The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-29
The Depths to Which Member Of the Werld's
Most Distinguished Legislative Body Can De-
scend When He Is Bidding for Votes.
He Announces that He Would Hang Man.
ufacturing Capitalists Like Carnegie,
And Asserts that the Patriots of 1776 Had No
Actual Grievances in Comparison with Those
Suffered by the People Of To-Day.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal


BLOOMFIELD, Ind. July 27.-For two or
three weeks past the Democracy of Greene
county have been preparing to hold tariff
reform meeting at this place. The meeting
was held to-day, about 5000 people being
present. Senator Voorhees, was the princi-
pal speaker, and delivered an address an
hour and half in length. Among other
things, the Senator said:
Ladies and Gentlemen-This meeting Isl a
grand surprise, not only to me, but doubt
less to yourselves; in what is emphatically
an off year, with no politics going on, there
public mind to gather together so many
thinking people as are here to-day. | came
into your midst thirty years ago, when we
were young folks together, and now, rs we
are growing old together. / come again to
speak to you in the same tone and on the
same line of principle that has always
guided me in my intercourse with you.
You have been faithful to me In times
gone by. and the best 1 can
say to you is that have aimed faithfully
to represent the interests of the laboring
people of your county of Greene, whether
as your immediate representative in the
lower branch of Congress or as your Sena-
tor for now many years past. i have come
here to talk to you shOrtly-nOt at great
length, because therc are others to succeed
intend to speak of those things that are
near and dear to the hearthstones and fire.
sides of every man, woman and child with
In the reach of my voice. 1 am here, my
countrymen, to say to you and to the
country that a government which takes
enrich another class don't deserve to exist
on the face of the earth lapplausel, and
will not long exist unless the people con-
sent to become slaves. What does the
proposition implyf 1t implies o govern
gies your privations and your sorrows, in
order to enrich, and aggrandize, and
pamper the emoneyed, prosperous and happy
class of people set aside and favored by
your government. Why. my yfellOw-citizens,
most powerful government on earth,
wrote the declaration of their in
dependence, and achieved it by the
sword, had not cause as strong as now ex-
lists in the legalized robbery and plunder
of fse shoW
you before am done. The Declaration of
American Independence was mere decla-
ration against q theory and principle of
wrong, rather than against an actual grlev-
ance. You have an actual grievance to in
flame your animosity and hostility to the
present state of affairs. ! intend TO talk
very plainly this afternoon. / have come
here for no other purpose. l am here
to say to you that the greatest
danger that menaces the American Repub-
1t has various instrumentalities, but one of
its greatest instrumentalities at this time
is the complicated. widespread, far-reach-
ing, grasping, insatiate system of q high
protective tariff. One OF the instrumental
tiles of the money power In times gone by,
in the greenback days, nv friends was to
contract the currency and drive out of ex-
istence your money; so that the men who
had money would have more pow
they de.s1oSea soses ct the thfr sVer winch
helped restore. They made times hard;
that is, they made times hard for you but
good for the money nders and the money
changers, the mOnOpolists of money. That
is one of the means of increasing the power
of money. or the moneyed power. You old
rejoice to speak again. can remember we'll
when there was but one man in the United
States who was ever spoken of as being
worth four or five million dollars. Forty
in the current history of the time as worth
five million dollars, and that was John
Jacob Astor. To-day there are thousands
worth more than that, and large number
worth fifty millions; a large number worth
one hundred millions, and corporations.
individuals, representing thousands
of millions, and all the power
such corporations imply. They are
sweeping forward with a strength that
nothing seems to be able to resist, that
nothing seems to be able to check. The
men who have these large fortunes. who
overshadow the land with their great cor
porations, their monopolies, their trusts,
their combines and their syndicates-do
they laborl Do they worki Is the sweat
neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all his
glory never had half such a bank account
as they have to-day. Laughter and ap-
plause.] The great Lord of the universe
decreed that in the sweat of your
TSss is right But the roubs thar Se
millionaires and money monopolists eat
their bread in the sweat of your faces al
ways. They don't eat their bread in the
sweat of their faces. They eat it in the
remember the old illustration sometimes
indulged III a quarter of century ago,
when travelled from township to town
ship in your glorious county, and told you
then that the farmer paid for all. Who
else pays except youf These men who
never weave. They not only
eat their bread out of the sweat
of your faces. but they build their palaces
out of the sweat of your faces, they build
your faces; they furnish their homes in
more than Oriental luxury and splendor
out of the sweat of your faces. They have
their gilded yachts. pleasure ships. etc, to
go down to the sea in, and 1t is all out of
the sweat of your faces. 1t is the old story
of the King sitting with his circle of cour-
tiers and professors around him, aud
the soldier was saying Il fight for ALL"
the doctor was saying. II cure all;n the
lawyer was saying. Il plead for ALL" the
preacher was saying, Il pray for ALL" the
king was saying, Il govern all, while away
down yonder in the corner, with his foot on
a shovel and his hand on a spade, was a
little farmer, who said, "Yes. and pay for
all" IApplause.l If have made that il
pardon me. you old men. because there has
been a generation come up since then. and
they have not heard it before. Laughter /
But you must be rooted and grounded and
well founded in the fact that the wealth of
the world, whoever has it, wherever il NAV
20, at last comes out of those who till the
soil and make things grow, who reap. and
NOW, and plOw. and SOW. / was born in
your ranks, and / know whereof / speak.
All, my fellow-citiZens, this money power
is sweeping forward, and is destroying the
very holy of holies of your government. 1t
is talntinR every branch of the public
service like leprosy. and unless ii is stopped,
unless steps are taken to check 1T, it Will as
certainly overthrow this government as
the corparations of Rome and of Greece
and other countries In the past overthrew
them.
During the war, my friends, you know
that besides the tariff on imported goods
there was an internal revenue tax on almost
everything; there was an internal revenue
tax on the great corpOrations. on the rail-