Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-10

pressed his prediction that Illinois would {
not only give Gov. Palmer handsome !
majority at the forthcoming election. but {
would wheel into the column Of states
that will count for Cleveland and Thur
man as to national issues. Mr.. barrow
then entered upon the tariff question, n
Producing his subject by saying that IN
the good old days before reason and
Judgment deserted the brain, our fond
mothers taught us the lessons Of econo'
my. In those days the tax gatherer was
regarded as a nuisance, and the less he
took away with him on his annual rounds
the better off our forefathers considered
themselves. Those days, though, have
gone by. but the speaker trusted, not
forever. He hoped to witness revival
of the doctrines of our forefathers and
the lessons of economy taught by them.
Speaking on the subject of protection he
commended the Chinese people as the best
example of what protection is as carried |
to its logical ends: set OF people who
lived under the system for years and who |
are clothed in wooden shoes and pig |
tails and worshipping a wooden god. |
This nation was an example of legitimate
protection. He spoke of the import tax
of so per cent, W hich amounted to $780,
900 900 last year, and then traced the tax
from the American importer at GO per
cent, the wholesale dealer at 70, to the
pocket of the lsboring people and farm
ers at 100 per cent. Every dollar of this
tax comes from the consumer The
largest part Of the manufactured goods
in this country are made at home and the
manufacturer following long honored
practice. takes the duty that would 9TH
erwise go to the importer, and be gets
$40 from the people, where the govern
ment gets 81. When internal competi-
ton prevents his receiving this tax. he
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tax. The average man is taxed 800 per
annum by this system of protective taxa
ton. The tariff effects what you sell not
what YOU buy. About 90 per cent of the
agricultural products of this country are
sold in Liverpool, and the American far
mer must sell for foreign prices and he
must take the Liverpool price less the
cost of getting it to Liverpool, while if
he gets anything back he must pay the
American import duties to get it here.
The American farmer gets less for his
products than any other farmer in the
world, and he buys more than any other
former on the globe. To the American
farmer there is no such thing as protec
ton. All of his trade and labor is sold
product of the soil. The American far
mer could compete with the foreign mar
: ket if it were not that he is robbed Of
, every single doll ar to protect the monop
, olies.
t Mr. Dsrrow then traced the benefits G.,
of protective tax from the time it strike
: baby the first time it catches a glimps'
s of sunlight through window pane taxeC
2 so per cent, the days when it plays witt
= doll babies and rattle boxes taxed 25 pc
| nppt To mt ba
q rattle boxes of Europe, the times whel
e it grows older and waves the Am erica
n flag taxed 1875 per cent for the benefit @
Y Ben Butler, the days of school book
e taxed at 25 per cent to keep in ignorsnc
1, what protection does, the days when
e man gets married and is taxed for tn
as number of his children and size of HI
re family and not accord ding to his mean
ct when be is taxed for his generosity If
ct chooses to get his wife new dress or h
baby a new pair of shoes; the days whe
n if he wishes TO build home he must pa
in the owners of pinery lands the $21 p,
e thousand on every board in his buildir
r. and the tax on nails, paint and putty; 9
CT through life he is taxed on every artic
lis he uses or consumes, taxed while aslet
to as well as when awake and finally in b
n declining years looks through eye-glass
he taxed so per cent. The little wIndo
is above his head in his coffin is taxed
o. per cent-and the tax does not stop her
,fy Ordinary malice stops at the tomb, b
an this pursuing tax goes beyond the gray
rm it goes into the portals of eternity al
ed asks a tax of $40 per ton on birthstone.
ed spoke of the difference in the conditio
,ss between the east and west, and the
in ferences between past circumstances a
lie the present. He paid glowing and tie
ies ing compliment to the Mills bill EXPLAIN
81 its features and provisions and illustr
lat ing it in thoroughly practical and co
ow prehensive manner. He denied that {
nd Mills bill was sectional, and claimed Ii
ev it was particularly beneficial to the MOI
ce if anything. He held that labor wa:
ill commodity, for sale in the market
ate world over, and regulated according
me supply and demand. The wages of Am
nv lean workingmen differ according to
it cation, yet the tariff is the same eve
He where. He hoped for the day and pro
it'll ised it under the Mills bill, when t
INV American laborer would not be taxed
nh. death, but would have his full share
w the products of toll, and he WELDON
for the time when tariff barri
rec would be removed between n
M and man. The speech, but
bev meagre outline of which can be publish
be. here. was actually scholarly and '
,rce finely adorned with wit and oratory.
ins speaker held the closest attention of
,ple great assemblage for fully two hol
and and the telling points were liberal ly
VS.. loudly rewarded with cheers.
nor AT MOLINE
He
100 Last night the Davenport campo
80 clubs came over on the ferry in handsc
uniforms and were met at the landing
the Rock Island clubs and under c.
bod mand of Marshal Briggs column
49, formed and short line of march ia
mn. soutii on E;phteenth otreet IN TT