The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-24
STILL A DEMAGoGUE.

Dethroned for incapacity by his associates
on the finance committee and distrusted by
his party in the Senate after his display
of cowardice in falling to keep his promise
to assail the President. Senator Voorhees,,
the Falstaff of the Democratic party, re-
turns to his constituents to hurl epithets
at the baron robbers of protection and
to make a plea for the measure which
President Cleveland denounced as a piece
Of party perfidy." To the innuendoes and
charges of the leading Democratic paper
in the State that he has been the tool of
the Whisky Ring he lets his silence in re-
gard thereto be entered as a plea Of guilty.
When MIR. Voorhees, Democratic asso-
ciates on the finance committee took from
him all power they put upon him a humil-
iation which was never before put upon
the chairman of such a committee. They
had to do it because Mr.. Voorhees, is not
only without knowledge of tariff matters,
but has not the capacity to obtain infor-
nation. Senator Harris assumed the posi-
ton of tariff leader, which belonged to Mr..
Voorhees, by virtue of his Craftsmanship.
and the Indiana Senator, a past master in
bombast and invective, was relegated to
the rear rank and TO silence. Jones, of Ar
kansas. and Vest, of Missouri. occupied the
places they did because Mr.. Voorhees,
party practically pronounced him I'M
fit for such responsibilities. During
.ro noe xvaar he hoe made prodictiop affair
prediction regarding tariff legislation, which,
in the light of subsequent events, became
grotesque buffoonery. People went to hear
him in Terre Haute just as they would go
the absurdlty and the mischievous purport
of his whole speech. II is as follows:
If there are declarations of labor for the
purpose of securing honest pay and fair
wealth for the purpose of fixing and con-
trolling the wages of labor, and OF govern
ing the legislation Of the country besides
not the accumulation of tariff protection,
the bloody reign. Of McKlnleyism. but a
in the body Of our laws giving legal secur-
ity in the courts, and before boards of arbi-
tratlon. to honorab;e. law-abiding labor of
all kinds in its dealings with selfish, grasp
ing and intolerant capital.
The foregoing is the same mischievous
Observation-Disclosures because it is de-
signed to create distrust between the two
wings of the army of prod~uction-labor and
capital. Such an, attack upon employers
now comes with bad grace from a man
who has been denounced in nearly every
leading Democratic newspaper in the coun-
try as the tool of the odious combination
of capital known as the Whisky Trust.
Intelligent ~workingmen know that the
combination of trades to keep up the price
of labor competing with foreign production
is futile. In Great Britain the wages of
labor in all competitive production is but
a fraction over half as much as in this
country. The cost of transportation across
the ocean is less than the cost of a hum
dred miles of railroad carriage. This being
the case, the manufactures will have the
market who produces at the lowest cost.
Labor being the chief constituent in pro-
duction. every candid mind. by intuition,
knows that the manufacturer who gets the
same results for 60 cents which another
gets for 100 cents will have the market. The
tariff reductions for which Mr.. Voorhees,
has voted have deprived the American COM
petitor OF over half of the protection he
had under the Mckinley law on such arti-
Giles as glass, pottery, finished iron prod
ucts. carriages. machinery. lumber. etc.
Either the wages paid under the Mckinley
law must be reduced so that the cost of
production here shall not exceed the cost
of production abroad with the duties added,
or the American factories must close. Mr..
Voorhees, imagination cannot comprehend
such an axiom. but the practical man does.
and because he does the glass makers have
accepted a reduction of 22is per cent. of
their Mckinley wages. The advice Of the
champion of the Whisky Trust, If accepted,
would fill the land with strikes and dis
tress. Sensible people will distrust the ad-
vice of a man whom his associates IN the
Senate have Inundated because of his in
capacity and his hopeless ignorance.