Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-10-03
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Misrepresentation.

| 81 Misrepresentation.
Ma. EDIroR ALLOW me to correct, through
your columns, 8 snisstateu,ent made in the last
"Snnbury Gazette" in an article pretending to
give "Me sentiments ffhe democ ,aey of F'ennsyL
ranio" The article in question contains the
following extract:
"While the tariff bill was pending in Congress.
Daniel Webster was requested by a number of
tureTs, among whom were the propretors
Of furnaces. rolling mills, colleries, cotton and
woollen mills to make proposition TO the friend.
Of the new tariff bill. TO reduce the tariff Of is42
Is per cent, which they said wonld still afford
them ample protection. This proposition might
have been accepted, and the tariff question set.
tied"
To the first part Of the paragraph take TO ex.
ception but deny, without fear Of con, radiction.
the truth of the concluding sentence. and will
show, from facts which cannot be controver,ed
that the editor has made most palpable a,temp,
at misrepresentation; whether intentional. O.,
through sheer ignorance Of what he has stated.
the public will determine
II is we'll known by ell sensible persons and
IL the editor Of the +" Gazette" does not know. ne
shoud--that no proposition. however Just and
liberal, could have been made which would have
proved acceptable to those persons who were de-
termined to force the bill through with sll its
acknowledged imperfections. Is not the editor
aware Of the faet-who. as q public journalist
should be--that Immediately before the question
on engro.sment wss taken, the Hon. SIMON CAM.
FROM, as last resort aud to test the hypocritica
brawling Of some invested with the yarb Of au.
ihority, that Pennsylvania could have had all the
protection she desired but for the obstinacy Of
her representatives,, offered two amendments
similar to the proposition submitted TO Mr.
Webster, and had them both signaIly defeated =,
His two amendments were for reducing the rates
Of the act Of 1912 IS per cent. on articles above
80 per cent, and reeneing the duties on coal and
iron 25 per cent. below those imposed BY that
act. No person with a sane mind will assert,
that had the amendments offered by Mr.. Cameron
been proposed by Mr.. Webster they would have
met with diffe,en treatment.
However much inclined the public may be to
forget the neachery and foul dealing Of those in
whom implicit confidence had been placed. this
attempt OF the Gazette" at palliation, in utter.
| ing falsehood 30 glaring, will be frowned down
| by every person the least conversant with the
proceedings Of Congress Pretended ignorance.
a. exhibited by the editor OF the Gazette" ei
fact which is now matter Of history. indicates
degree Of eringing and syeophantic subse'vien.
ey only fit for the demagogue who will resort to
any means for political elevation.
Notwithstanding the efforts Of the dough :faeea
editors Of the Foster faction to smooth over the
injuries inflicted u?on Pennsylvania by the nulli
6ers Of the SOUTH there is every reason to believe
that the democracy Of the Keystone State will
show. at the coming election, its utter abhorrence
for any man whose views upon the tariff question
are in unison with those Of men who have de
clared that this State would submit TO anything
FRIGHT OR WRONG" A proper independents,
demands il Of the democ rats 10 hurl this ISLANDER
back by defeating WIN. B. FOSTER, the mar
who has expressed himself favorable to the mea
sures Of our enemies. That Mr.. Fosters elec
ton will be heralded as free trade victory, there
is nothing much more certain. Let every demo
erat, then. who cherishes the doctrines recognised
by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and
! Jackson, exert himself to defeat the man who
entertains sentiments averse to the best Interests
Of the State. IxpErESpkSr.
Sunbury, Oct, /, 1916.