The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-08-18
lola REGISTER Supplement
FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, 1882.
VOORHEES, ON THE TARIFF.


visited tlanta last October and deliv
cred an address, in which he took strong
grounds in favor of judicious protection
to American industries, he was bitterly
assaulted by many of the leading Dem
ocratic papers of the country. They
pronounced his doctrines undemocratic
aud some even predicted that he was
heading straight for the Republican
camp Subsequently it was given out
that the distinguished senator had recant
ed, or ut least that the severe criticism
of the Democratic press had caused him
to greatly modify his views on the SUBJ
ject in question. This turns out to be a
false report. He has not modified his
views in the least. He has not recanted
but he has reiterated them in terms as
emphatic As those employed at Atlanta.
On Thursday last in the senate he deliv-
cred an elaborate argument in favor of
the principle of protection that would
have done credit to Henry G.. Carey,
Judge Kelley, or any other life long ex-
FOUNDER of the doctrine. Almost at the
very outset of his speech, Mr.. VOORHEES,
proclaimed clearly the position which he
assumed in opposition to all the tradi-
lions of the party with which he acts.
He allied himself closely to the line of
policy to which the Democracy of
have always adhered. This
position it is said will be antagonized by
ex-senator Mcdonald, which portends
serious division in the Democratic ranks
in Indiana. It means that the party
will be broke into two factions there, as
it is now divided in almost every state
of the union, and it affords additional
evidence that the Democratic party is no
longer political organization founded
On well defined principles, but combi.
nation ofspoil hunt rs ready to adopt any
stratagem or any means, however corrupt
n disreputable, to obtain power.
Senator VOORHEES, takes the true ground
IN this question of the tariff. 1t is the
platform of the Republican party, and if
ne has the courage of his conviction he
cannot continue member of the Demo.
ratio party, when two years hence in ma.
ional convention it shall proclaim itself
substantially in favor of free trade. In
rider that Senator Voorhees, position
nay be fully understood, we quote from
lis speech:
at is not within the range of human
kill to SO frame tariff as to result in
Nothing but the collection of revenue,
Tor can human wisdom separate its direct
md tremendous effects upon the indus
ries and prosperity of the country from
he bare naked existence of tariff. 1t
$ at this point that the extreme and
views now before the country
,egin to assert themselves. On the one
land there are those who declare their
eadiness to enact system of tariff, not
% much with view to revenue as to the
and protection of certain
,reat pursusits in our midst; while on the |
'ther we hear loud and persistent cry
hat nothing but revenue, revenue only
'an possibly enter into the consideration |
# subject, which in fact, however EN-.
braces, directly and indirectly, in addi. |
ion to the collection of revenue, nearly
Ill the myriad interests of the laboring
md business classes of the Unitet States. |
Between these extremes, and against
hem both, l take my stand on that sure
md safe middle ground, which has for
is defense the wisest interpretations of
he constitution, the practices of the
government when it was administered by |
hose who framed it, the clear and explicit
eaching of the fathers, the history of the
reat party to which l belong, the indie
endene.and strength of the country, and
he welfare and happiness ofthe people"
The senator next referred to himselfas
he representative of a great agricultural
tate, and reiterated what he had said
,st fall at Atlanta, as follows:
"The people of Indiana, with all their
capacity for agriculture, are