Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-11-02
sTRoUDsBURG COUNTY PA,

wants at first cost without paying tribute to along
line OF forwarders, shippers, factors, wholesale
7 and retail merchants, &c. be not that which true
! Philanthropy would dictate, then l am indeed
grossly in error.
j Blu. why, i, may be, asked. do recall all
this in addressing you, when know that you
understand il already, and that rinany OF you are
perfectly competent 10 teach Political Econo-
my to the College Professors and ,hcory-spn-
ming Doctors of ,ha, perverted Science I'll do
II 10 call your attention 10 the deliberate con-
spiracy Of your would-be leaders aud rulers 10
beiray you into the power of the bitter adver-
sares of the time honored convictions Of your
once unanimous Sta.e-to sacrifice your prin-
cipes and your interests on the alier>f South
Carolina policy and Presidential aspirations.
| | ask you 10 look once more al the Res ousion
relating to this subject of The last Baltimore
/ Conventions, VIZ:
THAT justice and sound policy forbid the
Federal Government 10 foster ono branch Of
Industry ,6aihe de,riment of another, or to cher
ish the interests of one portion 10 the injury Of
another portion OF our common country that
every cilZen aud every section Of the country
has right TO demand and insist upon an equal
ity of rights and privileges. and TO complete and
ample protection of person aud property from
domestic violence of foreign aggression. =
| RESOLUTIONS OF THE BALTIMORE Polk
CONVENTION, 1914 REPEATED BY THE CAss
DITTO, lS4S.
He who wilfully mis-s.aies his adversary's
positions evinces guilty consciousness of the
unsoundness of his own. He resorts TO a dis
honest stratasein because he is aware that he
/ - E.iI Oco
Compare the doctrine Of Protection, as above
stated, with the counterfeit which the concoc-
,ers OF the Baltimore Resolutions seek TO palm
upon the country. Who ever conented that one
branch of Industry should be foslered SO the
detriment of another p Who ever asked them
| TO cherish the interests Of one portion to the
injury of another portion of our common coun-
| try! Who has advocated an inequality of rights
and privileges The manufacturers Of these
resolutions seek by q frauduen. statement Of
| the question TO libel the friends Of Protection,
and 10 win the confidence of its enemies with.
out provoking The hostility Of the thousands
| who would not recognize the principle they
/ cherished in the disguise so knavishly upon it.
] To tho discerning i, became obvious, early
! in 644, lha. Pennsylvania was TO beswinded
! Her lsboring masses were deso,edIy favorable
/ The principle of Protection and 10 its embo-
dlmen,, the Tariff Of 1912; the problem pro-
! posed was to cajole her into voting for the
deadly enemies Of both. This was no easy
task for that Tariff no, only accorded with
her convictions but manifeslly and signaly
promoted her interests. This resolution was
intended ,9Asatsfy The ultra Cation interest,
. while i. only myslifed her. Before i, appeared.
one of your Representatives, Mr.. Bidlack. rep
reseniins District a, once strongly Iron and
strongly Democratic, procured copies Of The
| Globe Prospectus 10 circulate in his District,
/ first striking out of 1t all that portion auowing
deadly hostility to Protection and the Tariff Of
'42! Connect were needless
James X. Polk was nominated al Baltimore.
/ He was known 10 the intelligent as uniform,
embiuered, inve,erae enemy of Protection.
Blu. this was strongly denied by the journals
and speakers of the party supporting hm in
| Pennsylvania. They insisted that he as
/ favorable TO the Protective Policy as Henry
Clay. There were some among lhem brazen
enough 10 maintain this in public controversies
on ths stump. SchuylkW County was The the
alter of one of these deba,es-il gave large
majority that Fall for The sham Pec,eclionis,s- !;
| II has irsi detected the fraud and given like
ma joruy for the other sort. Judge Christian
Myers of Clarion was Polk EIector and iron-
master; he chrstened his new works Polk
Furnace TO testify his faith in the Protective
orthodoxy of his candidate ; he is now oppo-
sing Cass and The party which deceived him
Wilson M'CandIes. OF Pusburg another
Polk Elecior, and wrote letter certifying tha,
Mr. Polk was quito as good q Prole,lionlsl
Mr.. Clay. ! have not yet heard OF hl<repen,-
| ance. but, though lawyer, | think he cannon
much longer wilhoId IT, He ough, 10 lament
IN dus, and ashes the deception he prac,iced,
The misc hieEhe has wrought.
But there were those among you whom
these assurances did moi saiisly-.hey feared
their cherished policy wa, TO be sacrIfced-
they would moi on anything shor, Of The
word OF Mr.. Polk himself, The value of whose
word was not so we'll known then as il now is.
Accordingly, letter was dispatched TO MI.
Polk by John K. Kane, (whom Polk has since
appointed Jodge,) and who obtained the fol-
lowing answer:
COLUMBIA, Tenn. June 10, 1914.
DEAR SIR: | have received, recently, sew
-eral letters in reference TO my opinions on the
s.bieci Of the Tariff, and among others. yours
of The 10Th uIiimo. My opinions an this sub
jeet hass been otlen given To the public. They
are to bs found IN my Phbc aei-, and Ia the