The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-08
then. this brief quotation may be pertI-

as then this brief quotation may be perth
nent:
Who receives this money, and where
uoes II go! Does II go out of the country
ana make money scarcer here? Is the pay
ment or pension arrears q drain on the
currency Garr nc engaged in carrying on the bust
ana prolonged howl that the people are
Delng robbed TO pay pensions. Instead of
mat being true, the people and all business
interests are benefited by the payments,
and consequently Increased circulation.
made under the act for pension arrears.
It goes at once into circulation; it
pays debts: ii passes from hand to hand;
It is not boarded as coupon cutters hoard
their interest; 1t makes money plentier
among the people where it ought to be
plentiest- Sir, it is dead money which does
no good to the people money which is
packed away in bags crammed into iron
vaults, there to corrode and eat into the
labor of the people with immense,
Public expenditures which go in that direc-
ton are indeed a. CURSE but not so with
money which Is alive and active in the
daily transactions of life. How
ever different the aspects of the war Itself
may have been to different minds. the sol
der presents but one. In devotion to the
highest duty of a citizen, ne rendered the
dearest sacrifice man can make for his
fellow-man. He offered his life for the well
fare of others, and, whether living or dead
his claims upon the respect and gratitude
of the American people will endure long
as his deeds are spoken by the American
tongue
He also advocated the bill pensioning all
Mexican veterans; he spoke in behalf of re-
storing political rights to 'the Confederate
brlgadier,' and these addresses are given
IN ful. About this period QSS2) number
of his speeches on financial topics were der
livered. A noteworthy address at this time
was MS plea for the protection of American
citizens abroad
FORENSIC EFFORTS.
His jury addresses are classed together.
and begin with that in defense of Cook at
Harper's Ferry. Next is one almost equal
ly famous. made in defense of Mary
Harris, tried in Washington, D. c., for the
killing of Burroughs. Succeeding this
his speeches in the Hallet Kilbourn habeas
corpus cases, and next his defense of Capt.
Edward T. Johnson, of Indianapolis, indict-
ed for the murder of Edwin Henry, the
trial taking place in Tennessee, where the
the defense of Harry Crawford Black, of
Cumberland, Md, indicted for killing the
Seducer of his sister, Succeeding these all
of which helped to make him famous, are
a number of miscellaneous addresses in
Guiding a tribute to Vice President Hem
bricks, delivered in the Senate, eulogy Of
Farragut on the occasion of the unwilling
of statue of the admiral in Washington.
There are memorial tributes to Gov. James
u. Williams, of Indiana; to President Gar
field and to Professor Morse. An historical
address on the Louisiana purchase and its
fruits, delivered at Memphis, Tenn, in 1892,
is of interest A speech on the Magma
Charta, delivered before the State Bar As
ISOLATION of South Carolina in 1892 is in
sion, he says: May the bonds of the law,
administered in the spirit of justice, lib
erty and equality for all the States of the
American Union, hold it together in ever
lasting peace; and may the broad. cath
Ollie fraternity of the American bar and
bench contribute more and more, as the
years move on, to the harmonious and az
fectionate relations of the American peo-
ple to their complete unity in heart, mind
and purpose as they go forward to a COM
mon destiny; all at home, in the house their
fathers built; under the flag, waving ever
more in the future as an emblem of love
and good will towards men,"
AS a whole, these speeches disclose Mr..
Voorhees, life and character and peculiar
genius better than any biography could do,
and also serve to show the many services
he rendered to his State, to which he was
always faithful and his fei8WhJ &c
zeal sketch, by Judge Thomas B. Long.
gives the main facts of he late senator's
life but the man himself speaks through
his speeches. The volumes are his best me-
mortal.