Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-08-17

! ties OF their independence or 'beneyo
! leRtly asSimilating" their resources -
amid all these reYersalS of historical
blunders OF our past, l boldly aver
| that We need not despair of the repub-
| lie.
True, there are those who say with
blind faulty, that the Dingley tariff
| law did not exist always, that every
one of its schedules is not unchaHge-
able 10 be worshipped. that the re
publican party itself was not born I'M
til Il comparatively recent date and
| that yet the country on the whole has
always prospered. They say that its
prosperity was owing to new and
cheap lands, inviting the Drawn and
muscle Of the white men of the world
10 their cultivation, skfmming from
the surface of the human ocean its
WaYC-crCstS of courage and enterprise
They say that il was owing To a mag
niicent area of free trade, first be
tween the colonies and then between
the states-an area that has grown.
by democratic-American expansion OF
homes, institutions and industry, and
not by Republican, British crown-col-
Jny-cOnquest until it early became lar
ger than any area of untramellCd free
trade which exists. or has ever existed
on the earth. They say that it was
due also to our freedom from the tax
burdens Of militarism and the Conse-
lUent ability to devote our resources,
thus saved. to the education of the peo-
pie and to their bcttermeT,: in home
and industrial life. They point to the
fact thar, even during the period of
our existence as colonies, that con
slant movement Of laboring men from
he old world 10 our shores. which
still continues, was going on; that
this movement was accelerated after
We became a separate sovereignty on
he earth and that it was still more
accelerated after the mOOtcd question
Of the possibility of Il dissolution of
the union had been finally settled.
They say that this very movement to
America of wOrkingmCn, under both
nigh tariffs and low tariffs after we
became d federal republic, and under
no tariffs at all, as i'll colonial days,
was proof of the fact that higher
wages have been paid, at every stage
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