St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
SENATOR VOORHEES,
Defends the Presidents Message
in a Mastery Argument.

in a Mastery Argument.
Mr.. Voorhees, then began a speech in
defense of the presidents message.
Mr.. Voorhees, denounced the state
ments of MeSSrS. Sherman, Teller and
other Republicans in criticism of the
presidents message as insincere and
misleading, and asserted that by way of
preparation for the coming presidential
election, Republican legislators and
journals were endeavOring, by gross
misrepresentation, to put the president
and the Democratic party in an atti-
tude of hostility to American manufac-
turing interests. Nothing could be
more unjust Or unfair. Under the lead
ership of Grover Cleveland the Demo-
cratic party demanded such revision of
the tariff, such reduction of the revenue
and surplus, and such administration of
the power of the government as was
most beneficial to all interests and most
fully in harmony with the general well
fare. The presidents message would
bear the light of discussion, analysis
and debate. The frOsts of next Novem-
Der would blight Republican misrepre-
sensations and rebuke the Republican
senators who characterized as ''hum-
bug" the fearless, sound and statesman
like message of the president Mr..
V oorheeS proceeded to defend in detail
the presidents.
THEORIES OF TARIFF REVISION.
He said the subject of taxation was as
old as the government 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. The contraction of the volume
of currency has always 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 executed by snatching, as it
were. the money of the people from
their very hands, at the rate of ten mil
lions month, without necessity, excuse
or palliation, every honest mind had to
revolt against such wanton robbery. 1t
was crime against every home, every
fireside and every living man and
woman in the United States. 1t was
crime national in its proportions, gil
gantlc in its strength, OmnipreSent in its
VlSltatlOns, and brutal in its rapacity.
And yet, the day before the recess. the
senator from Colorado (TelleD had
sneered at the idea of the surplus being
of any consequence; and the senator
from Ohio (Sherman) had also declared
mot by cable from Paris, but on the
floor of the Senatel 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 presidency next summer, to explain
to the people why it was fortunate that
their money was gathered into the treas
ury in excess of all the uses, prescrip-
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stead of remaining in the
POCKETS OF THE PEOPLE.
There was in the Republican press
and among Republican politicians de-
termined, persistent, and braZen cam
palgn OF mendacity on this subject, and
it would continue in the councils and
field work of the Republican party. dav
by day, morning, noon and night, until
the frOSts of next November come to
wither and blast, alike, their falsehoods
and their hopes. He denied that the
president had departed one jot or title
from the declaration of the last Demo-
cratic platform on the subject of taxa
ton. The declaration has been bold and
peremptory. 1t was made In few.
plain, strong words, the meaning of
which it was impossible to pervert or
misunderstood. Incidental protection
to home manufacturers has always been
the policy of the Democratic party. 1t
was recognized in the last Democratic
national platform. He rejoiced in every
element of American success. He was
proud of the inventive genius of the
country, and of the vast establishments
where skilled labor abOunded. He
looked with delight on the cotton mills.
the coal mines, the blast furnaces. and
rolling mills of the South, as we'll 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 the Democratic
party had been always ample for their
prosperity and progress. That was
THE ONLY SAFE POLICY
Tor American manufacturers them
selves. If it were once clearly under
stood that the manufacturers. as a class.
demand that they be enriched by means
OF fraudulent taxes; that they accept
the guidance of the leaders of the Re
publican party and join in their praise;
then, indeed, perilS would environ the
manufacturing interests of the country
as were never known before. If the
Democratic party, with its record of
more than fifty years in the administra-
ton of the government, and it's frank
ana constant declaration of principles,
was to be charged with the folly of free
trade every time an attempt 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 the victims. They could not be-
ieve, however, that the sagacious and
patriotic business men of the country,
who controlled the manufacturing in
dustrieS, would permit themselves, for
political purposes, to be put in an atti-
tude. of unjust, selfish, over-weening
ayarice and of unfairnesS toward the
great masses of their countrymen. Pro-
ceeding to discuss the message of the
president, he said that it was pleasure
to him to declare that this
REMARKABLE STATE PAPER
was true to the principles and teach