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Show EATING UP THE FARMERS. V," hat a High Protective Tariff Is Doing Do-ing to the American Agriculturist. Agri-culturist. Hon. Daniel V. Voorhees. of Indiana, Indi-ana, in the Senate of the United State on the Kith day of March, 1800, made a telling speech against the infamous McKiuley bill, ana among the remarks re-marks said: Those who have sought to reform the enormous abuses growing out of consolidated con-solidated wealth, legalized avarice and educated rapacity, have in all ages been met with the most vindictive, un sparling spar-ling and sanguinary hostility of which history makes any record iii the affairs of men. Those who liave invaded the seats of ancient wrong, and disturbed the enjoyments of privileged oppression, oppres-sion, have in every era of human progress pro-gress been assailed as enemies of law and order, seeking to break down the safeguards of society; as agitators, firebrands, fire-brands, iconoclasts and traitors to their governments. Evils u-llieh hnva f.-r-v, ,. and hoar j in plundering the toiling masses of mankind havs alwavs been upheld by caste and aristocracy, whether in council, debate, or by the steel-clad hand of war or by the ghastly gibbet. It was the awful denunciation I of the mighty Nazarene hurled against I those w ho were "full of extortion and I excess," rather than the preaching of a I new dispensation which inspired the accusation before Pontius Pilate; and those who followed Him with bitterest execrations and most insolent triumph j to his death agony on the cross were I the usurers, the money-changers, the i accursed plutocracy of Judea. And j from that great hour to this the re-I re-I sentment ot chronic and corrupt riches, i intrenched behind accumulated laws' and constructions, has known no I bounds at the intrusion of the reformer. reform-er. It has been the most envenomed and merciless sentiment ever known to infest and pollute the human soul. The ablest statesmen and broadest philanthropists have not been spared when found, in any age or in any part of the globe, laboring to reform the abuses of concentrated wealth. John Bright led the column of reform for the repeal of the corn laws of England, laws imposing tariff duties on the importation im-portation of corn into Great Britain, thereby protecting the landed aristocracy aristoc-racy in selling their corn at high prices to the laboring classes, who were compelled com-pelled to have it or starve. He took the side of justice to the working people peo-ple as against the proprietors of the ! estate, says: Thomas Jefferson, more than a hundred hun-dred years ago, laid the hand of reform on the laws of primogeniture, the laws of entail, and the union of church audi state, and as a consequence was painted I as a Jacobin and atheist, an enemy to ; God and man, by the orders of privi-! leged society, and by the same power- ful classes which afterwards so fiercely sought the destruction of the great British statesmen and reformer.' No one need suppose that the same rule will now prevail. The traill reformers ot the United States in the present crisis will encounter a hostrlit v tilled with all the wickedness, corruption and malevolence, which more thin $o00,000,000 a year as clear rot.bery from the people, and a clear bonus to protected monopoly, can inspir e All that money can do t- saVsMiz? the press and fill its columns with faie arguments, false statements, and false accusuat ions against tariff reform and tariff reformers will be done; ;.i that corruption fund can do in c:-rrji:i" elections by venal blocks ol live, anil in thus defeating the advocates of honest hon-est and equal taxation, will be accomplished. accomp-lished. And all the arts of iiiiimidu-tion iiiiimidu-tion on one hand, and alluring seduction seduc-tion on the oi her. in the les'towal of othce and the distribution of officii patronage will be resorted to, in orer to retain the accendeney of the monev power over the possessions and iibfr-1 ties of the people. In the face of these ! things, however, anil with a full! know ledge of what is before us, we! will gird up our loins like rut n and go -! forward to the fight. ! Hie battle may be long and weary, j and some of us may fall in"the conflict,' or sleep in peace by the wayside before I it is over; but after awhile, amidst the ! glad shouts of liberated millions, the sun will go down on the great and final victory over the eternal right over legalized wrong, of freedom and equal-; ity over caste and servitude. Hail! mighty day of the swift-coming future.' I Born of the seventh generation of! farmers in an unbroken line on American Ameri-can soil, inured in mv youth to their! daily Iabnr5. and mad'." familiar with! their hardships and privations, it is my ! birth-right to speak for their deliver-1 ance from ppression and their restoration restora-tion to prospi rity, dignity and honor. This I have here and now aimed to do on principles fully indorsed by the people peo-ple of Indiana when they sent me to this body ami to that intelligent and just minded people I hold myself responsible. |