Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-27

comfortably as any similar class of people
in the world; and their savings, averaging
nearly 81 600 for each family deposited in
the savings banks of the state, furnish the
best evidence cf their rosperous and satis-
factory condition. These savings accumu-
lated since the inauguration of the protec-
tive policy OF the United States, are
greater per capita, / believe than those of
any other industrial community in
the world"
THE FARMERS CASE CONSIDERED.
, Aldrich Thinks He Is Doing Well and
Prospering.
He next took up the farmers and said
that in no "class of people in the United
States has the improvement in condition
been so marked as in the farmers during
the period under consideration. The most
striking results shown by the inquiry
was the fact that while there was a
considerable decline in the prices of man.
ufactured articles which enter into gen.
eral consumption there was an advance in
the price of nearly all agricultural pro-
ducts. The prices received for farm pro-
ducts subsequent to the passage of the
act of 1890 shows an average increase Of
all crops of SCI per cent
What He Can Do with His Products.
The farmer today with an equal num-
ber Of bushels of grain, of pounds of
meat, can buy more and better clothing.
machinery or supplies than ever before
Within this period hundreds of millions
of dollars Of their Indebtedness has been
paid off, and as a class their financial con-
dition vastly improved BY the opera
tions Of the act of 1890 the farmers were
given larger and more profitable markets
both at home and abroad. AS an instance
OF this our exports TO Cuba-largely Of ag-
ricultural products-were increased dur
ing the ten months ended June 80 1892,
as compared with the corresponding ten
months of the previous fiscal year, s., 200, :
900, or an increase of 81 81 per cent.
ign Markets Not Narrowed.
In reply TO the statement that the Nc
Kinley bill had narrowed cur foreign mar
ket Aldrich said 1t was equally astound
ing as the others and equally at variance
with the facts" He gave in detail the
growth of our commerce, which in the year
just closed had amounted to over 81, ,OO0-
OOO,oOO, as a refutation of the Missouri
senator's declaration. And with it all the
average per capita customs duties collect
ed in the year 1912 was g. So, against S5.2s
per capita in the year 1912.
The Wool Industry.
Wool duties were discussed by Senator
Aldrich, answering the effort to prove that
these duties have been injurious alike tO
wool growers, woolen manufacturers and
consumers. -Aldrich went into this ques-
tion at length. He read table showing
that for twelve years the average price in
London of pound of secured average
Australian wool had been 81 cents less
than the average price in the United
States of a pound of secured fine Ohio
wool, ranging from 25 to ~ cents. Ohio
wool brought "a cents pound more than
New Zealand crossbred-two grades prac-
. =, - I.,r, 80
ures Aldrich said it must be evident that
the successful prosecution of wool grow
ing as an American industry depends
upon the maintenance of a wool tariff.
Increase of Tin Manufacture.
Referring TO tin plate, Aldrich said that
in the quarter ended June 80, 1892, the
production of tin plate in the United
States had been S,225, ,69l pounds by
twenty-s manufacturers. The cost of
making box of l. c. coke plate in the
United States is s. 32 a box and in Wales
So. 20-the difference being in the cost of
labor. The senator gave the fluctuations
in the market price of tin plate before and
after the passage of the act OF 1890, and
said; 1T is evident from these statement.
that the Welsh prices are put up and
down in response to existing eXigencies in
the United States. When the prophecies
of their allies on this side of the water in
regard to high prices We're to be verified
prices were put up 90 cents per box in the
face of a sharp decline in materials, but
when American manufacturers are TO be
discouraged and. II possible driven out of
the market on the eve of an election, the
price is put down to 81 .03 per box
Other Produ ucts at Lower Prices.
The senator then said that under the
tariff act of 1888 the cotton ties used in
the United States were imported. Since the
enactment of the existing law the Amer
lean manufacturer of cotton ties had sup
piled the entire demand and they are sold
at a lower cost to the consumer here. The
imposition of adequate protective duties
upon lace window curtains, silk and mo-
hair plushes, pearl buttons and many
other articles has transferred important
industries to the United States. We are
now producing a large variety of the finer
and more expensive manufactures of cot
ton, wool and iron. all of which were i'm
ported prior to 1890 Manufacturers are
enlarginy their capacity for production
and in every branch of industry the great
est activity prevails.
Comments Of Vest and Palmer.
Aldrich closed with the declaration that
apon this issue the Republican party
would go to the country with confidence
Vest made a short reply, in which he re-
ferred TO Homestead and added the asser
tion that the price of land had fallen
under the operations of the Mckinley bill
He referred to pearl buttons and said
they were higher than before the bill
went into effect and Aldrich explained
that now pearl buttons were made here by
free labor; previously they were made by
convict labor. Carlisle promised to reply
in eXtenso to Aldrich and after few
words from Palmer, who said that the
tariff was rot responsible for Homestead's
troubles, but that the Republicans had
promised to make such troubles impossi.
hlp he hat cfoSa1