Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-02-29

found necessary to abolish. 1t ,0o,.ld
seem, therefore, to be the part Of ,cis.
dom and sound policy to remove, as
far as practicable, the causes ,chich
produce IN7RUSIONS upon the
public lands, and THEN TAKE
EFFICIENT STEPS TO PRE-
VENT TT IN FUTURE. Would
any single measure be SO effective in
removing all plausible grounds for those
inrusions as the graduation of price
already suggested! A short period OF
industry and economy in any part Of
our country would enable the poorest
citizen to accumulate the means to buy
him a home a. the lower prices. and
leave him without apology for settling
on lands not his own. II he did not,
under such circumstances, he would
enlist no sympathy in his favor: IND
THE LAWS WOULD BE READ.
ILY EXECUTED. WITHOUT
DOING VIOLENCE no PUB
Lie OPINION.
Entertaining these views, recon-
mend the passage of presumption law
for their benefit, in connection with the
preparatory steps toward the gradua.
ton Of the prices of the public lands,
IND FURTHER AND MORE
EFFECTUALYL TO PREVENT
INTRUSION HERE.4FI.ER.---
Indulgence TO those who have settled
on these lands with expectations that
past legislation would be made rule
for the future, and at the same lime re-
moving the most plausible ground on
which INI,RUSIONS are excused,
and adopting more efficient means TO
prevent them hereafter. appears TO me
the most judicious disposition which
can be made Of this difficult subject.
The limitations to guard against abuses
in the execution of a pre-emptlon law
will necessarily attract the careful atten.
ton of congress; BUT UNDER No
] CIRCUMSTANCES IS 1T con
| SIDERED EXPEDIDNT TC
AUTHORIZE FL on TIN G
CLAIMS IN .ANY SHAPE. They
have been heretofore, and doubtless
would be hereafter, MOSTPROLIF.
/ &c SOURCES OF FRAUD And
OPPRESSION, and instead of ope-
rating to confer the favor Of the gov,
eminent on industrious settlers IKE
OFTEN USED ONLY no MIN
lister TO A SPIRIT OF CO
PIDITY 1T THE E1PENSE
OF THE MOST MERITORf-
Gus Of that class"
If then to advance such opinions, is suffi
cient 10 fastcn on Mr. CLAY enmity towards
the settlers on the public lands, what be.
comes of Mr. VAN BUREN's peculiar tegare
for that class OF our citizens? We ask
every man, we ask all, who are candid ano
truthful, where is it, in what does it consist
We wish to be informed, how it 10, that
that which is criminal in HENRY CLAY, il
mad rirtue in MART,s VAN buren,. W.
cannot understand it, it is beyond cur poor
comprehension.
| Another grave objection urged by the
Gazette against Mr. CLAY is his support Of
the protective policy, and the policy itself is
denounced as injurious to the interests Of
the west. We deny, in the first place,
that such is the tendency and result Of the
Tariff, and we defy the Gazette, backed by
the Globe. and all its Extras, to tho proof
1t dare not 90 Into statistics to sustain its
assertions. 1t dare not attempt to prove
that the tariff of 1912, has either lowered
the price Of produce, or increased the price
of the necessares OF life. As to the exac.
tions Of the tariff, we boldly and honestly
declare, that it is lower in the aggregate,
than the Tariffs Of 1916, 1924 1928 and
1882. We dare the Gazette to take up this
issue, and publish correct table Of the du-
ties levied by each, on those articles that
are the greatest in the consumption Of the
farmers Of Iowa. Why, if it were SO sus
ceptible Of proof, has it not been done be-
fore? Why has not the Gazette, given
its reader. the exactions Of each in parallel
columns, that they nigh thus see ''the mi.
guilty of the system" and the "extortionate
TAXATION" with which the wing party has
oppressed them But if TO advocate pro-
tective duties, is contrary to democracy,
then JEFFERSON, MADISON and MoNEoE,
were the worst OF federalsts. We state
as further fact, that every President OF
the United States, from GEORGE WASHING
TON, to JOHN TYLER, except the elder AD-
ANS and MARTIN VAN buren,, urged upon
Congress in their messages, the necessity
and propriety of protection. Were they all
federalists-did they assist in building up
an iniquitous system-did they countenance
extortion from the poor man, and the oppres
sion of the farming interests Will the
Gazette answer these questions We'll,
how is it with MARTIN VAN buren,, in tn Is
respect, what has been his course on this
same policy Of protection live look at the
Senate's Journal of 1924, page 4Ol, we End
the names of THOMAS H. BENTON. ANDREW
NJ A