Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-29
BARROW AT MOLINE.
Five Hundred Voters Listen to Bril-
liant and ForcibIe Exposition OF
Tariff Ideas from the Chicago Orator
and Ref0rmer.

Tariff Ide as from the Chicago Orator
and Reformer.
On Sunday evening. Notwithstanding
ukase had been issued, ordering the
Inverted followers of the plumed knight
to go to Stewartsville. which was gener>
ally implicitly obeyed, crowd of over
five hundred voters assembled at Y. NJ.
q. A. hall. Moline. to hear @. 8. barrow,
of Chicago, expound the tariff reform
doctrines of the democracy of the United
States. The hall was not decorated with
expensive flowers and evergreens; no IN
sulting notices were conspicuously dis
played; only crowd of earnest men had
collected together to hear truths, which
were told them in an unvarnished manner,
by an earnest and able advocate of the
truth.
At about s:15 Chairman G. W. Vinton
in company with several prominent DEM
ocrats of Moline, entered the hall and
went upon the stage. The appearance
of Mr.. barrow, who was known to many
in the audience. brought forth Lhout of
welcome which must have been very graf
flying TO the modest youthful orator.
Without any preliminaries Chairman
Vinton introduced the speaker, who be-
gan by saying he recognized several in
the audience who had heard him speak
when in company with Governor Palmer,
but that he would try and repeat but
little of what he said on that occasion.
His theme would be the tariff question
from the standpoint of the working man.
The subject, he said, was dry, but it
affected all the people in the land. their
| children, their homes, their flresides and
the working class more than any other.
because it is this class upon whom the
swipdlers prey. He did not come to de-
ceive any one and would make no untrue
statement. but would. If desired, stop
and explain if anyone in the house
doubted anything he might say, as it was
his desire that all should solve this mat
ter for themselves. After this tariff ques>
ton is solved and commerce free as the
air of heaven, no doubt there will be other
matters before the people. He could not
say that the tariff question when settled.
would give to working men the full pro-
duct of their toll, but would say that the
now part of the wages he has already
earned A question to be decided after
this tariff matter is settled will be q
proper aud just remuneration to the
working man, for his labor. We can now
by the use of machinery produce twenty
five times as much per man as We could
at the beginning of the century, and the
laborer has not the benefit of IT. II is az
outrage to have men work ten, eleven
eight hours ought to be devoted to labo,
to furnish every man and his family with
2 all they need,
He asked. what is the tariff" ant
illustrated its effects by the empire o
China, which was surrounded bv gres
walls and the sea. That country hat
t prohibited foreign trade and emigration
claiming they could live by themselve
= and buy and sell only their own produc
tions. The Chinese carried out this poll
cy for hundreds of years. The most CON
plete system of protection, and the coun
e try is now a living, or rather dying
: example of what so-called protection wi
do for any country. A family exclude
Vt from contact with its neighbors woul
8 soon be degraded to the condition of tn
Chinese. People should mingle and trad
with each other in order to learn. Civ
e the boy an opportunity for education b
:. mingling with the people of the world I
L learn from them. and you need not fe.
# that Yankee ingenuity cannot conten
:, with any nation of the earth.
"a We spend millions to build hsrbors an
I improve navigation; then We place Ia
;. if in the way to Impede commerce.
:. the doctrine is good. why not have Il
"a rocks and sand bars to keep the ships Of
of our harbors? Why do they use OF
10 money TO improve navigation and not a
- low US the benefit of what we have pa
: fory The actual tax is Al per cent. L.
4 us call ii so TO make it easier counted
70 The United States government says yo
a must pay this so per cent tariff on q
in goods brought into the country. La
- year about 1925 900. 900 was paid fro
~ this source. sum hard to comprehend
> Who paid this great sunni Here
:, showed republican campaign docume
10 headed with British flag and the wor
:, 80 cents day.'0 The document sa
=, the foreigner pays this tax. Whoever
ieves this, he said, ought not to have
of right to vote He then explained: TT
90 first man who pays the tax is the impor
n, er, who is charged so per cent at t
= harbor This makes the 81 in goods co
"a 81 so, and when the wholesale mercha
a. purchases. be is charged with th
., amount and profit. The wholesal
to sells to the retail dealer and profit
= charged until it becomes rs per cent
Il the original price of the goods. VIII
10 the consumer buys and the profits are ,
IN added what cost 81 is advanced about 1
, per cent. Every dollar of this tax is pa
-. by the consumer, and it is so much TAX
a. from you, and how can you be benetitte
"a This paper says the fellow in Euro
';a paws this tax. What do you think ahor
" No people can be taxed except by th,
own government. We cannot tax t
Euglishman nor can he tax us, and this
right.
Suppose the exporter pays the tax;
send three times as much to them acre
the water rs they send to us. We sh
pe millions of bushels of wheat to Engla
'S' unu euc1 pay US NO eoh' We now hc
hit on tea or coffee and we get it chespt
of When ten cents a pound was taken off
:, we got the benefit Of it. II it was put
Ill again would not tea raise in price the
me cents9 We all can remember when
IRE price was taken off matches. See
ed difference now. This is an agricultu
country; more than one-half are farm
Ecu and more than one-half of the rest
till dependent on the farmers. Take av
stic the farming interests of the northwl
es> and Chicago would wither away VIC
On than as by fire. All our manufactur
interests are dependent on the farm
You cannot get rich by trying.to rob
farmer. This city of Moline was built
nan by the farmer. He buys your plo
Ten wagons and all you have to sell, uset
hen agriculture. Suppose the farmer wo
f Sr quit purchasing, what would yous q
inle manufactures dor Why. nothing.
o o;ss one of you should buy a suit of clol
'''S at IS. tariff added makes it $12.
same kind of goods here made give to
manufacturer an opportunity Of charg
~. the price of imported goods, Can YOU