Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-08-23

mo, gentlemen, 1t never happened ana IL
never will For twenty seven years the
country has struggled under protective
tariff Every year we hear of strikes and
lock outs, want, and suffering. There are
labor organizations for the protection of
their rights, yet the high tariff is to be
panacea for all these things. II the tariff
lowers prices, why do manufacturers want
i'll How does it protect them!"
Here the judge referred to the negro The
war freed 4, 100000 of them. He was glad
of it The negro is a prolific animal. and
the race has increased to over 6,000NO.
Some of them We're in cities, but a majority
were in the country, and raising cotton and
cane more than any other products. How
was he protected in raising his cottoni He
had to sell at a price fixed in q Liverpool
market. His wife and children had to be
dressed. He had no protection for his crop.
Yet for every stitch of clothing bought for
himself and family he paid the increased
price named by tariff The boosted friend
of the neg should consider this. rs it not
enough that they make a slave of him by re-
quiring him to vote the Republican ticket,
and swear not to support Democratic Must
they also put upon him the hurd n of unjust
taxation"
Thurman then took up the matter of the
laborer again American labOrers received
more than foreign workers, for several rea-
sons. 1t was certain that the more dense the
population the lower the wages Knights Of
| Labor and union organizations had done
| more to establish reasonable wages in Amer
lea than all the tariff laws ever passed La
| borers in this country have the benefit of our
| free institutions and the independence of
| character which they beget. Again, the
wage workers in protected industries received
no higher wages than those in unprotected
| industries, proof conclusive that If was not n
| question Of protection through tariff laws
A historical review of the tariff was taken,
and the judse concluded that under low
tariff the value of farm lands, from 1880 &c
(>60, increased los per cent; from 1860 to
1870, under high protective policy, the value
Of the farm lands in the country increased
out 40 PER cent, and from 1870 to $50 un.
Ter the highest tariff We ever had, the in.
crease was but Q per cent In Michigan FOL
the periods named the Increase had been Pill
las, and l25 per cent, respectively.
The speaker here announced that his vote
was giving way, and that he must soon close
Before dong 50 ne quoted from speech
made hy John Sherman IN the chamber o
| commerce AT Cincinnati month ago. Sher
man had said there that every man of com
mon sense knew that the accumulation o
surplus money in the treasury was wrong
and that congress should devise some mean
of getting rid of it Il agree with John,
= said Thurman civilian Allen once said il
3 his forcihle way, when aroused: 'Yo
might as well try TO run a powder house i
hell as to conduct an honest governmer
with a surplus in the United States treas
: urv.' That's strong. but it is true.
, The Judge here gave I'D and had Congress,
!. man Outhwsite read an abstract from
sr-aecb made bv him Thurman, in 1870 VIII.
' his voice WAS raised against the importatio
b of Chinese labor, condemning it in lar
= suspa that would strike a RESPONSIVE CHOIR