The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-10-07

20 tho ueos sfooofy COffupVtnR INCIDENT OF
our Government 1t does more to debauch
honest and upright legislation than all other
corrupt causes combined. Loud cheers.
General Boynton, . thorough going Repub.
licHn, in a letter written from Washington
and published in the Cincinnati Gazette las,
Tuesday or Wednesday, in speaking Of the
way this tariff is connected, says that if the
people Of this country could know the cor
rupt influences that are exerted in the dis
tribution of these tariff duties, not a
Republican from the Northern States would
be returned to Congress Sensation
Probably twenty FIVE members of Con
gress are elected by the iron furnance
owners and manufacturers not to represent.
the interests of the American people, bu,
solely to procure high tariff on various
kinds of iron. Probably there are twenty.
i've more members that represent the
various tariffs on cotton goods. Tbs,
makes Fifty tariff men When the tariff
question comes up they say we wsn's high
tariff on cotton goods and on ell KINDS o.
iron. There are, probably. ten me N oers OF
Congress who 90 there oh ely IN the interest,"
of the salt mar q facturers. learned recently
in Syracuse, that the combination known as
the Onondaga Salt Company own ana
control no less than four, ifths OF the SAT-
| furnaces of that region. They wanted 10
keep down the quantity produced so as not
to glut the market. and they went to Albany
and got law passed prohibiting the
manu- fsc.ure of salt for Eve months of each
year, commencing November lst.
This company send salt to Canada and
complete there with the foreign salt import
ed duty free. New England has enormous
fisheries. They use grea, deal of salt,
bot some how or other General Schenck
can tell how it is probably the New
Ehgand fishermen are paid back BY the
United States all the money they pay as
duty on salt. | don't know whether the
Butler county pork-psckers are paid back
the increased cost they pay for salt BY
reason of the tariff or not. No, sir, they
are not.
Well, these Syracuse salt makers send
their salt down to the coast of New England
and there undersell the foreign salt, which
comes in duty free ! That does not look as
though they needed protection from foreign
salt does it? mo no cheers Thus
the whole American people are taxed to the
extent of six millions of dollars bonus, given
by the Republican party TO these sale
manufacturers. Why is it given? Because
IRON and cotton products could not get
protection unless they got these eight o.
ten salt votes. Mr.. Mccarthy. of Syracuse
represents the salt interest in Congress. He
will probably trade his vote for any thing
else under the heavens to save the duty Oh
salt. Now when you got twenty five iron
men, and twenty-five cotton men, and ten
salt men in the House of Representatives
you have sixty men for protec-
lion. 1t is pretty strong force for the
tariff, still there are other Industries
that say they must have protection, too.
For instance, there is good deal of q Goa
trade with Nova Scotia when there is ne
tariff on coal. Pennsylvania men and
Western Mary land men want to drive thsi
foreign coal out of the market; therefore
hey demand and get duty of $l.25 on a
ton OF coal.
There are probably ten votes that repre-
sent coal aud almost nothing else. Thai
makes an aggregate of seventy for tariff
| There are still other articles that require &
tariff. Here comes Mr.. Oaks Ames, TOR ex
ample. He Is extensively engaged IN the
man uiacture OF shovels. They say in Wash
Ington that he spends one half of his tins
Ia reducing the tariff On scrap iron, (which
ne uses largely in the manufacture of hi.
shovels, and the other half in raising the
tariff on shovels. Laughter.
There are other special industries repre-
scented In Congress manipulating the tar II
Tor their benefit. There is the Bessemer
steel ring. Bessemer steel is now manu-
featured in Europe nearly as cheap as ordi
uary iron. The patents have expired
abroad, but In the United States the patent
10 owned by three men. They succeeded
u getting General Schenck, in his tariff
amendment last winter, to put tariff OF
$500 per ton on that article. Mr.. Morrell,
member of Congress from Pennsy lvanla,
owns one third of this monopoly, and Mr.
Griswolc, ex member from New York, an
other third. This article is greatly needed
IN our country for railroad iron and other
purposes, but enormously increased by stock
10 per cent.-by General Schenck for the
benefit of this member of Congress from
Pennsy wanna and his ring. SO he increased
the duty on telegraph wire eighty per cent
for the benefit of one establishment in
Worcester, Massachusetts-au this III
creased cost falling on the masses of the
people.
Thus, 1925 ,000,00 Of the people money
| is annually distributed by the lobby and BY
me agents of these petty monopoiies, wht
sit there in Congress under the name of tbs
peoples representatives, many of whom are
| ,nly subsidized agents of the protected
manufacturers. Cheers.
Now, this is the way these enormous
mnnopolies operate TO sustain each other.
interests in Congress. They are scattered
all over this country, and wherever you find
one Of them that receives any great advsn
rage from the tariff, you will generally find
Al organization ready to support the repub
lean party, with all their intelligence and
means. Voice, That's so"
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