Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-11-22
THE TARIFF.
speech of Senator }. Il. Beck At the
tr0guOis Club BANQUET.


Iroquois Club Banquet.
The treasury surplus and the tariff
was the toast responded to by Senator J
B. Beck of Kentucky, at the fourth an
nual banquet of the Iroquois club Of Chi
cago. The questions involved are y
more vital interest to the country thar
anv others, and no ADLER man could hav,
been selected for an intelligent discussion
of the subject than Mr.. Beck lie said
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN: Ii
the short time which propriety dictates as
the limit to a response. it is obviously i'm
possible to present the great question
now agitating the country in regard t.
taxation and the proper disposition of oul
surplus revenue but it is easier to lay
down the principles which think ought
to govern our action, before a democratic
club in Chicago, in feS words than be-
fore any other body of men anywhere
You are accustomed to grasp and act on
suggestions rather than on elaborated ar
guments in all your great transactions.
You have no time to listen to deClama-
ton or rhetOriCs in business affairs The
wonderful foresight of the founders oil
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