The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-05
VOORHEES, ON THE STUMP
REPUBLIC AN FALLACIES BEING
SHOWN UP IN INDIANA.

About tho R9puplican Ticket.
TERRE HAUrE, IND, Aug. 4.-The
democracy of this city i'd vicinity held
mass-meeting tonight and Senator Voor-
hees made the opening speech of the demo
cratic campaign in Indiana, this being the
senator's home The street procession was
large and creditable display and
the wigwam where the meeting
was held was crowded Senator
Voorhees, was rendered an ovation on his
appearance, the audience rising and cheer
ing several minutes. On the platform were
many democrats of state and local promi-
nence. Senator Voorhees, address was
listened to with marked attention, and he
was frequently interrupted by rounds of
applause. The most noticeable feature Of
the senator's speech was his revival of the
greenback issue. Following are extracts
from his effort:
II propose to show that the history of tho
republican party on the subject of taxation
is the history of premeditated crime against
the laboring people of the United States.
Every movement in the machinery of gov
ernment set in motion by the republican
leaders and managers has been
TO swell and bloat the gains of
the rich and to increase the burdens
of the poor, to deprive labor of its honest
reward and to reduce the industrial classes
on the farms, in the workshop and the mines
to the estate and conditions of serfs paying
tribute to their rapacious masters.
CONSPIRACY WITH MAMMoN.
1.-THE republican conspiracy to fasten the
fangs of the money power in the struggling
body Of American labor and to enable
gigantic usury and robbery to suck the
blood of every American industry, took its
Frst eta xuba in ri ha
legal tender currency of 1862,
tde greenback, the immortal and glorious
greenback. was Disseminated against and
graded in the money markets Of the world
by being made non-receivable for duties on
imports and for interest on the bonded
debt of the United States.
PATIENCE OF THE ToILERs.
1.-THE laboring people have been too
patient, too forbearing. | do not believe
any other people on the globe would have
submitted unless restrained by
force to the monstrous act of congress
of March, 1869. BY one dishonest stroke
of a dishonest pen, guided and held by the
dishonest leaders of great party, the debt
which labor was to pay was swollen % per
cent. The great bulk of our bonds, the
5-20s, were payable in greenbacks, and the
authors of the act of March, 1869, knew it
was false when they declared that they were
PAYABLE in coin"
The speaker then quoted at length from
the speech of Senator Beck on this subject,
on March 13 last.
SHERMAN'S LETTER.
He also quoted the letter written by John
Sherman in 1868 and resurrected by Sena-
tor Beck when Sherman said: 81 think
the bondholder violates his promise when
he refuses to take the same kind of money
he paid for his bonds" why" asked the
l. H. .t,r,.aI
with its glorious history and with
all the crimes committed and attempted
against it by the leaders of the
republican party, come to the front at this
time and at all times when the interests of
the laboring classes are under considerahons
A FINANCIAL BAR SINISTER.
branded at its birth with O bar
sinister as a bastard in the field
Of currency, persistently stigmaized and
characterized as rag baby born in found
ling hospital without known parentage, for
years denounced as dishonest money, a
fraud upon the business and commercial
world, yet it stands to-day in every state in
the union with its head as high, and its pur-
chasing power as great as the brightest gold
that ever flashed from the depth of the earth.
QUESTION OF SANITY.
SIT is true, that the republican candidate
for president suggested in 1878 that an idiot
asylum ought to be erected for believers in
the greenback. For you, my Old greenback
friends, and for me, / believed in the green
back then and do now, and | take my place
alongside OF you under Gen. Har-
riSon's sweeping intolerant and
brutal criticism and denuuciation. did
SO ten years ago when he poured out his
Ecornful wrath upon us, aud was we'll con-
tent with tine result. He canvassed the
state in 1878 as the candidate of bis party
for the senate, as | did as the candi-
date Of mine and the people of
Indiana decided by more than 10000 ma
Jority on the popular vote for members of
the legislature that he was nearer finan-
cial idiot than l was, and that should go
back to Washington and leave him home"
TALKING ABOUT THE TARIFF.
Senator Voorhees, then entered upon the
tariff issue and recounted the history of
modern tariff legislation. No relief, tho
speaker declared, was afforded to labor by
resort to the domestic excise system.
On the contrary this system was made
the pretext for still further bold and
hagitious encroachments on the part OF mo
nopoly and greed against the rights OF those
who toll. The two acts of congress of 1869
and 1864, by which protective duties were
made to ascend to n Pixies peak altitude, were
demanded on the express ground that The
manufacturer should be compensated for
the amount of his internal tax On this
point the speaker quoted extensively from
Senators Morrill,, Allison, and others, treat
ing of the internal factory tax, which was
repealed in 1863, and the speaker declared
that he extreme duties on imports laid i'll
ls52-'64, expressly to compensate for the
payment of that tax, still remain In full
force and effect.
EVILS OF THE SURPLUS.
Senator Voorhees, then discussed at length
The labor question and the surplu' He de-
ciared that the labor interests Of the coun-
try need In circulation every dollar that
can be spared from the expenses OF the gov
ernment, and yet at this hour there
Is piled up as useless surplus enough
ot the laboring peoples money TO
lay down in cash more than $500 for every
DAY since the birth Of Christ. You want
liee salt cheap rails, cheap farming mate.
flals and cheap articles for household and
Kitchen use
Touching upon the republican internal
revenue plank, Senator voorhees, said: ut
Is hard to speak in terms Of modera-
yon or this monstrous proposition.
IN this christian land and age
men sometimes spoken of as Christian
Na ,esmen think of nothing better than free
whisky and tobacco to offer the people in
response to their cry fer relief. The worst
enemies the manufacturing interests in
tlls country can possibly have are those
VINO advise them not 10 accept and acquie ce
cneerfully A "a GLADLY In the extremely