The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-10-03
Tar1n Legislation.

IarlM Legislation.
% recent speech in Indiana
aator Dan Voorhees, had the fol
ing to say about the tariff legis-
ion of the last Congress:
Ihe truth is, as impartial history
record, that for the last 30 years
~ species of financial oppression
~ instance Of business trouble
y period Of pecuniary distress
~ active Influence for evil and
atural Disturbances in the chan
Of trade every discrimination
q inst honestindustry. and in favor
o die, BEARDED interest eating cap
il every huge, implacable trust,
nsther in sugar, whiskey, coal,
lanber or salt, every grinding
mHhopoly of whatever kind or de-
as ption, every corrupt, gigantic
cs Foration combination, syndicate
pool known 10 consolidated
Wealth and educated villainy, every
cruel, dishonest reduction of wages,
every malignant denial of justice to
organized labor, every strike thrust
upon laboring men and women to
be put down by force in the interest
of corporation wealth, every life
lost in such conflicts, and every
tear and sob and groan in the hum
BILE homes of enslaved toll, through
out all the States of the American
Union, are as directly chargeable
and traceable to the bad laws fast
ened on the American people by
the Republican party as the bitter
waters of a polluted spring are to
the poisonous fountains from which
they flow.
There are, indeed, enormous nc
cumnlations of wealth now in this
country, vast consultations of capi-
tai, mountain ranges of riches,
quickly piled up as it were by some
unnatural magic, or some incanta-
tion of black art. but boundless
wealth, however great, when con
tracted into few narrow circles,
and reduced to the possession of a
few very limited, exclusive and
favored classes, while the great
body of the people are shut out
from any part in its ownership or
enjoyment and doomed to remain
in comparative poverty, does not
constitute the prosperity of a nation;
on the contrary, it is an oyerwhel-
ming gigantic curse which has new
.er failed, in all the annals of history,
to prove fatal to free government.
Such is the dangerous condition
which now blights the prosperity
and threatens the liberties of the
American people.
In looking into the Mckinley
bill you will find that the Sugar
Trust was granted profession of
one half of cent per pound laid on
all refined sugars imported from
abroad, or, as it is often stated, on
all sugars above No. 16 Dutch
standard in color. Under this in
iquitous provision the loot and
plunder accruing to the trust has
been not less than s15,0O0,0O0 per
annnm. No giant octopus, or devil
fish of the sea, was ever more pow
erful in it, native element than this
huge and dangerous progency of
Republican policy when encoun-
tered in and around the halls OF
Legislation. Yet the democratic
party in, its death grapple with the
Sugar Trust, and without any re-
liable majority at all in the Senate,
when in the face of such foe, has
cut down the protection on refined
sugars from one.half of cent per
pound to eight of / cent per
pound thus wiping out in our first
encounter three-fourths, or 70 per
cent. of the entire amount of the
trusts protected pillage.
1t is needless to say that we would
have wiped it all out if we could
have done SO. A solid phalanx on
the Republican side of the Senate
chamber, allied to a small but well
known contingent on our side, is
the only reason why the trust has
even one eighth of / cent a pound
left to SWEAR by, or rather to swear
at, as it has been doing ever since
the Senate bill became law. ]
submit to you, however, and to all
tho people of Indiana, that under
the circumstances great work has
been done, and that we have reach
ed point from which it will not be
so difficult to proceed hereafter to 9
glorious finish. We have broken