The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-08
DEuAGOGUE VOORHEES,.
The Incendiary and Vicious Character Of
His Recent bloomfield Speech.
New York Press

The Incendiary and Vicious Character Of
His Recent bloomfield Speech.
New York Press
The indianapolis Journal has done excel
lent service to Republican principles by
printing verbatim report of an lncendiary
speech recently delivered by Senator Noor-
hees before a gathering of Democrats In
Greene county, Indiana. voorhees, Is max
ing a desperate effort for reelection TO the
Senate. In this speech the senior Senator
from Indiana advocates the total abolition
OF the tariff, and the substitution of the OBJ
noSlo9s English system of an income tax.
indeed the entire speech is lurid example
OF the length TO which wild demagogue
Will go when apparently unrestrained by
the modifying presence of shorthand re-
pOrters.
Senator Voorhees, began by telling the
farmers of Greene county that he was OPP
posed to abOllshlng the un-American in
come tax until what he termed the tax
was taken off the shirts that some ''old
utterly failed to tell this ''old fel ow" OF
Greene county that under the policy OF
protection the cost of the cotton cloth of
his shirt has decreased until il is less per
yard than the duty on the imported article.
He hurled at the farmers of Greene county
those antique falsehoods of free-traders
rampant relating TO the so per cent. taxes"
on his horse-shOes, his nails. his wagons,
but neglected to add that all these articles
were produced to-day IN this country bet
ter and cheaper than In any other country
in the world. Nor did Senator Voorhees,
have the manhood to say that many of these
very articles of American make are
exported to the most distant parts of the
world and undersell the same articles pro-
duced in free-trade England. Nor did he
say that this is substantially true of cloth-
ing, and 1annels, and dress goods. Nothing
of the kind. He deliberately and inten-
tlonally, In order to secure little cheap
political capital for himself. falsified the
rr,dtr oil h1ofnr Df hea IL
talked about the farmers of Greene county
paying SIS taxes" on every 500 worth OF
furniture they purchased. well knowing
| that to-day the cheapest and best furniture.
| In the world is made In this country. and
that American furniture is exported and
| can undersell British furniture in the En-.
| glish market. He presented the same false
hood in relation to carpets; and yet Amer
| lean carpets are selling to-day. quality for
| quality, at the same price. and even less,
| than the Englishnan is obliged TO pay fof
the same grade of goods in the English
market
Can anything be more wanton, mo % dis
| graceful. more vicious. more unpatriotlo
| than to thus reflect upon the intelligence
| of American wOrkmen and the enterprise.
| and honesty of American manufacturers
| Voorhees, knows he falsified the industrial
history of his own country in every Illus
| tratiOn he gave. and he likewise knows
that not so many years ago in the United
| States Senate he defended the duty on
| plate glass, on the ground that its manu-
| facture by the DePauws, of New Albany,
| Ind. had decreased the price more than
half to the consumer. This same dema-
favor of hanging men like Andrew
| Carnegie, the other day, in Greene
county, refused to follow his own
| party in the Senate and reduce the duty.
| or tax" as he would call it. on glass, be-
| cause he was afraid of the influence of the
| DePauws He was able to ascertain then
that the tariff, owing TO healthy home COM
| petition, had reduced the cost of every
| thing the farmer buys. and by creating
numerous manufacturing centers tsuch az
1 New Albany Ind, had increased the value
| of his land and given him more profitable
/ markets nearer home.
| Much of this extraordinary speech is of
| too utterly vicious character To need an
| swering. 1t should, however. be widely
| published by Republican newspapers as a
cratic demagogue will descend in order to
arouse class prejudice. Here are some
1 specimens:
| All. my fellOw-citizens. this money power is
sweeping forward and is destroying tne very
ing every branch OF the public service like lep-
| rosy, and unless IL is stopped. unless steps
taken 10 check ii, IL Will rs certainly overthrow
| this government as the corporations of Rome,
| and OF Greece aud other countries in the past
| overthrow them.
Does not this man know that nation
| which could take up and elect toits highest
| Office an unassuming soldlcr-citiZen of his
| own State, poor man. Is In no such dam
| ger whatever? Does he not know that there
| is not upon earth to-day government moro
| honestly administered and freer from cor
| ruption than his own government And
| yet this is true, and Senator Voorhees,
brands himself as cheap demagogue when
he thus blackens the institutions of hisowp
| country.
Here is another gem from his speech:
| / said the other day at the breakfast table az
| the Terre Hante House, with some genial Repnb-
| lfcan friend, that If had my way with men like.
| the Carnegies. that preyed upon the land and
sucked peoples blood like leeches, would hans
| them. He seemed shocked about it L was not
| at all.
| States Senator asking reelection from
| intelligent constituency.
1t is fortunate for the country that tho
| people before whom the Indiana Senator is
| going with this sort of unmitigated trash
are farmers. They at least Will not be
swayed by the arts of cheap demagoguo
who has deemed it necessary 10 get down
| very low in order to secure a reelection
| The Western farmers know that without
| protection their progress would have been
| postponed Without IL the people of the
Northwest would have been kept in state
| of imperfect civilization. There would
have been no flourishing manufacturing
| towns and cities dOtting the vast prairies Of
our Western States; towns and cities en-
ploying thousands of prosperous mechanics
whose needs are supplied by the adjoining
ana farmer would, like the Southern colt on
planter, be sending most of his grain and
corn to Liverpool, and in return for il lao
would be receiving the shoddy goods of tho
Manchester and Liverpool mills and tho
products of British workshops. at any
price the English manufacturers put upon
them. He would be importing clumsy En-
glish wagons. plows that would not scour.
and using English window and looking
glasses and paying for them double the
price of better articles. which he now OBJ
tains of Studebaker Brothers and Oliver
Brothers. of South Bend, and DePauws of
| New Albany.
No! no, senator Voorhees,; you cannot
make votes III Indiana by libelng the sys-
TEN which has been at the foundation of
the progress of the State for the last quar-
ter of a century. The farmers of the state
are too smart to be caught by any OF the
ciaptrap and yariegatod tlapdoodle of your
Greene county speech. Try something else.
/ namocr,ts Mara DELAYED.