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FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 81, 1910
THE TARIFF-GEN. JACKSON.

We last week alluded to the subject of the
tariff, and attempted to show from indisputable
testimony that the present administration and its
leading adhcrents, are bent upon uprooting the
protective system So full and uncquivocal is
the testimony on this point, that no candid man
can doubt as to the fact. Indeed, no administra-
ton man here, pretends to deny it. For the
purpose, tllcn of showing those friends of domes-
tic industry, who still rank themselves with the
supporters of Mr.. Van Buren-and there are
many such-undcr the mistaken idea that he is
following in the footsteps and carrying out the
democratic principles of his ilustrious predeces-
sor, we invite their attention to the following
exposition of Gen. Jackson's views on the sub
ject, as given in his letter to DR.. Coleman, of N.
Carolina, in April 1924.
The experience of the late war ought to teach us a
lesson, and one TO he forgotten If our liberty
and republican form of government, procured for
by our revolutionary fathers worth the blood and
treasure at which they obtained, it surely is
duty to protect and defend them. Can there be an
American patriot, who saw the privations, dangers
and difficulties experienced for the want of proper
means Of defence during the last war, who would be
cmbroled, to rest it for defence the precarious
means of national resource to cdervcd from
in a state of war with maritime power, who might
destroy that commerce to prevent us obtaining the
means of defence, and thereby subduc us l hope
there is not and if there is, am he does not
deserve to ENJOY the blessings Of freedom. Heaven
smiled upon, and gave us liberty and independence.
That same Providence has blessed us with the
OF national independence and national defence IL we
omit refuse to the gifts which he has extended
to us, deserve not the continuation Of his blessings
Hehas lied our mountansand our plains with minerals
with cad,ironand coppcr and gwen us climate and soil
a.,
materials ofour national Defence they ought to have
tended TO them adequate and fair protection that
manufactures and aborcrs be placed on fair
petition with those of Europe, and that we may have,
within country, supply of those leading and i'm
portant articles so essential in Beyond this, l
looked at the tariff with eye to the proper distbu-
ton of labor, and to revenue; and with view to dis
charge our national debt. am one of those who do
not believe that national debt ls national blessing
but rather TO republic inasmuch it is cal
culated to raise around the administration monied
aTstocracy dangerous to the liberties Of the country
This Tarl-poss,sses more fancli9 than real danger
| WILL ASK WHAT'S THERE SITUATION
or THE AGRICUITURIST? WHERE HAS
THE AMERICAN FARMER Ia NJ ARKET FOR HIS
HE HAS NEITHER A FOREIGN OR HOME
MARKET. DOES NOT THIS CLEARIY PROVE
WHEN THERE is NO MARKET EITHER AT
HOME OR ABROAD, THAT THERE is TOO
AND THAT THE CHANNELS FOR LABOR
SHOULD BE MULTIPLIED? COMMON SENSE
M ,W FROM ,CP1CT,T Ti-ipr rIIIs S SiTnGD
BuNDANTLABOR; EMPLOY TIN MECHAN-
GRE ATIN( HOME M,RKE1' E6R NnIiR
BREAD STUFFS, AND DISTRIBUTING La
n Sh REHE III RI T 1r NSR WI
SUIT. TAKE FROM AGRICULTURE, IN THE
VIM III SiA uNDKEi IliODSAND
| WILL. AT ONCE GIVE A HOME MARKET FOR
MORE BREAD STJEES THAN ALL EUROPE
HAVE BEEN TOO LONG SUBJECT TO THE.
pOni Ill or THE british MERCHANTS. IT
, TIE lIEPIC'A MED: AND JNSTEtD OF
EEEDlNG THEPAUPERs AND LABoRERS or
| A SHORT TIME nv C0NTINIriNG orr pRE'
SENT pOLiCf, WE Shall. ALL BE RENDER
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cious tariff is much wanted to paw our national debt,
ana afford us the means OF that defence within our
depends and last though not least give proper dis
ribnton to our labor, which must prove beneficial to
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This is short outline of my opinions, generally,
on inc SeI, Of your ,nGuLy ana and believing them cor
piness of my country, / declare to yoi,, would not
barter them Tor any Office or situation ola temporal
'N'N ANDREW JACKSON.
This is the true American view of the sub.
cct, and Gen. Jackson has expressed it in strong
energetic lanouare. What patriotic freeman
docs No, roo,,o tho, mo .hor, hoon ,oo Ion,
suh;oc, 70 ,ho ro,;cv Of Tho p,;,;sh ,no,oh,n,. .
.nd ,,ho AGO.. ~, 1900 ';,,, con - A. ,.
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ourselves" But how is it with Mr.. Van Buren,