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Show Senator Hill Against tho Wilson TurlrrBM. " Tlio senior Senltor.Mr. Voorhees from Indiana, calls this allegation a noisy and rcFoumllng charge, Let roc tell him It Is not half as noisy as the constant vituperations wo hear on every hand fiomblatcnt demagogues whoaro abroad In thu land loudly Inveighing against (lie wealth nfthocountry and impudently demanding lis confiscation through every means which their devilish Ingenuity In-genuity can invent. Mr. President, Ujls Is an important crisis in the history ot tho Democratic party. Tho failure of the UrlfT revision menus the defeat of tho Democratic tureitlon. it not tho irevlsW'--"''"" 'iftrJtmJSJiwvpf oi'iit-oT-hand means lmurVV,.m.n .ifl.nol country. Let those wholnslst on Injecting Inject-ing Into the hill this odious and un-Dcm-ocrkttc principle ot an Inconio tax pause and reflect upon tho possible consequences consequen-ces of their demands. They should really that It means the lost of the control of this Senate, now nearly equally devlded betwecati the I wo great parties; It means tho loss of tho next House of Ucpreeentatlvesj It means the lose ol the electoral votes of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and probably every Nothern State, nnd llnally, it means the loss of tho next Prishlcncy nnd all It implies. They should consider wother there is nnj thing nbont an income tax soiac-icd, soiac-icd, po desliable fo popular, so just nnd o defensible thnt Its maintenance h worth tho risk which they are precipitating. precipi-tating. Lt them remember 1860 and ultra demands then inudo upon the Democratic party, to which It could not honorably becede, demands which led to onrdfvldon and defeat. Lot us then remember tho triumph of our opponents the civil war that followed, the suffering tho forco bills which thrpatned and all tho lnclccnts of the terrible years which darkened our party's and our country's .history from 1800 to 1881, when, through wiser counsels, moderate action and rcltord confidence wo weTe Intrusted with power again, and refh'clhip upon nil tlicte feellngn, let thlin sny whether it lion tliepnrtof wisdom, by the insistence in-sistence upon extremo demands, to imperil tho succecs of our party again, anil thereby tend to retard tho progress deitiinish tho glory and endanger the best and highest Interetjts of our common com-mon country. |