The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05


the vicious and undiscriminating process
OF horizontal reduction, but by such
methods as would relieve the taxpayer
without lnjuring the laborer, or the great
productive interests of the country. He
preferred that policy which looked to the
interests of the American people, rather
than to those of foreign nations.
He preferred the policy of reducing
prices by home competition, rather & an
by foreign competition; of cheapening
raw materials by increased production, by
Improvement of the rivers and harbors, and
by railroad competition. Whatever might
be said of other nations, protection to home
Industries (as embodied in the tariff laws
was best for this country, and he for one
proposed to maintain it even against the
advice of the President
MIR. VOORHEES, REPLIES.
Mr.. VOORHEES, then addres sci the Senate
on the same subject The sub ject of taxa
tion, he said, was as old as the government
itself and yet it was rs fresh and full of
interest to-day to the laboring masses of
mankind as ever at any former period of
the worlds history. Contraction of the
volume of the currency mad always been a
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 ard executed by snatching, as it
were, the money of the people from their
very ha' DIS at the rate of S10,000,000
month witho at necessity, excuse or pallia-
ton, very honest mind had to revolt
against sueh wanton robbery. 1t was a
crime against every home, every treside
and every living man and woman in the
United States. 1t was a crime-natonal
IN its proportions, gigantic in its strength,
Omnipresent in its visitation and brutal i'll
Its rapaclty.
CAMPAIGN MATERIAL.
And yet the day before the recess, the
Senator from Colorado (Mr. Teller had
sneered at the idea of the surplus being of
any consequence; and the Senator from
Ohio (Mr. Sherman had also declared, not
by cable from Paris, but on the floor of the
Senate, that it was fortunate for the coun-
try that there was surplus of $50, ,DO, 600
i'll the Treasury. 1t would be for that
Senator, if he should become the Republican
candidate for the Presidency next summer
to explain 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 determined,
persistent and brazen campaign of men,
dacity on this subject, and it would con-
tinue in the councils and field-work of the
Republican party day by day, morning,
noon and night, until the frosts of next
November came to wither and blast alike
their falsehoods and their hopes.
CLEVELAND DEFENDED.
He denied that the President had departed
one iot or title from the declaration Of the
! last Democratic platform on the subj ject of
taxation. That declaration had been bold,
explicit and peremptory 1t was made in Il
few plain strong words, the meaning of
which it was impossible TO pervert or mis-
understand. Incidental protection to home
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
establishments, where skilled labor
abounded. He looked with delight on the
cotton mills, coal mines, blast furnaces and
rolling mills Of the South, as well as on
those of New England, Pennsylvania and
many Western States He would encourage
them in their gigantic career of develop
ment and usefulness, and he held that the
policy of the Democratic party had been
always ample for their prosperity and
progress.
BEST FOR THE MANUFACTURERS.
That was the only safe policy for the
American manufacturers themselves. If it
were once clearly understood that the man
ufacturers as a class demanded that they
be enriched by means of fraudulent taxes,
that they accept the guidance of the leaders
of the Republican party and join i'll their
praise, then, indeed, perils would environ
the manufacturing interests of the country
such as were never known before. If the
| Democratic party, with its record
S,, Afa
! administration of the government, and
! its frank and constant declaration of prin-
| ciples was to be charged with the folly Of
| free trade every time an attempt was made
to modify the tariff, the people would very
soon and very clearly find out that such
assaults were only made to divert public
| attention from evil designs and evil
schemes of plunder of which they were the
| victims. He could not believe, however
| that the sagacious and patriotic business
men of the country who controlled the
manufacturing industries would permit
themselves, for political purposes, TO be put
| in an attitude of unjust, selfish, overween-
! ing avarice and of unfairness toward the
great mass Of their countrymen.
TRUE TO DEMOCRATIC TEACHINGS.
! Proceeding to discuss the message of the
| President he said that it was a pleasure to
him to declare that this, remarkable State
paper was true to tho principles and teach
ings of the Democratic party from its
foundation by jefferson eighty years
ago to the present day; and that the thanks
of the laboring and business classes of the
country were due TO the Executive tor
seizing on that vital issue with the
| grasp of strong, honest man, and
| for presenting il to his countrymen
in such shape and light that it never would
disappear until the wrongs therein presented
were exposed and redressed, and until the
| outrages of over-taxation ceased. In the
present age of swollen pretenses, Of shallow
aristocracy and of gilded vulgarity. the
splendid utterances of the Presidents mess
| age fell on the minds of the people as a
promise of relief from and redemption from
| one who had never broken pledge or for
| gotten a public duty. The President had
| declared for the lowly and oppressed.
THE BEST SINCE JEFFERSON.
, Since the matchless and immortal in
! auglral of jefferson on March 4, 1901, no
communication had ever emanated from a
Chief Magistrate of this government more
| able. more elevated in craftsmanship, more
/ humaue and benevolent in its purpose, or
more conducive to the general welfare and
| good government than the message under
consideration.
OBJECTIONS TO INTERNAL TAXATION.
Coming down TO the practical question
of taxation he was aware, he said, That
there were many objections to internal
taxes. but on grounds far different from a
1esire To rerpetiIate enormous and un Just