Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-15
Touched on the school Question.


The speaker then in mentioning the
broad principles of the democratic party
spoke OF one Of the elements of broad
mindedness adduced by one of its founders
the man who wrote the Declaration of
Independence and of his efforts to secure
to posterity the right of each individual
TO worship God as he saw fit. From
the moment these broad princi-
pies were placed upon our statute books"
said Mr.. Mills, I'VE sprang forward as
the greatest nation on the globe. but if
we are to be hampered by one class be-
coming imbued with the idea that it can
override another we cannot retain that
supremacy. A democrat claims that he
is the best judge of what will affect him
| self and needs no governmental inter-
ference with him. Among old-time
democrats it was a common idea that any
citizen was the best judge of how his
| child should be educated, but now we are
told that a child shall be torn from its
mothers breast, from that mother who
| nourished it into life, and given into the
hands Of the state to educate. Thomas
Jefferson in his day sounded the warm
| ing note against religious bigotry, and
from that day to this it has had no place
in American history"
| The Duties of Citizens,
| Senator Mills then discussed the situa
ton es it appears today, saying that no
man has right to9uestion another reli-
| gion-"let him worship the sun, moon,
stars. or Benjamin Harrison if he sees
tit. he owes but one duty toward the state
that OF living in harmony with his fellow
man. Every man has three duties, one
to his Maker. one to his brother and one to
humanity" The speaker then returned
| to the tariff issue, and in an able manner
presented many logical arguments that
denied contradiction showing that the
heavy duty on imports is burden to the
laboring mar, and from this dI,fted into q
discussion of the rights of the citizens in
course of which he spoke of his work in
his native state of Texas against the
adoption of the prohibitoryl amendment,
claiming that It was an infringement on
the rights of the citizens.
| Remarks Prohibition.
In doing SO he related an anecdote of
that campaign of how he had been
roundly catechised by an advocate of
prohibition for going about defending the
saloon, ard when Mr.. Mills in reply
charged him with having drank SO time
as much whisky as the speaker ever had.
the rrohibitionist admitted he had, and
said further that he had got the best
whisky he could buy. but what he
wanted was the protection for the Irish.
| man and the d niger" The story
brought down the house, and the speaker
continuing, said it was the same kind of
protection that itch monopollsts were
willing to give their laboring men. He
then said that placing tax on an ar
ticle ,'seo Its price, but if that article
did uot belong to the laboring man how
in the name OF God could he derive any
benefit from it7
He Makes Proposition.
The protection on pig iron was SIS. 70
per ton. but the poor fellow who stood
around the hot furnace went home with
his little S1.25 to 81 so per day just the
same. He then made proposition
which he said he had made in all
sections of the country, which
was this: If any one could
show him how the government could take
the money out of the pockets of these
monopolists and pay if back to the wage
earners he would not only vote the re.
publican ticket but would go out and
stump the country for Harrison the bal.
snce Of the campaign. He spoke Of how
the democratic party comes back again
after each defeat, being the only party in
the nations history, that has withstood
the repeated shocks, but that it was bat
Ting for principle that must conquer in
the end. Even now" said the speaker
Il feel the earth trembling beneath our
feet, as did the Scots when Bruce was
coming to Bsnnockburn," and in conclu-
sion gave beautiful peroration of a
touching story from the Sepoy rebellion
that ended his address in perfect storm
of applause.
1t was a mastery effort, demon strating
as it did the argumentative power as we'll
as the ability as an orator that has made
himself famous in every section of the con-
tinent. He was frequently interrupted
with spasmodic outbursts of applause,
and at the conclusion of his address he
was cheered to the echo.
Political Notes.
There were a number of fine transpa-
| repcies in the procession