Show FIRED BY VOORHEES presidential CAMPAIGN OPENS IN INDIANA senator voorhees everlastingly scores the ind aug 4 the democrats of this city and vicinity had a mass meeting tonight to night and senator vorhees made the opening speech in the democratic campaign in indiana he said in part every movement in the machinery of the government set in motion by republican leaders and managers has been to swell and bloat the gains of the rich and increase the hardens of the poor the republican conspiracy to fasten the fangs of the money power in straggling with the american labor took its first great step when in authorizing the legal tender of currency in 1862 the greenback the immortal and glorious greenback was discriminated against and made non receivable for duties on imports and interest on the bonded debt no financial measure was ever more oppressive and destructive tive to the rights of labor in bitsi results than this the senator declared this act enabled the of wall street to realize a profit on naked speculation with bonds and currency of the nation oi nearly 1 I 1 do not believe any people on the globe would have submitted unless restrained by force to the monstrous act of congress of march 1869 by one dishonest stroke of a dishonest pen guided and held by dishonest leaders of a great party the debt which labor has to pay was swollen 25 per cent the speaker then quoted a letter written by john sherman in wherein sherman said 1 I think the bond holder violates his promises when he refuses to take tha same kind of money he paid for his bonds why asked the speaker should not greenbacks green backs come to the front at this time and at all time when the interests of the laboring classes are under consideration persistently stigmatized and caricatured as rag haby money for years denounced as dishonest money a fraud upon the business and com merical world yet it stands today to day with its purchasing power as great as tha brightest the republican candidate for president 1878 that an idiot asylum should be erected for believers in greenbacks green backs I 1 believed in the greenback then and do now and I 1 take my place alongside of yon under general harrisons sweeping intolerant brutal criticism and denunciation he canvassed the state in 1878 as candidate for his party for the senate as I 1 did as a candidate of mine and the people of indiana decided by more than majority that he was nearer a financial idiot than I 1 was and that I 1 should go back to washington senator voorhees then entered upon the tariff issue and recounted the history of modem tariff legislation no relief the speaker said was afforded to labor by a resort to a domestic excise system on the contrary this system was made the pretext for still further encroachments encroach ments on the part of the monopoly and greed against the rights of those who toil the two acts of congress of 1862 and 1864 by which protective duties were made to ascend to a pikes peak altitude were demanded on the express ground that the manu should be compensated for the amount of his internal tax on this point the speaker quoted extensively ten from senators son and others for nineteen years republican party las caused the people to pay they manufacturer at least a hundred millions a year in consideration of a tax paid by the manufacturer to government the money kings have thus far resisted every effort to reduce the mountainous tariff duties by which they have drained the earnings of the people senator voorhees then discussed the labor question and the surplus he declared that the labor interests of the country need in circulation every dollar that pan be spared from the expenses of the government and yet there is piled up arts useless surplus enough of the laboring peoples money to pay down cash more than for every day bince the birth of christ touching upon the republican internal revenue plank sen ator said in this christain land and agamen who are sometimes spoken of as christab Chri stam statesmen have nothing better than free whisky and tobacco to offer the people in response to their cry for relief the slave holders of the south once belonged to a class which composed the money power They nce were monopolists of cheap underpaid under paid labor the most bitter and implacable supporters of slavery thirty years ago were in fact tho most successful and efficient abolitionists of the nineteenth century they struck too far and blows came back to destroy them and BO it will bo with the purse proud insolent and misled tax eaters of the present day by making no concession to the overtaxed people and by refusing a single dollar of reduction on the necessities of life but on the contrary insisting that whisky and tobacco should befree manufacturers havo dono more to promote ideas of free trade country m the last few months than gifted tongues and prank hurd heliy and david A wells the speaker touched upon the part general harris en took m suppressing the riots in 1877 and thadas itofe harrison commit a crime against the tafe by declaring in the dismissal of the blaine suit against an individual paper that justice could not be obtained in the state |