Arizona republican., 1891-04-22
JEFFERSON AND CLEVELAND.

JEFFERSUN AND DCLEfEDAND.
 The birthday of Thomas Jefferson, the so called father of American Dem- ocracy, was celebrated far and wide in this country last Monday by innumer. able Democratic organizations. None of the celebrations were noticeable, however, except that at Tacoma, Wash., at which letter was read from Grover Cleveland, the present idol of Democ- racy, and that at the Democratic Club in this city, at which the aforesaid idol made speech. There are some strange incongruities in the expressions of the latter day saint of Democracy, by pen and tongue, when compared with the.ex- pressions of the ancient and time hon ored Jefferson, which it is the purpose of TIE REPUBLICAN to represent here with, to the confusion Of | the modern school of free trade Democracy. It Is quite true, as Mir. Cleveland says in his letter, that "there never was time in our history when the American people could with so much profit recall the char acter and teachings of this illustrious man," and it Is more emphatically true that there never Was time in our history when the Democrats of Amer ica could with so much profit recall those teachings on the subject oi the tariff.
 Mir. Cleveland himself seems to have been impressed with somewhat similar emotion, for in his speech to the Democratic Club he speaks of the principles enunciated by Jefferson In these words:
 These principles were not invented for the purpose of gaining popular assent for day, nor only because they were useful in the early time of the Republic. They were not announced tor the purpose of serving personal ambitions, nor merely for the purpose of catching the sutirages of the people. They wore laid as deep and broad as the truths upon which the fabric ol our government rested. In the spirit prophecy they were formulated and declared, not only as suited to the new experiments of new government, but as sufficient in every struggle and every emergency which should beset popular rule, in all times to come and in all stages of our country's growth and development.
 Mir. Cleveland having thus laid the broad foundation for the indorsement of all the principles laid down by Thomas Jefferson it only remains for TIE REPUBLICAN to enforce his advice specifically. We quote below four ex- tracts from Thomas Jefferson's public utterances which are beyond dispute:
 "The prohibiting duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture, which prudence requires us to establish at home with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within our selves, without regard to difference of price, secures us against relapse into foreign dependency.
 To cultivate peace and maintain commerce and navigation in all their lawful enterprises, to foster our fish cries and nurseries of navigation, and for the navigation of men, and pro- tect the manufactures adapted to our circumstances.
 The general inquiry now is, shall we make our own comforts or go without them at the will of a foreign nation He, therefore, who is now against do- nestle manufactures must be for reduc- ing us either to a dependence upon that nation or to be clothed in skins and live like beasts in dens and caves. 1 am proud to say am not one of these. Ex- perience has taught me that manufac- lures are now as necessary to our inde- pendence as to our comfort.
 My own idea is that we should encour- age home manufactures to the extent of our own consumption of everything of which we raise the raw material"
 As MT. Cleveland, the exponent of free trade, has given us his emphatic indorsement of Thomas Jefferson's prin- ciples, THE REPUBLICAN, may be pardon ed after these quotations from that illus trious American, for suggesting that the modern leader of Democracy is strange ly at variance with his own advice to his Democratic followers. Jefferson taught and enforced protection, not free trade.
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