New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-05
POPULAR OBSERVATIONS.
VARIOUS KINDS OF DEMOCRACY.
THOSE WHO CHERISHED THE GOOD KIND ARE
ABOUT ALL DEAD-BUT HILL, TAMMANY
AND FREE TRADE SURVIVE.

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jro the Editor ii The Tribune.
| Sir: al am Democrat" believing with JEFFERSON
that all men were created free and equal with certain
inalenable rights" believing with Washington In the
more perfect Union, under the constitution That super
seeded the rope Of sand" the weakness OF when was
exposed nj the close OF revolutionary war-lf'0oJ
believing in the inherent virtue and value OF that con
stuion which afterwad perfected by our patriot
fathers and which was adopted by the people OF THIS
country-by the people not by the States. The intel
| lgcnt and farseeng patriots who framed that grand
chart rs the palladium Of liberties wero careful 10
provide for its adoption by tie people; bchevins tla'
we should lose sight OF the fact thht all rights
not granted are under constitution reserved to the
people, not reserved to the States is claimed by the
states Rights menand in this truth We find the grand
crystalllzcd fact that every American citizen Is
sovereign"
| Believing with Madison that the colonies or States
never exercised the rights Of sovereignty which, as Tic
cmphatcay stated were always vested In Congress or
In the people. Hence the theory Of state sovereignty
is false, both to history and to logic OF TRUTH
and of the principles which make the concrete OF our
national form Of government As Madison we'll says,
there are gradatOns OF power from the smaller corpora
ton In the city, county State up to the greater,
which is found supreme in and under Constitution,
which supreme power delegated by the people inhlblts
any and every cOntraventon.
Relieving with Jackson that free trade and notification
arc twin evils and are both political heresies, alike
disgracefu to the and injurious to the people, and
especially admlrIng the position taken by Jackson who
when he found that Calhoun plotting notification
FOR the purpose OF obtaining free trade sent Governor
Letcher. Of Kentucky with that noted message That
II he tCahoun) did not desst and recant his Internal
treason that by the Eternal he would hang him."
Now further upon the question Of free trade, let some
Of these sOcaed Democrats-free traders-examne tho
report Of Mr. Duff Green, which Is in print remember
ing that said Green was a Democrat Kentuclian and
special agent sent by President Jackson to England
to Investigate the situation. II they examine. they
will find that there existed in England vast con
spiracy involving manufacturers, merchants and poll
iclans Lords and Commons for the purpose OF destroy
my manufacturing Industries, purpoSing to flood
our markets with their products at such low prices that
our factories could not compete with the articles they
were TO send to No wcnder that with this terrible
danger impending, Jackson and Clay. opponents
upon other points agreed upon the necessity OF a pro
tective tariff to protect patriots should protect
whole country from the rapacQus greed OF England
And yet hero we have oday men calling themselves
Democrats, who pratng for free trade. To day
free trade with England would injure as II did injure
MS until protective tariff was adopted II Is we'll
established fact that England has impoverished every
country It could control and has enriched herself By
her system Of free trade and she has forced 1t upon
other countries by corruption by intimidation or By
war, as she found most expedcnt.
1t takes but few lines Of logic common sense to
overturn this absurd doctrine. Let us find
the argument In ono single question. If
you send your ten dollars abroad To
pay for your coat, how is your homo tailor to earn
his llvng' Or one other query: II your tailor is
deprived OF money TO pny his grocer through want
OF the employment which the making OF your coat
would furnish. will not the profit the volume OF the
grocers business be scont! This money sent abroad
without valid excuse Is continuing loss whereas
had 1t remained at home, II would have been con.
!, benefit, and fvin
hundred, thousand, transactions benefting not one
alone In the community, but every In the cOmmu-
nifty rejecting It's blessings in every direction bring
Ing the prosperity Of wealth retained at home instead
OF the adversely and poverty that must follow If the
capital is expended abroad Can any intelligent Demo-
r;at afford TO adhere to thi, free-trade insanity
oncer7 1t Is not faEaticIsm-a barren ideatv-suited
only for lunatcs7 Can any self-respecng citizen
consent to n continuance OF this public folly9 This
proposition for free trade in the interest OF foreign
labor, ensaved and pauperized by medieval
aristocracy.
And now, seeing as We do the benefits accrl,n o
Ander our protective tariff, protecting It does our
homo trade, is It not in ORDER and IS not the time
opportune, for adopting the principles OF Home Rue
by Home Rulers in place of Home Rule by Alien
Tyrnnts such as We find associated with and repre-
scented by David b. III? We ought then to awake to
the necessity Of immediate action upon this subject
for there Is no other question at this moment Our
communities suffering from the corruption and
Generalization and from the food OF vice and crime
that has been injected into them through the conniv
ance OF such men David b. Ill., through the fraud
and chcanery Of such so-callcd Democrats.
1t is high time that such were driven from
official life and power, suppanted by honest and true
citizens OF problty and good reputation Let us have
immediate and concerted action reaching to this con-
cluson. aud our communities will repress and
drive out the vicious and dlsorderly mercenares OF
the Tammany stripe who now fill our places OF trust
and honor TO the prejudice and injury OF the public
As before said. the who seek to break down the
protective tariff and who commend the notification
OF national law are neither Democrats nor patriots,
They reactionsts Of the worst type. Jefferson
would despise them. Washington would detest Them
and Jackson would punish them, If they did not recan
their Internal heresieS.
There are Democrats and Democrats. But surely
free trader cannot nghtfully be called Democrat
democrat, for in reality Richard croEer with his
!ys'Hy g'ii Is: !%; e m"ss
WITH his coat Of arms and bis barrel; We say these
with the hygCcc fasoSoCd ia am nI De@ocrat
But why the necessity for suoh severe terms Of
b. Hin made Southern tour, and he tod the people
in Mississippi dhey did want force bills that they
was the real jeff Davis doctrine. just fully re-
dictionary the leader OF the Lost Cause could have
desired But why not force bills7l Are all laws
for the repression OF wrong force bls'l II principles
ara not lawfully enforced OF what they
without force bills you have no law. And then this
same David b. Hin drops in upon South Carolina and
takes occasion TO commend John &. Calhoun. To
commend him for what Because he tried to nullfy
the laws the force Bills for collecting the protective
tariff duties upon lmpOrts1 Did he forget that Andrew
Jackson the patriotic President 81 the United States
was himself born in south c",ona and vas the
that he believed enforcing "the force bills Of the
| Government with all the vigor and energy OF true
patriot 1900 800
or in oil this David b. Hill playing the part OF the
| " Northern with Southern principles class Of
mon always held to be dcspcable bv a true
S0uthener than any other. Il Northern toadv7 or
| " mudsill." The South has trouble enough without
the Intervention OF such demagoges David b.
IIln and his speeches looking to reactonary policy