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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
THE EXTRA FOR SHOES.

After all, are we not to pay that
extra dollar which the secretary of
the executive committee of the Ma
tional Boot and Shoe Manufacturers
association said few days ago would
be put upon each pair before the end
OF the year? There is an indication
that all the members of the trade do
not think It necessary. and besides
that the carrying capacity of the con-
sumner has about reached its limit
Some OF the largest consumers Of
shoes and leather have shown an in
c.lnatlOn to accept a fair profit and
70 take their share Of the burden OF
the present war conditions One of
tie leading retail companies Of the
country and the owner of chain
stores, after conferences with the
manufacturers, have agreed not TO
raise their prices.
The president Of the association in
sustaining its position said that be
fore the war the United States pro-
duced only 50 per cent of the leather
needed for its use, and that the re-
mainder came from Russia, Germany,
Austria, France, Italy and Scandina-
via But the chief organ of the trade,
Hide and Leather, believes that the
average shoe and leather dealer knows
nothing about the true state Of our
imports and that he is Influenced
by market gossip rather than by
facts and figures. II says that
the lnl0rLs troa AaxsGaA- Azae1t tina,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24

nigh half century, what was the con-
dition Of
Our customs tariff policy.
Our banking and currency system.
Our conservation policy.
Our laws for the regulation and con-
troll of great corporations.
Our machinery for encouraging for
eign trade
Our machinery for rural credits.
The business organization behind
our army.
for our navy.
The legislation affecting our mer-
chant marine.
There are the greatest business re-
sponsibilities that rest upon modern
governments. What one of them had
been fairly and adequately met by the
republicans? Where is the evidence
any evidence-of business capacity in
the field of government on the part of
the republican party? What history
tariff, currency, conservation, what
you please-is there that is not a his
tory of incapacity, blindness and mud
ding along?'
And now, go over the list again.
What has the democracy, in three short
years, done with the weighty matters
there catalogued? What sort of ca
pacity has it displayed in dealing with
them? What are its deserts at the
hands Of the nation, in consequence
IN the answer to this question is to be
found the secret of the temper of the
representatives Of national democ-
racv,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24

should take this view was to be ex-
pected because it is in general agree
ment to the long standing democratic
opposition to any further surrender to
the federal power of the constitutional
rights of the states Instead of being
guilty of anything like "duplicity,"
therefore, the democrats in this plank
would seem to have allowed them
selves to be pushed a little beyond
their well-know position.
1t may even be contended that Pres
ident Wilson was supported by the
fundamental principles of our govern
ment structure as we'll as by long
established precedent when at the
outset he ranged himself in Opposl-
ton to nationwide woman suffrage
by federal act on the ground that it
would force such a law upon unwilling
states. In view of the position of the
democrats in general that the suffrage
is a state issue, it was to be expected
that the majority in congress would
defeat the proposition to submit to
the states a constitutional amendment
enfranchising women throughout the
country 1t was equally certain that
the St. Louis platform plank would
recommend the granting of the fran
chise to women by the states acting
separately.
In this connection it is worth while
to recall that the federal constitution,
as originally framed and adopted,
leaves the regulation of the suffrage
to the states, and that the federal
government has interfered in this
matter only once-during the revolu-
tionary period Immediately following
the war of 1876. 1t is also impor-
tant TO keep in mind the fact that
nationwide suffrage law would not
only take away state freedom, or the
right of home rule, in this one partic-
ular, but would forward the expan-
sion Of the federal power and increase
the tendency-already too great, many
believe-of the central government to
reach its long arm into the states, in
terfering in matters hitherto regarded
as constitutionally removed beyond
federal range. Why not?" the hasty
reformer would ask. The obvious an
swer is that by means of our admir-
able dual system Of government, in
yolying the freedom of the states to
make their own laws within recog-
nized limitations, the precious prin-
ciple OF home rule is protected and
preserved as it can be in no other
way. The country is not ready to
consent to fundamental change in our
tnt in,
TO rush a movement even now max
ing rapid progress through the legiti-
mate action Of separate states
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
Quincy Journal.)

Birmingham, Ill-Editor Quincy
Journal: The reading of the Aledo
EDITORS fling at Hon. Clyde H. Taven-
ner in the Macomb Journal was like
a hungry man sitting down to an IN
viting dinner and finding a fly in his
coffee nauseating and uDpalatable.
Those familiar with the political
conditions in the Fourteenth Illinois
congressional district can readily un-
derstand why the Aledo editor should
want the little giant of Cordova side
tracked to make room for republl-
can congressman, but such tommy rot
as that penned by the Aledo editor
will do the republican candidate more
harm than good. Fighting school kids
call each other liars thieves,
fools" and "d-n FOOLS but in this
advanced day when all editors are
supposed to be reasonable, fair and
truthful, the chap who shows the yell
low streak does not find favor with
his readers or with his brother news
paper men.
Congressman Tavenner has as many
republican friends as democratic
friends in his district and all know
that his untiring fight against the So
called war trust" has saved the tax
payers of America millions of dol
lars already, and that the benefit Of
his expose Of the powder and arma-
ment trust will be lasting in effect.
Tayenner wants all profit taken from
the manufacture of war materials and
the people are mostly of the same
mind. This war talk" and 'prepar-
edness" dope is all right for the mil
lionaire, but how many of the fathers
and mothers who now have boys on
the Mexican border are wanting more
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24

The republican position with re-
spect to Mexican affairs is clear in its
outlines. From Henry Cabot Lodge Of
the foreign relations committee Of the
senate to the obscurest prospective
spellbinder, the republicans are COM
mitted to the defense Of Huerta's right
to recognition as head of the lawful
government" and, necessarily, to con-
demnation of President wilson's re-
ognition of Carranza.
The Huerta cult in the United States
is hard to account for. The emotions
of those who still observe the day oil
mourning for the death of King
Charles the First are easy to under
stand by comparison. Huerta was hrst
a defaulter then consp1rator against
his chief, then an open traitor ana
then usurper and assassin. Later he
made a clean sweep by suppresslng
the legislative branch of the govern
ment and becoming dictator. He was
more unlovely than Benedict Arnold,
for he was a much worse man. The
republican argument as to the Huerta
governments legality hangs by the
validity of a resignation extorted. by
what foul means no one may ever
know, from an official who was a prls-
oner in a dungeon.> Huertas claim to
the presidency of Mexico was as legal
as the road agents claim to the con-
tents of the stage-Coach safe and no
more so. 1t is an insult to the lntell!
gence of the American people to refer
| TO him as lawful ruler" and an in
suit to the moral sense of every up
/ holder of law, in whatever land.
! The criticisms Of the PRESIDENT
course in dealing with Carranza come
to this-that he hoped for better things
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
THE OPPOSITION

than have resulted. There is no dis
position on the part of his defenders
to dodge this fact or its implication.
But we wish once more to call atten-
ton to the fact that the awful Mexican
chaos is the result, not Of anything
Woodrow Wilson has done or left I'M
done since March 4, 1918, but of the
total collapse of the government on
which the hopes of every lover of prog
ress were Centered-that of Francisco
|. Madero. That government was left
helpless in the hour of its need by the
United States; difficulties were thrown
in its way unnecessarily; our govern
ment vacillated helplessly or looked on
fatuously while the fate of Mexico
hung in the balance; and when the
Wilson administration came into pow
er there was nothing in the field OF
government in Mexico but ruins.
We wish to ask a single question in
this connection: What single act Or
achievement of Victoriano Huerta's S
of record, from the day when, in face
of s1,50O,000 discrepancy in his &C
counts as head Of the expedition
against Orozco, he coolly said: Il am
no bookeeper," through the days of
the apprehension and murder of Ma
dero to the day when he dissolved the
Mexican congress and locked up I'D
of its members in Jail, that affords any
foothold whatever for the supposition
that he could ever have established a
government which would have been
stable financially or morally?
The republican party first and last,
has had some queer heroes; but We
know OF none who might not justly
blush for shame to find himself in the
congregation of the saints along with
Victoriano Huerta.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
Jan Inspects Military Affairs,

Tokio.-(Correspondence of The As
ISOLATED Press. Rear Admiral S. Aki-
yama, director of the military affairs
bureau at the navy department, has
been ordered to proceed TO Europe on
the mission of inspecting the naval
conditions of the belligerent countries.
Afterward he will visit the United
States. He will start on his mission
March 20 by way Of Siberia, accom-
panied by Commander X. Yamanashi.
This is the first japanese naval mis-
sion to inspect the situation in the
theater of war Talking of his assign
men, Rear Admiral Akiyama said
THE object lies in the inspection OF
military and technical affairs in the
belligerent zone. My trip will cover
about seven months, | shall first go
to Russia and then visit England,
France and Italy through Sweden.
Thence l intend TO go to the Balkans
and also study Egypt. Later | shall
cross over TO the United States and
study naval affairs there before re
turning home. AS to the activities Of
the German navy | expect TO make
study Of it from Sweden"
RearAdmiral Akiyama is known as
one of the ablest officerr of the Jap
anese navy. His fame was established
in the Japanese war when hs
was chief Of staff Of the combined
sQuadrons under Admiral Togo. Com
mander Yamanas hi, who accompanies
Admiral Akiyama on the tour, is also
an able and promising officer. He
rendered service in successfully con-
Quoting the joint operations OF the
Japanese and British fleets at Using
tau, being chief Of staff OF Admiral
katO,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
EYE.OPENER FOR PUBLIC.

Rock Island will reap benefits from
Thursdays centennial parade in more
ways than one. For one thing. the
pageant will help to open the eyes of
the public to the industrial advance
ment made in recent years by the Rock
Island Plow company. Many people
in this city, probably great majority,
have not realized the strides the con-
Germ has taken under an aggressive
new management. That it is manufac-
turing one Of the most modern and
complete lines of agricultural imple-
ments turned out anywhere was DEM
onstrated Thursday so that all might
see. The Heider tractor display was
an especially effective one.
Expansion of the Rock Island Pillow
company has justified the concessions
the city made to it when plans for the
enlargement of the plant were under
way. Among these, and advocated by
The Argus at the time, were vacating
Of streets and extension of switch
track privileges.
Rock Island is proud of its big down
town factory and 1t is also glad to well
come expansion by the Moline Plow
company in the uptown district, en-
largement having been encouraged BY
concessions granted by the city com
mission recently.
Where an industry has shown a
habit of making good, a niggardly pol
icy in granting public favors is short
sighted Anything asked in reason for
legitimate industry should be granted
for the city that is Equeamish about
such things Is not the one which gets
ahead, under the fierce competitive
conditions of the present day,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
The Daily Story
The Old Showman-By M. Quad.

up. We got ropes and straps around
his legs and muZzle over his nose.
and then went to work with the paints.
He didn't give US much trouble; he
was too lonesome and homesick for
that We gave him bright green ears;
we gave him a bright red nose and
red eyebrows; we spotted bis body
yellow and black paints. We put
dozen rings around his tail, and we
painted his legs one color ard his feet
another. Say, boys, when we got
through with that hyena we had to sit
back and roar with laughter.
I'VE had a special cage made for
him and gave 1t such position that
only the front with its iron bars could
be seen. Behind it on a chair was
Joshaway, the young man who was
looking for romance. He did all the
talking, but 1t seemed to come from the
guyasticutus. Joshaway had a voice
like the fling of saw, and his talk
was great success. The animal in
front Of him went on with long rig
marole as to his forest home In Hon
duras and what he did there.
THE fatal day did not arrive until
we had shown that guyasticutus for
two years and a half. l renewed the
paint on him every other Sunday and
saw to it that he had the choicest kind
Of food"
"But what about the fatal dayT was
queried.
"Oh. yes. about that fatal day. re-
piled the old Snowman. We'll, it came
about in this way. That young man
Joshaway undertook to eat an apple
while he was giving his talk, and the
seed of the fruit got into his throat
and stuck there He had to choke and
cough and sputter. and the fact that
there was a man somewhere hidden be-
hind the guyasticutus could not be
concealed. There were shouts Of ex-
element and derision and calls for an
investigation. Half a dozen men press
ed forward and seized the cage and
pulled it off its benches. That same
half dozen men seized Joshaway By
the neck or somewhere else as he still
choked and sputtered over the seeds
and brought him out for the crowd to
pick on. In just one minute It was
plain that the public had been swim
died for years. They bad had a guyas-
ticutus instead of a hyena and had
double their moneys worth. but they
wanted their revenge, and they took it.
The cage was kicked about until it was
smashed and its occupant was killed,
and they stepped on Joshaway and
poked and pounded him until ne would
never again feel romantic, and the fight
spread until something like thousand
men and women were engaged in it
We had to stop the circus performance
and pack up and move on, and we had
to 60 for a full hundred miles before
we heard the last of our scheme to
| Guido natural history"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
Brazil and Colombia have greatly in

Brazil and Colombia have greatly in
creased. and:
1T is thus apparent that our loss on
imports of hides from Europe has
been more than compensated for by
imports from other places
1t adds this pleasing information:
From careful study of conditions
in the hide and leather industries,
there does not seem any reasonable
ground for experiencing shortage in
raw or finished materials. Outside OF
stocks of leather and shoes in first
hands there are accumulations TO
some extent Of shoes and other leath-
er merchandise carried by johbers
and retailers Undoubtedly there may
be scarcity of novel styles in shoes,
but the great trading in staple goods
does not seem to be hampered in any
way by dearth of supplies"
At least the consumer has been let
IN on the ground floor, and if he is
called upon TO accept another ad-
vance in his footwear he will insist
upon knowing if the high prices re-
suit from a "gentleman's agreement
or the real condition of the market,
Hide and Leather continues:
Veteran and experienced shoe and
leather manufacturers and wholesal-
ers foresee the danger in prices being
forced so high as to limit consump-
ton and to stimulate substitution. In
fact the shoe and leather business has
been so prosperous for all concerned
that there is a marked tendency 10
conserve this prosperity and not rush
it toward rocks and shoals"
That seems good counsel. Besides,
the poor consumer has troubles
enough without being victimized on
the strength of a stringency that does
not exist
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24

Gentlemen" began the old Snowman
as his little crowd Of admirers assem-
bled to listen to his tale, did any OIL
you ever hear of an animal called
"guyasticutus
There never was such an animal,
replied one. There is such word as
guyasticutus, but it is a slang word
When you call a man guyastlcutuS
you express your contempt for him.
MY friends, you are wrong, and
shall take great pleasure in convincing
you of the fact. can't say that such
an animal exists now, but he surely dld
forty years ago, for l invented him
myself"
Give US the yarn was called out
from every one.
well. I was head keeper of the me-
nagerie travelling with the circus. We
had started out Of winter quarters with
five hyenas in the cage, but -FOUR OF
them had gone dead on us. | guess 1t
was pneumonia that carried them oil.
The one left was an old he hyena, and
he could stand any sort Of weather and
take the bumps of the country high
ways. However, after his companions
had departed this life we saw change
In him. He didn't fall sick. but he got
lonesome and sulky.
There were daily complaints that
our hyena was a fraud, and l was
wondering what we could do about it
when the boss came to me one day
and said:
George. that old hyena Is making
trouble for US. What's the matter
with him anyhow?
az guess he is tired of being ny
ena,' replied.
"'But he can't be anything else, can
heT
WHY. we can't make bird Of him,
but maybe | can make some other ami
NAL Of him
Then do 1t, man.
81 changed the hyena's food a dozen
times and gave him whisky to lap
instead Of water" said the old show
man, but it didn't improve him any,
and I set myself to wonder how l
could make him over. The bright idea
came to me at last, and one Sunday,
when we had a lazy day of it, l bought
various paints and brushes. There
was farmers hired man hanging
around the show. He had deserted the
plow for the romance of the circus
He had offered to work for S. week
and his board, but l had no room for
him. When l got the idea of making
the hyena over | beckoned to this chap
and said:
'Joshaway, I will give you S. a
week and your board if you will do
what I want you to do. 1t concerns
the old hyena in the cage over there.
want to make a guyasticutus Of
him.
"Joshaway promised, and the first
thing to do was to tie the old hyena
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
FOUR MONTHS AT VERDUN.

Berlin looked for victory at Verdun
in fortnight; then in a month; in
two months, or three; at the outside
four Four months end today, and
not even the nearer defenses are
preached.
Drum fire" began Feb. 10 Two
days later the German infantry at
tackled, and in five days drove near
ly to the present -Vaux
line. The British took over miles of
trenches. releasing two or more
French army corps The attack was
checked. A drive from the southeast
ended at the same distance. Slower
gains were made west Of the Meuse
with little change until RaynaIs gal
liant remnant surrendered in the now
useless Fort Vaux.
The world has said, France has
scarcely denied, that Verdun must
fall if the price is paid What that
has been, who knows? Few experts
set the excess of German losses at
less than 100000; some put it much
higher. Yet success seems less likely
on the 122d day than on the fifth In
fortnight the Russian onslaught has
taken four times as many prisoners
as the Germans claim at Verdun. call
ing German reserves to the imperilled
east.
If the purpose was to win verdun
a quick. snowy victory and compel
peace, it has failed If it was to pre-
vent attacks. it has failed no less.
Some writer's call the Battle of the
Marine Germany's Gettysburg: her
warning of certain defeat Her high
tide check at Verdun, Feb. %. equal
ly invites the comparison. When the
story is told in full, Brusiloff's dash
toward the Hungarian wheat fields
may be ikened to Sherman's March
to the Sea.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
INDEFENSE OF TAVENNER

bloody battles, more funerals and
more heartaches at home?
There never was United States
senator or congressman who did not
abuse the Thanking system II ne
ever made a speech in congress, ana
so long as this system is in vogue. we
cannot blame men for making free
use of their rights. If the Aledo editor
does not want Uncle Sam to mall free
the many speeches made by congress
men, why not advocate a law which
will put stop to this waste of money,
instead of calling men thieves and
crooks for using the privileges grant
ed them by congress?
AS most of us see it. Mr. Tavenner
has done no wrong in making use OF
his ranking right, but, on the con-
trary, has done a great good to the
American people by exposing the great
wrong and robbery of the rich men
who are first to advocate war and
ruin to everybody excepting them
selves.
If the people of the Fourteenth con-
gressional district sincerely believe
that they have found better nSn to
represent them in Washington than
Clyde H. Tavenner. they will say so
by their votes next November, but
throwing dirt at the little giant now
filling the position can never mar the
good name or deface the grand record
made at the national capital during
the years 1915 and 1916 by Mr. Tav-
enner. 1t is a record that will live
and be beneficial to all Americans
long after the Aledo editor has been
buried and forgotten.
Fight Tavenner if you will, but for
goodness sake be decent, clean and
| honorable in making the fight
ALBERT J. JOHNSON.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
III i
7 A l. K s
R eYWILLAh BRADT.nOH

causes so much annoyance after
bath?
Answer-The Buckley skin cream is
good: Lanolin, ? drains; Boroglycer-
ide, 1 dram; cold cream made with
white vaseline), drains; Menthol, 6
grains. To be put in collapsible tube.
Spreading Consumption.
Can person who has consumption,
but is up and about and able to care
for herself, infect other members Of
the household if she takes precautions
about the disposal of the sputum?
Answer-Yes. if she sleeps with an
other, or coughs without a handker
chief over her nose and mouth, or
kisses another, or thoughtlessly con-
teammates with saliva ION mouth or
fingers) articles used by the other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-24
The German and French people have

The German and French people have
been praised for their policy of bring
ing new areas of land into the produc-
ton OF food crops. And the same
policy may we'll be adopted in this
country. Every piece of ground, no
matter how small that can be made
productive should be so employed, for
with all the need abroad of food for
the hungry il is certain that all the
earth can produce this season will find
a market-if not a profit to the pro-
Queer it may help to meet the demands
upon charity.