Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
YENOMOOS VOORHEES,.
THE HOOSIER SENATOR SPEAKS
AT TERRE HAUTE.
Republicans and Republicanism Re-
ceive a CanOnade of Harmless
Sycamore Balls.
The ''Rag Baby" Tenderly Pleaded for
Protection Of Labor Denounced in
True Democratic Style.
Vile Venom and VituperatiOn Vigorously
Poured Upon the Head Of the Re-
publican Nominees.
The Entire Harangue a Sickly Attempt
to Prove the Infallibility Of His
Free Trade Doctrines.
General Harrison Receives Delegation Of
Four Hundred Railroad Hen From
Terre Haute-WiSe Railroad
Talk Given the Visitors
Political News.
The Entire Harangue a Sickly Attempt
to Prove the Infallibility Of His
Free Trade Doctrines.

TERRE HAUTE, Aug. 4-The Democracy
of this city and vicinity held mas:
meeting tonight and Senator Voorhee;
made the opening speech OF the Demo
cralic campaign in Indiana, this being the
senator's home. Senator Voorhees, was
rendered an ovation on his appearance
the audience rising and cheering severa
minutes. On the platform were many
Democrats of state and local prominence.
Senator Voorhees, address was listened to
with marked attention, and he was fire.
quently interrupted by rounds OF applause.
The most notable feature of the senator's
speech was his argument on the greenback
issue.
| propose to show that the history of the
Republican party on the subject OF tax
aUion is the history of premeditated crime
and against the laboring people of the
United States. Every movement in the
machinery OF government set in motion by
Republican leaders and managers has been
to swell and bioat the gains of the rich,
and to increase the burdens of the poor: to
deprive labor of its honest reward, and to
reduce the industrial classes on the farms,
in the workshops and in the mines to the
estate and conditions OF serfs paving tribute
to their rapaciouS masters The Repub-
lican conspiracy TO fasten the faugs OF the
money power in the struggling body
! Of American labor and TO enable
gigantic usury and legalized robbery to
suck the blood of every American indus
try, took its first great step when, IN au-
! thOrizing legal tender currency in 1862, the
/ green back, the immortal and glorious
greenback, was Disseminated against and
degraded in the money markets of the
world by being made non-receivable for
! duties on imports and for interest on the
! hDr 4 h of Z no mil In oil
/ the annals of nations nothing was ever
more Willfully wicked in conception and
! design, nor more far reaching, oppressive
! and destructive to the rights of labor in its
results than this. The senator declared
! this act enabled the 'bullionists" Of Wall
street to realize a profit in naked specu-
| latiOn" with the bonds and currency
of the nation of nearly $1,000, 000,0OO.
The laboring people have been too patient,
| too forbearing. | do not believe any other
people on the globe would have submitted,
unless restrained by force, to the mon
strous act of congress of March, 1869 By
1 one dishonest stroke of dishonest pen.
guided and held by the dishonest leaders
/ of a great party, the debt which labor has
/ to pay was swollen p per cent. The great
bulk of our bonds, the 5-20's, were payable
in greenbacks, and the authors of the act
of March, 1869. knew it was false when
they declared they were payable in coin.
the speech of Senator Beck on this subject
March Is last. He also quoted the letter
written by John Sherman in 1868, and
resurrected wherein Sherman said: Il
think the bondhoider violates mis-
promise when he refuses to take
the same amount of money he paid
for his bonds" Why, asked the speaker,
should not the greenback with its glorious
history, and with all the crimes committed
and attempted against it by the leaders of
the Republican party come to the front at
this time, and at all times, when the in
terests of the laboring classes are under
consideration? Branded at its birth with
the bar sinister as bastard in the field of
currency; persistently stigmatized aud
characterized as a rag baby born in a fond
ling hospital without known parentage;
for years denounced as dishonest money, a
fraud upon the business and commercial
world, yet 1t stands today in every state in
the union with its head as high and its
purchasing power as great as the brightest
gold that ever flashed from the
depths of the earth. 1t is
true the Republican candidate for
president suggested in 1878 that an idiot
asylum ought to be erected for believers in
the greenback-for you, my old green
back friends, and for me- l believed in
the greenback then and do now, and take
my place along side of you under General
Harrison'S sweeping, intolerant, brutal
criticism and denunciatioD. | did ten
years ago. when h. poured out his scorn-
full wrath upon us. and | was content with
the result. He canvassed the state in 1873
as the candidate of his party for the senate
as did, and the people of Indiana decided
by more than 5000 majority or the popular
vote for members of the legislature that
he was nearer a financial idiot than | was,
and that | should go back to Washington
and leave him at home.
Senator Voorhees, then entered upon the
tariff issue and recounted the history OF
modern tariff legislation. No relief, the
speaker declared, was afforded to labor by
a resort to domestic excise system; on
the contrary this system was made the
pretext for still further bold aud flagitious
encroachment on the part of monopoly and
greed against the rights of those who toll
The many acts of congress OF 1S62+-. by
which protective duties We're made to as
cend to Pixies peak attitude, We're de-
handed on the express ground that the
manufacturer should be compensated for
the amount of his internal tax. On this |
point the speaker quoted extensively from !
Senators Morrill, Allison and others. !
Treating of the internal factory tax which |
was repealed in 1862 the speaker declared /
that the extreme duties on imports laid in |
lS62-i expressly to compensate for the /
payment of that very tax still remain in I
full force and effect. For nineteen years /
the heDuOliCdu party mas caused the people {
TO pay the manufacturer at leas 500, 900, 600 /
n year in consideration of a tax paid by /
the manufacturer to the government, not l
a dollar of which tax during that time was /
pad. Nearly s., 900, 000, 900 have thus been ,
wrenchei from the toiling masses The /
money kings have thus far resisted every /
effort to reduce the mountainous tariff |
duties by which they have drained the 1
earnings OF the people. Bonds and cou-
pons, bank stocks and railroad profits |
were made exempt from the tax gathers, 1
demands while the tax on your shirt and /
your wife's calico dress and flannel petit
coat remained the same or were increased. /
Senator Voorhees, then discussed at
length the labor question and the tariff
surplus He declared the labor interests
OF the country need in circulation every
dollar that can be spared from the ex-
penses OF the government. and yet this
hour there is piled up as assets surplus
enough of the laboring peoples money TO
paw down in cash more than 800 for every
day since the birth OF Christ You want
free salt, cheap mails, cheap farming
materials and cheap articles for household
and kitchen use
Touching upon the Republican internal
revenue PLANK Senator Voorhees, said it IS
hard 10 speak in terms OF moderation OF
this InoEssrous proposition. In this
Christian land and age men. sometimes
spoken of as Christian statesmen, have
nothing better than free whisky and