Nevada County picayune., 1890-03-26
EXTORTION AND ROBBERY.
Senator Vorhees' Address on Agri-
 cultural Depression.

cultural Depression.
 Below are the main points of Sen ator Norhees' telling speech, dcliv- cred in the Senate on the 19th inst |:
 He characterized the tariff as q curse and not blessing. He was dealing not with a theory. but with q condition, which even blind man could look at and draw from it an unerring conclusion.
 The farmers of the United States to-day did not receive on an average more than 10 cents bustel for their corn, 50 cents for their wheat and from to 3 cents a pound for their hogs. The time would come at no distant day when the farmer would look on the proposition to tax him and his wife and children for the pro- lection of other people besides him self as he would look upon law of Congress to establish the army worm and weevil on his wheat, to infest his cattle with murrian and his hogs with cholera.
 Every pretensr of home market for the farmer was fraud, and ev- cry pretense of taxing wheat and oats and potatoes for his benefit was a cheat and sham. It was notor- ous and self-evident truth that the tariff, as it now stood, increased the farmers expense account from 8 to 100 per cent. on every implement of industry with which he toilcd, and last year, binding twine had been en- hanced to Is cents pound by the tariff and twne trust.
 He did not believe that the hands of the farmer would hold Republi- can ticket at the next Presidential election. He declared that not only had there been no increase in the value of land for the last quarter of q century, but there had been an ab- sOlutc loss of 33 per cent. If the inn proved farm lands of the United States could be put to sale to-day, under the most favorable circum- stances, they would not, he said, on a general average, realize more than two-thirds of what thelr value had been twenty-five years ago.
 The farms of the State of Ohio were now under mortgage to the amount of S3O0, ,OO0,0 ,000. In the State of Illinois things were no bet ter-the mortgages i'll that State amounting to S402 ,000. .000. Twen- ty-three per cent of the whole face of the State of Illinois was under mortgage. The State of Michigan was still worse. Forty-scven per cent. of the whole surface of that State was under mortgage, In the States of Indiana, Kentucky, Mis- souri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and the whole Northwest, from 20 to 25 per cent. of the farm lands were un- der mortgage at such rates of inter- est as the farmers could never pay out of their crops, to say nothing of the principal.
 In the face of such appalling facts, who, he asked, would eulogize the workings and results of system of tariff protection winch had for a con tinuous term of twenty-five years ac- complished nothing save the concen- tration and assessment of wealth in the hands of few protected people.
 The remedies to be applied are {: First, tariff reform; second, a full supply of legal tender money third, the free coinage of silver; fourth, the suppression. by law, of gambling in futures fifth, a liberal policy of pensions.
 Summing up he said, in the face of these things, (referring to the subsi- dizing of the press, the purchasing of votes in blocks of five, official pat ronage, etc,,) and with a full knowl- edge of what is before, we will gird our loins like men, and go forward to the fight. The battle may be long and weary, but the sun will go down on a great and final victory of the eternal right over legalized wrong, of freedom and equality over caste. Hail mighty day of the coming future.
 Advice to Boys.