The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-14

means Of living is necessity of existence.
1t is not the object Of government to sup
ply this necessity but to protect all equal
" in their right to supply themselves.
When it comes to the matter of employ
ment for public works, the question takes
a new phase. In that case the party of
the people cannot remain so without giving
fair days wages for fair days work. |
would drive no sharp bargain with labor
ing men either as to hours or wages. A
higher price for labor in a dearth of en-
ployment would be an example to private
employers and an anodync to feverish
community. Well, we have promise of
the correction of this error. We hope it
may soon be corrected. If you would get
at the root of our lack of employment, and
the little good the largest wages give, COM
pare the policies of Democratic days and
the erratic and plundering policies by cur
rency, tax and tariff, which have been
made in the interest of chartered banks,
untaxed bondholders and monopolizing
classes. Look at this metropolis to-day,
half employed, stores and houses to rent,
men, hardy men, having bartered the very
tools of their trade for the necessaries of
life, going about offering to barter their
muscles and sinews for bread and unable
to make the exchange! At the door of
radical, selfish impolicy this great social
wrong is to be laid.
PARTIES.
Proud as | am of the privilege Of speak
ing on this day, anxious as l am to speak
we'll of this great city, which has been
such home and refuge, and made so by
Democratic favor, disdain to speak a
word which would enhance the interests
of the people regardless of party ascen-
dency, When party fails to do right,
thinking for the community as man for
himself and his home, it is time for it to
radically reform or, by humiliation. die.
Parties, however, will exist. Two only
can exist in this city-one a feeble echo of
custom house chicane and Federal power,
without numbers or representative quail
ity, and the other the favorite by $4,000
majority of the city and its surroundings.
Two parties must exist. As Ecclesiasti-
Gus says: ''All things are double, one
against another, and he hath made moth
ing imperfect One thing establishes the
good of another" Let US welcome such
division of men into parties. Like the
lobes of the brain of the parts of the body,
the division tends to estsb lish the we'll
being. Why then, oh partisan, become
vexed with thy brother of another faith,
because he cannot see our party as you
do? Or why, being in the party and low
ing its principles, may he not, by criti-
cism, unite in extending our views, and
thus contribute to good end? Let the
tempest nurse the oak. 1t will thrive the
better. There can be but one party il
power at time. When it divides Oh
questions of patronage it seldom has the
strength to reach power, The party, then
which has the superior rule for honest anG
frugal conduct, must compel unity il
itself for matters of the greatest moment
We have 1876 confronting us. We have
a vigllant foe, eager to hold on to the Fed
eral administration, even assaulting it
own chief, in its platforms: for his preten
tious ambition. In such time it will no
do-nay, the masses Of the Democracy
will not permit dangerous division OF
minor points. The danger from such di
visions does not arise from Home Rul,
either in the primary meetings or the stat
conventions. Home Rule hurts no party
If Ohio differs from New \ ork on curren
cy problems, she has the same right t.
differ from US as we from her, If tn
division is taken to the national conven
ton, and is not reconciled there on basi
of honorable principle, it is all the wors
for the party. All motives, all interests
all that is meant by our constitutions, bill
of right and laws-for state independence
for liberty of speech and conscience-fo
immunity from inordinate tax and illega
arrest-should combine this and next yea
to make the aggregate ballot an avalanch
to bury irresponsible power.
ANALoGIEs FROM NATURE.
2 Nature in its stellar, solar and terres
trial forces teaches directly in types and i
!, individuals that her great object is tn
/ support of life. He would be poor ecor
: omist or politician who did not recogniz
D the analogy with reference to man in ever
Q grade of socetie. All nature teaches u
5 that to support life home is not less net
/ essary than labor. and when men heap til
$ scale of wealth by disagreement and pill
r age, nature teaches resistance. But as
r sure protection against spoliation an
Y wrong all nature further teaches US tt
!. propriety, order and simplicity of this ju
e doctrine of Home Rule As in natul
d there are the trees, the flowers an
!, the fruits, each comprehended in one ge
J. Continued on third page.)