Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31

drank OH OF him, too He had all
kinds on tap, but being Methodist |
took coffee. Mr.. Morris Is staunch
Lawrence Y. Sherman supporter and |
am to convey his best wishes to the
senator via his live wire, w A. Rosen-
fisld, who is as well known here as
Senator Sherman himself When | an
nounce my candidacy for the legisla>
ture, or school director, | won't be
happy unless W. a, becomes my man,
ager.
This is sure little world, after all
/ met another Chicago gentleman at
the legation who has played golf on
the island with Colonel French and he
felt just little disappointed when
had to confess that had never had
the particular pleasure of playing
arsenal golf with Colonel French. /
didn't like to tell him that | knew Col
onel French but that Colonel French
probably never had heard of me. The
/ vanity of man prevents many honest
admissions, but when native born
who can speak the English language,
although he has never been in the
United States, asks me if l am per
sonally acquainted with the mayor of
Minneapolis, l can't within the next
/ hour admit that l do not know any
respected citizen of Davenport.
Ihlngs in connection with the peace
expedition have taken such a hope
/ ful turn we have sent a cable to Mr..
/ Bryan asking that he join us at The
Hague. Yesterday the Swedish friend
gave tea" at o'clock and in the
{ evening there was a monster mass
meeting at the Academy of Music, held
under the auspices of the peace SYM
pathizers in Stockholm
Withdrawals Not Regretted.
! One Of our women members left the
party last night. There have been
few highbrows who imagine they are
of more Importance than others may
believe them to be and, personally,
think the cause of the peace eXpe-
dition would be benefited if three or
! four more would leave us. About sew
or four people with some 'isms'' con-
. cealed about their persons have talk
ed and talked until the rest of us have
had hard work to be heard ourselves.
AS a whole, however, the expedition is
Z composed Of a mighty fire lot of men
and women. There is not freak in
the list Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver,
DR.. Aked of California. Rev. Jenkin
Lloyd Zones of Chicago. are certain
ly loyable characters. II. z. Evans Of
Des Moines is one of the most practi-
cal men in the party We have been
associated for years in the fraternal
beneficiary work and are being given
splendid recognition. A few of our
shining lights talked themselves out
before We left Christiania, and the
world is the better for it.
The Swedish royalty are pro-Ger-
man; the common people are against
war and blame Germany for the high
cost Of living. The Swedish press con-
tains very little war news and as we
have not seen an American paper
since those dated Dec. s, we are much
in the dark, being q days away from
American news.
Is Greatest Mass Meeting.
. Stockholm, Dec. 29.-The mass
meeting at the Academy of Music Mon
day night is said by Swedish people
to have been the most remarkably en-
thusiastic meeting ever held in Stock
holm. The purposes of the expedition
were explained in full and rousing ad-
dresses were made by Ford members
and by Swedish speakers of Stock
holm. Since this Monday evening meet
ing public sentiment has changed so
unanimously that the managers of the
expedition have finally yielded to re-
quest and consented to remain in
Stockholm to attend series Of big
meetings which are to be held tonight
The better educated people of Stock
holm, that is the rich, or upper class,
understand and speak the English
language. This exclusive class will
not attend a mixed mass meeting of
1 those above the middle classes. such
as made up the audience of 5000 at
the Monday night meeting, and an ex-
elusive meeting especially of this class
has been arranged for tonight by the
wife of the borgmastare, and those
only can attend who are officially in
vited At the same hour, the borgmas-
tare, who is strong for the people,
has arranged for the biggest folk"
mass meeting ever held in Stockholm.
At this mass meeting for the common
people, no admission fee is to be
charged the individual, the mayor
(borgmastare) paying for everybody.
In passing, perhaps, | should ex
plain that here an admission fee is
charged for everything, and then you
cannot attend and pay unless invited
Even a Christmas entertainment calls
for an admission fee Of 25 ora, about
eight cents in our money. You pay to
get into a park, museum, the palace
and everything else worth entering.
Since the Monday night meeting, how
ever, the members of the Ford party
are given free admission to everything,
and the National museum, which is
usually closed at this season, is being
kept open for four hours every day