Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-20
THE TARIFF AND THE SURPLUS.
Gen. Hsrrison's Comments Thereon to
Some Xisitors.


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept 20-Gen. Har-
rison entire time yesterday was occupied
by visiting delegations, the presence of so
many old soldiers in the city holding their
reunions during the continuance of the state
fair adding TO his callers. The veterans OF
the Seventh Indiana cavalry called on him.
and to them he made short speech In the
afternoon he addressed a delegation from
lroquois county, Illinois, and one from La
porte county, Indiana the two assembling
together at the park The speech on this oc-
casion was the most important of the day.
In the course of his remarks the general
said:
You have not once, think, in the campaign
heard auy Democratic speaker admit that even a
low protective tariff was desirable Those who
like Mr. Randall have in former campaigns been
used to allay the apprehension of our working
people by talking protection, have been silenced.
On the other hand, the Republican party de-
clares by its platform and by its speakers that
protective tariff is wise and necessary. There
is the issue. Make your own choice If you ap
prove by your votes the doctrine that protec-
tive tariff is a public robbery, you will
expect your representatives to stop this
public robbery, and If they are faith
full they will do it-not per cent
of it but all of it Applause and cries Of That's
it"l So that beg you all to recollect that you
will vote this fall for or against the principle Of
protection You are invited to feast Of cheap
ness; you are promised foreign made goods al
| very low prices, and domestic competing goods,
| if any are made, at the same low rates But dc
| not forget that the specter of lower wages will
| also attend the feast. Applause and cries o.
That's so. Inevitably, certain as the nigh
| follows the day, the adoption Of this policy
| means lower wages. Choose, then, but do mo-
| forget that this cheapening process may b.
| pushed so far as to involve the cheapenng o
human life and the loss of human happiness
| lApplause
| Referring to the surplus he said the Demo
erals did not know what to do with it, ant
therefore deposited it in certain nationa
banks The government gets no interest OIL
it. but it is loaned out to citizens at interest
The purchase of bonds with it would restor
it to the channels of trade. Continuing, b
said9 ut is not whether we will purposel,
raise money to buy our bonds at a pre-
mium-no one would advise that-but vii
We so use surplus that we have on han
and can not lawfully pay out in any othe
way Do our Democratic friends propose t,
| give the banks the free use of it until on
bonds mature, or do they propose to reduc
our annual income below our annual 81
penditure, by a revision of the tariff, unit
this surplus is used, aud then revise tn
tariff again to restore the equilibrium
[Great applause
The Thirteenth and Second Indiana vel
Grams also called on the general, and wit
them as on each occasion, he shook hand
with every one.
About fifty old "Tippecanoe" voters ac
companied the lroquois delegation, carryinl
a log-cabin in their midst with q coon gau
boiling on the roof