation registered objection.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-01-22
WILSON APPOINTS STEWART.

Calvin w. Stewart, until recently
secretary of the state board of con-
troll, and for years prominent in the,
Democratic politics of Pierce county,
was this week nominated by Presi-
dent Wilson for postmaster of Taco
ma. His endorsement for that posi-
ton by the party leaders of the state
was told in The Washington STAN,
dard couple CT weeks ago.
Stewart has lived in Tacoma for
the last % years. At different times
he served as secretary and then chairs
man of the Democratic county cen
trail committee of Pierce county ana
as state committeeman from thar
county. He was one of the first Will
son men to announce himself and ast
the Walla Walla convention fougffv.
to elect a Wilson delegation from
this state. He also had charge or
Governor Listers campaign in Pierce
county.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-01-22
ELKS PROMISE LOTS
OF FUN At FIESTA
THIS YEARS SHOW TO BE MORE
NOVEL AND LARGER EVEN
THAN FIRST SUCCESS
IN 1913.

The Elks' Fiesta, which is an
nounced to open February 23 at the
Lobby, promises to exceed it's prede-
cessor of two years ago in every par
ticular, according to the plans of the
committee, of which Joe Wohleb is
chairman. There will be more room
available this year and the designs
along which the buildings will be
constructed will not only be entirely
different but much more elaborate
than when the show was formerly
given.
So great was the success Of the
first effort of the lodge that the
committee this year will be practically
unrestricted in the expenditure of
money in making the Fiesta Of 1915
the greatest affair of the kind ever
attempted in the city.
Already committees have visited
Seattle, Tacoma and Portland in
search of Oriental novelties, where
dealings were had with the native
merchants and the curios that will
be presented this year will be the
greatest collection ever assembled in
Olympia.
The attractions for the side show
will also be new, with the exception
of Frank Blakeslee's wild man, and
it is reported that he has accumu-
lated a bunch of new jewelry that
promises to be the envy of every
Siwash in the Puget Sound country.
Manager "Goob" Allen Of this de-
partment also states that he has been
able to secure a number of new at
fractions which have never before
been on exhibition on the Pacific
coast, having come to America from
Europe and have only been filing
engagements in the East.
The Lobby will be turned over to
the building committee two weeks
before the opening of the Fiesta and
an army of skilled carpenters, paint
ers and decorators will be ready to
commence work and expect to be
kept busy, but the show will be ready
to open on time.
A Dodge Brothers automobile will
be given away this year, but the
Fiesta will be kept running until
summer time If necessary to keep
Doc Longaker from getting it. That's
the edict Of the committee in charge.