The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-10-24

The ingenuity displayed by the radicals in
lodging financial questions is much more
creditable to their tact than their honesty
The interests of the western states are sacri-
fced by congressional legislation, and those
OF the eastern states ere built up by it; but
the Logans, and Heshburnes and Trum bulls,
and YaEeses, and all the yadiCsl candidates for
congressional hOnors who are now making
speeches IN ILLINOIS, are too busy in looking
after the interests OF negroes to consider the
lmposltions OF the existing tariff or the inius-
tlce OF making poor men pay the national
debt, white capitalists whose money Is invest
ed IN government bonds are not required TO
pay penny. If the people OF Illinois know
any reasonswhy they should pay New Eng
lana manufacturers t. premium Of Al per
cent. IN gold tor goods made by them we have
not been SO fortunate to sec it stated The
democratic and conservative candidates for
congress IN this state have fully and fairly
discussed financial questions this fall but the
radical orators have remained persistently
silent on them.
The latter are busy in asking the people if
1t Is safe to place the control Of the govern
ment in the hands of rebels This question
forms the text OF their political harrangues,
and we speak justly and truly in characteriz-
ing them as harrangues. Col. Diekev has in
tlce inflicted upon the people Of the western
states by the enactment of our present tariff
laws, but John A. Logan has not attempted
to answer hls arguments. There are two rea-
sons for this. The facts stated bv Col. Dick
ey, and his deductions from them, cannot be
refutec. Logan therefore passes them with
Out an aliusion, and endeaVors to direct the
attention OF his audiences to other questions
logan, although ne Is a. renegade,is convinced
vi the soundness OF democratic doctrines in
relation to the subject of protection. He
knows that ell OF the people to whom he
speaks are daily cheated and feeced by the
operation OF cur tariff laws, and that the state
OF Illinois pays yearly millions of dollars more
iof Ine goods bought BY her than she would
De compelled to pay were the democratic doc
srlne OF free trade, or tariff for revenue and
not for protection, enforced.
on the question of taxing government
BONDS the democratic and conservative candi-
dates nave been as explicit and clear in their
discussions as on the one of tariff and the black
republican candidates have been silent uron
it. The power OF the general government TO
tax those bonds is not denied by anv marty
The subject Is therefore ono of simple RIGHT
and expediency. The holders of the bonds
are receiving interest upon them, and find
it a profitable investment. If there is any
reason why they should be exempted from
bearing their proportion of the national bur-
dens, those who oppose the taxation Of gov
eminent securities should be willing to pre-
sent something In the form of an argument
upon the SUBJECT. Lit is probably safe to as
sumo that nine'tenths of those bonds are held
in the eastern and middle states. There was
but little surplus capital in the west to invest
In them, and very many western men who
became purchasers of government securities
have sold them to engage IN business enter.
prises, and the bonds have found their wav 70
eastern markets. These are facts which rad
ical candidates for congress deem it prudent
to ignore. They will not accept any invita-
ton to discuss them. = They find it more prof
liable to denounce "rebels," although it is
patent fact that there is not a rebel in the
country. The clamor about rebels is all fus-
tain, but the opposition of the western states
under the financial policy of New England Is
An indisputable reality.
When the tariff law which was postponed
until December next was under consideration
In congress last winter, the Chicago Tribune