Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-08-10
NO. |

an idiot asylum ought to be erected for
the believers in greenbacks. | believed
IN the greenbsck then and l DO now, and
L tsks my place slongside of You
under General Hsrrison's sweepiuc
lntolsrant, brutal criticism and denuucia
uon. he canvassed the state in 1878 as
the candidate of hrs party for the senate
as did as candidate of mine sud the
opls Of IndIsus decided by more than
thirty thousand majority that he wa,
nearer financial idiot than | was and
that | seouid go back to Washington.
Senator Voorhees, then
ENTERED UPON THE TARIFF ISSUE
and recounted the history of modern
tariff legislation. No relief, the speaker
declared, vas afforded TO labor by resort
TO the domestic excise system; on the
contrary this system was made the pre-
text for still further encroachmerts on
he part of monopoly and greed against
he rights of those who toll
The two acts of congress of 50 and "a,
by which protective duties were made TO
ascend TO Pixies Pesk attitude, were de-
manaed os the express ground that the
manufacturer should be compensated for
the amount of his internal tax. On this
from Senators Morrill,, Allison and 9th
ers. For nineteen years the re-
publican party has caused the people
| TO pay the manufacturer at least one hun
dred millions year in consideration of
the tax paid by the manufacturer TO the
government. The money kings have
thus far resisted every effort to reduce
the mountainous duties by which they
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Senator Voorhees, then discussed
THE LABoBING QUESTION AND SURPLUS.
He declared the labor interests of the
country needed in circulation every dol
lar that can be spared from expenses of
the government, and yet there is piled up
as useless surplus enoughof the lahoring
peoples money, TO pay down cash
more than two hundred dollars for
every day since the birth of Christ.
Touching upon the republican internal
revenue plank, Sen, Voorhees, said:
"In this christian land and age men
sometimes spoken of as christian states
men have nothing better than free whis-
ky and tobacco to offer to the peo-
pie in response to their cry for relief.
The slave holders of the south once be
longed to the class which composed the
monopolists of cheap, under paid labor.
The most bitter and mplacable supporters
of slavery thirty years ago were, in fact,
the most successful and efficient abo
litionists of the nineteenth century. They
struck too far, and their blows came back
to destroy them. And SO it will be with
the purse proud, insolent and misled tax
| eaters of the present day. BY making
no concession to the over taxed peo-
pie, and Jy refusing Il single dol
lar of reduction on the necessities of
life, but on the contrary, insisting that
whisky and tobacco should 60 free, the
manufacturers have done more to
promote the ideas of free trade in this
country In the last few months than the
eloquent and gifted tongues and pens
of Frank Hurd, Henry Watterson and
David A. Wells. The speaker
touched upon the part General Harrison
took in suppressing the riots in 1877, and
closed by saying that as attorney for
Blaine, Harrison committed crime
against the laws of the state by declaring
in the dismissal of the Blaine suit against
an Indianapolis paper, that Justice could
not be obtained in the state.
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