Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

malicious and unjust aspers;on. Sim
cerely your friend and comrade.
JOHSP RAE
Hnpublicans on the Tarifr.

Below are extracts from speeches of
leading republican statesmen on the
tariff, and they tell their own story.
They can be multiplied indefinitely by
quoting from such men as Judge Gresh-
ar and Wayne McVesgh, who have re-
nounced the republican party this
year on the tariff score:
James G.. Blsine-During the entire
war when we were seeking everything
on earth out OF which taxation could be
wrung, it meyer entered into the concep.
ton of congress to tax bresdstuffs-
never Neither breadstuffs nor
lumber ever became the subject OF one
penny of tsxation-1S6S.
Undoubtedly the inequalities in the
wages of English and american opera.
tives are more than equalized by the
greater efficiency of the latter aud their
longer hours of labor.-1SS1.
President 1rant-Many duties now
collected might be RENTED.
l would mention those articles
which enter into the manufactures of all
sorts. These duties not only come
from the consumers at home. but act as
a protection to foreign manufacturers
Annual Message. Decent Der. 1875.
John j. Ingalls-We are on the verge
of an impending revolution. On
one side is capital. enriched bv
domestic levy and foreign commerce
On the other side is labor, asking for en-
plOyment, striving to develop domestic
industries. battling with the forces of ma
ture. resolutely determined to
overthrow sys-em under which the rich
are growing richer and the poor are grow
ing poorer.
Hugh Mccullough, secretary of the
treasury under Presidents Lincoln and
Arthur-The existing duties on raw ma
terials which are to be USED in msnufac-
ture should be removed Annual report,
1894 MIR. Cleveland has marked out
course which can safely be followed
December, 1887.
Gen. John A. Logan When q gen.
tlemsn stands upon this floor and tells
me that this high. this extraordinary high
:sriff. is for the protection of the labor
ing man, 1 tell him that l d. not UNDER
stand how he can possibly substsntiste
such u theory IS. 1870.
Oliver P. Morton-The country ex-
poets large reduction. the country
knows that it can be made. the country
has been promised this reduction. and
the dominant party here is responsible to
the country for this reduction, and will
be respou sible if it is not made.
James A. Garfield am for u pro-
lection which leads to an ultima free
trade April l. 1870 For nearly two
years the wholesale price of American
salt in Torou o. Canada. was n dollar
lower per barrel than the same salt was
selling for on the New York eide of the
lake Certainly, gentlemen will
not want a duty continued that enables
that thing 20 be done.-May IS, 1872
Justice Miller OF the United States su-
preme court-To lay with one hand the
power of the government on the proper
ty of the citizen, and with the other to
bestow it upon favored individuals TO aid
private enterprises and to build up pri-
vate fortunes. is none the less robbery
because it is done under the forms of law
and is called taxation,
William B. AllisOn-I will say with re-
gard to the duty on wool and woolens.
that l record it not as an intentional
fraud. but as operating as though it were
u fraud upon the great body of the peo
pie of the United States. March "a
1870