The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-22
ARE THE LocoFOCOs IN FAVOR OF A.
$3.50 TARIFF

The leading Locofocos-the managers and
wire- pullers--aware that the popular sentiment
of the country is in favor of protection to home
industry, endeavor by eqnivocation and msrepre-
sentation to have the people believe that they
are the friends of tariff. To accomplish this
end, they cry down Mr.. Clay's protective prnci-
pies, and fnsinuafe ia some cases, and in others
boldly ayow, that their candidate, Polk, is in favor
OF as good tariff as the Wings Many of them
urge this IN conversation, and occasionally Lo-
cotoco journal has the effrontery to utter similar
sentiments publicly. We advise the friends of
home industry before they give the slightest Gre
dence to the assertions of these fellows, to ask
them if they and their party did not, with all
their might, oppose the passage OF the present
tariff! Did they not oppose it at every step of
its progress? And after it became law, did
they not denounce it as bill of denominations
If they tell you that Silas Wright voted for it,
say to them in reply, that he did 80 under protest.
and made long speech explanatory of his vote,
in which he said he did not approve Of the pro
teciue features of the tariff; but as the country
was suffering for revenue, he merely accepted it
as the best that could at the time be had, and
that he would readily concur in its modification,
SO as 10 destroy the protective principle. He
wished duties laid without discrimination.
Let the farmers inquire of these pretended
friends of home industry if their candidate, Polk,
is in favor of protecting wool Stick them to
this point. Folks declarations on that subject are
full and explicit Be not content with mere pro-
LESSONS. Locofocoism, Janus-like, assumes all
guses to accomplish its ends 1t scruples not to
take every shape. With its advocates truth has
but little weight. The friends of home labor
must never let them escape. Smoke them out
of their holes if necessary, and force them to
avow their real sentiments upon this vital and
all-mportant question II they attempt to evade,
by crying out "Bank, Bank" point them to Dali
lass twenty five bank votes. If they yelp Dis
tribution," tell them it was originally jackson
measure. If they say the Wings are in favor OF
assumption of State debts, tell them, if they are
intelligent, that they assert deliberate falsehoods
II they are ignorant. misguided, set them right
La no case suffer them TO escape without avowng
their true sentiments.
HENRY CLAY, from the commencement of his
career, has been the firm and efficient friend of
home industry. When but youth during his
first term of service in the Kentucky Legislature,
he was grossly nsulted by free trade advocate
of that period, for proposing tie dress in homespun
cloth Upon this point he has. never wavered !;
and all the efforts to detract from his fame are as
futile as the viper biting the file.
Secretly the Locofoco party are in favor of free
trade in its widest sense. The more sly, cum
ming, jesuistica portion Of them conceal their
sentiments, and should on that account be the
more closely watched.--Rochester Democrat.