The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1854-03-02
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Why Don't thu Locofoccs Swallow their own

Protection to home industry is Il Wing
principle, and in the prosperous days Of Wing
supremacy it was Incorporated into the na-
tonal policy and remains there yet. Now,
| if the I.ocofocos believe in free trade, why
don't they establshit! They have the pow.
er. Our private opinion is that they couldn' I
be scared into it.
The Secretary of the Treasury, instead OF
proposing free trade, the doctrine Of his par
ty, timidly recognizes the justice of the
Wing principle Of protection. and actually
recommends certain notifications OF the tar
| if to rive it a more thorough effect, and all
of I.ocoiocoisni, with the exception OF here
aud there fanatical theorist, applaud the
suggestion The limits of Locotoco daring
! in this connection merely extend to dshg-
urng the features and body of the Wing
measure, without ever venturlng to stamp
out its vitality They arc content when
they think they have humburged the people
with a bungling and delusive change OF the
! form, and then, to preserve some little cred
| it 70! craftsmanship, shrcwdly and pertina-
ciouslv cling to the pangled substance.
! Again, internal Improvement by the ma
tonal Government, with proper restrictions.
! is !. Wing principle or measure, and we In
yitc, " dare the now rampant Locofoco par
,y to rcpuliatc il. They can't be coaSed,
argued, or driven into radical opposition to it.
! s. far from this, its high fnnctionaries are
pleading vociferously for national aid to
specific enterprises, upon precisely the same
| grounds whercon rests this important article
of the Wing creed. The Locofocos have in
fact, stolen Mr.. Ciay's certificate of merit
and are knocking loudly at the doors of Con-
rress for favors on its credit-they have
picked up the Whig check and are them
selves about to present it ut the national
treasury. They have at last craw'ed upon
the same rock and are beginning to shout
] for relief to the same quarter.
| Arain, the distribution Of the public land
or their proceeds, in conformity with the OBJ
/ iect of their original session, is Wing
principle, and on this, as on other questions,
! thr I,ocofocos confess the sore nconye.
niencc Of having no principles, or mprac'i-
cable ones, hy seeking 10 elbow the Wings
away from theirs. 4 bill for the distribution
of the public lands. introduced by 10.
cofoco into the last Congress, and endorsed
by an overwhelming majority of the Loco
foco House of Representatives, is now again
| nendipp before the present l.ocotoco House
through the same Locofoco agency, ane
win Certainly become law, if not defeated
| nv some other Locofoco theft or adaptation
Of the same sort. And yet there are l4oco-
focos of such dense ignorance or rare impu'
Idencc as to snecr at the Wings for their
want of principles! A club-tooted long
nailed bean-eyed Chinese, grinning at the
prettyest woman in Louisville, couldn't pe S.
! s,,;,y cut a more ridiculous figure.
Fn,, Wy, there is the question of our for
e,, affairs. the true policy Of which rece'v
ed such signal and brilliant Illustration a
mo hands Of President Fillmore and his
/ Cabinet, hut which like everything W hg
onco,nteyed the unmeasuraDle abuse ot thu
! ,cofncos, and the loudest observations
that. once again installed in the heights o
power. they would inauguratc foreign poi
.E;cv worthy of the country and the age
Franklin Pierce came riding into power OF
the topmost wave of commingling factions
and repeated in his inaugural. with extraos'
dinary emphasis and touch of brayado, ina
: The Shirt of our foreign policy should be re
verseJ and Americans no longer be depri'e'
Of the inestimable privilege of growing lust
: ;lv ON every duug-hillin Christendom. But
&, alas for Presidential frailty, the same indi
ydual in his annual message, al'et u"
: laps of nearly year, coolly makes the tam
acknowledged that our foreign anai'
remain in the same condition IN when n
found them. Thus. as usual, before IN
\ election the locotoco mountain labored fa'th
I fully and brought forth ridiculous mouse
: We heartily dislike this system OF pollticss
countcrfeiting. or of political quackery.
L. the Locofoco Doctors distrust their own pre-