Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-10-31

eventually. which suppose Is at the end
OF fifteen years during which this
bounty is to run-in few years, some
of them say. this bounty will so encour-
age its production in this country that we
will produce all the sugar that we car
consume. If that Is so at the end of fif.
teen years we will be paying to the sugar
manufacturers of Louisiana, Kansas and
California 1914 DOC, 900 in bounty on the
sugar that will then be prodaced. 90
where Is the relief from free sugar il a,
the END OF fifteen years We pay as much
bounty as we now pay IN tariff Zap
plause The first year, he says, viii be
S1.5O0.000. Let that rise like the steps
or ladder until fifteen years have been
reached, when IL amounts to $64 600, 900,
and you can have some idea of the enor-
mois amount of bounty that has been
appropriated for in this bill. For fifteen
years, and the appropriation cannot be
stopped without the consent of both
houses of congress and the approval OF
the president. or the passage OF the bill
over his veto. for the fifteen yesrs the
bounty will amount to at least $500, 000. =
600 to the sugar growers. You will have
to pay some OF that bounty here For
the first year, the bounty for the county Of
Rock Island. your share of it. because il
is paid out of the treasury of the United
States. where your money is. will amount
TO at least 81 600. and for the state of
Illinois 100000. You are starting 10,
therefore, upon new system of bounty
paving. / do not believe there is any
warrant in the constitution of the United
States for the payment of bounties of
this kind, or any other kind for encour-
aging private enterprises. The states,
even, have not the right to do so.
The most important authority on this
subject is that of the lamented Justice
Miller. presume our republican friends
will not deny he was an eminent jurist-
at least all their papers are nov filled
with eulogies upon him, in which his
abilities are extoled to the skies, and
rightfully, too. Mr.. Justice Miller, in
deciding the case of the loan association
against Topeka, reported 10 20 Wsllsce,
655, held that ito lay with one hand the
power of government on the property of
the citizen and with the other TO bestow
it upon favored individuals TO aid p, ivate
enterprises and build up private fortunes
is none the less robbery because il is
ne under the forms o! law, and is
called taxation" Applause 10 this
case the city of Topeka had issued bonds
to the amount OF 100000, and given
them to a manufacturing establishment to
encourage manufactures. These bonds
had gone into the hands Of innocent hold
ers, and interest bad been paid for
four or five years. when a taxpayer sp-
piled for an order of court to perpeiually
eDjoin the payment of the principal of
the bonds, and that WAS done by the
unanimous decision of the supreme court
of the UDited States, pronounced in the
case by Justice Miller. In the face of
this authority the republican majority in
congress, in order TO get the votes OF the
Kansas senators and representatives and
the California senators and representa-
tives for the Mckinley bill, put into it a
provision granting bounty on sugar
for fifteen years to come.
Further concerning the gentlemsn's ar
gument on the sugar question will be
given in the ARGUS tomorrow.
WOODEN GOODS
Mr. Springer took up the question
of the tax on wooden goods and demon
strsted that the consumers will be robbed
of SIS 100000 annually by the added
duty of this bill on the most necessary OF
all articles cousumf q By the people. Why,
said Mr. Springer. We can get along with
out sugar. only use 8 teaspoonful ev-
cry twenty-four hours. Some people use
hap kaarl - -
it in their whiskey. | do not require il
for anything out coffee. But ! cannot
get along without wooden goods. You
could not inhsbit the stste of Illinois
without woollen goods. The health and
comfort of this people and the very in
hsbiting of this region depends upon a
liberal supply of wooden goods. and the
consumption in this country last year
amounted to $3.50, 600. 900 worth a,
wholesale prices. This is the place where
the people Can be reached from the era.
die to the grave in every family in the
land. Wooden goods are absolutely nec-
esssry. and they have seized upon these
and hesped your burdens up at least
$75. ZOO. 900 in the Mckinley bill
TRUSTS.
nave not tune u reltI tO All tue
trusts, but | will give you the names of 8
few of them, and you will rec ngnize
them They are quite familiar in some
parts of the country. The first l see on
the list is the Irvine trust. Have you
heard of that? We wanted it on the
free list, but we were told by those who
wanted to keep it on tie taxable list thai
q tax on twine would bring down the
price OF Irvine. and they wanted to pul
the price higher. But the farmers have
learned something about Irvine, namely
the higher the tax was the higher the
price was. so they demanded that Irvine
should be on the free list. but they did
not get it. They got q reduction. which
is said to be important, and when you
get reduction on Irvine. wish you
would drop me note TO Springfield
Laughter 1t always amuses me when
hear my republican friends tell mt
about tariff bringing down the price Of
everything on which il operates: telling
the people how much il has brought
down steel rails, and few things tina
they mentlon-cslicos, for instsnce-anC
! those things that it brings the pric,
down, and they turn around to the far
mer and say we are going to DO some
thing for you; we are going to raise tn,
tariff on agricultural products. Whs
fort Touring them up. Laughter.
| So this tariff of theirs will bring dow
the price of manufactured articles. ant
when you put it on agricultural product
1t brings them up. 1t is a convenien
tariff just before election. That pro
vision ought to have been put In force oil
tie first dsv of April. with the sugar tax
Laughter Then there was the suga
trust. the barb-wire trust, the wire mai
trust, and the wire rod trust. and the iii
plate trust, and the borax tr3st, and tn
rubber. boot ssd shoe trust, and the cof
fin trust Under this bill they had raise
the price of tombstones from 90 TO A
per cent. CLsnghter They have raise
the tax on the linen Of the STROUD. p
that a man cannot afford to die. Laugh
ter And IL he shonld forget some da
and shuttle of this NOR al coil. his wifi
will be charged 40 per cent for erectin
a monument to his memory. / remem
Der when my friend Csruth was comm
to this part of the bill he thanked Go
that there was something left that We
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