Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-15
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE "PocKET."
Mr.. Blaine Addresses Audience of
Southern Indianians at Evansville.

Mr.. Blaine Addresses an Audience of
Southern Indianians at Evansville.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct l5.-Saturday aft
ernoon Hon James e. Blaine was escorted to
Garvin's grove, where be spoke for twenty
five minutes to an audience of about 1000
people. The scene was made bright BY the
presence of a large number of glee clubs,
composed of young girls in white, who occu-
pied gayly decorated wagons, aud there were
large numbers of other ladies present. Mr..
Blaine was greeted with enthusiastic cheer
ing when he arose. His speech was, like all
his addresses this campaign, devoted exclu
sively to the tariff issue, and the point be
made this time was that the Democratic
claim-as stated by Mr.. Mills when he spoke
here few days ago--that the reduction OF
the tariff by the Mills bill only amounts to
about per cent, was not the truth. Said be:
According to the report of the present
Democratic secretary Of the treasury, the
duties levied and collected at all the custom
houses of the United States during the past
fiscal year amounted in the aggregate to
trifle over 1912, 10000 1t is this sum which
free traders assail so bitterly, and it is in this
sum that they find the outrages and abuses
of the protective system OF these aggre-
gate duties of S2l2 100000, Mr. Mills bill
proposed to take off an aggregate of s49, 5O0.
900 Il give amounts in round numbers) which
was 10 per cent. on the total dutable i'm
portations for the whole year But that
does not tell the whole story, because in the
duties on silks and liquors, amounting to
S23 900, 900, Mr.. Mills bill made no reduction
whatever, so that the whole of the reduction
fell on the SlSy, 900, 600 that remained Mark
you still further, that the whole story is not
yet toll, for, of the SlS9, 900 00U, SIS, 600 600
were from duties levied on sugar, and from
the duties levied on sugar reduction was
made of 81, 100000, thus leaving the people
OF the United States to pay S47 000,0 900 an
nually on sugar. Deduct that So, DOC, 600 of
sugar duties from SlS9, 900, 600 and you have
Sl3l 100000 as the total amount of all duties
levied on all other articles in the tariff, and
deduct the 81 ,d0O.0O which Mr. Mills took
off the sugar duties and you have remaining
SIS, so 900 of reduction on the remaining
Sl3l, 0J000O of tariff duties
"HUu will observe that the Sl3l 900, 900 Of
duties affords all the protection that we have
on manufactures except duties on silks; all
that we have on co ton, on wool and WOOL
ers, on iron and steel, ard IN all the articles
into which iron and steel enter as component
parts; in fine, on all that protects manufac-
lures IN the United States and the labor of
those engaged therein. In fact, what NAV
be termed the entire protective system of
the United States, over which the two par
ties are now in controversy, is included in
that Si3l 900, 900 of duties. From that sl3l.-
I'M e J,,tia M-
thirty weight and half millions Yet he
tells the people of Indiana that he is only re-
ducing the tariff > per cent, whereas, as
matter of fact, on the whole importation
for the entire long list of articles of which
have spoken, he makes a reduction exceed
ing "a per cent.
"What does Mr.. Mills mean when he says
that the reduction is only an average of 5 per
cent? VIII he face the wool growers OF In
diana, from whom he strips every particle of
protection, and tell them that he has reduced
them only per cent? Will he tell this to
the lumber manufacturers in the largest
hardwood market in the world, in this very
county, after having put their product on the
free lista VIII he say the same thing to the
salt producers of Michigana and 1 may re.
peat the inquiry as to the numberless pur-
suits which he has thrust down from fair
protection to the free list. Will he tell them
all to submit because of the widespread fal
lacy that the average reduction of the whole
is only per cent? What is it 10 those in.
dustries that are stripped naked whether the
average is per cent or 500 per cent? In
either or any event they are thrust out into
the cold"
The other speakers were j. NJ. Butler, Of
Indianapolis; Col A. Louden Snowden, OF
Philadelphia; A. P Hovey, candidate fol