The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-09

Coleman letter Of April Is. is2l written
while the tariff bill CT is3i wss pending n
congress. some three os foar weeks before he
voted for II, Jackson distinctly argued for
additional protection. and pleaded for tho
necessity Of eniareing our home market:
Is vas the stifFrst kind Of protective doc
trine. In ISIS jackson vas again candi-
date for president, and again strongly de-
eiared for protection In his letter 90 the
governor Of Indiana Jackson strongly In
dorsed protection n time when the high
proseeriys tariff Of is2s vas pending in
congress and vas supported by such
Democrats as Tom Benton. Martin Van
Buren, and sslas Wright. thu special and
ablest friends Of Gen. Jackson. Protection
was the leading issue of the election Of
ises. and Jackson was elected upon it.
Jackson defended protection In bis In
angural and 10 bis first message in i5,o.
He held that manufactures increased the
price Of agricultural productions, and
created home markets: he distinctly
favored discriminating and not horizontal
duties; be did no. favor reduction OF
duties to avoid surplus, bat favored pro-
lection notwithstanding surplus. When
Calhoun, who had been an ardent protec-
ZIONIST Is late as 1916. began 20 denounce
the high protective tariff OF 1888, President
Jackson defended IL. The South Carolina
opposition 20 Jackson in 1882 was led by
the Southern advocates Of free trade, but
Jackson persisted in his support Of pro-
lection. In 1882 Jackson was the pro.ec-
tion candidate. while the opposition to
Jackson denounced protection and favored
horizontal tariff In his second term
Jackson reaftrmed the propriety of pro-
lection and IN his proclamation and mes
sage against notification Jackson declared
that protection was constitutional: he was
willing to reduce the revenue. but utterly
refused to abandon the sound, constitu-
tional principle Of protection.
Jackson was elected in 1928 as the friend
of prote ction. and continued 30 10 the end
of his eight years of presidential service.
Even the threat Of civil war and secession
from Calhoun and South Carolina could
not make Jackson recede from his posi-
ton that protection was constitutional.
and the compromise tariff OF 1888, which
gave Calhoun and South Carolina chance
to make q decent retreat, was the work of
Mr.. Clay and not of the friends Of Gen.
Jackson's administration; and il is this
still old proteetionist, Andrew Jackson,
whom the Democracy have the gall to de-
scribe annually on the Sth of January as
the exenplar OF modern Democracy. The
memory Of Jackson was pledged yesterday
by party whose present policy and
conduct is utterly at war with the
policy and views OF President Jackson.
The modern Democracy Is composed of
ex-Confederates. indationists, free silver
ties and Populists, who agree in their
denunciation of protection as unconstitu-
tional. Jackson was stiff protectionist;
his aolest state papers were written in
defense Of its constitutionality and Its
practical wisdom. Jackson was as I'M
compromising an enemy of Calhounism, as
ardent defender of the doctrine of Fed
ersl supremacy as Webster or Abraham
Lincoln. Jackson was opposed to infia-
ton. warned the nation of the conse-
quences of the undue expansion of
paper money. and he utterly secuted
the Populist theory of paternalism
in government: he always insisted that 1t
was the business of the people TO support
the government; not the business OF the
government to support the people. His
views on the tariff, finance and on the
question of national supremacy were re-
pudiated by the South in 1874. when they
elected Polk president, and have never
been treated with decent respect since that
date. When the civil war broke out all the
genuine Jacksonian Democrats at the
North. who believed In protection and the
preservation of the Union by Federal
coercion over secession. joined the Repub-
ican party. while the Jeffersonian Demo
Gratis, who believed In the doctrine of state
supremacy, expressed by Jefferson in the
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1898,
either openly fought against the dag or
labored directly or indirectly for the sue
cess OF the rebellion.
There has not been a day since the eiec-
ton If President Polk. in 1874. to the
present date, when the national Democracy
has reflected the sta,esmanship of Andrew
Jackson. Jackson was patriot and was
never n sectional president. so he was
sincere protectionist and a sincere Union
ist and q sincere enemy OF imitation, wild
car money, fool and knave finance and all
forms Of pateruslism In government lie
had some great faults of character; he did
some mischief by his purely personal
administration. but in ali the great
essentials OF statesmanship he was
in ali important emergencies an
able and illustrious American, a
SOUND national patriot, who believed In
protecting the labor of our home market
against that Of the tereign market: who
believed in honest money. who upheld the
doctrine of Federal supremacy and the
Union over that % state supremacy and
secession. This was the real Jackson that
is worth remembering today with honor
and reverence.
IL is melancholy today to reflect that the
name Of Jackson is still used TO coniuss
sith by a political party that is composed
chiefly OF ex-Confederaies. who either
ioggh. four years against the Union or
have educated their children to hate IL; it
is melancholy TO see the name Of Jackson.
the siardy defender OF protection. written
today on the banner Of = party that declared
protection was unconstitutional and voted
for tariff for revenue emily. Andrew Jack