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that has misled them and to revise their
position before 1t is too late. Mr.. Clay never
dreamed OF protection, except as a temporary
expedient to foster our infant industries.
NOBODY down to this present political epoch
ever thought Of heFalding protection as a
liked tenet OF party faith It was always re-
garded as simple question Of policy to be
regulated according to the public need until
the Republican leaders, being out of sec
tional and sentimental soap, and in sore
straits for an ISSUE elevated it into gospel
ana began to preach Il as a doctrine.
- ASSAULT UPON INTELLIGENCE.
1t is at war with the genius of American
institutions, an assault upon the intelligence
ana capabilities Of American manhood, per-
petual object lesson to every agrarian,
archist and Populist in the land! Behold
what Is now going on in the ways and means
committee at Washington and answer me
whether it does not serve warrant for
all that crankism has claimed and may claim;
tell me how many presidential campaigns,
like the last, such scandal in self-interest,
such travesty Of free institutions, can sur
vive? If the devotees Of divine right and
prescriptive prerogative In France had lis
tened to the warning voice OF reason in time
there would have been no Reign of Terror.
II the slave holders Of the South had not
chung 80 tenaciously for imagined rights in
the territories that had already slipped away
from them, we should have been spared the
war of secession Quite as much as the divine
right OF kings, quite as much as the right OF
ownership In man, Is taxation for private
purposes a prescriptive claim no matter by
what name it be designated; and no such
claim can long stand out against the obvious
trend of the public thought and movement
Of the United States. Mr.. Lincoln once said,
and said truly: III slavery be not wrong,
nothing Is wrong" Let me paraphrase his
to pay tribute 10 part Of the people be not
wrong, nothing is wrong
1t Is for the benehciaries of this untenable,
eVer-exposed system, go see what the MOBILES
Of the ancient regime Of France, what the
patricians Of the modern South, refused 10
see, its insuffciency and shortcoming, and to
set about having it mended by statesmen, be-
fore it is demolished by the mob. With a
simple revenue tariff, depressing no class, but
operating exclusively for public purpose, and
with our fiscal system settled upon gold
basis affording the use of so much silver as
the business Of the country may asslmllate
the only possible bimetallic theory when
can be carried into practical effective shall
have that economic stability which OF all
things else the business of the country most
requires and an end Of quack doctors mas
querading as statesmen and quack nostrums
labeled patriotism
This is ST. Jackson's day, and, with rever-
ent hearts we are here to celebrate 1t. tie
was Democrat. We are Democrats he was
for honest money. We are for honest money
He stood by the integrity of the nation. We
stand by the integrity of the nation lie
believed in the people and trusted TO the
fidelity of his convictions When treason
reared it's head in the form OF nulllncauon
he struck it a whitening blow. When treason,
in the form of anarchy reared its head. we
struck it a whitening blow. And SO again
and again shall we strike 1t whenever anu
wherever it appears until we nave Wlpeu
demagogues and demagogism from the race
of the earth and brought our government
hack TO it's original functions, the just pro-
lection of property and life, and the equal
zation of all men and all classes in the pur-
suit Of prosperity and happiness.