Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-05

tect them, and that the wages that they
get are not their full or fair share of the
profits which the manufacturer is enabled
to make by reason of high duties. The
workingmen have gotten it into their
heads that they have been swim lied out
of their share of the results of high du-
ties. and all the republican and high tar
i'll papers in the world can not tiisabuse
them of that idea"
The ST. Paul Pioneer Press, the princi.
pal republican paper of MINES ota and
the northwest, says:
There seem good grounds for fear
that the republican enemies of the repub-
lican party will have everything t1eir own
way at Washington. The asst onishing
announcement is made that not only will
the senate finance committee not bring
forth a substitute for the Mckinley bill,
but that the senate will probably make
no important amendments to the bill. If
this is straight" what viii be the state
of the feelings of the republicans of the
house who voted for the bill under the
party lash and with the confidence that it
would be shorn of its most objectionable
features by the senate2 Will the repub-
licsns of the senate be as recreans to their
trust as the republicans of the house have
beenr And do the republicans of both
| houses actually banker for another demo.
| cratic administration? 1t would almost
seem so.
We take the following from tn. repub-
liean Omaha Bee the leading newspaper
in Nebraska:
How will such statesmen as Allison,
Aldrich and Sherman, who. as members
OF the finance committee. will have 10
| formulate tariff measure for the con-
sideration of the senate. treat the McKiu-
! ley bill in view of the fact that il has en-
countered a more general and vigorous
opposition than any other tariff BIN in the
history of the cOuntryS There is not
mnch for the guidance of opinion as 10
| what the senate will do, but there is
enough to warrant the expectation that il
| will in many and material respects amend
the Mckinley bill and may substitute for
IL an entirely new measure. Senator Al
lison is on record as favoring revision
of the tariff that will reduce duties gen.
orally. and unless he has experienced a
radical change of mind within the last tive
months he will vigorously oppose the
proposal to advance duties upon all the
necessaries. placing the highest rate, "a q
rule, upon the articles of least cost. thus
throwing the heavy end of the tax burden
on the poor II is hardly coneeiv lble tha
any of these senators will give their sup
port TO a measure that provides for duties
IN some cases of $50 and 225 PEE cent a.
the Mckinley bill does on certain articles
of wearing apparel in general use. Re.
publican senators, particularly those re
presenting constituencies largely com
posed of farmers. will hardly approve
policy so distinctly retrogressIve as this
The country will await with extraordinary
interest an expression of the views of re
pub lean senators on this subject
The Minneapolis journal, re .ublicaI
paper of large circulation and il fiuence
says:
Iowa is certainly not ''hot for a higl
tariff by any means. Neither is Mime
sofa, North or South Dakota. Ii clos,
canvass were made, even OF the middle
states, the high tariff contingent would
be found weakening The change is be
coming more apparent daily. Not onl,
Senator Allison, but many other leadin.
republicans, with clearer vision than Nc
kinley. read the unmistakabIe signs O
the times and are acting accordingly.
The Kansas City Gazette, one of TIL
most prominent republican papers in Kan
sas. exclaims:
How in tie name of God can a Kansa
congressman go before prairie constit
ueDcy with such tariff this fall. or re-
publican anywhere, for that matter, fac
the people. in view of the promise o.
tariff reform which. if it meant ANYTHING
meant that duties must be taken off in
stead of added to?
So much for the western republican
press.
Many eastern republican papers also
crticise the Mckinley bill freely. Tha
old-time mouth piece of orthodox reDub-
licanism, the Boston AdoertiSer. co ndemn
the increased duties on wool, and de
clares that 1.-THE people are not in MOOD
at this period of surplus revenue TO b,
driven into unreasonable. not to say uu
natural protection"
The Boston journal, organ of the re di
cal republicans of New England, also op
poses the wool schedule, and the Bostor
Transcript critizesI the whole McKinle,
bill very freely
The Philadelphia Telegraph. an indie
pendent republican paper an advocate o.
protection, says:
When the Mckinley bill was promul
gated the people for the first time wer
made to understand that the fat fried gu
of the specially protected firms. corpora
tons, combines and trusts was 20 be re
turned, and it was to be got by congress!
frying it out of them. If this McKInle'
bill should become law, there is not
poor devil of citizen from one end o
the country to the other who will not bt
put into the pan and placed over III,
Goals in order that he may contribute hi
item of fat to the great quantity which il
to be returned to those who supplied tn,
campaign grease of 1888.
The most interested and fairsinindet
man, republican or democrat, may go III
and down the Mckinley list ard fint
thereon not single thing added to o
taken from the present tariff schedule
which has not been added to or takeI
from it for the benefit and behoof of re
representatives. of special interests Tn,
entire scheme rests upon no other 1r bet
ter principle than that of returning thei
fat TO the manufacturers. or of ielpine
the party by the basest partisan methods
The Philadelphia american, which en-
joys the unique distinction of BEN edi-
ted by the only protectioniat college pro
fessor in the country-Robert Eli
Thompson declares that iron ore AMI
other raw materials ought to be on tn,
free list. while the Pittsburg Dipateh
a pronounced advocate OF protection, rid
icules McKinley's rather cheap astemp
to throw tub to the agricultural whal,
IN advance of the duties ON eggs, butter
and potatoes"
The fact is that about the only repub