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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08
WHO fAYS THE DUTY2
THE HOME CONSUMER, NOT THE
FOREIGN MANUFACTURER.

Charles Foster, Secretary of the Treas
ury, Asserts That the Foreigner Pays 1t.
The Lessons His Own Industry, window
Glass Manufacture, Teaches.
Charles Foster, the present secretary
of the treasury, made a speech the other
day at Findlay, o., in which he made
the assertion that the tariff could not
possibly be a burden to the people of
this country, since the foreign manu-
facturer and not the consumer pays the
duties imposed by the tariff on goods
imported from abroad. The secretary
said:
81 do not know of a more fallacious
proposition than the one contended for
by all Democrats, from Grover Cleve-
land to Jerry Simpson, that the tariff is
tax and that the consumer pays the
tax. Of course ! know that the PROPOSE
ton seems to be logical, and in the light
of the experience of this country the
proposition has been proven to be I'M
true. If the Democratic idea of a tariff
Is to tax articles imported into this coun-
try but not produced here is to prevail,
then the tariff is a tax This fact is
abundantly illustrated by the effect of
the Mckinley bill in admitting sugar
free of duty. The price of sugar has
fallen the amount of the tax. But when
you apply the protective principle
namely, to place duty upon articles we
produce in this country-such results do
not follow"
Secretary Foster is large stakeholder
in several window glass factories in
Ohio, and took prominent part in the
formation of the window glass trust.
The protective principle about which he
speaks has been applied TO window glass
since 1916. The trust, however, so con-
trolls production that we still continue
to import 30 per cent. of our annual con-
sumption of window glass. Window
glass, therefore, satisfies all the condi-
tions which he says compels foreigners
to day the tariff duties. No article is
more highly protected, as the following
figures based upon the imports for 1890
show:
Mckinley Dutv
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08
Total boxes SEQ O6sl SIS 81 sla 759l sls Is

Nine boxes of the above sizes of glass
can be and are bought in Belgium
for 1851. When imported the duties
amount to $12.15. Freight and insur-
ance amount to $1.75, making the total
cost laid down here. duty paid, s29.21.
The glass trust charges exactly $29.06s
for the same amount of glass.
Secretary Foster knows that these fig
ures are correct, The industry chosen
for illustration is not an obscure one. 1t
is of all industries the one with which
he is most familiar. What, in view of
this, becomes of his assertion that the
foreigner pays the tariff tax.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08
emedy for CRYING Children

The phonograph may prove a useful
domestic article in one respect. 1t is said
that children would not cry if they could
hear themselves once their passion was
Dver. The experiment was tried on a
Washington damsel of twelve years of age,
who had been very troublesome with cry
ing fits. a monograph was used to register
her cries and these were reproduced in her
hearing when she had become calm. The
cure was ef'ectual and she cries no longer.
Exchange
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08
Mckinley Duty.
AID valoreul

In spite of these enormous duties, we
still import 30 per cent of our consump-
ton. The reason for this is the fact that
the glass trust, of which Secretary Fos-
ter is member, finds it more profitable
to produce a small amount of glass and
sell it at high prices than to make all the
glass we need for home consumption.
How the window glass trust takes ad-
vantage of the tariff to charge all the
bonus it allows is shown in the follow
ing table, which gives the present whole
sale price in Belgium, from which all
our imports come, and the prices charged
by Secretary Foster and his associates in
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

The following resolution was adoDted by the
Democratic State Central Committee, February
=, 1892
be it resolved, That il is this sense OF this Com
mittee, that the Australian Ballot L aw applies 10
the election of officers at the annual town eet-
ing to all elections exec ptas specially excepted
in said law, and this committee recommend that
all elections TO be held for town officers this
spring, be held under the provisions and according
10 The letter of said law
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

Japan has a new high school which diff
fers somewhat from the ordinary in that
the adjective high" refers not to the de-
gree of education, but the social status of
its students. 1t is called the Peeresses'
school, and has been founded at Toxic to
allow the ladies' of the japanese nobility to
acquire be ter education than has been
possible on account of the rigid caste reg
ulations of the country. \ japanese lady
educated in America is its principal.-Ex-
change
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

A miller In Switzerland found over -vU
Roman coins in his garden, aud one OF
them, gold coin representing the Em
peror Galba, and struck in his reign was
IN perfect pres
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

IOtal-..--..-- '...-..-.-- TO
The delea ates 50 elected will meet at Turner
hall on
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH &c,
al 80 o'clock for the purpose of nominating can
didates for one supervisor fer two year., two
assistant supe visors for two years, town collector
and assessor; also 10 ppOiL chairman of the city
township committee.
HENRY L. WHEEf AN.
Chairman Clty-7 Ownship Committee.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

The skull Of big shark is always sala-
Bile, owing to the demand by museums
and curiosity hunters Back bones Of small
ones are made into walking sticks.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

The foot is named from the length Of
that member il the full grown man. It
was standard of measurement used by
the ancient Egyptians.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

This comparison is not open to the
charge that there have been great i'm
provements in the machinery used in
raising corn and none in that used in pro-
ducing pig iron. On the contrary. the re-
verse has been the case. The truth of this
charge Of shot is that the corn producers
have not been, nor i'll the very nature of
things could they be, protected; on the
other hand, the tariff on pig iron has
kept out foreign competition and thus
enabled the iron men to combine to keep
up prices as high as possible. To this
extent high tariff has affected the corn
producer in that it has required nearly
BIZ bushels more of corn to buy ton of
pig iron during the past fifteen years
than it did from 1916 to 1861, period
which the high tarifites of today called
our free trade period"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08
Tariff Shot.

The high protectionists of today refer
to the period from lS47 to 1861, when
we had revenue tariff, as disastrous
free trade" They do this because the
tariffs during this time were for revenue,
the operation of which was to put all
producers on plan of equity and to
give special privileges to none. In
speaking of this period Mr.. Blaine SAYS,
in Twenty Years in Congress-" THE
principle embodied in the tariff of 1916
seemed for the time to be so entirely
indicated and approved that resistance
to it ceased, not only among the people,
but among the protective economists
and even among the manufacturers to a
large extent. So general was this acqui-
escence that in 1856 a protective tariff was
not suggested or even limited by any one
of the three parties which presented
pres idential candidates"
The reasons why the people, especially
the farmers, were satisfied with the tar
ifs Of 1916 and 1857, was because under
them they got the full value of their
products; the reason why they are not
satisfied now is because they do not get
the full value in manufactured products
of their wheat, corn and oats
From 1917 to 1861 the average price of
corn in New York was co. cents per
bushel, or this line
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

Under high tariffs, however, 1t has re-
quired 10 $40 bushels of corn, or nearly
BIZ bushels more to pay for ton of pig
iron
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES AND
CONVENTION
SATURDAY, MARCH IL, 1892,

The democratic vo ers of Rock Island are re-
ouested to assemble nj the usual voting places in
their respective wards at7:3O p. m, on
SATURDAY, MARCH II, 1892,
TO nominate candidates in each ward, for alder
men, as follows: One each n all the wards for
two years and one esCh IN the Sixth and Seventh
for one yesr and 10 choose deleEa'es 10 the city
town,hip convention. The wards are entitled 10
dele gates follows their ratio of representation
being one for every 20 votes, aud fractional 10
votes or over cast for resident in 1889:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

During the past fifteen years, in spite
of great improvements in production,
the price of the same quality of pig iron
averaged SEQ. Il per ton at Philadelphia,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

bushels Of corn to buy ton of pig iron,
or this line
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08
E3HES8ksK'

During our revenue period from lS47
to 1861 the price of anthracite pig iron
at Philadelphia averaged S26.25 per ton,
according to James NJ Swank. of the
Iron and Steel association.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08
EyEZgg.zss:EsaszH;

After years of high protection the av-
erage price of corn from 1877 to 1891
has been 54i2 cents per bushel, or
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08

the wlnuow grass trust. Inc ngures are
the net wholesale prices for second quail
ity single thick glass, and are absolutely
exact:
Sizes in US. Belgium. U. s. Duties
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-08
THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

-,HICAGo, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAIL
~ way-Depot corner Fifth avenue and Thirty
d-st street, Frank IL. Plummer, agent.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-05

flmy thread pic
lures ev olved
upon lig h t e $ t
sort of grounds
in the new laces.
There is eye
feasting in look
ing them over,
in handling and
mott n & TIL eli r
b e a u t i es, and
there's satisfy.
ing wearing and
adornment in
their possessing.
Laces. this sea
son, you know,
are every where
in the summer
toilet - particu-
uiarly the ecrus.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-05

cre,ms. tans. etc. You will find the one
perfect stock Of them in this city at the
Big Store lace section.
And with the laces You will find that
preyailing Big Store principie-the fair
price marking-the feature that IN axes the
Big Store bigger and bigger as the years
go by 10, .ao
uuusual lot of odd pieces and remnants
TINS early. particularly in lace fiou ncings
We want them to go quickly, so TINS Is
the way we say they shall be marked, COM
mencing tomorrow. Black lace nounc-
ings:
Piece of 81 yards. regular price 81 as, now 1878
piece OF "a Yards regular price 20 40 now 81.
Piece Of wards. regular price 81 so, now 3 l so
piecs or ( wards regular price 81 65. now rs.
Piece of So yards regular price ~ 81 nes % %
Piece of AZ. yards, regular price Slz.-o, now
Sf Piece of 81 yards, regular price slL25. now
Piece of 5 yards, regular price 1913; now go
Piece of 50 Yards, regular pric VI. no" p. .o
Piece Of az wards regular price sl65o. now $40.
Piece of "a yard. regular price 80 %, lo@ Sl2
Piece of "A yards. regular Price go 90 80 al 30
Piece of q yards regular price : % hoM l. q
piece "a yards regular price 60 g 81 20" W.
piece a ga wards, regular price Slaoo, now l.
Piece of pa yards regular price = go now sl'fs-
piece Of s \ yards, regular price 81 now go "a
Piece of 80 yards. regular price ssSa, nv"
Piece OF "a yards, regular price so-so' no" 10
White lace houncings:
Piece of yards, regular price SIS; new $40 g.
Piece of a. yards. regular price 70 90, no" a.
p;ace of 3 - Yards regular price SO 40. nov az
piece OF Is yards, regular price So - nov
Piece of p yard reg ular price SOU: now zo
Piece of Ia yards. regular price @S-'o' no" F'e
Also an elegant jswelled fulLdress net
sixty inches wide, reduced from sfo 70
$3.50.
These after 9 O'Clock tomorrow.
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But this wasn't what we started to say
once we get on the subject, it's such q
deserv ng one. that it is hard to STOP
This week we offer to the buyers of chill.
dren's clothing an unusually good list OF
bargains.
We have gone into the high class suits
and picked out all the short lines, and, be-
sides, taken many full lines, and have
made these saving prices upon them:
Children's vest SUITS regular price, $1,000.
Children's vest suits, regular price $3.50.
chiidren's vest suits. regular price $3.50.
Chndren', vest suits, regular price $3.50.
$3.50
Children's vest suits, regular price IS. cow
1880
Children's sailor suits, regular price p,
now 81 90.
Always remember about any price quo
tation that you see in our advert sements
nat we guarantee them to be absolutely
correct, both as to regular and special quo
tations.
Files Of the daily papers are always in
our advertisers Office and you may see
them and match advertised prices with
the goods. if you have the slightest doubt
about their correctness.
You must be early after these special
suits. as they will go quickly. They went
on sale first yesterday at these prices and
many were picked up. but We have put in
more suits, so that tomorrow the buyine
chances are almost equally as good as they
We're Saturday.
When in the department spend few
minutes looking over the nobby lines O.
summer suits that are being shown.
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The "why" of the splendid business o

The "why" of the splendid business of
the carpet department this season need
not to be told to our customers. They
have tried this third floor of ours and
have found it up to their every require
ment. You will understand how reason
able is every claim that we make for the
third floor once you give it your attention.
Note the light point about this floor.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-05

II q We yo u
ever had car
p g t 8 a n d
d r p i n & .
shown y o u
under better
s e Ell ng ad-
van t a ge s =?
There's no
color dishon-
esty, no quail
} ity poorness
to hide, so
we let the
honest sun
light pour in
from all sides
that you may
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Did you ever see laces so beautiful as
this season.
The knowing ones say that this touches
the supreme point in the worlds lace his
tory. Of course they except here and
there an old point. But anyway this gen.
eration's laces will be rich heirloom to
the succeeding generation.
There's daintiness, cobwebby beauty,
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There's every reason why the children's
clothing department should be the favor
lite place that it is with Seattle mothers
who have young Americans that they
want well dressed, and without making
too deep inroads into their purse contents.
The department is arranged especially
for the convenience of lady shoppers. We
knew that the ladies preferred quiet, Sc.
'cluded department, away from mems de-
partment, and that is why the children's
clothing was placed upon the second floor
And besides these conveniences it ap-
peals strongly with its goods-all are
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By the way, are you watching the papers
every Saturday for the regular Saturday
special sale-every week something extra
good is offered you.
Here is group Of special prices that
should interest every economical man Ia
Seattle:
Mems suits reduced from STA 50 10 ozBa
Mems suits reduced from $40 to $3.50.
Mems suits reduced from ST. SO to $1250
Mems suits reduced from $l7. SO 70 $3.50
Men S suits reduced from $50 to SIS.
Mems suits reduced from $2250 to Sis.
Mems suits reduced from $500 to SIS.
Mems suits reduced from $22. so to SIa.
Mems suits reduced from S21 to s1e.
Mems suits reduced from S22 so 90 $la
Mems suits reduced from $25 to $l6
Mems suits reduced from $25 to $40.
Mems suits reduced from s27. so to gao
These are live lines of new clothing
which you will find to be extra good al
the prices:
Black eork.crew suits, sacks or susawaya
ats15.
Nice clay worsted suits sacks o. cutawaya
at$I5.
In trousers We can fit you and save your
money. Scores of styles to select from and
great range Of prices.
We have taken large lot Of regular 60
$3.50 81, 1850. - and $3.50 pansaloons
and marked them at the uniform price Of
IS pair
Please remember that We close every
week day at o'clock sharp, except sstur-
day, when the store is open until 10 o'clock.
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Of the small price goods only:
English Cashmeres. l0c a.gard.
Change able sutings. 15c gyard-
Chaliies de Laune, Csc yard
Diagonal suitings, Csc yard.
Plaids and Checks. Csc yard.
Homespuns, 35c yard.
Henriettas colored. 35c yard
Bedford Cords, 45c yard
Scotch Cheviots and Piaids. soc yard.
Cheviot Checks and suitings, soc yard.
And for the warm weather goods-the
cotton stuffs, where is there better stock
than the one we shown
Such perfect stuffs for summer wear and
such small prices are bound to please you.
Handsome American Ginghams. 10c yard
Fine Dress Ginghams Imported, csc yard
Elegant Shifting Percales, 1oc yard.
Choice sateens, in Polka dots pin stripes
and figured, zoe yard.
Splendid Outing Flsnnels. 10c yard.
We still say that you have never had a
better offer than those SIC Nainsooks.
Their regular price was 1215c, and the i'm
mense quantity was the only reason for
such q figure as &c yard. We believe
that the balance of the lot will be cleared
out early this week.
A special line of nice colored cheese
cloth, suitable for comfortables, Is reduced
this week from sc to 215c yard. The
quantity is limited.
To out-oftown customers We send
samples of dress goods free of charge.
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The millinery department grows greater
and greater in favor. It's stepping into
public popularity has not been that of a
sensational hour-forgotten and neglected
whom the first excitement OF opening day
is over-but one that increases apace as
the season advances.
Surely it has enough unusual advan-
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G | q 8 8 I
dainty gar
ments for the
babies - not
in sa m pl e
lots, but in
& e n e 70 u s
q a a n Titles
and with a
range Of Sc
lections to
suit e cry
\ size of purse.
IL a t Ell y a
large amount
of new goods
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and grows daily greater upon that cardi-
nal point from which springs all business
growth: /. e., upon right prices. And
its fair prices upon best goods are its
greatest attraction.
"Words but fail the air." So here's
mentions that stand above word-telling or
explanation:
Nice trimmed hats for ladies, %.
Nice trimmed hats for ladies. $3.50
Nice trimmed hats for ladies, %.
Nice trimmed hats for ladies, $3.50.
Nice trimmed hats for ladies. -.
Nice trimmed hats for ladies, $3.50.
Nice trimmed hats for ladies. $5.
Once you see them you will Immediately
recognize their worth.
And these for children:
Childrens trimmed hats 81. 90.
Childrens trimmed hats $l.7o.
Childrens trimmed hats, 81
Childrens trimmed hats, $3.50
Childrens trimmed hats. So
All classes of millinery with us have just
such fetching prices.
| In straw shapes and hats ready to wear
1 We now have most complete stock. a
I hundred new shapes in the latest straws
are among the new arrivals.
/ And Tor flowers, or ribbons, or dainty
ornament, or any article of millinery
brightness. You will find the department
! right up 10 your expectation mark.
/ Children's null hats have prominent
! showing in the stock. You will have
| greater apprec alton of their beauty when
/ You learn their price rightness.
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Dress goods come nearer and nearer to
your ideas of rightness. Small price stufis
march alongside old-time higher qualities
in appearances. For little of money now
you have much of splendid style and sat
isfying goods in every detail.
Our dress goods stock was never more
for the people than now. It has every
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-05

''g GODS of
known quail
ity. F" They
have wear in
them besides
looks q n d
s t y lie, and
they are not
marked upon
their looks,
b u t u p o n
their h o n
est quality
worth. Has
not your own
experience
W it h o u r
CT o t h i n g
shown this
fact to be
true?
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fair quality
Of goods and
no stufs that
do not match
9 v Q n i n
worth with
their prices.
Co mple etc
ness has been
attained in
the stock Sc
lections, and
no IN att er
what goods
you m Ike
your choice
fro you
have a good
; ly quantity
at YOUR COM
mand.
These tell
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Clothing of known quality" is the
standard of the clothing department.
When we buy clothing. first we seek quail
ity; and then finish and then style; and
then patterns; and all the time cost. So
when it goes on sale in our departments
We know 1t, and know just what to tell
you about its worth-no guessing. bus ac-
tual knowledge.
Perhaps the care we bestow upon the se-
lection Of the goods is why you have
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t q 8 e 8 OF
stock, ofdi-
rect, con-
slant COM
munication
throu & h
0 K i III 9 d
agents with
the worlds
great fash
ion center,
to warrant
the buying
fav or of
fashionable
Seattle la
dies, but its
craat ovpr
c e s 8 j >
grou n d d
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see every point about the carpets. so that
you know now how the carpets look.
And the prices-right to the most suit
ing degree.
This week we invite the attention of the
sharpest buyers to a special line of Stin-
sons tapestry Brussels.
Stinsons name stands for good tapestry
Brussels. The regular price on them Is
81 yard. This week we offer genuine
stinson ten-wire tapestry Brussels at SOC
ayard.
Just received, an exquisite lot of New.
port draperies-the very latest and most
elegant of draperies. You will find them
10 be worthy of critical examination.
Also big lot of light silk curtains in
the most superb patterns.
Lots of helpful hints on home decora.
ton can be caught up in the drapings
sections. Here is always special corner
trimmed to show new ideas in window
decorating and house fu nishiDg.
The curtain sections never had greater
brightness in stock or prices to attract
your buying attention.
The rug sections are complete with all
classes OF rugs and have an especially
large and elegant stock of fur rugs to s how
you.
Take the elevator TO the third floor the
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