Litchfield enquirer., 1846-07-30
TNE EIQIIRDR.
LITCHFIEI.D. JULY 30, 1916.
The Administration and tAc
thrift Of ~.

The Administration and tAc
Tariff Of ~.
The bill for the reduction Of the present
tariff is still under discussion in the Senate.
The debate - which has been inSufferably
long and tedious-beginS to assume a more
l.inleresting char&cter-severalR ew and i'm
portant features having been developed du-
ring the past week or two. The tdr!F men
of the looofoco party-those who supported
Mr.. Polk on the ground of his having "a
better tariff man than Mr.. Clay"--are rub
bing their eyes as if just awaked from
twenty years sleep, and wondering how
they could possibly have dosed SO long
But the Rip Van Wrinkles of the party are
in every truth "wide awake" at last, and are
in earnest in their endeavars to break the
slumbers of their fellows. The cold Key
Stone State'' has blown a blast uron her
iron trumpet which has reached the White
House.
Poor Pennsylvania was there ever
State so shamefully and so unaccountably
deceived as she has be- n by o"nagogues
and political juglers! Her vial and &C
knowledged interest is and was identified
with the Tariff of AZ. The locos knew this
and yet suffered themselves to be dnpfd into
the support of Mr.. Polk. Holo this was
done, they now see clearly, though they dis
regarded the repeated warnings of the VIII 6
press and Wing statesmen previous tc the
election.
The following is an extract from the
Harrisbulgh Union, thorough going Loco
Foco paper, during the summer of IA:
Coz. Polk AND TIE TARIFF--A VILE
WIG FAIsEHooD ~ e preceive that the
Harrisburg lntelligencer, with the mendac.
ity so eminently the characteristic of the
coon papers, denounces Col. FOLK in ad
vance as an "open and avowed FREE Trade
TheoriSt." The authority Tor this sratuit
Gus assertion is O. course, not furnished by
the Inttlligencer, as il is the policy of the
Wing press 10 deal in habitual miSrepresen-
tation both of the men an measures of the
Democratic party. N"U zee happen mknow
and state upon ne da hO.iiy Of II lfnnesSee-
an aCith t01On, IRE en- rersed at RGit,morr-
NEAR nrighLo'n ot CoIonT Imk, THAT
HE HOLDS THE DOCTRINE OF FREE
TRADE IN UNEQUALLtD ABHoRR ENCE. HE
NEVER HAS ADVOCA TED IT, AND
NEVER WILL. He is in favor of a ju-
dicious revenue Tariff, sffording the sim
AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
"He, DANES X. Polk) is the especial
friend and advocate of the coal and iron in
terest, those two great objects of solicitude
with the Pennsvlvanians and believeing
permanence in our laws to be of incalcula-
bic value, is op'sed 10 the disturbance Of thp
present tariff These facts we state upon
the best, authority, and caution the democ-
racy of this great state against listening to
tHe representation Or tire Z, urre.''
At Trenton, N. j., Sept. 9Th 1914, at the
great Loco Foco State Convention, the fol-
lowing banners, with others, were borne in
the procession:
"A TARIFF FOR PROTECTION"
"POlk, Dallas and the T'd'!f ct 1912"
The following resolution was passed in
May 1874, at Morristowr, N. J. by the
" Young Hickory Club"
"ResoIred, That we agree with our can
didates for the Presidency and Vice Prsiden-
cy that The present tariff ought mol 10 berePeal.
eI" .......
In be debate on the Tariff in the Senate
on Friday last, Mr.. Cameron, (loco) of Pa,
preseAt:d several petitions in favor Of
sustaining the present Tariff, numerously
signed by democrats of his State-and made
a strong speech on the same side.
Mr.. Sewer followed, and in the course of
his remarks said .r. ...
"These petitions are mere joke-a sort
Of funeral dirge of these manufacturers
these pensioners-at the taking away Of The
bounty we have allowed them for a Few year
past. II was ell joke, and the Senator
from Pennsylvania could not but smile when
he presented them. Was there man who
could read, and who did read for the last
twenty wears. schs dd not knO,c that James
X Pok scas a free trade man? Not one
uuu Nv HOSW
ding all these petitions and all this fuss !
about the tariff, would vote the Democratic
ticket again. She never would vote for the
Wing party under any circumstances
Now this joke of the panic-makers had
teen borne with great deal of good humor
ON his side Of the chamber, and lie hoped it
would not be carried farther, bu' they would
allow the morning hodr for Other business
aud then they might take from one O'Clock
until the adjournment 10 speak about the
Tariffto their hearts content"
Subsequently, in reply to question
from Mr.. Webster. Mr.. Cameron stated
that he attended a great many democratic
meetings in Pennsylvania in lS44, dining
,ohat he could for the cause IF democracy and
at all ofihem banners ,Oere .conspieu"msly
displayed, bearing the inscription, P"l6.
Dallas, Skunk and The Tariff of ls4!'-
Neither of the first three, he said, coul'
have been carried without the last. Tn
Tariff oas a parsm"u'a consideration w'iA
Pennsylvania, and she ,ooul rather hare elect