Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-03

/ ish at New Orleans. At these celebra-
| tons they do we'll in ascribing much
honor to sold Hickory" but when
| such speakers as Springer or Mills or
| Cleveland get through talking about
JacksOn's Democracy, which doesn't
take long, they branch off on free trade
and tariff. and then they forget all about
"Old Hickory" and his Democracy.
| When it came Springer's turn to speak
at the Jackson celebration in New York
! on the 9th of January, 1892, he took
occasion TO say: 1.-The country does not
need to be informed, by bill for the
general revision of the tariff, what the
Democratic party desires to do if the
law making power were in the hands Of
our party
"One-half OF the tariff burden will be
lifted from fhe shoulders of the people
by placing wool on the free list and
making the corresponding reductions
in the duties on WOODEN goods. A
measure thus affecting so largely the
necessary expenses of the people, so
essential to their health and comfort,
will not fail to attract universal atten-
ton and receive, when thoroughly I'M
derstoOd, universal support"
Now, if Mr.. Springer had been honest
with Jackson, whose memory he pre-
the banqueters what President Jackson,
the Democrat of the old school, the old
sturdy type, thought of free trade. But,
Of course, the modern Democrat never
mentions President Jackson's opinions
of free trade, and therefore they mis-
represent the Democracy of the hero of
New Orleans. When DR.. l.. II. Cole
man, of North Carolina, wrote to An
drew Jackson in 1924 for mis- views on
the tariff question, he answered under
the date of April 26, in this language:
Heaven smiled upon and gave us lib
erty and independence. The same
Providence has blessed us with means
of national independence and national
defense. He has filled our mountains
and our plains with minerals lead,
and iron and copper-and has given us
climate and soil for the growing or
hemp and wool. These being the great
materials of our national defense, they
ought to have extended to them ade-
quate and fair protection, that our man
ufacturerS and laborers may be placed
III fair competition with those of Europe,
and that We may have within our coun-
try supply of these leading articles so
essential to war. In short, sir, we have
been too long subject to the policy Of
British merchants"
Mr.. Parton, in his life of Jackson,
says that Henry Clay never delivered
speech, and Horace Greeley never
wrote All editorial, more commenting
the American system of protection,
than does the Coleman letter. And
jackson not only paid this tribute to
protection in 1894, but he pronounced
another one equally as strong IN the
campaign of 1928.
So it seems that while Springer, Mills
and Cleveland are praising Andrew
Jackson they haven't got Andrew jack
sons Democracy.
Nails and the Tariff.
We have another pretty good illustra-
ton of the ''iniquity" Of the 'robber"
tariff. 1t is as regards nails. The Iron
Age has recently printed price list
com pairing The prices of cut steel wire
nails in factory lots in Chicago, during
1890 and 1891. The comparisons are
quite interesting, and more so because
under the new tariff law the price has
gradually declined: