The Indianapolis journal., 1883-06-19
A PROTECTION DEMOCRAT.
Senator Voorhees, Vigorously De-
nounces Tariff for Revenue Only.
Such a Policy Would Compel the Levying
of a Direct Tax, and the People viii
Have None of 1t.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

uCSo IltS QGC4aIGQ lllut anu again anu COu-
tinues to declare that the Democrats lost In
diana in 1880 because of the tariff for-reve-
nue-only" plank in the Cincinnati platform,
and that if that issue be made next year the
State will treat it the same way. The Sena-
tor is now at home resting from political and
professional work. This town has great at
fractions for him. He likes to walk through
the quiet streets, fresh with air from fields
of young grain and rich with spacious homes
earned from the Gathering industries over
which black smoke is curling at the edge of
the town. The soft and genial sky is per-
petual delight to him, and the brown soil
and glistening meadows fringed with wood
land warm his big heart, as a boys is warmed
when school is out "This has been my
home" he says, 'for twenty-six years, and
l shall die here"
In the course of a talk about the part In
diana 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. I'VE will be all right in In
DIANA" he said 'if the national platform is
to be drawn with care and good sense, as l
believe it will be. The declaration upon 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 revenue only is an impossibili-
ty. 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 sab
scribe to it, The tariff operates as tax.
Free trade would do away with the custom
houses, abolish the duties on imports and
levy direct tax on the people for the sup
port of the government. In other words, it
would increase general taxes 5000, 900, 900 a
year, and people would have less to pay taxes
with than they have now, for labor would
be cheapened and industry discouraged
The people of Indiana won't help to bring
about any such result Taxes are already
quite heavy enough, and are we'll adjusted;
industry is active and prosperous and labor
happy. We owe largely to protective tariff
an industrial condition in Indiana whose
annual product is 5000, OOO,O 900. There is no
State and no place in the world of the same
territory that is as rich in natural wealth
and opportunities as Is Indiana. We want
to develop under the best conditions and
with those which have so far favored us we
are very we'll satisfied. We don't believe in
helping monopolies, or anything of that
kind but rather in tariff system for reve
nue., laid with the idea 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
timbered with hard wood this side of the
greatWestern forests. This has not only made
our timber valuable, but has led to the man
ufaoture in this State of wagons, plows, now
ers, reapers, and every kind of farm imple-
ment 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 where
ever they have exhibited during the last fif-
teen years. In the southern part of the
State we have the largest glass factory in the
world, at which, owing to protective tariff,
such progress in manufacture has been made
that there is no glass of any quality superior
10 that which is turned out there. Our stone
ouarries and clay beds are as good as can be
found. We have the best coal that is mined.
1t was discovered only about fifteen years
ago, but its value was at once
recognized, and now the bulk of the
products of the Michigan iron mines
is brought here for treatment. After paying
transportation we are able to turn out iron
at $13 a ton, against $40 at Pittsburg. The
coal fields cover an area of 1000 square miles,
or one-fifth of the State. Their development
has hardly begun. The block eoals as it is
known, burns to ashes, as white as hickory.
1t never cakes or runs together These DUAL
tiles enable the blast to force the flame
through the contents of the furnace, thus
avoiding danger from chilling, and reducing
the ore without the preliminary process OF
coking. We have to use nocharcoal,ra as they
do at Pittsburg This serves the purposes of
both coal and charcoal. No coal has yet been
discovered west of this State suitable for the
manufacture of iron. This will aeeeiopf Our
industry immensely, because in addition to
the present trade, the great West will soon be
looking to us for their iron and steel, as the
East looks 10 Pennsylvania"
WHAT PROTECTION HAS DONE FOR TERRE HAUTE.
1--WE have a town whose growth illus trates
the resultof a policy of protection. The
place has been settled for sixty years. The
population after forty-five years was about
II, 7,000 Then the nail factory and other in
dustries started here, and the population has
increased steadily at the rate of 1000 year,
so that within fifteen or sixteen years we
have nearly doubled our numbers. Facto-
ries within radius OF ten miles give employ
ment to over 5000 workmen, and they and
their families furnish an active and hungry
market to the farmers shereabouts for vege-
tables and the like A market for corn was
provided at distillery which, until last win
ter used 4, 200 bushels day, paying Chicago
prices for it, sometimes more and saving
farnoers TRANSFORMATION and 0elaV So we
have community here, as all over the State,
which is happy and prosperous, and asks
only to be allowed to continue so. There
are not less than 5000 manufacturing es-
adjustments in the State. employing at
least 75, 900 hands, nearly all voters If any
one supposes that any of these people, or
the farmers who supply them food. or the