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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
PLACING BLAME.

Occasionally one hears the remark.
If Wilson had recognized Huerta IN
Mexico, we should not now be con-
fronted with such a Stupendous prob
lem as Mexico provides" We NAV
well be thankful that it is only occas-
tonally the remark is heard, for such
remark, at such a time as this. es-
pecially, does not tend to increase
ones respect for the knowledge of
Whomever it is that makes the remark.
Let US look over the Mexican situa-
ton and note its growth and its slow
development over a period of years.
In the first place, when Wilson came
into oftlce he found a Mexican prob
lem already Matched for him-a prob
lem that has existed for number of
years under the slow, easy going
take-the-easiest road Taft. For a long
time Taft had known what was going
on in Mexico. and if he had had one
iota of executive ability he would have
seen TO 1t that the growth of the Mex
lean problem was halted before it had
assumed the proportions of Franken-
stein.
And then came the murder of Ma
dero, one of the most inexcusable and
cold-blooded murders that has even
been written into the history of anv
country, and the man who was guilty
OF that murder was Huerta. We oc-
casionally hear now that Huerta was a
strong man, but that is no reason wby
the world can condone his many
crimes and hold him up as model of
executive power. Bluebe&rd was a
strong man, but today the Bluebeard
tales are used to brighten children.
Butcher" Weyler was a strong man.
and we all know how Weyler was
cursed and eXecrated. And these men
were all strong for the same reason
that Huerta was strong-they stopped
at nothing in order to gain their ends
And it is such a man that Wilson re-
fused TO recognize, and in his refusal
Wilson was absolutely right! The
recognition of Huerta would never
have solved the Mexican problem-lt
would rather have made that problem
worse, for then Mexico would base en-
tered upon period of butchery and
anarchy that would have been even
worse than the conditions of today.
And we must not forget that when
Wilson refused 10 recognize Huerta he
was commended upon every hand for
his refusal. The people Of the United
States stood behind the president.
The problem of Mexico is not a new
one. Il has been matter of concern
for years and years. And to glance
down through the pages of Mexicos
history will give one a clearer insight
into why conditions in Mexico are to-
day as they are. 1t is important that
every American should inform him
self Of the true condition of affairs.
Mexico never has enjoyed govern
ment which was at once orderly and
free. Under Porfrio Diaz she had
outward order for a considerable sea-
son, but at the price Of atrocious OPP
preston The Diaz regime was an
unmixed despotism, and the friends Of
the despot used the powers of the
state 10 heap up huge private fortunes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
The Daily Story
A Doctor s Story-By Willard Brakeman.

dent that I had been brought In to
poison her.
Il don't need anything to soothe me-.
she said. 'if they'll on~ let me 20.
They took me from my home and
brought me here In a carriage They
are going to shut me up for lunatic."
Drink IT," said, holding the glass
to her lips. ut won't hurt you and
will do you good
/ told her with my eyes what I had
spoken with my voice, and she took
the dose. It was really a help to
her in restoring her equaninity and
lessening the advantage her enemies
II they were such-had over her. Leav-
ing her, l went to window and, tax
ing out prescription slip, wrote some.
thing on 1t. Then, casting my eyes I'D
at the ceiling as If in thought, I crun-
pied the paper In my fist and taking
another slip wrote the prescription
for bread pills, which I handed to the
gentleman who had me in charge and
who never took his eyes Off me for
lHtu L "tLt 0kdlu 70 the
young lady and felt her pulse
GOOD day." said, taking her hand
In mine. Don't fear to take the medi.
cine have prescribed for you"
In the palm of my hand was the pre-
scription slip l had crumpled, and
left 1t in her palm, she closing her
hand On 1t. What had written was:
81 understand the situation. Leave all
to me. Do what they compel you to
do without struggling"
From her I turned to my conductor
to whom l said that he need not give
her the medicine prescribed unless she
became violent and If she became very
violent before he could remove her tc
send for me. He seemed satisfied
with this and confident that I had
| either been deceived or the fifty dollar
| check had stified any suspicious ]
| might have.
| left the house and, going to store
near by, telephoned my chum, Charlie
Knowlton, who had gone into law
| when l went into medicine, to come to
me at once. For half an hour l watch
| ed the house had been in till Charlie
came, then told him the story, and in
half an hour more he had detectives on
the watch Charlie rushed off to take
legal means to free the young lady and
succeeded, though never quite under
stood how he managed It. He told me,
using a lot of Latin words-"de luna
tico inquirendo,' ''habeas corpus" and
all that-but 1 knew nothing Of what
| he meant.
The case was one of those which.
happen now and then wherein claim
ants to an estate attempt to get rid Of
legal heir by claiming him or her to
be of unsound mind and unable to
manage property.
Charlie made fortune by the opera
| ton, for he married the heiress, while
l, poor devil. even returned the check
had received for my fee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
MOTHER OF VICE PRESI-
DENTS,

The Louisville Courier Journal dis
cusses Indiana as the 'Hotbed of Vice
Presidents" In 10 of the Is presi-
Dental elections since the war it men
tons that Indiana has had a candidate
in one of the two great parties for
either president or vice president,
generally for vice president. In 1865
Schuyler Colfax of Indiana was elected
vice president along with General
Grant In 1872 Thomas A. Hendricks
of Indiana received more votes in the
electoral college for president than
any other democrat, this being the
year that Horace Greeley died.
Four years later Hendricks became
the regular democratic nominee for
vice president on the ticket with Sam
ual J. Tilden. In 1880 another Ind
anian, William H. English, was the
| democratic nominee for vice president
with General Hancock and in 1884
Thomas A. Hendricks was elected vice
president. In 1888 and 1892 Indiana
had Benjamin Harrison as its candi-
| date for president.
| There was break after that to 1904
ueu tudlltS w dl tIl Oil " as
elected vice president with Roosevelt
Again in 1908 Indianan had John W
Kern on the ticket for running mate OF
William J. Bryan. In 1912 Thomas r
! Marshall went in with Wilson. Now
Marshall is again candidate and WITH
Fairbanks as his opponent Indiana is
again certain of having the second cit
izen of the republic for the next four
years.
The Hoosier state has come in fol
much of this prominence by reason o.
the importance of its vote, as one o.
the doubtful states, in determining the
result of the election. But aside from
this the merit of its sons has been such
as to command favor. The Courier
Journal concludes:
The sons of Indiana are great men
, Her noyelists have been prolific o
best sellers. They have caused knight
hood to flower with kind of sun
flower recrudescence. They have gar
landed Aesop with weeds of our mod
ern verbiage. The Hoosier muse, toe
has been peculiarly American, main
tanning our homely level. But the rea
GROWING and typical glory of Hoosier
: dom, is that Indiana is the hotbed 0
vice presidents"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
WAR AS DEVELOPER

for her own that man was General
Grant. A West Point graduate, a gal
liant officer in the Mexican war, the
man seemed a rank incapable in the
period between AS and 81. In 1858
Grant, who had found farming impos-
slble as a means of livelihood, entered
partnership in real estate and col
lection business in Missouri. Then at
the age of Sc, at time of life when
failure would be fatal for most men,
Grant failed again. AS a collector he
was fiat" Any hard luck story
would arouse his sympathies and dis
arm him. The partnership soon lapsed.
he made an effort to obtain appoint
ment as county engineer, but it was
given to some one who had political in
fluence. Burdened with cares and
debts, the dashing horseman, who was
honored above all at Monterey and Mo
limo, found himself bending over a
desk for $500 year, the emplove of
his younger brothers and a despond
ent and inefficient one at that. He hid
his pain though racked with fever and
the pains of ague. The brothers found
him of no earthly use at driving bar
gains or tending store. His clothing
was poor and shabby, his hair and
beard grew long and ragged.
A man who came later well-nigh to
worship him heard there was a Mexi-
can war man, West Pointer in the
| neighborhood, and went to see him, He
said later:
L went round to the store. 1t was
sharp winter morning and there
wasn't a sign of one that looked like q
soldier about the shop. But pretty
soon a farmer drove up with a lot OF
hides on his sleigh and went inside to
dicker and presently a stoop-should-
cred, brownish-bearded fellow, with a
, SLOUGH hat pulled down over his eyes
who had been sitting whiting at the
stove when | was inside came out
pulled on an old soldiers overcoat
He flung open the doors leading down
INTO the cellar, laid hold of the tor
hide. frozen stiff it was, tugged il
loose and slung it down the chute
Then one by one, all by himself he
heaved of the rest of them, a ten min.
| utes tough job in that weather. then
slouched back into the store again
| shed the blue coat. got some water
washed his hands. then came back tc
whiting again, and all without q
word to anybody. That was nv first
look at Grant, and look at him now"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
INTESTINAL INDIGESTION IN
CHILDREN.

Chronic intestinal indigestion, call
ed by the baby specialists chronic
ileocolitis," occurs frequently in chill
dren from one to five years of age.
The condition is marked by acute at
lacks of Indigestion, in which there is
feverishness, perhaps very high fever
and delirium, flushed cheeks, heavy,
sweetish breath, coated tongue, col
icky pains Indefinitely placed by the
child, vomiting, refusal of food, rest
lessness and twitching, perhaps head
ache.
The child is under weight, peevish,
looks pale, and perhaps has dark cir
cles under the eyes. He is easily
fatigued, cross, emotional, hard to
control, hard to amuse, often pam
pered. Sleep is disturbed by grinding
the teeth, nightmare, thirst, bed-wet
ting, or tummyache Attacks Of di-
arrhoeS alternate with constipation.
The stools are foul and sometimes
Shiny
In fact, about this time, some we'll
meaning soul is sure to diagnose"
worms, and the poor child is doomed
to period of worm treatment which
only makes him more peevish. Once
in So times the cause of the trouble is
really found worms, but if so, bonn
harding the child with alleged worm
powders or worm lozenges is indie
feasible and futile, for a fast, one
dose of worm medicine and one &C
tive physic constitute the whole treat
ment of worms
The child has cold feet and hands,
and so he doesn't get enough fresh
air in cold weather, for, unfortunate
ly, mothers commonly imagine that
the temperature of the air determines
the warmth of the body, Indeed
mothers are much like ordinary folk
in that We're going to write a book
some day to teach people that keep
ing good and warm" has proved a
failure in practice, but that keeping
cool and we'll is the easiest thing in
the world.
The child has capricious appetite,
and should not be made TO eat against
his will.
If the mother is unlucky enough to
own a clinical thermometer she will
have many an anxious moment when
she finds the child's temperature up a
degree or two.
Common causes of intestinal indi-
gestion are excess of meat, excess of
sweets at irregular hours. irregular
meals. poorly cooked cereals, permit
ting children to remain up past 7 at
night, excitement in place of rest,
abuse of cathartics. especially the So
called herbs, the belly band worn to
coddle when it is no longer necessary
to retain the navel dressing in place,
and the pernicious habit of offering
the baby anything and everything the
hired man eats.
The first essential in treatment is
diet, then regular habits, and then
medicine. The diet must be carefully
supervised by the doctor, according
TO the individual conditions. Bowel
washes often give much relief pot
belfied children may require strap
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
Adelina Patti in 1852.

Little Adelina Patti sang Jenny
Lind's Echo Song" and "Ah, Non
Giunge!"
She is only years old. but her cul-
tivation is quite remarkable, and her
voice, although pleasantly childlike in
tone, is sweet and easily fills the great
hall. 1t is pity she is to sing in g
theatre. She will be stung by the
frenzied desire of applause, which will
do much TO ruin her as an artist
l never see prodigy Of this kind
who is really interesting as little Patti
is without remembering the young
Mozart and that whom the gods love
die young or grow old. faded and for
gotten, which Is worse-From q New
York letter, May %, 1852.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30

wnen L nrsr set up my snIngle as q
physician was told by the older prac
titioners to look out for traps set for
me by lawbreakers, for 1t is the mex
perenced doctor who is called upon to
aid them. they knowing very well that
an old bird is not to be caught with
chaff.
had not been practicing long before
was asked one day to call at Ger.
tain address. / found stately man.
sion standing by itself. I was admit.
ted by an elderly gentleman, whose
dress and appearance was In keeping
with the premises. He led me into
reception room and said to me:
Doctor, you have come some dis
lance and at the call Of one unknown
to you. Under the circumstances /
do not think it fair to you to ask you
to treat a patient without handing you
your fee in advance, and that fee
should be liberal"
Stepping to little mahogany desk,
he wrote & check and handed it to me.
1t was for $50.
By this time it began to dawn upon
me that l had struck one Of those
cases against which I had been warn
ed. But took the check and put 1t In
my pocket. 1t might get me into trou-
BILE, but 1t might be valuable as evt
dence. The gentleman led me upstairs
to q room where a man was holding a
young woman down on lounge. She
was struggling to free herself from
him and was hysterical.
As soon as she saw me she became
more so than ever. My conductor took
me aside and in a low voice told me
that she was insane and he was in
tending to take her to retreat for
such patients She had been so VIC
lent that he feared she would injure
herself and desired that I give her
some soothing remedy.
I took a small vial from my medi-
cine case, dropped some Of its con-
tents in a glass of water and, ap-
preaching the young lady, told her to
drink it. She looked up at me with
a frightened glance and almost shrek
ed: Don't poison me! I'll do any
thing If you won't poison me"
| Now, am a believer in physical in
dications, and consider myself an
adept at interpreting them. If 1 see
two persons together whom I don't
know and have never seen before can
tell If they are Of the same blood.
can also tell by a persons eye whether
he or she is insane. I looked into the
young 1ady's eye and saw no evidence
of insanity whatever. Another matter
| Influenced me-the handsome fee l had
| received in advance.
! Don't fear me-" said to her In a
reassuring voice II am a physician,
and this is simple soothing draft to
quiet your nerves"
She looked at me searchingly and
anxiously, evidently having felt conf
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
Selected by Tavenner

! country is not prepared, it has not
been due to any niggardliness on the
part of congress in making approprla-
tons, but it has been due to the fact
that the munitions trust in this coun-
| try monopofized and absorbed ire
mendous profit which has gone 10
swell their enormously oVerrich
purses, and which ought to have gone
into the manufacture of munitions or
war to the end that the people would
have received full return Tor the
money put into the enterprise.
Mr. Chairman, in the army bill we
provided for a government nitrate
plant, conceded by all that nitrate is
an essential element in preparedness,
We were entirely dependent for nitrate
upon the nitrate beds of Chile, and
without nitrate we could not manu-
facture powder or high explosives, and
| feeling the danger of a possibility OF
being cut off from this supply and de-
string to be independent, the bill car
ried an authorization of SIG, 000,0 OO
for the erection and equipment of this
plant This plant will be operated to
make nitrate not only for powder and
high explosives, but to manufacture
fertilizers. When the plant is not be-
ing operated to make nitrate to be
used in the manufacture of powder ii
will be manufacturing nitrate for fer
tilizers to supply the farmers OF the
nation with cheap fertilizer.
| Mr.. Chairman, we have been no more
dependent upon Chile for our nitrate
in the past than we have upon these
three firms for the manufacture OF
armor plate and other munitions OF
war. The time has come when a great
government like ours can no longer be
handcuffed and shackled by great
trusts in this country. The time has
come when it ought not to be permitted
to do it. The time has come for the
! United States to write its second Dec
laration of Independence and free
itself from these barnacles.
Mr.. Chairman, l advocate the gov
eminent manufacture of munitions Of
war not only because it is cheaper, but
in doing so it will take private prof1
out of war and preparation for war, Sc
that war will be no more profitable anc
no more attractive to the j. ?. Nor
CANS and the other directors of war
traficking firms than it is to the res
of mankind. While it is dangerous tt
prophesy, in my judgment, wher
peace is concluded between the war;
ring nations the world will see al
agreement entered into between then
that each nation shall thereafter
manufacture its own munitions o
war. When that time comes war viii
Danish from the earth. No Longer
will men be driven like dumb animals
into the inferno of thousand Yer
duns.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
Let Republic of Peaceful Freedom Make
Wilson Whole-Hearted Choice, Says James

swap horses while crossing bloody
stream? So America can not afford
to change leadership during this great
cataclysm that shakes the nations OF
the earth, for to Woodrow Wilson
more than any other citizen in all the
world the Christian people, wherever
the rain falls or the sun shines this
world around, look anXiously, hope
fully, and prayerfully that he will
bring peace to the struggling armies
Of Europe.
What party is it now that would
dare undertake to discredit this master
diplomat, this unconQuerable leader
this great American, for by that you
may palsy the hand that may write
the peace treaty of the world-From
Senator James speech at st. Louis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
The Cntidy Horse Chestnut.

Those who have experienced the
difficulty of keeping a lawn clean
where horse chestnut trees are grow
ing will appreciate the following COM
position by 10year-old boy which
appeared in the New York Tribune:
The horse chestnut tree is a grea.
shade tree. But it is rather a nuisance
because of the blossoms dropping all
over the grass, next the little green
chestnuts fall all over the ground.
next the big horse chestnuts fall with
the burrs, next the great large leaves
fall and dry up, and it takes time to
rake them all up, and they won't burn
like other leaves. So if were plant
ing trees | would plant a maple tree. "
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30

=, With critics all about him, with pa
fence and strength and great fore
sight, he has kept a nation at peace
with honor. He has driven from the
control of the finances of the people
of this nation an oligarchy of wealth
and substituted in its stead just gov
eminent, interested only in supplying
the legitimate business needs of the
country with sufficient currency to
meet its demands and requirements.
1t ought not to be necessary to nom
mate him in partisan convention. Pa
triotism in this world crisis should
rise above politics, and all parties
should rejoice at an opportunity to
proclaim him the whole-hearted and
happy choice of a republic of peaceful
freemen. And as we can not afford to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Carcinoma.

What is the cause of carcinoma?
Could carcinoma of the bowel be cans-
ed by an operation for hemorrhoids
performed II years previous? How
long does it take for this type OF can
Ger to develop?
Answer-The cause of cancer has
not yet been discovered The opera
ton could not cause it. Carcinoma of
ten develops in the rectum, and per-
haps piles render the field more vul-
nerable TO carcinoma A carcinoma
develops in few months. that is, SER
ious disturbance of health occurs in a
few months from the beginning of the
trouble.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30

1t is useless to exchange charges
as to why delays have arisen in pre-
pairing regiments of the national guard
for departure for the Mexican border.
What is more to the point is TO get
them ready and move them as fast as
possible, and later prove capable of
profting by the lessons of experience
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30

1t was not tactful in Mr.. Hughes, to
say the least, to use without quota
ton marks Mrs Julia Ward Howe's
line about the trumpet that shall
never call retreat" in letter to Colo
mel Roosevelt, who had just sounded
a retreat for the progressives who
followed him bravely in 1912 and were
left leaderless in 1916 A trumpet
that has once sounded retreat can
sound it again when retreat or defeat
are the alternatives.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
Limit Size of Newspapers.

Vienna.-The Hungarian authorities
now limit the size of newspapers, ac-
cording to their price. says a Buda-
pest dispatch to a local labor paper
Papers which sell at one cent NAV
not use more than six pages of ordi.
nary size, while two cent papers NAV
use from eight to twelve pages. Ma
newspaper may print more than twelve
pages at q single issue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30
Daily History CIass-June 80.

l6S5-Archibald Campbell, ninth earl
Of Argyll, beheaded for rebellion
against James II.
lS91-The triple alliance of Germany.
Austria and Italy renewed for SIX
years.
l9o0-Desperats battle at Tientsin-
Foreign ministers to China oruer-
ed to leave Picking.
l915-Rnssia established board OF
munitions to make provision ZOE
supplies Of ammunition st ue
front
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30

1t may be trife Cld-fashioned, and
a reminder of the Puritanical days, but
the plan adopted in Kansas City
Kan, Of establishing public pillory
for wife heaters may serve a good
purpose. No means are too drastic
in dealing with brutes in human
form.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30

England will not help her cause in
Ireland by the execution Of Sir Roger
Easement Rather will this embitter
the Irish against the kings govern
ment 1t was not so much hate for
England as love for Ireland that in
spired Easements crime.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-30

In the Civil war many of the best
soldiers came from behind the coun-
tiers of city stores. They were great
on discipline and endurance. What
story will the present trouble write
in this respect?