The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-04

Western support of Protection, and the
general subseryience of the West to her
purposes. Even after the cost OF trans
portation is reduced to a minimum, the
East will still strive to cheaper food for
herself in the West. 1t is out OF this pol
lev that has sprung the prohibition OF the
export of alcohol unwilLngness of
the East to act in the matter of opening
the mouth of the Mississippi and other
water routes to the sea that will pass her
by. While the West needs the world for
market, both to sell and buy in, the Sc
cret of the stability of the East lies in re-
striction of trade. Two things the East
may dread, as presaging the loss of her
present prosperity and performance the
ability of the West to fix price to her
on the food it produces, and the accumula-
ton of capitol in the West. 1t is the very
want of those natural resources which the
West possesses that places the East at a
disadvantage and makes protection
necessary to her. The most
advantageous locality for staple manu-
features, such as cotton goods, is in the
West butt must be considered that they
will not spring up here till the capital that
builds them is owned here; and our only
means of legitimately acquiring that capt.
tai is from the accumulation of profits from
agriculture When this is gained, the
West will compete with the East, as well
as the pauper-labor of Europe. and draw
| from the East her industries and her pop
ulation. 1t is but question of time, IN
less the West meanwhile is mastered by
force or subtlety,or continues to allow it
self to be imposed upon. The restriction
on alcohol is
ONE OF THOSE SUBTLETIEs,-
one of those many imponderable forces,
silent, unavowed, but irresistible, with
which the people of the West and South
are being invaded for purposes of conquest,
and with which the property and labor OF
the many are being made subject to the
capital of the few.
The bushels of corn now being daily
manufactured into alcohol in Peoria for the
European market NEARLY double the
amount shipped from Chicago Jan. 80
this year over three times that shipped the
same date last year, is the surplus produc.
ton of at least five quarter-section farms
and, when so used, is diverted from being
put into hogs to feed the people Of Lowell
and Providence, and makes reduction Of
500 in the number offered for sale to them
in Chicago, In short, the object of the
Government in preventing the sale of alco
hol to Europe has been to
DEPRECIATE THE PRODUCTS OF WESTERN
INDUSTRY,
to the advantage of the Eastern consumers
The beauty of the tax on spirits to the
West lies in this: that it is a tax for rev
enue, with incidental cheapening O
corn and hogs. Coupled with a prohibi
tory tariff, its purpose is to grant mo
nopoly in trade to- and is instigated by
that little corner of the country lying NORTH
of the Potomac and east of the Alleghe
MES, which, only rich in capital and Gun
ming, and prompt with both, seeks to mo
nopolize to itself the good that comes from
all the rest; which strives, like Rome, fol
the mastery of continent that all mel
may bring their fruits as tribute to her lap
which, with unabashed presumption, aim.
to make the whole country, the grainfeld
and pastures of the West, the cotton-feld:
of the South, the mineral fields of tht
mountains aud the slopes of the Pacific
but agricultural colonies and domains o
New England, New York, and Pennsyl
vania which strives by every art to max,
us to their little Empire what India is Il
England, and what her American Colonies
were to have been to her, what Cuba is t
Spain
THE RESOURCES OF A POWER.
| notice in the recent news the presenc,
in Washington of delegation of distiller
(mostly Westerly, praying for such regula
tions as will secure they additional free
dom in the foreign marketing of our pro
ductions. There is no movement" tina
we farmers can make that will bring u
more sure and speedy relief than backing
them with all our influence" in their pc
tition. Our members of Congress ough
to have done this for us long ago Ha,
our interests been represented as other
have, do not think the West would hav
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