St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-05
CHEERFULLY


ests in this country can possibly have
are those who advise them not to ac-
cept and
ACQUIEScE CHEERFULLY
and gladly in the entirely moderate and
entirely harmless reduction of the Mills
bill. The shareholders of the South be-
longed to the class which compose the
money power. They were once the
monopolists of poor, underpaid labor.
Their rights under the fugitive
slave law and in the territories
were arrogantly pressed to point
where the sword was drawn. and mill
ions Of men took the field. Then the
section which had everything in pos
session, and consequently everything to
lose and nothing to gain, lost
HIS INTERNAL TAX.
On this point the speaker quoted ex-
tensively from Senators Morrill,, Allison
and others.
Treating of the internal factory tax,
Which was reverted in 1869, the speaker
declared that the extreme duties on i'm
ports laid in 1862 and 1864, expressly to
compensate for the payment of the
factory tax, still remain in full
force and effect. For nineteen
years the Republican party has caused
the people to pay the manufacturer at
least 100000, 900 year in consideration
OF tax paid in the manufacturer to the
government, not dollar Of which tax
during that time was paid. nearly
$4,000, 100000 have thus been wrenched
from the toiling masses. The money
kings have thus far
RESISTED THE EFFORTS
to reduce the monStrous tariff duties
by which they have drained the earn
lngs OF the people. Bonds and coupons,
bank stocks and railroad profits were
made exempt from the tax gathererS'
demands, while the tax on your shirt
and your Wife's Woolen dress and fan
mel petticoat remained the same or was
increased.
Senator Voorhees, then discussed rat
length the labor question and the sur
plus. He declared the labor interests
OF the country need in circulation every
dollar that can be spared from the
EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT,
and yet at this hour there is piled up as
useless its entire substance in its
struggle for shadOw-a theory. The
most bitter and implacable supporters
OF slavery and extension, thirty years
ago, were, in fact, the most sue
cessful and efficient abolition
lists 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, blind
and misled taxpayers of the present day.
by making no concession to
THE oVER-TAXED CONDITION
OF the people, to the overwhelming sur
permit single dollar of reduction on
the necessities of life, but the contrary,
insisting that whisky and tobacco should
go 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, David Wells and all their
cOnfrereS, could do in as MANY wears.
Senator Voorhees, then paid his re-
Spects to the Republican ticket, declar-
ing: Never were candidates in their
natm education, habits,
AVoCATIoNs AND ASSOCIATIONS
more absolutely the representatives of
Jamin Harrison and Levi p. Morton.''
He dwelt upon the part Gen. Harri-
son took in suppressing the labor
troubles i'll 1877, and inquired:
''ln what respect does the ca
reer OF Gen. Harrison appeal
so strongly to the pride of Indianians.
L could not disparage. would not dis
parage his just claims to the respects of
his countrymen, but whose duty is it to
vote for him on the grounds of state
pride? The Republican presidential
candidate III the last campaign brought
AN ACTION FOR ISLANDER
against a Democratic newspaper of In
dlanapolis. 1t involved the most deli
cate matters of domestic life, concern
ing which have never spoken and
never will. Gen. Harrison was Mr..
Blaine's leading lawyer, and when he
moved to dismiss the case without
bringing it to trial, he assigned as
reason for doing SO, such a libel
on the state and ON the court that
Judge Woods refused the paper con
tanning it a place ON his files. In that
paper it was in substance alleged that
court, presided over by an intense Re-
publican Judge, with Republican mar
shall and Republican jury commissions
ers, had
BECOME so DEBAUCHED
by the influence of political agitation,
and by the recent Democratic victory.
that a citizen of Maine could not secure
a fair trial, nor obtain justice in it, nor.
indeed, III any of the courts of Indiana.
do not know whether this paper was
written by lawyer or client, nor does It
matter, the presentation of it for perma-
nent record was the crime against the
honor of the state"
In concluding, Senator Voorhees, re-
counted the historic part Gen. Will
lam Henry Harrison took to secure the
repeal of the sixth article of the ordi-
nance of 1887, and thereby established
slavery in the Northwest territories,
embracing Indiana.