The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-05

| lie said of other nations, protection to
home industries embodied in tariff
laws) was the best for this country, and
he, for one, proposed to maintain 1T even
against the advice of the President
MIR. VOORHEES, TO THE RESCUE
| Mr.. voorhees, then addressed the Sen
ate on the same subject. The subject OF
taxation, he said, was as old as govern
ment itself, and yet it was as fresh and
full of interest to-day to the laboring
masses of mankind as ever at any former
period of the worlds history. Contrac-
| ton of the volume of currency had al
| ways been policy marked by disaster
| and suffering, and accursed by every
| friend of the general welfare of the
| country. But when that abominable
policy was still further aided and exc
| cuted by snatching as it were the money
| of the people from their very hands at
the rate of ten millions month, with
| out necessity, excuse or palliation, every
honest mind had to revolt against such
wanton robbery.
NATIONAL CRIME.
1t was a crime against every home,
every fireside and every living man and
woman in the United States 1t was
crime national in its proportions, gigan-
tic in its strength, omnipresent in its
visitation and brutal in its rapacity, and
yet, the day before recess, the Senator
from Colorado (Teller) had sneered at
the idea of surplus being of any conse-
auence, and the Senator from Ohio
(Sherman) had also declared, not by
cable from Paris, but on the floor of the
Senate, that it was fortunate for the
country that there was a surplus of fifty
five millions in the Treasury. 1t would
be for that Senator if he should become
the Republican candidate for the Presi-
dency next summer to explain to the
people why it was fortunate that their
money was gathered into the Treasury in
excess of all the uses, prescriptions and
| wants of government, instead of re
| manning in the pockets of the people.
pie. There was in the Republican
press and among Republican poll
ticians determined, persistent and
brazen campaign of mendacity ON
| this subject, and it would continue IN the
| councils and field work of the Republi-
can party, day by day, morning, noon,
| and night, until the frosts of next No
vember came to wither and blast alike
their falsehoods and their hopes. He de-
MED that the President had departed one
lot or title from the declaration of the
last Democratic platform on the subject
of taxation. That declaration had been
bold, explicit and peremptory. 1t was
made in a few plain, strong words, the
meaning of which it was impossible to
pervert or misunderstood. Incidental
protection to home manufacturers had
always been the policy of the Democratic
party. 1t was recognized in the last
Democratic national platform. He re-
joiced in every element of American sue
cess.
PROUD OF HIS COUNTRY.
He was proud of the inventive genius
of his country and of its vast establish
ments, where skilled labor abounded.
He looked with delight on the cotton
mills, coal mines, blast furnaces and roll
ing mills of the South, as well as on
those of New England, Pennsylvania
and many Western States. He would
encourage them in their gigantic career
of development and usefulness, and he
held that the policy of Democratic
party had been always ample for their
prosperity and progress. That was the
safe policy tor American manufacturers
themselves. If it were once clearly un-
derstood that the manufacturers as a
class demanded that they be enriched by
means of fraudulent taxes, that they ac-
cept the guidance of the leaders of the
Republican party and Join in their praise,
then, indeed, perils would environ the
manufacturing interests of the country
such as We're never known before.
| FOLLY OF FREE TRADE
If the Democratic party, with its
record of more than fifty years in the
administration of the government, and
its frank and constant declaration
of principles, was to be charged with
the folly of free trade every time an at
| tempt was made to modify the tariff,
the people would very soon and very
| clearly find out that such assaults were
only made to divert public attention
from the evil designs and schemes of
plumber of which they were victims.
He could not believe, however, that sa-
gacious and patriotic business men of
the country who controlled the manu-
featuring industries would permit them
selves, for political purposes, TO be put
in an attitude of unjust. selfish, over
weening avarice, and of unfairness to-
ward the great mass of their country
men.
| A STRONG, HONEST MAN.
Proceeding to discuss the message oi
the President, he said that il was a
pleasure to him to declare that this re
markable State paper was true to the
principles and teachings of the Demo
cratic party from its foundation by JEFF
ferson eighty-seven years ago, to the
present day, and that the thanks of the
laboring and business classes of the coun
try We're due to the Executive for seizins
ON that vital issue with the grasp of 4
strong, honest man, and for presenting
it to his countrymen in such a shape ane
light that it never would disappear unit
the wrongs therein presented were ex
posed and redressed, and until the out
RACES of overtaxation ceased. In tn
present age of swollen pretenses, o.
shallow aristocracy and of gilde'
vulgarity, the splendid utterances of tn
Presidents message fell on the minds o
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