The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-02-04

thero was pnantOm-a SnOSt-a hOTTi
BILE shadow, which rose suddenly Ia
"sear their eye-bals" in the midst of this
joyless revelry. What was itl The gen
tleman raised his eyes and looked across
the way to this side of the House, and
cried out to us, in a hollow voice, that
seemed to shake with sudden fear. Don't
get behind the military chieftain!" Aye
sip he saw a shadow dressed In arms,
with nodding plume, and he turned pale
at the sight. And why were we not to
gather behind this "noble old chieftainl'
Was it because he never led his followers
but to victoryl But. sir, if the mere
shadow of that nodding crest so alright
ed the gentleman, how will he sustain
himself when he beholds the living real
ity in breath and being? How will his
heart beat when he hears the railing Of
grape and canister? when the roar Of
small arms and great guns fall upon his
earsl What will be the feeling at the
white house thenl Sir, the gentleman
and his party, his model President and
all, will fly before him as did the Mexi-
cans at Buena Vista.
The gentleman told US another thing.
He was not content with holding up Mr..
Polk as the model President: he said he
was the "reflex of popular opinion Yes
sirj that was it; "the reflex of popular o.
piuion. Aye. indeedl Mr.. Polk the re.
iex of popular opinion in this coun,ryl
Why. sir, will point the gentleman, on
that subject, to another "reAex" ian hum
BILE one, it may be- of public opinion
Let him cast his eyes on this side of the
House and on that side; at the late sess.
ion Mr.. Polk's majority in the House was
nearly two to one; but where is the ma
jority now. sirl Here is little "refex'
for the gentleman to look on, and for the
President too.
Mr.. McClernard interposed to make
some remark in reply, but, owing to his
position and noise in the hall, is was whOl
ly lost to the Reporter.
Mr.. Steward resumed. Yes, sir, here
is one "rehex" and there will be another
"rehex" when old Rough & Ready comes
He will drive the gentleman and his par
ty where they will never be seen again
leave this "reAex' to the gentleman and
his reflections; let him contrast it with the
,, splendid column which his model Presi-
dent has built of the bones and blood Of
armies and navies, Of debt and taxation
piled up mountain high, for the admira
= ton of posterity.
But enough of this. l rose for the
purpose of examining Report of the
Secretary of the Treasury which has
been lauded here and elsewhere as the
, greatest production of the agej" docu
ment which has been printed in the Ger
man, and l don't know how many othel
= languages, and has been profusey circu
lated among the people; and it is work
ing in every direction that effect for which
! it was intended by misleading and de-
ceiving the people on the subject of the
: . tariff of 1916. will say, in my place
that never did an official paper emanate
from any civilized Government in tht
world which contained so many nyfalsehOods
Il cannot use milder term) falsehood'
p. so numerous and so gross. Fasehoods
= not in hundreds or thousands misstated
but falsehoods in millions and hundreds
: of millions of dollars. That its state
ments are false l am prepared to Prov
from the Secretary's own reports. lwil
. show from his own figures that he has fal
: len into mistakes, or misstatements ofth'
truth, in one case of eighty-two millions
in another instance of one hundred ant
) seventy-6ve millions; in another of fou
). hundred and one millions, and in anothe
u of four hundred twenty three millions.
: do not say l will positively charge, tha
= these misstatements were made with de
. sign; with that question it belongs wit
), me not to meddle; but say that his owl
: figures prove the fact to be so. will Civ
+ the Secretary's own figures, exposing
their gross, their palpable misstatements
book and page, and pray gentlemen t
" take them and show them to Mr.. Walk
y y er, and let him deny or explain them a
- :. way if he can. This wonderful effort O
!. " financial ability, this greatest productio
" " of the age; is so replete with monstrou
% errors that it is not wonderful that tn
- y honorable Secretary should have fainte
" las he is said to have done) under the a
!, mazing task of producing them and er
!, =, deavoring to put them forth as truth
= Sir, it is an casy'thing to prove the trut
= = to be true; but the task Of working Ell
)" ror into truth is too great for even tn
> = sublime genius, the herculean ability {
y Mr.. Walker himself; and sayit is n
., s. wonder he tainted Under the attempt.
% . Sir, the honorable Secretary has in thi
4 report three great objects in view. Th
a. first is to prove that the low duties a
"a ways produce increased revenue; tn
4. second is to prove that the reduction {
VI duties has produced not only an increas
~ of imports but of exports, and especial
y of the exports of breadstuffs and provi
N ions; and the third is to show that, by r'
,e ducing the duties and increasing impor
a. he has benefited the farming, mechani
le al, and manufacturing interests OF ii
no country. Yes. to show that importir
r. foreign goods by millions, and sendir
m money out of the country topay for the
IF is the way to help the interests of Amer
N can labor! Yet so says the Secretary.
m The first position this report attemp
Dis to establish is that his project OF reduciT
in duties has produced an increase Of eig
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