Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1894 — Bad Odor of Tariff Reform. [ARTICLE]

Bad Odor of Tariff Reform.

lndl.inai>olis Journal. The stew York World is a very wicked paper. Its latest exhibition of wickedness, or, more properly, “cussedness,” was on Tuesday. In the first column of the first page is a picture of a most reprehensible cur, upon which is placed the head and face of Senator Voorhees, now wearing an expression of extreme dejection. Under this cartoon are the words: “A watch dog of tariff reform.” Two years ago this label would have won for Mr. Voorhees, in certain quarters, the title of statesman, and enthusiastic freetraders would, have taken his measure for a halo. But things have changed. Still, with all the change, the World could have been pardoned had it stopped its artist at that foint. It did not. It permitted Im to put a collar about the neck of the dog with the Voorhees head; to that collar is fastened, by firm

looking staples, a cask; and cask is labeled on the side, “Whisky $1.10," and on the end “$1.10," which is the tax which has been placed u]ion whisky, the correspondents declare, by M. Voorhees to please the Whisky Trusts Time was when a Democratic paper which would thus parade Mr. Voorhees to the world would be denounced in every Democratic meeting. Now the cartoon is the object, of glee in the offices of the Indianapolis Sentinel, the Evansville Courier and the Terne Haute Gazette, judging from their editorials criticising the Voorhees bill and the Senator himself. . .. On the same page is a three-col-umn cartoon representing rooms about, the Senate chamber. “Senate chamber" is erased and “Board of Trust, Combine & Co., sole agents of tariff reform,” substituted,. On the window are such notices as “Dickers of all sorts made on the dead quiet," “Specialties of sugar, whisky and lead.” In consultation inside the committe room are seen the faces of Senators Gorman and Vest;, while outside the .room, leaning against the wall as if listening and much amused, stands Senator Brice.

This, in the judgment of a leading . Democratic paper, is the situation in the Senate. Senator Voorhees, the most zealous of free-trade advocates and the one who would have decorated the trees in Greene county with pendent monopolists, is paraded as the champion of the Whisky Trust, while Senator Vest, the most vehement foe of protection, is pilloried as dickering with the lobbyists of the Suirar Trust. It is not a Republican slander, but the criticism of a Democrat ic newspa per of free-lance proclivities. U. S. Grant Post of the Grand Army in Brooklyn declares that the flag for which 365,000 men gave their lives is the flag of the country, and while the Grand Army welcomes all the liberty loving who come to our shores it declares that they shall give our flag unqualified and undivided salutation, and recognize over all. without seeming rivalry from any flag whatsoever, the one flag of the free. This is the response of one post to the Mayor of Brooklyn, who refused to officially display the flag of Ireland on St. Patrick's day, and what one post has said it is probable that the rest of the four thousand will indorse. The old chaps of the G. A. R. are clannish and awfully “sot” about a few things.— Journal.