The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-20
SENATOR VOORHEES,.
The Tail Sycamore on the Tariff
Question.
He Stands for Incidental Protection
The Democrats Cannot Carry
Indiana ON n Free Trade
Platform.
se,HeAeo, June 10 The Tribune has the
following special from Terra HaiIte:

Democrats lost Indiana in 1880 because of the
| stariE -for-revenue-o nly" plank in the Gin.
cinnati platform, and that if that issue be
made next year the state win treat it the
same way. The senator is now at home rest
| ing from political and professional work
| This town has great attractions for him. He
| likes to walk through its quiet streets, fresh
with air from fields of young grain, and rich
with spacious homes earned from the clatter-
| ing industries over which black smoke is
curling at the edge of the town. The soft
and genial sky is perpetual delight to him,
and the brown soil and glistening meadows
| fringed with woodland warm his big heart, as
a boys swarmed when school is out. "This
has been my home, he says, s'for twenty six
years, and / shall die here"
In the course of a talk about the part that
Indiana will play in the next campaign the
senator repeated his declaration with regard
to the tariff plank, and said he didn't believe
the Democrats would undertake anything of
the kind again.
INDIANA AND THE TARIFF.
I've will be all right in Indiana" he said
''if the national platform is TO be drawn with
care and good sense, as l believe it will be-
| The declaration on the tariff ought TO be in
plain language and ought to express fairly
the sentiment of the mass of Democratic
voters, not of theorists. A tariff for reve-
nue. only is an. impossibility Any tariff that
| is laid must protect to some extent If men
want to advocate free trade let them do it,
but no one ought to be allowed to commit
the Democratic party to that theory, for the
party voters won't subscribe to it, The tariff
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with the custom houses, abolish the duties on
imports and levy a direct tax on
| the people for the support of
| the government. In, other words it
would inclesise general taxes 500, 00O. 900 a
year, and people would have less topay taxes
with than they have now, for labor would be
oheapened and industry discouraged The
people of Indiana won't help to bring about
any such result. Taxes are already quite
| heavy enough, and are well adjusted; indus
try is active and prosperous and labor happy.
| We owe largely to protective tariff an in
dustrial condition in Indiana whose annual
product is $500, 000,O 600 There is no state and
no place in the world of the same territory
that is so rich in natural wealth and oppor-
| tunities as is Indiana We want to develop
under the best conditions, and with those
which have 50 far favored us we are very
well satisfied. We don't believe in helping
monopohes or anything of that kind, but
rather in tariff system for revenue, laid
with the idec of protecting home industry
and advancing us to the higher planes of
wealth and prosperity Look at our state
and see how tariff that protects has helped
| and will help u.s. We are the last state tim
| bered with hard wood this side of the great
western forests This has not only made
| our timber valuable, but has led to the man
| ufactTe in this state of wagons plows
mowers, reapers, and every kind of farm i'm
plement ON a scale so extensive that market
is found for them both in this country and
| abroad. Our furniture manufacturers ship
to nearly every country in the world They
have taken first prizes for fine work wherever
they have exhibited during the last fifteen
years In the southern part of the state we
nave the largest glass factory in the world
at which, owing to a protective tariff, such
progress in manufacture has been made that
Mere is no glass of any quality superior to
shat which is turned out there Our stone
quarTies and clay beds are as good as can be
found. We have the best coal that is mined
| 1t was discovered only fifteen years ago, but
its value was at once recognized, and now
the bulk of the products of the Superior and
Missouri iron mines are brought here for
treatment After paying transportation we
are able to turn out iron at S1S ton, against
| SO at PittSburg The coal fields cover an
area of /, 900 square miles, or one-fifth of the
state. Their development has hardly begun.
! The block coal, as it is known, burns to ashes
white as hickory. 1t never cakes or runs to
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force the flame through the contents Of the
furnace, thus avoiding danger from chilling,
and reducing the ore without the preliminary
process of cooking. We have to use no char
coal as they do at Pittsburg This serves the
purpose of both coal and charcoal No coal
has yet been discovered west of this state
suitable for the manufacture of iron. This
will develop our industry immensely be
cause, in addition to the present trade, the
great west will soon be looking to us for their
iron and steel, as the east looks to Pennsyl-
| vaEia.
PROTECTION ARGUMENTS.
I'VE have here town whose growth illus
trates the result of a policy of protection
| The place has been settled for. sixty years
The population after forty-five years was
about II 600 Then the nail factory and 9th
or industries started here, and the population
has increased steadily at the rate of 1000 6
year, so that in fifteen or sixteen years VT
have nearly doubled our numbers. Factories
within radius of ten miles give employment
to over five thousand worl1ngmen, and they
and their families furnish an active and hun
CRY market to the farmers hereabouts fo
vegetables and the like. A market for corr
was provided at distillery which until las
winter used 1900 bushels a day, paying Chi
cago prices for it, sometimes more, and say
ing farmers transportation and delay S,
we have community here, as all over til
state which is happy and prosperous, am
asks only to be allowed to continue SO
There are not less than Is 900 manufacturer,
r establishments is 1.-The state, employing a
| least It, 600 hands, nearly all voters. If an,
one supposes that any of these people, or tn
farmers who supply them food, or the trades
men of whom they buy, viii support move
ment designed to strike at a system unde
which they flourish, and ON which they ar
more or less dependent especially when the
! know that a change to free trade woul
impose direct taxation, as well as cheape
labor and hamper industry say if any on
supposes this he will find himself much mi.
taken There Isl no one in this state who be
lieves in such change Talk of what MI
Mcdonald or Mr. Hendricks may believ
other than what have said is without sui
stantial warrant. Discriminating is n
, concern of mine. My ambition is within an
e for Indiana But when it is charged tina
r the Leaders here are of different minds II
i garding the great issues affecting the il
dustries and prosperity of the state, l k1o'
better The relations of Mr.. Mcdonald, Nj
Hendricks, and myself are cordial, POLITICAL
as well Us personally. The tariff plank i
J, the STATE platform of last year declared for
revenue tariff with incidental protection, ii
e signed TO foster our industries. | wrote i
. and Mr.. Mcdonald stlrmped the state wit
me in its favor. The tariff planks in ii
Penns, &Hania and North Carolina platform
were drawn :: tssie same spirit, almost I'll
= same words, and the people approved then
IS as they did here. The National platfor1