Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-04
VOORHEES, AT WORK.
The Indiana Statesman Opens the
Democratic Campaign.
The Tariff Situatios Reviewed and the
Republican Methods Condemned
What the Democratic Senate
Has Accomplished.

A huge audience of Indiana demo-
Gratis assembled at Terre Haute, on the
evening of September %, to hear Sem
ator voorhees, speak at the opening of
the state campaign. The senator spoke
at great length upon the tariff law
and kindred topics as follows:
Mr.. Chairman: The theory of this govern
ment Is that the people govern themselves
through their representatives chosen at short
Intervals, and at free. untrammeled elections.
In framing and adopting the constitution under
which we now live our great forefathers planted
1t FIRMLY and Squarely on the broad doctrine of
self government The democratic party has
never recognized any control of the people ex-
cept their own, nor any master except them
selves. There is not an official parsonage in all
this broad land, from your township trustee to
your president at Washington, who can add to
or take away one jot or little of your su-
premacy. You are the only people on the
face OF the globe to whom are guaranteed the
inalienable rights of man in a written coosti-
tuition.
In thus pointing out the plenitude OF your
power and your unassailable sovereignty in
the administration OF your government, Ihave,
on this occasion, distinct object in view. I
am OF your public servants, now many
years in your employment, and fully recog-
ntze. rs have always done. the duty owe in
rendering an account. on all proper occasions,
trusted me. also stand to-day, as 1 save
stood for more than the third of century
Tor the honor, the integrity. the justice, the
patriotism and the triumph Of the democratic
party.
And now. citizens of Indiana let US take a
survey of the political situation. and by the
solemn light of recorded and undisputed facts
TX the responsibility of parties and vindicate
the truth What a vision rises to view as
we look backward for the causes which have
led up to the present condition OF the country
solid mass of republican legislation from
1851 to 1898 con.ronts US.
i defy the ingenuity OF man to show where,
and in what instance, the leaders of the re-
publican party ever devised, framed or en-
acted q financial measure of any kind into q
law which was not originated and dictated by
organized capital and against labor, whether
organized or unorganized- Every concession
ever made by statute to the greed and lawless
avarice of the money power, since the spring of
1861, is the work OF the party SO long in con-
troll Of legislation. During the past twelve
months hard times and financial distress
among the people have been everywhere felt,
and the responsibility for such a condition of
the country has been the theme of constant,
and, at times. OF violent and acrimonious dis
cussion challenge history ON this subject
The repu blican party by virtue of it's general
financial policy, and the great body of It's one
sided and unfair financial legislation, has been
the author of every period of hard times,
scarcity OF money in circulation. bankruptcy,
business prostration. and unemployed lator
since the hrst aScendancy of that party to the
control of the government
Power of Money Kings.
The fact that the amount of money in actual;
existence is less than the active business inter-
estS of the country demand is most oppreS-
sive evil, but the power of money centers and
OF money organizations to contract the cur
rency without limit or restraint to virtually
strip the country of the money 1t so much
needs, and to hoard 1t away for purposes of
usury and speculation. is perhaps the blacklist
and most pernfcfous crime provided for in the
whole body of republican financial legislation.
The vicious Vaccinations of republican law
makers. surrendering every interest of the
people to the control of financial corporations,
authorizing them to contract the currency and
to deprive the country of its circulating me-
dunn whenever the hardened villainy of ava
rice desires to make huge profits, may be prop
erly styled the giant national curse of the age in
which We live No deep. dark, rotten. miasmatic
fen or swamp was ever more certain to propa-
gate death-dealing malaria than is the power
of money contraction, lodged IN the hands of
private greed. to blight and destroy the general
welfare of the country. The idea here pre-
scented is appalling one. No other govern
ment within the boundaries of civilization,
as far as can learn, has ever committed
TO private parties the power to make money
plenty to make money scarce; times
easy or times hard; create business prosper
ity business bankruptcy: the power, in
fact, to circulate the governments own
currency to withheld it from circulation
at such times and under such circumstances
and in such amounts as will inure to the beneht
of private speculation and personal gain
rather than to the public interest. Yet such is
exactly the terrible power wherewith the re-
publican party has endowed the great money
corporations of the country, and such is the
fatal power they have SO often called into dis
astrous action
Every instance Of business trouble, every
period of pecuniary distress. every active in
Huence for evil and unnatural disturbances in
the channels of trade, every discrimination
against honest industry and in favor of idle,
boarded. Understanding capital, every huge,
'tmplacable trust, whether in sugar, whisky
coal. lumber or salt every grinding monopoly
of whatever kind OF description, every corrupt,
gigantic corporation, combination, syndicate
or pool known to consolidated wealth and edu-
Gated yillainy, every cruel. dishonest reduction
of wages, every malignant denial of justice to
organized labor. every strike thrust upon Ia
boring men and women to be put down by
force in the interest OF corporation wealth,
every life los. in such conflicts and every tear
and sob and groan in the humble homes of en-
shaved toll throughout all the states of the
American union, are as directly chargeable
and traceabie to the bad laws fastened on the
American people by the republican party as
the bitter waters of g polluted spring are TO
the poisonous fountains from which they flow. y
Mr.. Voorhees, spoke of the millions of
dollars of mortgages on the property
of the people. Their burdens, he de-
.clared, had never been lightened by
the republicans. but on the contrary
had been increased.
Conditions When Congress Met.
When the Fifty-third congress met
the country was being robbed by the
Mckinley law and the treasury was
empty. Public credit was menaced by
vicious silver legislation. He con-
finued:
Il drew the bill which repealed the Sherman
act but while removing that admitted obstruc-
ton to the general welfare l careful to
substantially reassert she democratic national
platform of 1892. wherein 1t is declared that
we hold to the use Of both gold and silver as
the standard money of the country. and to the
coinage of both gold and silver without dis
terminating against either metal, or charge for
mintage, but the dollar mint of coinage for
both metals must be OF equal intrinsic or IN
changeable value or be adjusted through in
of LEGISLATION as shall insure the maintenance
OF the parity OF tie two metals and the equal
power of every dollar ut all times in the mar
lSets and in the payment OF debts; and ws de-
anand that all paper currency shall be Kept at
gar With and redeemaSle in sEch coin
He declared himself bimetallist,
and then told what the democrats
have done. saying:
After severe and pr,atracted struggle and
fauch gexatious delay, oecasionee by the mis-
erably defective rules of the senate. this re-
publican; nuisance end standing menace to the
business of the country was removed. the pur-
chasing clause OF the Sherman act was re-
peaIed- For nome months past you have often