The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-04-02
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The miserable tinkering Of Mr.. Grants
administration with the finances has pro
duced nothing but disaster. As we write
this the telegraph tells us that Greea6ack,
are 'corth only eighty-oae and half cent?
on tie dollar; and this comes of the wick,
ed management of the Credit Mobilier and
and Salary Stealing party. Their wholt
management of the money matters Of the
country, since Grants election, has tended
to derange the currency and depress al
branches of business. From the begin
ming of their speculations, when Grant
Corbin, Fisk and Gould were contrivinl
how to make millions in speculations il
the gold market TO the present hour Mr.
Grant and his ring have been dabbling
and puttering with the currency in such a
way as to enable them to make money
while the people we're suffering Our for
eign market for the products of this coun-
try has been ruined by the exorbitant
tariff, thus preventing our farmers from
selling where they could sell dearest ana
buying where they could buy cheapest
And at the same time the price OF their
products has necessarily been governed by
what they were worth in gold to ship
abroad, To-day our GreeHbacks are ''orth
oHlv about cighty cents on the dollar, and
the price of farmers produce is reduced in
consequence ms they must sell at a price
which will pay 70 ship. The farmers are
thus cheated when they sell, and cheated
again when they buy And this results
from a high tariff, and from not resuming
specie payments. What they sell is sold on
a gold baSis--and what they buy is bought
on the inflated shinplaster basis They
get less, TO day, for the products of their
farms, than they did in 1860 before the
war-and they pay more for what they
buy. Reduce the tariff to strictly rev.
enue or free trade basis, and resume
specie payments, and the farmers will
prosper again,-and'they never will until
these things shall be done Party
politics, demagogues and Office seekers have
blinded them TO their own interests, till
they can endure il no longer They are
now looking into matters themselves. 1t
will take sometime 10 bring things right
again. but they are now on the right
track. If they will persevere. and look
out who jhey vote for, they will, in time,
'orrect the abuses under which they suffer.
LET them ignore party names, party dem
lgogues and all party clap trap. Let
hem insist on the world for market
having trade as free as possible from all
trammels; insist on snch
cale of duties as viii give them a chance
o sell where they can sell dearest, and 10
'uy where they can buy cheapest Let
hem insist on having the advantages Of
III markets insist on getting the most of
he necessaries and comforts of life in ex-
.hange for what they have to sell. Let
hem insist on an immediate resumption Of
specie payments, and on regulating the
'alue Of what they buy by the gold basis
IS well as the value of what they sell.
And let them insist that swind-
ing railroad monopolies, and all
'ther monopolieS shall obey
he laws and become subseryient 70 the
lyereicn power Of the land Let these
winding corporations have fair
enumeration on the actual capt.
al invested, but not 4 cent on their fcti-
I1us capital-tAeir over issues Of stock
nd bonds. The farmers have the power.
-et them keep up their organizations and
se the power they pDssess-no matter
Tho or what party it hits. Self preserya-
ion requires them to do it. If they don't
roSper NJ other class can long do 81.