Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-27
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! Long WOTI0, tOlOUeI Roosevelt 3 SOIL
| in-law. they put a wonderful lot OF
vim and vfgor in the parading and
| cheering" says the press agent in re-
! porting the Hughes meeting at Dayton.
! Ohio. This item is interesting in these
parts because of the insinuation that
/ Mic is possessed of vim and yigor. He
was never our notion of that kind of
a person.
! GENERAL Funston says religious
revival services held in the military
camps on the border interrupt the
sleep of the troops. The good breth-
rem must be offering a different brand
than is used in states farther north.
READING of the ease with which
our men of wealth and social prOmi-
nence have been plucked by the black
mailers one wonders why this syndi-
cate was not launched long ago. II
is one trust, and the only one, that
does not exact toll from the man with
the dinner bucket.
MR.. Wilson, president of the Ameri-
can club in Mexico City, has been
thrown in Jail upon order of CarranZa
because of his offensive activity
against the first chief Simply prov
ing that there are Americans remain
ing in the torn republic who still per-
sist in trying to dictate how that
country should be run. Then some of
us wonder why American citizens get
in trouble below the border. If few
Mexicans butted into the White house
and shook their fists under President
Wilson's nose and told him he had to
do thus and so what would you say
ought TO he done n them
ROCK Island woman expressed sur
prise when she observed two police
men gently lift a drunken man from
the gutter and tenderly place him in
a seat in the patrol wagon and drive
away to the station. Naturally, she
expected the officers to draw their
clubs and beat him into unconscious
ness before transferring him to the
wagon. Which merely illustrates the
fact that your bluecoat gets credit
only for seemingly cruel acts that he
is on occasion compelled to commit.
In dealing with a belligerent bully the
officer in many instances finds wordy
admonition Intellectual and to gain re-
spect for his authority must gently
tap his quarry over the head with his
wallOper. Then the onlooker declares
him brute. Thus your average citi-
zen regards all police officers as
brutes. Which is far from the truth.
The policeman is rarely rewarded
with kind words for the good he does
How many wives and mothers know
that their loved ones have been led
to the shadow of their homes by the
kindly bluecoat when they Husbands
and sons) have become so overloaded
with brew that they are no longer
navigable? Who knows of the family
squabbles he has settled when he
could easier have called the wagon
and brought disgrace upon the names
of people whose hotheadedness he IN
derstoOd and knew how to cool? Be
fair to the policeman. He befriends
more people than he Furnishes. He
uses the gray matter the Lord endowed
him with as best he knows how If
he were a diplomat he wouldn't be
tramping the streets in all sorts of
weather for $40 per month. Think it
over the next time you are disposed
to condemn the policeman for pulling
what looks like a boner to you.
CANDIDATE Hughes declares he |
would never Surrender to force"
How about Malta Vita?
DIAMOND weighing one and a half
carats was found in the hide of n Mis- (
souri, mule. They say there is "A great /
kick to it.
THE LOwden campaign special train I
IS TO carry baby elephant and a bull I
moose which will be exhibited as a
symbol of harmony between the two
parties. Why not take a full grown
elephant? Of course he might refuse
70 play, and that wouldn't look well.
THE Madrid government has sent a
note to Berlin protesting against the
sinking of Spanish boats by German
submarines. This will be real news
o those who didn't know that Spaip !
lad any steamers to sink. We had
that Uncle Sam had finished
hem all back in '98.
JOYRIDERS wrecked the watering
rough in Market square the other
hight. OF course watering troughs
AVE become about obsolete, inasmucb I.
Is the horse doesn't dare traverse the
treets in the business section unless
'iloted by Gordon OF police as pro ,
ection against the dare-deyils Of the
-uto wheel. So it is just as well that
he trough was kicked over to allow
nore room for the auto acrobats.
EIGHT thousand books have been {
tolen from the Chicago public library i
n the past year. That sounds like an !
uthors' conspiracy.
MRS. Charles Dana Gibson. wife of I
he artist, has been elected chairman /
I the eastern woman's bureau of the {
emocratic campaign. 1t is expected I
hat she Will draw considerable. |
trength TO the Wilson Marshall ticket. Z
THE two girls who were stranded in
he city when ~The Days Of 49, show
rent broke have discovered that the ]
avs OF 'l6 are not any fairer than were c
hose back yOnder when you're left {
lone in strange city minus car fare t
nd coffee and rolls funds. When these /
oungsters started out with the carni- 7
al company doubtless they were Il
: l.