Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-12
D. w. VOORHEES, ON PROTECTION
A Parable and Fable Appiied-WhO Profits
by MonopOiies.


TERRE HAUTE, IND, Aug. 4,-''The
best success of my political life, said
Senator D. w. VOORHEES, last evening,
shave beepyat times when papers and
men defending national evils have said
their worst !, things about me.
am now charged with using harsh
terms toward the millionaire
monopolists of the country in a speech
at Bloomfield the other day That %
minds me OF a story. You remember {he
case of the boy found stealing apple3in
an old man IS orchard? Well, while the
owner used soft words and tufts of grass
to dislodge the plunderer, the boy only
laughed and tainted the owner. ,When,
however, the old man exercised little
of his real force and strength, the rob-
Der was driven away. Now that boy
was an infant industry in another man s
orchard. He and his kind would
soon have monopolzed the whole crop.
If there had been a high protect
i've tariff to keep the rightfuI owner
away, what high Old time that young
robber could have had! And when the
old man put i'll an appearance this
sturdy, dishonest infant industry had no
idea Of abandoning either perch or
plumber. How dreadfully abused and
wronged he must have felt when the
rightful owner was restored to possession!
No doubt he called the old man an an
archist and denounced him as an enemy
10 the governments; or, failing in all
else, he may even have made faces at the
old man. That is what proteetieRists do
nowadays.
''The moarl is, that tariff plunderers
now 6o;Rot intend to give up their clutch
on the fruits ofslabor. They are appealed
TO and argued with in vain. They tighten
their grip and increase their clutch on.
every necessary OF life, from salt tqS
sugar, from lumber to WOODEN clothiR8e
If have been c0nservativeksEI mi
the past it does not imply zlnz5
consistency that now. having sex,s
hausted mild measures, I use h9Her
words and counsel sterner measureg% to
secure justice for the people The time
for gentle means with public plund erers
has tgone by. The question no@s is 1
whether the laboring people of tleJnited
States. shall govern themselves or be
gSSsrpelS by the power of money
wrentheds9f(om thenfa by proHil eyed
classes under unjust laws That is the
question from now on, and hard words
viii be given as well as received.
Has the character of tariff doctrine
undergone change, in recent yeaRs?''
he was asked.
eIee. The ideas EFF Henry Clay on
the tariff are no more in harmony with
Republican policy to-day than are the ten
commandments with robbing stage
coaches. Henry Clay7s tariff was to
be-. temporary, and : in no case
ovepr50 per cent. The Re-
publican tariff is permanent, and
often exceeds 100 per cent. It does not
depend on the needs of revenue, but is
for the sole protection of the manufact-
urer. This bold claim to a right to en-
rich one class at the eX pense of another
is wrong, and will be met at all times
with the aggressive courage of men who
know their cause is just. This latter idea
of protection legaIizes plundeFers like
Carnegie to grind the faces of the poor,
to Cypress the helpless, to reduce wages
and increase the prices OF neeessaTies.
They devOur widows houses, and for q
pretense make long prayers and build
music halls for the poor. OF such the
SzTior of mankind has said: sTheY
shall receive greater damnation. Car
negie' s income is estimated at S4I20 q
day, 81 90 an hour, s. SO a minute.
He gets more money for every breath he
draws than-thousands of his men receive
for a whels long day 3 labor Rere is a
pistaFe brl.sse loealitys near -Pittsburg. /