Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-01-18

| One who has known In storms 10 sail
| have on board;
| Above the roaring Of the gale
hear my Lord.
He holds me; when the billows smite
1 shall not fall.
Ifshort. tits sharp: If long, tits light;
| He tempers all.
Senator Yorlees Replies to John Sherman
An Able Defence of the Party.
The following is an extract from Senator
voorhees, able defence of President Cleve-
lands message and the Democratic party
'Mr. Vorhees then addressed the Senate
on the same subject. The subject of tax
alton, he said, was as old as the govern
ment itself, and yet it was as fresh and full
of interest oday to the laboring masses of
mankind as ever at any former period of
the worlds history. A contraction of the
volume of the currency had always been q
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 snatchipg, as it were, the
money of the people from their very hands
| dU Jut Tdb6 VI p1U,OUO, OOU d LAOulu WltuOuI
necessity, excuse, or palliation every honest
mind had to revolt against such wanton
robbery. 1t was crime against every
home, every flreside, and every living man
and woman in the United States. 1t was
crime national in its proportion, gigantic
| in its strength, ,omnipresent in its visitation,
and brutal in Its rapacity, and yet the day
before the recess the Senator from Colo
RADIO (Mr. Teller) had sneered at the idea
of, the surplus being of any consequence
and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Shermans
had also declared, not by a cable from
Paris, but on the floor of the Senate, that
| it was fortunate for the country that there
was surplus of $55, 900, 900 in the Treasu-
ry. 1t would be for that Senator if he
should become the Republican candidate
| for the Presidency next summer, to ex-
plain to the people why it was fortunate,
that their money was gathered into the
Treasury in excess of all the uses, prescrip-
tions, and wants of the government instead
of remaining in the pockets of the people.
There was in the Republican press and
among Republican politicians, a determin-
ed, persistent and brszen campaign of men,
dacity on the subject, and it would continue
in the councils and field work of the Re-
publican party day by day-morniug, noon
Der came to wither and blast alike their
falsehoods and their hopes. He denied
that the President had departed one jot or
little from the declaration of the last Dem
ocratic atfnrm 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 misunder-
stand. Incidental protection to homo
manufacturers had 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 its vast estab-
Iishments where skilled labor abounded.-
He looked with delight on the cotton mills,
coal mines, 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 chem in theil
gigantic career of development and useful.
ness, 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 for the
American manufacturers themselves
If it were once clearly understood that the
manufacturers as class demanded that
ulent taxes; that they accept 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. If the democratic party with its
record of more than fifty years in the ad-
ministration of the government and its
frank and constant declaration of princi-
Il pies, was to be charged with the folly OF
free trade every time an attempt was made
to modify the tariff, the people wonld very
soon and very clearly find out that such as
saults were only made to divert public at
tention from evil designs and schemes of
plupder of which they were the victims.
He could not believe however, that the sa-
pacious and patriotic business men of the
country who controlled manufacturing in
dustrics would permit themselves for po-
litical purposes to be put in an attitude of
unjust, selfish, overweening avarice and of
unfairness toward the great mass of their
country men. Proceeding 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 teachings of Che democratic
party from it's foundation by Jefferson,
leighty-seyen years ago to the present day,
business classes of the country were due to
the Executive for seizing on that vital is
sue with the grasp of strong, honest
man, and for presenting it to his country
men in such shape and light that it never
would disappear until the wrongs therein
presented were exposed aud redressed, until
the outrages Of over-taxation ceased in the
present age of shallow pretenses, of shall
low aristocracy, and of gilded vulgarity.
The splendid utterances of the Presidents s
message fell on the minds of the people as
a token, as a promise of relief, of reform
and redemption, from one who had never
broken pledge or forgotten public duty.
The President had declared for the lowly
and oppressed. Since the matchless and
immortal inaugural of Jefferson on the 4th
of March, 1901, no communication had ever
emanated from the Chief Magistrate of this
government more able, more ell vated in
|, it's craftsmanship, more humane and be-
nevo,ent in its purpose, or more conducive
, to the general welfare and of good govern
ment than the message under considera-
tion"