Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-06
THE KEY NOTE
OF YHE INDIANA CAMPAIGN
Sounded By the Tall Sycamore Of the Wa
bash.

Sounded By the Tall Sycamore Of the Wa
bash.
TERRE HAUTE, IND, August 4.-Sena-
tor d. w. voorhees, opened the Democratic
campaign in ringing speech here tonight.
1t was q carefully prepared address and
intended to sound the keynote of the bat
tie. Senatar voorhees, said in substance:
propose to show that the history Of the
Republican party on the subject OF taxa
ton is the history of premeditated crime
against the laboring people of the United
States.
Every movement in the machinery OF
government set in motion by Republican
leaders and managers has been to swell
and bloat the gains of the rich and to in
crease the burdens Of the poor; to deprive
labor of its honest reward and to reduce
the industrial classes ON the farms, in the
workshops and in the mines to the estate
and condition of serfs, paying tribute to
their rapacious masters. The Republican
conspiracy to fasten the fangs of the money
power in the struggling body Of American
labor and to enable gigantic usurpation
and legalizsd robbery to
SUCK THE BLOOD
of every American industry took its first
great step when, in authorizing legal ten
der currency, in 1862, the greenback, the
immortal and glorious greenback, was dis
eliminated against and degraded in
the money markets of the world
by being made not receivable for duties
on imports and for interest on the bonded
debt of the United States In all the annals
of nations, no financial measure was ever
more wilfully wicked in conception and
design, nor more far-reaching, oppressive
and destructive to the rights of labor in its
results than this.
The Senator declared this act enabled
the 'bullionists" of Wall street to realize
a profit in naked speculation, with the
bonds and currency of the nation of nearly
one Thousand million dollars.
The laboring people have been too pa
tient, too forbearing. do not believe any
other people on the globe would have sub
mitted unless restrained by force, to the
monstrous act of Congress Of March, 1869.
Bv one dishonest stroke of dishonest pen,
guided and held by the dishonest leaders
of a great party, the debt, which labor has
to pay, was swollen 25 per cent.
BONDS MADE PAYABLE IN GOLD.
The great bulk of our bonds, the five
twenties, were payable in greenbacks, and
the authors of the act of March, 1869,
knew it was false when they declared it
was payable in coin.
The speaker then quoted at length from
the speech of Senator Beck on the subject
March 18th, last. He also quoted the let
ter written by John Sherman in 1868.
and resurrected by Beck, wherein Sher-
his promise when he refuses to take the
same kind of money he paid for his
bonds" why" asked the speaker,
should not the grseuback with its his
tory, 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 in
tsrests of the laboring classes are under
consideration"
Branded at its birth with the bar sim
lister as q bastard in the field of currency,
persistently stigmstized and csricatured
as rag baby, born in foundling hospi-
tai without parentage, for years denounced
as dishonest money, fraud upon the
business aud commercial world, vet it
stands to-day in every State in the Union
with its head as high and its purchasing
power as great as the brightest gold that
ever flashed from the depths of the earth.
at is true the Republican candidate for
President suggested in 1878 than an idiot
asylum ought TO be erected for believers
in the greenback; for you, my old green
back friend, and for me. / believed in
the greenback then, and l do now, and /
take my place along side OF you under
General Harrison's sweeping, intolerant,
brutal criticisms and denunciations. l
did so ten years ago, when he poured ont
scornful wrath upon us, and was well
content with the result. He canvassed
the State in 1878 as the candidate of his
party for the Senate, as | did as the candi-
date of mine, and the people OF Indiana
decided, by more than 10000 majority on
the popular vote for members of the Legis-
lature, that he was nearer a financial idiot
than was, and that should 60 back to
Washington and leave him at home.
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
Senator Voorhees, then entered upon the
tariff issue aud recounted the history of
modern tariff legislation. No relief, the
speaker declared, was afforded to labor by
a resort to domestic excise system. On
the contrary, the system was made the
pretext for still further bold and flsgitious
encroachments on the part of monopoly
and greed against the rights of those who
do il.
"The two acts of Congress of 1862 and
1864, by which protective duties were
made TO ascend to q Pixies Peak altitude,
were demanded on the express ground
that the manufacturer should be compen-
stated for the amount of his internal tax"
On this point the speaker quoted extern
sively from Senators Morrill,, Allison and
Others. Treating of the internal factory
tax, which was repealed in 1869, the
speaker declared that the extreme duties
on imports laid in 1862 and 1864, expressly
to compensate tor the payment of that
very tax, still remain in full force and
effect.
For nineteen years the Republican party
has caused the people to pay the manu-
facturer at least hundred millions year
in consideration of o tax paid by the.
manufacturer to the government, not q
dollar of which tax during that time was
paid. Nearly two billion dollars have
a.. haan xvrancha6 from, tha toilinu