Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-08
FACTS IN A NUTSHELL.
SENATOR VO0RHEEs SHARPLY AR
RATGNS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

The Most Vigorous Speech Of the Cam
paign-How the Republican Party Tried
to Demonetize Everything but Cold
Harrison's Record ON This Point-Free
whisky and Dear Food.
Synopsis OF speech delivered at Terre
Haute, Ind. Saturday night. by Senator
Voorhees,:
Every movement Of the machinery OF the
Government set in motion by the RepubA-
can leaders and managers has been to swell
and bloat the gains OF the rich and increase
the burdens OF the poor. The Republic 4
conspiracy to fasten thefangs Of the o, ~
power on the struggling body OF Ar -rican
labor took it's first great step when. in
authorizing the legal tender currency in
1862, the greenback, the immortal and
glorious greenback, was discriminated
against and made non-receivable for duties
ON imports and for interest on bonded debt
oppressive and destructive to the rights OF
labor in it's results than this. This act ena-
bled the bullionists Of Wall street to realize
profits in naked speculation" with the
bonds and currency OF the nation OF nearly
one thousand millions OF dollars. do not
believe any other people on the globe would
have submitted, unless restrained by force,
to this monstrous act OF Congress in
March, '69.
By one dishonest stroke OF dishonest
pen, guided and held by the dishonest
leaders of a great party, a debt which labor
has to pay, was swollen 25 per cent.
The speaker then quoted from
a LETTER WRITTEN BY JNo. SHERMAN IN ! go,
wherein Sherman said: II think the bond.
holder violated his promises when he re-
fused to take the same kind OF money he
paid for his bond" Why. asked the
speaker, should not the greenback come to
the front at this time and all times when
the interest of laboring classes are under
consideration? Persistently stigmatized |
and caricatHred as rag baby" for years,
denounced as dishonest money and as |
fraud upon business and the commercial |
world, yet it stands to-day with it's pur- |
chasing power as great as the highest.
The Republican candidate for President |
suggested in .'7S that an idiot asylum |
should be erected for the believers in green |
backs. / believed in the greenback then,
and do now, and take my place along side9
of you under General Harrison's sweeping, |
brutal criticism and denuncia- |
tion. He canvassed the State in '7S as the |
of his party for the Senate as / |
did as candidate for the same Office and the |
people of Indiana decided by more than
80, 900 majority that he was
NEARER A FINANCIAL IDIOT
than 1 was, and that should 60 back to
Washington.
Sena tor VOORHEES, then entered upon the |
tariff issue, and recounted the history of |
modern tariff legislation. No relief, the
speaker declared, was offered to labor by
resort to the domestic excise system. On
the contrary, this system was made the
pretext for n still further encroachment on |
the part of monopoly and greed against
the rights OF those who toll. The two acts
Of Congress of 1862 and 1864 by which
protective duties were made to ascend to
Pixies Peak altitude, were demanded on
The express ground that the manufacturer
should be compensated for the amount of
mis- internal tax. On this point The speak
er quoted extensively from Senators Nor.
ill, Allison and others. For nineteen years |
The Republican party has caused the peo-
ole to pay the manufacturer at least q
lundred millions year in consideration
If tax paid by the manufacturer to the
government.
THE MONEY KINGS
lave thus far resisted every effort to re-
luce mountainous tariff duties by which
hey have drained the earnings OF the peo-
lie.
Senator Voorhees, then discussed the labor
question and the surplus, and declared
hot k1a lab srfa no of hn ,nfr
reed in circulation every dollar that can
,e spared from the expenses OF the govern
nent, and yet there is piled up as useless
urplus enough of the laboring peoples
money to pay down in cash more than
300 f:,r every day since the birth OF Christ.
Touching upon the Republican internal
evenue plank, Senator voorhees, said in
his Christian land and age men are some
lines spoken of as Christian statesmen
Vho have nothing better than
FREE wnlsKEY AND TOBACCO
to offer the people in response to their cry
or relief. The shareholders OF the South
nee belonged to u class which composed
he money power; they once we've the mo-
lopolists of cheap underpaid labor. The
uost bitter and implacable supporters OF
lavery, thirty years ago were, in fact,
he most successful and efficient abolition I
SITS OF the 10th century. They struck too
ar and their blows came back to .
|estroy them and SO it will 6
,e with the purse-proud, insolent and
nisled tax-eaters OF the present day. By
making no concession to the overtaxed
,eople. and by refusing single dollar OF
eduction OF the necessities OF life, but on
he contrary insisting that whisky and
obacco should be free, the manufacturers
ave done more to promote ideas of trade {
a this country in the last few months than j
he eloquent and gifted tongues and press
# Frank Hurd, Henry Watterson and
David A. Wells.
The speaker touched upon the part
General Harrison took in suppressing the
lots in 1877, and closed by saying that, as
ttorney for Blaine, Harrison committed
, crime against the State by declaring, in
he dismissal OF the Blaine suit against an
Individual paper, that Justice could not
,e obtained in the State.