The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-05

which tax during that time was paid.
Nearly S2,000,000,000 have thus been
wrenched from the toilng masses. The
money kings have thus far resisted every
effort to reduce the mountainous tariff
duties by which they have drained the
earnings OF the people. Bonds and cou-
pons, bank stocks and railroad profits
were made exempt from the tax gatherers
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 surplus.
Declared the labor interests of the couD-
try need in circulation every dollar that
can be spared from the expenses OF the
government, and yet at this hour there is
piled up as useless surplus enough Of
the laboring peoples money to pay down
in cash more than 500 for every day since
the birth of Christ. You want free salt,
cheap nails, cheap farming machinery
and cheap articles for household and
kitchen use.
Touching upon the Republican internal
revenue plank, Senator Voorhees, said.
TITS hard to speak in terms OF modera-
ton OF this INDUSTRIOUS proposition. In
this Christian land and age men some
times spoken of as Christian statesmen
have nothing better than free whisky and
tobacco to offer the people in response to
their cry for relief. The worst enemies the
manufacturing interests in this country
can possibly have are those who advise
them not TO accept, and acquesce cheer
fully and gladly in the extremely moderate
and entirely harmless reductions made by
the Mills bill. The Shareholders OF the
south once belonged TO the class which
composed the money power. They once
were monopolists OF cheap, underpaid la
bor. Their rights under the fugitive slave
law and in the Territories were arrogantly
pressed to point where the sword was
drawn and millions OF men took the field.
Then the section which had everything in
possession, and consequently everything to
lose and nothing TO gain, lost its entire
substance in a struggle for a shadow-a
theory. The most bitter and implicable
supporters Of slavery and OF its extension,
thirty years ago, were, in fact the most
successful and efficient aboltionists of
the nineteenth century. They struck too
far, and their blows came back
TO destroy them. And 30 IL will be with
the purse-proud, insoient, blind and mis-.
led taxeaters Of. the present day. BY
making no concession TO the overtaxed
condition OF the people, TO the overwhel.
ming surplus in the treasury, and by re.
fusing TO permit single dollar of reduction
on the necessities Of life, but on the con-
trary insisting that whisky and tobacco
should go free, the manufacturers have
done more TO promote the ideas OF free
trade in this country in the last few months
than the eloquent and gifted tongues and
pens Of Frank llurd, Henry Watterson,
David A. Wells and all their:conferrees
during rs many years"
Senator Voorhees, then paid his respects
TO the Republican ticket, declaring, never
were candidates in their natures, educa-
ton, haEits, avocations and associations
more absolutely the representatives Of
their party's declared policy than Benja-
min Harrison and Levi T.. Morton. He
dwelt upon the part Gen. Harrison took
in suppressing the labor troubles OF 1887,
and inquired 'in what respect does the
career Of Gen. Harrison appeal so strongly
TO the pride of lndianans2 would not
disparage his just claims TO the respect Of
his countrymen, but whose duty is il TO
vote for him on the grounds OF State prde2
"The Republican presidential candidate
in the last campaign brought an action OF
SANDER against Democratic paper OF In
dianapolis. II involved the most delicate
matters Of domestic life. concerning which
! have never spoken and never will. Gen.
Harrison was Mr.. Blaine's leading lawyer,
and when he moved 10 dismiss the case
without bringing IL 10 trial he assigned as
a reason for doing 10 such a libel on the
State and on the court that Judge Woods
refused the paper containing Il place IN
his files. In that paper IL was in sub.
stance alleged that court, presided over
by an intense Republican Judge, with a
Republican marshal and Republican jury
commissioners, had become 30 dcbauched
by the influences Of political agitation, and
by the recent Democratic victory, that n
citizen OF Maine could not secure fair trial
nor obtain justice in Il, nor, indeed, in any
Of the courts Of Indiana. ! 10 not know
whether this paper was written by lawyer
or client, nor does Il matter. The pres-n-
tation OF II for permanent record was the
crime against the honor Of the State"
In concluding. Senator Voorhees, re-
counted the historical part that Gen. Vim.
Henry Harrison took In attempting 10 &C.
cure the repeal Of the sixth article Of the
ordinance OF 1857, and thereby establish
slavery in the northwestern Territories,
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