Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

VOORHEES, declares he is s.much mis-
taken if the manufacturer of the North
will not be cited as a counterpart of the
Southern STAKEHOLDER" whom Senator
Voorhees, did what he could to aid in
breaking up the Union.
Yet this was not always thus with
Senator Voorhees,. Seven years ago
ton speech. It was year when Dem
ocrats were still smarting under the
defeat of a 'stariff for revenue only, :"
and Senator Voorhees, preached pro-
lection as the safe Democratic path to
power. He was called to account for
his departure from the platform of
1880. But Senator VOORHEES, was not
to be stopped When he got back to
Terre Haute he wrote a letter, pub
lished at the time, and this is what he
said in it:
What I said there was upon mature reflec-
ton. I expected to be criticised and for that
reason asked no one to share my RESPONSE
bility by consulting in advance The platform
of 1880 was a violent departure on the subject
VI tuC bdIIu, duu LIDS uO pFSC6uSuG III LL0 lis
tory of Democratic platforms adopted in Ma
tional conventions have examined them all.
The declaration for o tariff for revenue only
was never before made in National Demo
cratic convention and is q burlesque on com
mon sense Every tariff on imported goods
necessarily protects something manufactured
in the United States. To avoid all protection
we must abolish all tariff and resort to direct
taxation. The great question, while we have a
tariff for revenue, is to adjust it as to afford
the protection which it always carries to those
interests which need and deserve protection,
and to Withdraw IL where it is not needed.
This was my position at Atlanta. No more
and no less. We are compelled to have tariff
for revenue, and protection is one of it's abso
lutte incidents, from which there is no escape,
and while this state of things exists want the
West and the South to embrace the advan.
Lagos which arse from it. We lost Indiana in
the last three weeks of the campaign of 1880 on
the absurd issue made by our platform on this
subject. In my opinion that issue will never
again be presented in that form by Demo
cratic State or National convention, and my
purpose at Atlanta was to aid in securing a
sound position for the party hereafter. I was
warmly Endorsed in the South by leading men
who have styled themselves free traders.
The policy declared will make the South the
richest part of the globe and will promote the
best interests of Indiana. BY living, moving
and not by clinging to mere theories without
any possible application, the Democratic par
ty has great future, but not otherwise.
These conditions have not changed
since this letter was written. Protec-
ton is as much needed in the South
and Indiana as it was seven years ago.
If it was an 'eabsurd issue" to propose
to rid the tariff of protection then, il
is now. If such a policy ''lost Indiana
in the last three weeks of the cam.
paiggn" then, why not now in the last
three months?
To do Senator Voorhees, justice, he
is probably of the same opinion still.
But the President has set the pace in
his message, and Senator VOORHEES,,
like other Senators and leaders, needs
must follow. ~ Philadelphia Press.