Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-05
SUNNYSIDE CLUB.
A Fine Meeting at the Holly Hose
House.
Addresses by VIM. McEnfry and A. r.
McGuirk---The Clubs New Quar-
ters

The Sunnyside club had good turn
out last night at the Holly hose house to
hear City Attorney McEniry. and A. P.
McGuirk, of Davenport, discuss the |
issues of the campaign. Ex- Alderman
Daniel Corken presided.
City Attorney McEniry was the first
speaker. He said four years ago during
the campaign we were told that if Cleve>
land was elected, dire disasters would be.
fall this country. Among the many
calamiIies that would happen, the most
important pointed out was the DISPOSE
ton of the democratic party to pay the
rebel debt, pension the rebel soldier and
enslave the negro. Have their prophe-
cies come true2 Cleveland was elected,
the rebel debt has not been paid nor any
attempt made TO do the same, the negro
has not been enslaved, nor the rebel SOL
diers pensioned, though for the refusal of
President Cleveland to sign pension
bill which was in tenor aud in effect pen-
sioning a rebel soldier, he is denounced
as 10 being unfriendly to the soldier.
President Cleveland has signed more
pension bills than any of his predecessors
and nearly as many as all the republican
presidents taken together. True, he has
vetoed about 100 private pension bills,
but when we reflect that nearly 100 of
these had been before the pension agents
under republican administration and res
jected as unworthy, We find that PRESS
dent Cleveland has not rejected as many
new pension claims, in proportion to the
number he sanctioned and became laws,
as the republican administrations, the
boosted friends of the soldier.
Speaking upon the tariff, Mr.. McEniry
said it was not battle of free trade and
high protection. but battle between a
high and a low tariff, between tax on
necessaries of life on the part of republi-
cans and tax on the Injuries on the
! part of the democrats We are told by
| republicans they must have the present
| tariff on the manufactured goods to pro-
tect the American labor from the paupel
labor of Europe. How much tariff car
the highest protectionist ask to protect
the American labor from the so-calleG
pauper labor of Europe? He cen surely
ask tariff upon the imported article
| equivalent to the difference between the
cost of the labor that enters into the man
ufactured article in the foreign countrl
and the cost of the labor which enter
into the manufacture of the same articl
in this country When he asks for NOR,
than this he asks for the protection o
the trusts of this country at the expens
of the consumer, the laboring man, an,
the difference between the cost of tn
labor which enters into the msnufactur
of steel rails in England ard this coun
try, ST per ton. II cannot be since tn
cost of the entire labor which enters int
the manufacture of a steel rails in thi
country is less than SIT per ton. Unde
the present tariff on steel rails the manu-
facturer of the same article in this coun
try could compete with the manufac
turer in England, if the Englshman coul
employ for nothing. An Englishman
no more apt to work for nothing tina
any other countryman. We may follo'
down the entire list of the duties in tn
Importation of manufactured articles an
apply the foregoing principles and lk
proof that the reduction, as proposed b
the Mills bill, will not bring the America
labor in competition with the so Gale
pauper labor of Europe.
Mr.. A. P. McGuirk was the nel
speaker introduced. He congratulate
the democratic party upon the able al
honest administration of President Cev
land; he said that he could not be pointt
to like his republican predecessors as
party to whisky frauds. star route fraud
railroad land grabs, but that his admin
tration was pure and honest. He prove
himself & guardian of the peoples right
and that the American people had eve
confidence in him, as was witnessed |
the St. Louis convention, he being
eye witness, could speak from his ov
knowledge of the high esteem the del
gates to that convention had for t
president. There was no other man
the minds of the delegates. no 9th
name mentioned for the choice of tn
convention than Grover Cleveland to lie
them to victory this campaign. T
contrast between this convention and Il
one at Chicago was a marked oil
The former, presided over by the frie
of the masses and run in the interest
the American people as whole and I
controlled by railroad attorneys a
railroad magnates, as the Chicago &C
ventlon. The platform of the st. Lo
- convention WAS moulded by its can
date, President Cleveland; while
r platform of the Chicago convention v
made in the interest of the corporatio
The party, passed by Allison, of 10y
because he came from granger stq
and went down to Indiana 10 get n
they could mould to suit the platfo
'In conclusion let me say, l have just
turned from a tour of the state of n
York, and | can safely say that that 81
is safe for Cleveland and Thurman.
w Irish who were carried off four years
have come back to the old fold. T
will no longer permit Patrick Ford
deceive them"
. The club adjourned to meet at Il
new quarters on Second avenue Satur
night, after giving three cheers for
speakers and the ticket.
The Sunny sides moved into their
j club rooms in Palace row on Second
nue. this morning.
"a Cold Day
The next comic attraction at Hart
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