The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-06-07
Que 9aiIg Arens.
Saturday, June Z, 1873.
prntnrtius Bsef.Eatsrs and Their Dupss.

When Frederic Barbarossa first beheld
the Holy Land there is legend that he
evclaimed that Moses must have been
badly advised 10 select this barren spot
and call il a land Of promise and a land
flowing with milk and honey Why, ia
ouired Barbarossa, did he not 60 10 Naples,
which is something like a land Of promise?
The good people OF Ohio and illinois may
have cherished a notion that their States
we're lands of great promise. But they
are sadly mistaken and badly advised. II
their aim is the accumulation Of wealth
they had better betAke themselves 10
Rhode Island. There ut least they would
I've rewarded with wealth beyond their
dreams The census returns made this
pretty clear
nlb.os oaio 1 E4GSs
iss6 'i ~. 'ap''' sos Esoa s7,5W
1870. . wi ',p'' asa SSH 1852,
Increase per capita
In ten years. $500 $500 50O5i
Now this is something like return for
human labor in ten years, when the earn
ings Of the good people of Rhode Island
during a single decade show some $50 more
than the per capita wealth of either Ohio
or Illinois in 1850. Whether it was super
Tor industry during the ten years lS6O-7O
that made the difference or whether the
great sacrifices borne by the good people
Of Rhode Island during the war that took
place in that decade were especially re
warded by land in) Providence, who
knows2 At all events, during the previous
decade Of $4,000 the exertinns of the
Rhode Islanders were rewarded by about
800 less per capita than the labors of the
citizens of Illinois aud Ohio during the
decade Of ls6O-7O. Thus we find
Wealth. per capita 1s5A ..........s....... sStGll
NfhlUt per capita lNfHi t..ss-. llntN
Increase per capita, IN ten ycars ssS ~
What special providence has taken care
ut this wealth-groaning people that re-
plenished their Golfers during a period of
war and taxation by more than double the
amount ot wealth per capita they had
gained during the previous ten years Of
peace?
What mines of gold and precious stones
were discovered during the years lS6O-7O
in Rhode Island ? IL was not this But
iu the Capitol Of Washington the cunning
OF this little State discovered that lllinoi,
and Ohio could be made mines for the
Rhode Islanders During the decade
$4,000 the industry Of Rhode Island haC
90 compete with foreign industry It had
90 seek a market for its surplus in India
and China But 1t occurred ~ the Rhode
Islanders that the citizens of Ohio aud
Illinois were but Christianzcd Elindoos
and coolies that il sufficient sand could
be- thrown ia thor eyes profits would ar
rruo % which the profits in India und
China were a bagatelle The Rhode Isl.
auders demonstrated that the two great
Western States must have millions Of yards
OF calico 10 clothe their women. and they
got duty against the foreign competing
articles OF about % per cent average,
which shut out oil foreign competition and
made the great Western States get their
supply from Rhode Island or ~ naked
The great States need blankets, and lO
per cent duty was put on foreign blankets.
the great States need spool thread, and 50
per cent was put on foreign spool thread .
the great States want screws for their roi-
fms and pruhibitury duty was put ON
foreign screws ln short every article
that little Rhode Island produced wa, pro-
trctod 10 q prghibit0ry point Rhode Isl
and was exactly IN the position Of tie fish.
orman who spreads his net across river.
and the Western people were the blind
fishes who were caught by it Ohio aud
Illinois grub now, a. they did during $50.
on. ~ the ground aud produce wheat Do
they get any more for il now than during
$4,000 No Does il cost them more
now % raise a hushcl of wheat than dur
ing lS5OGD2 Yes Does Rhode Island
get more for her products now than in
IoJo-bOE Yes. How much more In
average about 80 per cent Does il cost
Rhode Island more labor. material etc.
now than IN 10000? Yes, about 30 per
cent in average. Hence they clear by the
most arbitrary aud wicked class legislation
~ per eent.whieh is paid by the two great
estern' States aud the rest Of their yoke
fellow States This is the especial provi-
dence that ordained that Rhode Islanders
should accumulate $500 per capita durmp
the monopoly years Of lS6O-T0, instead Of
only S22s during the years Of reasonable
tariti-lSjO-6O N j. World