Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-28
.IOSIIN

JoSLlN, April 26.-Tne fOllowi NO is
published in the Drovef's Journal under
the head of Paris Notes." Prices are
rising rapidly rs result of the tariff.
Fork and mutton have advanced over
tour ceAts per pound. Italian and
Dutch cheese has risen 100 per cent and
foreign soap 100 per cent. The extra
cost 10 workmen FOR the necessities of
life is estimated at 10 cents daily" Will
any protectionist please explain how that
comes II the consumer don't pay the tax?
Oar schools have about all commenced
their spring terms. Miss Yalton teaches
the Rose Hill, Miss Lulu Leslie the
Wake. Miss Martin the Walker, Mrs.
Hanna the Joslin, Miss Mold the Buckley,
Miss Bromley the Willow Vale, and Miss
Ella M. Cromp;on the Osborne.
Would it not be a move in the right
direction if Illinois would copy from the
state of Iowa and simply have one direc-
tor 10 each school district?
l suppose Lawyer Eutikin, of Moline,
will be raising the cry of poverty
stricken England" until that country
OWES the whole of the United States. or
course there are poor people in England,
and is it any wonder when we take into
consideration that England is only about
one~Ihird the size of California, or one
fifth the size of Texas and has nearly one
half the population of the United S,a'es :.
Is II any wonder there are poor people
where the inhabitants are sufficiently nu
merous to step on each others heels, and
where, if one person obtains situation
he has, as rule, 10 elbow somebody else
out What will be the condition of this
country when il becomes as thickly pop
ulsted2 But are there any poor people
10 this country no~3 Ihave no patience
with gu b men as Entrikin, who will
travel all the way to England to find poor
people when he has such an opportunity
to feast his eyes upon the same class of
people in this country. But if the pow
erty that exists in England is to be at
tributed to free trade, may we infer then
that the poverty in this country is caused
oy protection? Let me put flea in Eu-
trikin's ear, and inform him that the bulk
of the poverty that exists IN England is
trac, able to misapIropriated earnings
Is it not somewhat startling when we
read of the magnitude and gigantic pro-
portions of some of the combinations
called trusts. the sole object of which is
to control both production and prices.
And this is uone right in the face of an
investigating committee and an attorney
general. We read of the whisky trust
which embraces somewhere about 80 dis
tellery plants, Of the actual cash value o
81 000. 900. which has been capitalized al
S34 00O 900, showing 81 SO of water to
every dJllar Of money interested in the
business. To limit production this trust
has closed 70 of its distilleries and oper>
stes but IL. Out of the profits of these
II distilleries the trust pays the salaries
OF officers, taxes, leases. etc. of the 20
idle plants and divide I'D upon S34 OO0.-
600 stock. of which ei9ht-ninihs is moth
ing but water. Then there is the Ma
tional Cordage company. better known
to farmers as the "twine trust" As
nearly as can be sscertsined this trust is
capital zed at $23 100000, of which
nearly three fourths is water, and yet 1t
succeeds in paying handsome dividends
upon the whole amount Then take the
great coal combine in the east, though
not in the fem of trust. will have the
effect of one This new combination
represents a share and / opd capital of
1856, 900, 600. which will be one OF the
most powerful ard autocratic monopolies
in the whole country. What was the
British tyranny of the stamp act, and the
tax upon tea, which was thrown over
board in Boston harbor, when compared
TO the great robbery and taxation of the
present time? Will the people of this
country submit to such in justice for everf
MULTUM IN PARvo.