The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-28

ideas to the winds and entered upon the
work of freeing the country from their
grasp completely. In his great speech Of
July %, $780, in the senate. he said:
1t is well known that I earnestly de-
sire to be conservative upon this great
question, but the high-handed oppreS-
sions Of the republican party have rem
dered such conservatism impossible. In
dealing with fragrant robbers and high
waymen who have cast aside the mask
and clutched at the threats of all the
industries of the country, a conserva tive
policy has 10 be abandoned and a far
different course has to be pursued.
When once his attention was called to
the enormity of the power and the cor
rupting influences of the protective ben
eficiaries he quickly realized that the
pretense of benefiting labor was abso-
lutely false. and that the only way TO
escape from the monstrous evil, which
threatened the liberties of the people,
was to crush it with hailed hand. We
do not need to imagine his righteous in
dignation as the full truth impressed it
self upon him. We have it in his own
words in his memorable speech of Sept.
3. 1890:
What a spectacle for the statesman,
the philosopher and the Christian to con-
template! On the one hand lowered the
colossal creations of our profuse and
prohigate bounties, and on the other
hand with care-worn and anxious faces,
and in dread, stood toiling men, women
and children by thousands, bereft of all
recognition from the government. I'M
known to the laws, unprotected from
malignant wrong and injustice. helpless
and defenseless, and wholly at the mercy
Of pltiless and accursed avarice. On
the one hand was the power of money.
the plutocracy, with the millions and
hundreds and thousands of millions &C
crued by virtue of a high protective
tariff and on the other We're Gods
poor, who eat their bread in the sweat
OF their faces, and for whose safety.
equality and very existence in such an
emergency this government has never
deigned to make the slightest provision.
We should like to quote at great
length from this terrific denunciation of
the whole protective system, but space
permits only few words further as to
trusts:
The combination or trust becomes at
once the tyrant, the autocrat. the mo-
nopolizer of the whole business in which
It engages. buying up and driving out
all competition. and preying upon the
public with such prices as it sees fit to
dictate Trusts in trade are also in
distinct violation of law. and yet they
prevail all round US like malignant mi
crobeS when a pestilence is upon the
land.
Does any democrat suppose-can any
sane man believe-that with such senti-
ments as these Daniel w Voorhees, will
ever permit direct gifts to be made to
these malignant microbes in a demo-
cratic tariff bill? Perish the thought!
Let us rather picture him descending
upon the vile traitors to democracy. who
have injected these villainous steals into
the tariff bill. in veritable whlrlwind
of wrath. Let us rather look forward
to the day when in the open senate he
will demonstrate that. though every 9th
err democratic senator prove false, he is
true. Let us hope that while others
trail their banners in the dust he will
bear aloft in refulgent splendor the
glorious gOnfalon of Indiana, grand in
its symbolic emblem of the Indiana man
steadily chopping wood without regard
to the conduct of the beasts that dis
play their degraded character about
him. In this emergency our republican
contemporaries may be assured that the
tarifr-reform principles or Daniel w.
voorhees, will remain firm as the eternal
rocks. mistaken as the everlasting hills.
1t begins to look as if the Indianapolis
people who have been going TO Chicago
and Cincinnati to hear good music could
stay right here at home and have the
genuine article. Three grand concerts
are advertised for the near future, in
GLIDING the May festival. 1t has taken
a public spirit among wealthy citizens
to subscribe to the funds complaint
urged against Indianapolis citizens of
means is that they have no city pride.
Wealthy men of other cities make gifts
of statues, pictures. public buildings and
parks, but the indianapolis man who
strikes it rich travels to foreign coun-
tries Subscribing to the May festival
fund is a step in the right direction and
will no doubt be followed by broaden
ing spirit.
Mr.. barrow, the Chicago attorney who
has taken up the cause of Prendergast