Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-13
Mr.. CABLE'SLETTER
fhe Way In Which it is Answered
in the Union"
LONG LIsTOF FALSE STATEMENTS.
TO Set Up Some show of
DeIense, IL Make Miserable FAN.
ure-Perverted Truth Used as Ar.
gument

AS was to be expected. the views OF
mr. cable as set forth in his recent lette
10 not suit the tenn per of the Union. 7
was hardly to be expected that the organ
OF party which has for over twenty.fiy,
years steadily opposed the well,being O.
the people through excessive and unreas
enable taxation. could find any merit II
theory or system that would prove ben
encial to the people as whole. Itwa,
hardly to be expected that the adherents
OF party whose legislation makes the
rich richer. and the poor poorer, and
whose every act i'm congress has been te
make laws for class. could see
anything in freer and fairer method OF
national trading. The intelligent people
in the republican party know we'll the
grievous errors OF their leaders. Some
OF them are bold enough to denounce the
fraud upon the taxpayers. while others
continue to wear the party collar. Per
maps the Union is of the latter cIass-if
not, pity on the part of the ARGUS should
take the place of resentment.
One of the prircipa objections which
the Union raises 20 Mr.. Cables letter is
in the matter of the Mckinley bill. 1t
seems surprised that he should be Cd.
posed to the whole spirit of that meas.
ure, and then proceeds to point out its
benefits and its beauties. 1t saws that it
greatly enlarges the free list, and that it
strikes blow at the most gigantic trust
OF the day by putting sugar OF that list
and besides that il was designed through,
out to tighten the burdens of American
producers and protect American indus,
tries.
While it is true that the Mckinley bill
here and there placed an article on the
free list or made some reduction in duties
On certain articles, it is. on the whole,
bill to Cypress the people to much
greater extent than eyer before. 1t was
claimed at the close of the war that the
enormous taxation then placed upon
everything was an absolute necessity on
account OF the heavy Indebtedness Great.
ed by that struggle, and it was promised
that in comparatively short space Of
time these acknowledged burdens would
be lifted from the peoples shoulders.
Years rolled by, and the people
learned by bitter experience that
instead of their taxes becoming smaller
that they were steadily increasing. until
today they are double what they were at
the close of the war. When the men who
bear this heavy load ask the reason why.
they are told that infant industries must
be protected in order that they should
have chance TO grow; but as one year
succeeded anoth Ter it was found that these
industries were growing weaker and
weaker and were continually coming to
the government and asking for more as
sistsnce, more protection. in order that
they might live. One would have
thought that in twenty five years these
Industries. under the fostering care OF the
government. would have been almost
self>supporting, but instead of that their
clsmors are greater now for help than
ever before. And yet there is no reason
able explanation offered. The taxes are
increased in order that few wealthy
manufacturers shall grow enormously
rich. by being taken under the wing of
the government. Competition with for
eign countries is not permitted; the farm
ers and Others in consequence have to
pay vastly more for the articles they use
than they otherwise would. and still the
tax payer is told he must submit in order
that these manufacturers shall continue
in business. The Mckinley bill instead
OF relieving the peoplemakes the weight
still heavier. 1t is gotten up in the inter>
est of those VINO wish to thrive upon the
hard earned money of the people. And
when MIR. Cable says he is opposed to
the whole spirit of the Mckinley bill, 4" be
means Just what he says. because its
spirit, taken as whole, its web and
wool. and restrictions and intentions. are
all to increase taxation and make it pos>
sible for men like Carnegie to set their
feet upon our shores in poverty and in
twenty years time to have an income of
millions. WHAT matters it if the McKin-
ley bill should lessen the taxes upon some
articles, or make them free altogether,
when the whole spirit and tenor of the
measure largely increases the taxationP
And the articles in the bill which were
placed upon the free list we're among
those that the people generally had the
most knowledge of and were crying out
the loudest against their oppressive taxa>
ton. In this way some ease might be
given to their minds, and when the cry
went up thai the Mckinley bill was a.
most pernicious one and that it still in
creased the taxes greater than ever. an
indignant public was pointed to certain
articles on the free list and told that they
must look upon the bill as blessing.
The measure must be received as a whole
and 10 that way is Mr.. Cable viewing it.
and in that way is the intelligence of the
country viewing it and denouncing 1t in
no uncertain terms.
One WORD with regard to free sugar.
1t is an open sesret that the republicans
would never have placed sugar on the free
| list had it not been that such an action