Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-03
JOSLIN.

4 oOSiN, I>oN. IL nave IL from ROOt
authority that Fifer was at Morrison OF
friday las. and after making a speech
gave the audience permission to ask an,
question they chose Mr. Edwards rose
and said he would like to hear from Mr.
Fifer on the school question. The gov.
ernor was no sooner asked than the ut
| most excitement prevailed, and Mr. Ed
WARDS got roundly abused for asking the
question. Republicans that were pres
ent say Filters abuse was totally uncalled
TOT, considering be gave the audience
permission to ask questions. His conduct
lost him votes
When Mckinley dies every farmer in
the country will have good reason to shed
tears OF sorrow at the loss Of their gre at
oenefector Mckinley provided in his
Dill that uncut diamonds may come in
Guty free. What happy arrangement
Inc farmer, you see. il he can't uncut
prices for his wheat, hogs and cattle, can
get basket OF uncut diamo nds, and scat
ter them over the barnyards to give light
so that his chickens can see to 90 to
roost. If the tariff on his wheat does not
help him to sell at uncut prices, and if he
has to sell in free trade market at cut
prices, he makes it up on uncut dia-
monds Then, again. Mckinley, ever
mindful o. the farmers interest, provided
that be could buy his stuffed birds free of
duty, SO he can nail them up on the
caves of his house and barn ana the gate
posts, and cry out to his neighbor, "Uc-
Gle jim, look here low mindful McKin-
ley has been to supply the wants and
necessaries OF the farmer" Then, again,
what benetector Mckinley as been t.
the labOring man. He knew that he
might be boycotted, locked out by capi-
toll On a 4 L
dren want for bread, so in his great big
loving heart that takes in al the laborers
OF the lana, these hardy sons of toll shall
not suffer, so he put ottar of 70 es on the
free list; aud now when the locked cut
steel and iron workers and miners can't
earn bread, they can take Jug and 90
down to the drug 9ist and get a gallon of
ottsr of roses. Hasn't Mckinley earned
a monument for taxed socks and blankets
and free ottar of rosesY Then after Nc
kinley had done all this in the interes;
of the farmers and laborers his heart was
big enough to take in the christian To
make his bible respected he only put on
IL an ad vslorem tax of 25 per cent, be-
cause the mtjor mentions thai cheap
things are nasty, and he wanted no nasty
bibles around, thus reversing the doctrine
of the Master, salvation is free" So
you see the christian can take his choice.
Ii he cannot devote his life to the study
of the work of God in a taxed bible fMc
kinley has let fiddle strings come in I'M
taxed, ard be has the alter native of dance
ing hoe down to the music of bounty
on sugar, played on reciprocity, free
trade, fiddle strings. Such is the glory
OF McKinleyism.
The policy of protection is not neces-
sarily the true policy because some dis
ha6 fraQr "a
or president, advocated ii wears ago
Time never ripens q wrong into a right
Theft is both of long standing AMI very
prevalent, and some very distinguished
men have engaged IN it, and are still at il,
Mckinley then needn't try to prove pro-
lection is right by referring to Washing
ton. Jefferson an6 Jackson.
Mckinley charges the democrats with
being in favor of wildcat banking do
not believe there is democrat in the
land so ignorant and stupid as to favor
free, wildcat banking system and 1 don't
believe Mckinley believes it. The re-
publican party has made every dishonest
dollar in circulation if there is any. His
party demonetized silver and made the
dollar which, he says is only worth 40
cents and pamed it upon the people for
100 cents. No other party has had the
power to do this. His party put 20 cents
worth Of silver in the silver dollar and
then put on the silver dollsr-the words,
In God we trust" and make the people
take God for the other 80 cents and now
we call il dishonest dollar. The de-
monetizatIon of silver made the dishon> |
est dollar. II was q deliberate conspl!> |
acy and the republican party was the |
arch consplrator with the gamblers and |
money sharks. Senator John j. Ingalls, |
in the United States senate on the 14th |
of January, 1891, said: There is deep |
seated conviction among the people |
which l fully share, that the demonetiza-
tton of silver in 1873 was one element of |
a great conspiracy to deliver the fiscal |
system of this country over to those
whom it has. in my opinion, finally cap
tured. see no proof of the assertion
that the decentralization act of 1878 was
or corruptly procured, but
from the statements that have been
made it is impossible to avoid |
the conviction that ii was a part |
Of deliberate plan and conspiracy |
rmed by those who have been called |
speculstors to still further increase the
value of the standard by which their &C.
were to be measured
Here is the cause of the dishonest dol |
lar talked about by Mckinley. II il is a |
dishonest dollar, his party made it So |
Mr.. Ingalls, says in that same speech: |
That bill was pending in its various |
stages for four years in both houses of |
1t passed both houses by de- |
cided msJorities. 1t was read and re-
read and repaiutei - times 1t
was commented upon by the news papers. |
II W as the subject of discussion in finan !
cisl bodies all over the country" A d |
yet with this bold and deliberate and in |