Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-27

rou say that the Mills bill Is free trades
Yes, most emphatically.
Why
Because that is what it is called
Do You know what the average amount |
of tariff tax it provides for2
No.
Only 40 per cent and fraction; cut
of per cent. from what it is now.
What
Yes, sir, 42 per cent, or II per cent.
more than the tariff of AZ, which is so
satisfactory to you.
Well, declare!
Haven't you been humbugged into the
belief that the Mills bill means free trades
1t looks that way.
What do you think about it now, with
these facts from your own library pre-
sented to you in an off hand way2
| have about come to the conclusion
that the Mills bill is pretty good thing,
and would have been better If it had cut
still deeper. Why, it's an outrage for
party papers and leaders to lie so out
rageously about matter which Is so plain
when one looks at it in q sensible way.
I've good mind to cut loose from them.
| Don't you think it would be a good
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| ally to do?
| believe it would and l mean to think
it over seriously.
Mr.. Blossom, this is nice farm Of
yours; what are your 820 acres worth, at
venture2
guess I'd find no trouble in selling it
for $50, OOO-it cost me over half that
without the present improvements.
How long has it been worth $50, 900?
Twenty five years at least.
Have you owned it that long?
Yes, for thirty years.
How much has it yielded you during the
last twenty Ave years?
couldn't tell you,
How much money have you in bank and
at interest nowf
Perhaps 5000 all told
Do you owe any debts?
Some; my growing crops and the stock
shall sell would pay my taxes and square
all my accounts. think.
; Then your 5000 farm has been pay
ing you $500 year?
OH more than that
Tell me how2
I've kept my family during that time
and reared and educated my two children,
boy and girl. They are both married,
and gave them $1,000 each to set up
housekeeping.
At venture, how much did it cost you
to rear your family and educate your chill
dren?
At guess will say $4,000.
And you gave them SIC, 1000?
Yes.
,, Then you have made S25 900 in twenty
!, five years ont of your $50. 900 farm?
That appears to be about the size of it
You haven't grown rich farming for
quarter of a century under high ant
, Cumbersome tariff tax?
Certainly not.
, And yet you began twenty five year:
: ago with as much or more capital thar
: any of the millionaires who have becom
rich under the operation OF this vicious
tax system, misnamed protection.
which takes from the many to give to tn
few. Do you know how many-or rattle
how few-men own or control half tn
wealth of this country; who came int
9 ownership or control of it under this sam
q vicious tax system?
. | have no idea.
= saw curious compilation the othe
day, and here it is: Our total wealth o
q all kinds is estimated at So 900 900, 00C
;, There are D American citizens with pr
4 vate fortunes averaging $50 600 900 each
= so with $4,000 000: 100 with 5000, 00(
: 300 with $1,000 900; 500 with 81 ,000, 900
and 900 with $500 600 In other words
1856 persons own S3. 600, 000, 900, or NOR
-. than twice as much as all the actus
a money in the country. A less number Q
. men, not to exceed 1.000-railway mag