The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1888-08-08
THE KEY NOTE SOUNDED.
voorhees,, of Indiana, Opens the Democratic
Campaign in Ringing Speech

Campaign in a Ringing Speech.
IERRE HAUTE, Ind, August 4.-Sena-
tor Voorhees, sounded the key note and
opened the Indiana campaign before
large and enthusiastic audience here to-
night, in very strong speech wherein he
discussed finances, tariff, labor, surplus
and the general political issues of the day
for some two hours. The salient points Of
his speech are submitted in the subioined
synopsis:
Mr.. VOORHEES, SAID
every movement in the machinery of the
government set IN motion by republican
leaders and managers has been to swell
and bloat the gains of the rich and in
crease the burdens of the poor. The re-
publican conspiracy to fasten the fangs of
the money power on the struggling body
of American labor took it's first great step
when the authorizing legal tender cur
rency in 1862, the greenback, the immor-
tai and glorious greenback, was discrim-
mated against and made non receivable
for duties on imports and for interest on
the bonded debt.
NO FINANCIAL MEASURE
was ever more oppressive and destructive
of the rights of labor in it's results than
this The senator declared this act en-
abled the bullionists of Wall street to
with the bonds and currency of the ma
tion Of nearly one hundred millions of
dollars. [ do not believe any people on
the globe, the senator said. would have
submitted, unless restrained by force to
the monstrous act of congress of March,
1869. By one dishonest stroke of dis
honest pen, guided and held by dishonest
leaders of the great party, the debt which
labor has to pay was swollen 25 per cent.
The speaker then quoted letter written
by John Sherman in 1860, wherein Sher-
man said: Il think the bondholder vio-
lates his promises when he refuses to take
the same kind of money that he paid for
his bond" Why, asked the speaker,
should not the greenback come to the
front at this time when the interests of
the laboring classes are under considera-
ton? Persistently stigmatized and carl
catured as
THE RAG BABY FOR YEARS,
denounced as dishonest money, a fraud
upon the business and the commercial
world, yet it stands to-day with it's pur-
chasing power as great as the greatest.
The republican candidate for president
suggested in 1878 that an idiot asylum
should be erected for believers in green
backs. I believed in greenbacks then, and
do now and [ take my place alongside Of
you under Gen. Harrison's intolerant, bru-
tai criticism and denunciation. He can
vassed the state in 1873 as candidate of
his party for the senate as I did as the
candidate Of mine and the people of In
diana decided by more than 5000 MAORI
ty that he was
NEARER A FINANCIAL IDIOT
than I was and that [ should go back to
Washington. No relief, the speaker de-
clared, was offered to labor by resort to
the excise system. On the contrary, this
system was made the pretext for still fur
ther encroachment on the part of mon
opoly and 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 COM
pensated for the amount of his internal
tax. On this point, the speaker quoted
extensively from Senators Morrill,, Allison
and others. For nineteen years the re-
publican partyhas caused the people to
pay the manufacturer at least
AN HUNDRED MILLION A YEAR
in consideration of tax paid by the man
ufacturer to the government. The money
kings have thus far resisted every effort
to reduce mountainous tariff duties, by
which they have drained the earnings of
the people. Senator Voohees declared
the labor interests of the country need in
circulation every dollar that can be spared
from the expenses Of the government, and
yet there
IS PILED UP AS USELESS,
surplus enough of the peoples money to
pay down in cash more than 5000 for
every day since the birth of Christ. Touch
ing upon the republican internal revenue
plank Senator Voorhees, said: In this
Christian land and age men sometime
spoken of as Christian statesmen have
nothing better than free whisky and to-