Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-08-29
OUT FOR CLEVELAND.
a Leading Republican Manufacturer
Declares for Tariff Reform

YORK PA Cor. Pittsburg Post.
One OF the largest manufacturing es- |
Adjustments in Pennsylvania is that of
agricultural implements He was warm
personal friend of Garfield, and only last
week pronounced for Cleveland. In an
interview recently he said Il have not
left the republican party, it has left me.
became republican because believed
that every man, woman and child in
America, white or black. had an equal
right to liberty and the untrammeled pur-
suit of happiness. | voted for all our
republican presidents. The republican
party has deserted the principles of its
noble founders, and now stands for the
policy of Stacking trade and taxing la
Dor to give bounlies to favored classes.
1t has become the party of centraliZ qtion
and monopoly, imagining the government
was instituted for its benefit. while |. IN
common with its former great lights
Lincoln Chase and Observation-Disclosures
in the economic principles of Jefferson.
No old republican owes apology for
advocating tariff reform
After the war | remained with the
party called republican so long as be
lieved the national credit (mOre impor-
tsnt than systems of taxation) was safer
in their hands But President Cleve-
lands administration has proved there is
no difference between the parties in this
respect, and his tariff reform policy is
certainly in the direction of ma
tional progress. The effect of high tariff
rates is to encourage monopolies and
trusts, and the farmer is beginning to IN
derstand this very well Manufacturers
seek to terrify farmers with picture of
the competition they will have when
their factories are closed and their hands
have to 90 on the farm. What nom
sensel The Mills bill, by reducing the
cost of the raw material, will open 3
dozen factories where it will close one
1t is, demonstrably impossible to break
up any considerable portion of the man
ufacturing industry of the country even
under absolute free trade Il am very
sure that | would not have TO stop, but
would rather do SO than have the COM
munity taxed to support me). while it is
certain that with lower tariff the far
mer's supplies might be more cheaply
obtained.
In short. no benefit is derived by the
farmer from the protective system; it is,
however. very certain that the increased
price he has to pay for supplies impov>
erishes him and makes the monopolst a
millionaire. If wool was placed on the
free list, it would simply be what the
wool growing states desire The older
states are growing less and less de-
pendent upon wool, but farmers every
where suffer more from increased cost of
clothing than they would gain by tariff
on wool, and reduction on tariff, there's
fore. would prove benefit to the farm
ing community.
Although the prices of agricultural
implements are enhanced by the tariff, the
implement makers suffer by the present
war tariff system in several WAYS. He is
al disadvantage in the export of his
wares; he is at increased expense for his
raw material. His sales are diminished
and the high tariff bearing particularly
hard on his customers, the farming COM
"uhilt' ht ouhtlo WIN NuCtl. "tIt lnt
presidents policy carried out he would,
while able to sell his implements at lower
prices; make more of them and better
profits upon his business
Protection is the father of mill0naires
and psupers, and the question simply is.
shall we continue thus TO tax labor and
trade to fill the already OVERLOOKING treas
ury vaults and pockets of the millionaire,
with certain following of hard times and
disastrous commercial reverses2 1t should
seem that every one must know by this
time how tariffs are made-lobbied
through congress by those who expect t.
reap the benefit. Protection is asked for
infant industries, but the larger they grow
the more is demanded. 1t is eternally
dinned into the ears of the wOrkingman
that all this is done in his interest Who
is to teach him the truth that protection
Is always a tax upon labor, not upon Capri
tall The duty must fall, indirectly or di
Iectly, upon the congressman.
''As to President Cleveland, his stand.
ard of duty lifts him above partisanship
| like his administration well enough to
continue it. He has place in tn heart:
of the people such as never could have
been acquired by any amount of schem-
ing"