The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-05
VOORHEES, SPEECH.
He Gives the Republicans a
Searching,
HARRISON IN PARTICULAR
Baseball Notes.-The Turf-The Noble
hed Man-Electric Storm
Discharged.
The Campaign Opened by voorhees,

TEsRE HAUTE, Ind, August 4.-The
Democrats of this city and vicinity
had mass meeting tonight and SEN
ator Voorhees, made the opening
SD. ech in the Democratic campaign
in Indiana. He said in party:
Every movement in the machinery
O. the government set in motion by
Repn blican leaders and managers has
been to swell and blost the gains of the
rich and increase the burdens of the
poor. The Republican conspiracy to
fasten the fangs of the money power in
struggling with the body of American
labor, took its first great step,
when IN authorizing the legal
tender of currency in 1862
the greenback, the immortal and glo
rious greenback was Disseminated
against and made non-receIvable for
duties ou imports and for interest on
the bonded debt. No financial meas
ure was ever more oppressive and de-
struclige to the rights of labor in its
results than this. The Senator declared
this act enabled the bullionists Of Wall
Street 10 realize a profit on naked
speculation with bonds and currency
OF the nation of nearly l,000,-
OO0 900. | do not bell3ye any
people on the globe would
have submitted unless restrained by
force to the monstrous act of Congress
of March, 1869 By one dishonest
stroke of dishonest pen, guided and
held by dishonest 1ea0ers of great
party. the debt which labor has to pay.
was swollen % per ceat,
The speaker then quoted a letter
TAh in 1890
where!a Sherman said, Il think the
bond holder violate, his promises,
when he refus S TO lake the same
kind OF money he paid for his
bonds" ssWhy, ASKED the speaker,
should not the greenback come to the
front st this tlIne, anu at all times,
when the interests Of the laboring
classes are under consideration. Per
sistentIy stygmatized and caricatured
as rag baby money for years; denounced
as dishonest money, fraud upon the
bu mess and commercial world. yet 1t
stands to-day with Its purchasing power
IS great as the brightest.
The Republican candidate for
President suggested IN 1873 that
an idiot asylum shoul~ be
erected for believers in greenbacks.
] believed in ths greenback tnen and
do now, and take my place alongside
ut YOU under General Harrison sisweep
ing intolerant, brutal criticism and de
tuociation. He cauv ssed the State IN
1873 as candidate for his party for the
Senate as did as candidate of mine
and The people of Indiana decided by
more than 10000 majority that he was
nearer financial idiot than | was and
that [ should go back TO Washington.
Senator Voorhees, then entered upon
toe tariff issue and recounted the his.
Iorv OF modern tariff legislation. No
relief, the speaker said, was afforded to
labor BY resort 10 a domestic excise
svetem; on the contrary THIS system
was made the pretext tor still furtaer
encroachments en- the part OF
monopoly and greed against the rights
of ihUse who toll. The two acts OF
Congress OF 1852. and 1864, by which pro-
recfige duties were msd5 TO ascend to
a Pixies peak altitude were demanded
on the express ground that the manu-
tscturer should be compensated for the
amount OF his internal tax. On this
poinu the speaker quoted extensively
from Senators Merrill, Allison anu
others. For nineteen years the Re-
publican party has caused the people to
paw the manufacturer at least hun
bred millions a year in considera-
ton of a tax paid by the manu-
factuTer to government. The money
kings have thus far resisted every effort
10 reduce the mountainous tariff duties
by which they have drained the earn
iEgs OF the people.
Senator Voorhees, then discussed the
labor question and the surplus. He de-
clared that the labor interests of the
country need in circulation every
dollar that can be spared from the ex-
penses of the government, and
yet there is piled up as useless
surplus enough of the laboring
peoples money to pay down cash more
than $500 for every day since the birth
of Christ. Touching upon the Repub-
lican internal revenue plank, Senator
Voorhees, said: In this Christian land
and age, men sometimes spoken of as
Christian statesmen, have nothing bet.
ter than free whisky and tobacco to
offer the people in response TO
their cry for relief. The slave holders
of the south once belonged to
a class which composed the money
power. They once were monopolIsts OF
cheap under paid labor. The most
bitter and implacable supporters OF
slavery thirty years ago, were IN fact,
the most successful and efficient abol-
itionists of the nineteenth century.
They struck too far and their blows
came back to Destroy them, and so ii
Will be with the purse-proud, insolenl
and mislec, eaters of The pres-
entd day, by making no concession 10
the over-tsxeo people, and by refusing
4 slugle dollar of reduction on the ne
cess ties of life, but on the contrary
insisting that whisky and tobocco
shonid be free. Manufacturers have
Gone more TO promote 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 Gen.
eral Harrison took in suppressine
the rlots IN 1877, and closed by saying
that as attorney for Blaine, Harrison
committed crime against the State BY
ieclaring in the DISMISSAL OF the Biain'
suit against an individual paper tina
justice could not be obtained in tn,
stats.''