Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-24
A WESTERN FARMER krcks.
Too Much Tariff the Cause of His Dis
satit faction.

have been farming for about thirty
! three years and have lived in three states.
| 1t las been truly hard road to travel.
This is no fancy question. The farmer
has in large measure been compelled to
| eat dirt and go naked. WealSI has in
creased forty times as much in Vermont
as in Iowa during the past ten years
Kansas farm mortgages are by the CEN
| sus S2S5 900, 900.
This is not simply question for farm
ers, but for all business men. On ques-
tons of tariff and finance the interests
of all of the people in the west and
south and nine-tenths of the people of
the east are identical.
But unfortunately for the country IN
der radical rule about one-tenth of the
people of one small section (the north
east have controlled our national legis-
lation for the past thirty years.
The manufacturer and the capitalist
have readily been enabled to amass mil
lions, and millionaires are becoming
quite common in the northeast, while
the bulk of the people there, and all the
people in the west and south, save the
office holder and pensioner, have become
''hewers of wood and drawers of water
for the New England nabobs.
And year by year they continue (un-
wisely, think to Iut the screws to us
little tighter, until they have nearly
broken the camels back: have nearly
killed the goose that lays the golden egg,
not seeming to be conscious that by
crushing agriculture and impoverishing
whole sections of the country they de-
stroy our ability to lay and thereby re-
duce their own revenues, and eventually
will produce such a revolt from their
dominion as will bring themselves down
in financial ruin, if not (Which God for
bid in open rebellion and bloodshed.
When the pendulum is forced toe far
in one direction it will swing too far in
the other.
For all this and much more we have
not enumerated we hold accountable the
party of professedly high moral ideas,
which would legislate other men into
morality; ''for they say and do not; for
they bind heavy burdens and grievous
10 be borne, and lay them on mems
shoulders, but they themselves will not
move them with one Of their fingers
the party which has lived these many
years on sectionalism, by fomenting bit
ter feelings, race prejudice and wars;
the party which rejoices in the manu-
facture or parading OF tales of horror to
keep up prejudice and bitterness. whose
chief stock in trade is hate or the en-
enlargement of hate; the party which
was instrumental in hoerating the negro
slaves, which we confess was one good
thing they did for the white race. but
which managed by the bitterness and
prejudice engendered 10y the war virtual
ly to enslave nine-tel tbs of the white
men OF the country; the party which
by long course of oppressive legisla
ton robs and plumbers the people under
the guise of law; the party which
would, by returning boards and force
bills, endeavor to perpet uare this pillage
and tyranny on peace loving and law
abiding people.
do not mean that there are not indi-
vidGal good men and many of them in
the Republican party, but | do think
that the rank and file. those who are not
getting the Doodle, allow themselves to
De wonderfully hoodwinked.
Let US look at one prominent item of
this robbery.
The tariff has yielded a revenue for
the last ten years of from 1922, 600, 900 to
S1J9,OOO,OOO per aInum. OF course this
comes off the people, but the consump-
ton Of home manufactures is about five
times as much as of imported goods.
which yields g bonus Of near 800, 900, 900
annually to the Ilanufa ctur6rs, off the
people too. But this does not go into
the treasury, but into protected pockets.
This enormous burden of $500, 900. 900
annually which the people have to paw
for this radical blessing is not half of
the damage. Protection DESTROYS our
ability to pay; it in large measure pro-
hibits exchange of our products with
foreign countries, cuts off the demand
for our surplus corn, wheat, cotton,
meat, etc, and breaks the price of our
whole product. For instance if we raise
one-tenth more grain than we need to
consume, that surplus on our market
Will break down the price of the whole
crop, whereas if Europe could exchange
freely with Us the whole crop would
bear good price. No wonder farming
and every other industry in our farming
districts is Frustrated. The wonder is
the whole agricultural portion Cmost all
of our country is not broke.-St. Louis
Republic.
Our Tin Plate Infant.
While congress was icing urged to