The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-09-11
ESTABLISHED 1879
DO WORDS TRULY HAVE 4 MEANlNer
Some Striking Sentences Uttered by the
hon. d. w. voorhees,.


Hon. ID. w. Voorhees,.
In the recent debate in the United
States senate Senator Voorhees, was es-
pecially severe and used some very
striking phrases in denunciation Of the
Mckinley law and the ''robber manu-
facturers, as he calls those producers
of goods who in common with the rest
of the people have enjoyed the proteo-
ton afforded by that measure. We in
vite those who believe IN the correct
ness of a tariff based upon the protect
i've principle to read the following Sc
lections from the senator's utterances
and see whether any of these forms of
expression contain pleasing references
to themselves:
Privileged classes.
Forcible revolution and bloodshed.
Indescribable Injustice and oppression.
Vicious principles and workings.
Ubiquitous existing burdens.
Vast individual robberies committed in pro-
tected markets.
The untold and inca1culable millions of
blackmail levied by American manufacturers
for their own pockets.
This wide and well known field Of extortion
and injustice.
The gates of avarice oppression and fraud.
The appalling legislation Of 1880, known as
the Mckinley law, unlimited in its scope and
purposes of spolation and plumber.
Riotous extravaganza.
Arrogant, insolent, dictatorial-
Sinister, perfidious and dishonest in charac-
A giant robber.
a predatory monster.
Manufacturing interests which are now the
colossal taskmasters of the whole people, COM
handing tribute from every days labor be-
meath the sun, haughtily strding the corridors
of this capitol and issuing their edicts in the
tones of dictators for against the enactment
Of pending measures in the halls of congress.
Unworthy, unmanly, un-Christian desires to
commit extortion.
In favor of the right to plumber by the law.
Favorites of fortune, pets of vicious legisla-
ton to whom the government has farmed out
the power of oppression over others.
Incarnation Of human selfshness.
Sordid, brutal selfshness
The lust for riches.
Obstructive avarice.
To commit crime with IMMUNITY.
Monopoly and extortion.
A gigantic crime.
A policy so hagitious in principle SO rotten
in morality, so ravenous in its exactions on the
absolute wants of life.
Unjust, relentless, unsparing, insolent and
brutal
Delusive brides.
A reckless foolhardy experiment on the for
bearance of the American people.
Rash and insolent assault on the toiling
masses.
The lowest depths Of human depravity may
be raked in vain for baser or more infamous
scheme by which to obtain money dishonesty
Falsehood and perfidy.
CHASTITY results.
Hideous fruits.
M ufrff
Distress, want and sometimes murder.
Unconscious and eontented victim of robbery
Dangerous policy.
Unbridled extortion.
Oppressed labor.
Monopoly and brutal avarice.
Narrow and corroding selhshness of riches.
The oppression of the tOiling masses.
Dangerous pretensions and intolerant AFRO
gance of accumulated wealth.
Continued and brutal dictation of the plu-
tocracy.
4 This fortress of greed and gain, dedicated to
the plumber and spoliation Of the people
! We wish to add to the foregoing list
one word which seems to have been
omitted by Mr. Voorhees, ema.
gogue - Now let us see how these ter
rible epithets compare with q statement
made by this same United States sen
ator in 1881, in Atlanta, at the open
ing Of the cotton exposition:
''The establishment and maintenance
of the manufacturing industries of the
United States We're essential to the do
nestle prosperity and the real independ-
ence of the American people.
1.-THE manufacturer claimed from his
government protection against foreign
competition, with which he was able tc
contend, and which, if left Free would
close his mills and drive him out of the
business.
II am not here to discuss the differ
ent politics which have from time tc
time been advanced, but the great fact
of protection, whether as an incident &c
the raising of revenue or III holder
and more direct form, is a part OF
American history and American prog
ress.
Read carefully the foregoing in search
of Democratic demagogue