Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1889 — VOORHEES AND MRS. PARSONS. [ARTICLE]

VOORHEES AND MRS. PARSONS.

Senator Voorhees’s speech at Bloomfield, on Saturday and that of Mrs. Lucy Parsons, at Chicago, on Sunday, show that the statesmanship and oratory of this country are not all confined to one sex. It is interesting, also, to observe the similarity in the utterances of the two orators. Thus we have:

Mrs. Parsons in' Chisago. We liave a free government; they have a free government in France; yet we are slaves. There must he another revolution —arevolution against the “bastlles” of labor. The people must rise. They will rise, and they will storm and capture those bastiles, and they will hear out the heads of those devils —those capatittists—on the tops of pikestaffs. I say there wil l be a revolutation. 1 say you men are brave enough to rise and put down the tyrants. There will be slaves in the hostile of labor no longer; you will doaway with the tyrants, and put out the bosses. You must .march arm in arm, and shoulder to shoulder, against these “baatiles” of labor. You must not march in the street to he mowed down, but yon must get within the walls, and victory, sweet victory is yours.

Senator Voorhees at Sloomjield. A government which takes from one portion of its citizens in order to enrich another class don’t deserve to exist on-the-face of the earth, and wUI not long exist unless the people consent to becuui cfshives. If I Jhad my way with men like the Camegies, that prey .ed upon the people’s blood like leeelies, I would hang them. They are public enemies; worse than the Tories were during the Revolution. Why I think the time will come when you would rather—a good deal rather—lake a pitchfork and pitch Republican politicians out of your way than to piteh hay in yonr meadow. The Declaration of American Independence was a mere declaration against a theory and a principle or wrong, rather than against actual grievance. Yon have an actual grievance to inflame your animosity and hospitility to the present state of affairs.

It would be liard to say which of the speeches was the more mischievous and incendiary.—lndianapolis Journal.