The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-02
VOICES IN THE AIR.

4 tu4CE1 IN IhE AIM
[Rome IN -, Sentinel Dem. }. June 81
H. The republican doctrine is protection.
Protection to the werkingman Is the preach.
! ing. The practice IS protection to the
capitalist, and every vote the workingman
casts for republicanism is to encourage it
in the practices which keep him poor. II
is to condemn the democrat ie effort to re
duce taxation by eighty-six millions this
year, and to reduce the office holders and
| their emoluments. 1t is to oppose the in
famous republican levyiug of assessments
on other workingmen. IL is TO maintain a
high tariff which makes them pay humid
reds of per cent. more than the value OF
the goods, so that the capitalist may earn
his fancy profits. A labor ticket will per-
petuate all this by drawing off strength
from the parties. Better vote the demo-
cratic ticket, and vote it straight.
Mail and Express Rep) June ISL
Mr. Dunnell, an able Republican mem
Der of the house, yesterday warned his
party associates in that body that the bill
| for reducing internal revenue taxes that
was supported by their party caucas
would not meet with the approval of the
people" Its reductions were too small
and would be an insufficient relief to the
country Mr. Dunnell's protest was I'M
nearly all fettered by the DEGREES of the
caucus over which Robson presides
Robson wants all the revenue that can be
extorted out of the taxpayers. The more
plethoric the treasury. the greater the OPP
portunity for his sort of craftsmanship
the richer the dividends on jobs. How
long can the republican party hold on to
its power when its leaders in congress are
making campaign material for democratic
orators?
[Denver News Dem June 2s.l
Mr.. McCoid, of Iowa, has introduced a
resolution in the house calling upon the
officers of the Northern Pacific Railway
Company to inform congress as to the
number of acres of land received by that
corporation, the number earned, the value
of the unearned lands claimed, the num-
Der of miles of road built and to be built
and sundry other things in this connection.
The probability is that Mr. McCoid is
simply seeking for delay in order that
congress may take no action adverse to the
Northern Pacific during the present ses
sion. All the information sought by this
resolution is already in the possession of
the house. But the company owns a
large number of senators and representa-
tiyes and the people need expect no jus
tice In this matter from the present CON
gress
Bangor Commercial Dem. J. june 26.1
Dorsey, the star route swindler and 'sa-
vior of Indiana has undertaken bigger
job, if he is reported correctly, than either
the defrauding of the government by Eek
pedited" star routes, or of the people by the
wholesale debauehery of elections. He
has secured SO it is said eminent counsel
to sue for libel every newspaper in the
that has referred to him in connec-
ton with the star route frauds Dorsey
will have all he can do for some time TO
keep out of the penitentiary, without in
terfering with the newspapers. By the
way, we believe that Dorsey is still secre-
tary of the national republican committee,
and very fit one he is. too.
IChicago Times tInd). June cal
If Hayes were president now he would
not allow these Hubbells and these Hen |
lersons to rifle the pockets of civil servants |
IN order to raise campaign funds. He was
4 reformer, and during the Garfield |
when, under the encouraging
eye of the candidate, my Dear Hubbelf'
was plying his arts, Hayes wouldn't stand !
it. He went off to California, so that the |
highway robbers would not be found to
have his countenance in their work of
rapine and plumber. He was an uneom-
monty good man, was this Mr.. Hayes, and |
he steadfastly refused to be a victim of the |
Hubbell process
pittsburgh Dispatch Ind. J, June as.1
The feature of the strikes so far this [
year is the almost entire absence of vio- |
lence. With the exception of the affair
some weeks ago at Cleveland, hardly any
thing more peaceful could have been look
ed for in the way of contention between |
labor and capital There is no symptom |
of vindictiveness on the one hand or of de-
on the other. To have a
strike at all is misfortune TO the com
pany in which it occurs; but it is well at
east that when one does come the shape is
the least Objectionable.
[st. Louis Globe (Rep.), June g.
The tonnage tax is petty affair. and the
refusal of the house committe on commerce
10 recommend its repeal looks little like
1nes biting off his nose to spite his face.
The first step towards restoration of an
American merchant marine" must be the
removal of burdens which clearly tend to
make ship property Improbable, and this
AK is one of them.
philadelphia Record (Ind.), june %
Such scene as is visible around the New
York docks and railroad depots could not
continue unless the freight handlers who
nave struck were believed by the general
public to be reasonable and just in their
demands.