Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-14
ily, but superabundantly

ture, clumsily. but superabundsntly
clothed. and altogether -espectable.
Gen. Garfield when. al q representative
in congress, said: Modern scholar
ship is on the side of tar Fl reform. Moths
ing can be said against revenue tariff
decade. The decade from 1850 to 1850
was full of peace and prosperity. The
aggregate of real esttte and persona
property In the United States in 1850 was
in round numbers $7.135. 900. 600; in
1860 it was $40. 1853. 600. )00-an increase
OF 1875 per cent. while the population in>
creased but 35 per cent Mr.. McVeagh.
who was attorney general under Garfield.
has gone over bodily from the platform
tariff of protection with incidental protec
ton, ito the platform for protection with
incidental revenue" Mr.. McVesgh evil
IDENTIFY understands the significance Of
such facts and accepts II cir teaching. He
evidently does not tccept their late doc
trine that il is the duty of paternal
government TO bull the silver market for
the benefit of the silver producers, or the
iren market for the bsnfit of the iron
| companies, or the glass market for the
benefit Of the glass manufacturers. OF
one fact we are fully assured by all the
histories-our fathers not only did not
| approve the home market given them BY
the Boston port bill. but 1t met their
united and determined opposition. Nor
was the opposition confined within the
boundaries of the old Bay state. but, like
a fire kindled in dry stubble, it ran
through all the colonies The Boston
tea party of 1878 found its elimination
in the Philadelphia tea party OF 1875.
One Of the causes which led to the sep
aration was the ideal home market which
the king had given to all the colonies. or
to express il in their own clear and eX-
plicit language, for cutting of our trade
with all parts of the world" History re
peats itself, and the farmers are here to-
day demonstrating with our government
for its wrongful interference with their
business. depressing tier industries,
paralyZing the labor. innpoverishing our
people and cutting of our foreign trade.
And today, to this admir- istrstion, as our
fathers said to the King George and
Lord North: You have no right TO
close our ports. Tariff reform at the
head of the Mohawks in December 1887.
threw the tea overheard. and called on
. the battle for vindicatior of their rights.
udu tuCii No ouu ouohOi
Hills in 1888; they had their Saratoga 10
1889, snk they will have their Yorktown
in 1892.
In that contest the party principally in
teres.ed on one side, must by reason OF
his position and numbers, be the farm
ers; while on the other will be trust:
and the privileged CLASSES that are fat
tened at his expense.
! Which will win? Which should win
, II. L. Framing, of the Hennepin cana
committee. addressed to he secretary of
the institute resolution on the Hen
nepin canal The resolution was of
fered by W. C. Wilson. OF South Moline
and adopted as follows:
WHEREAS, The question af bette
transportation is of the first Importance
to the farmers of the west. Therefore
be it
f-- RssalSsA- Yfst We urge upon our mem.
bers of congress and upon our senators
at Washington, to use every effort to Sc
cure the early passage of the bill in favor
of the building of the Hennepin canal.