Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-18
DO WORDS TRULY HAVE A MEANING,
Some Striking Sentences Uttered by tn
Hon. d. w. voorhees,.

Some Striking Sentences Uttered by the
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 hat measure. We in
vite those who believe In the correct
ness Of q tariff based upon the protect
i've principle to read'th following So
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 robbeYies committed In pro-
tected markets
The untold and incalculable millions Of
blackmail levied by American manufacturer
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 1890, known as
the Mckinley law, unlimited In its scope and
purposes of spoliation and plumber.
Riotous extravaganza.
Arrogant, insolent, dictatorial.
Sinister, perfdious and dishonest In charao-
ter.
A giant robber.
A predatory monster.
Manufacturing interests which are now the
colossal taskmasters of the whole people. COM
mandiDg tribute from every days labor be-
meath the sun, haughtily striding the corridors
of this capitol and issuing their edicts In the
tones of dictators for or against the enactment
OF pending measures in the halls of congress.
Unworthy, unmanly, -n-Christian desires to
commit extortion.
In favor of the light to plunder 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 s~elfshness.
Sordid. brutal s~elfshness.
The lust for riches.
Obstructive ~avarice.
To ommitc crime with impunity.
Monopoly and extortion.
A gigantic crime.
A policy so fiagitious in principle, so rotten
In morality, so rayenous 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 a baser or more Infamous
scheme by which to obtain money dishonesty.
Falsehood and perfdy.
CHASTITY results.
Hideous fruits.
Uproar and strife.
Distress. wan and sometimes murder.
Unconscious and contented victim of robbery.
Dangerous policy.
Unbridled extortion.
Oppressed labor.
Monopoly and brutal ~avarice.
Narrow and corroding selfshness of riches
Tn oppression of the toiling masses.
Dangerous pretensions and intolerant AFRO
gance of accumulated wealth.
Continued and brutal dictation of the plu-
tocTacy.
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-"dema-
gogue." Now let us see how these ter
rible epithets compare with a statement
made by this same United States sem
ator in 1881, in Atlanta, at the open
ing of the cotton exposition:
1.-THE establishment and maintenance
OF tho manufacturing industries of the
United States We're essential to the do
nestle prosperity and the real independ-
ence Of tho American people.
1.-THE manufacturer claimed from his
government a protection against foreign
competition, with which he was able to
contend, and which, if left free, would
close his mills and drive him out of the
business