The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-08

cnanlcdl COileSe III Idi0lSh' o
yearly in usefulness, and the hundreds
of factories making music all over North
Carolina shows that we have been re-
building "the workingman's school, and
that the spirit of North Carolina is that
diversified industries is the foundation
stone upon which the States prosperity
rests.
We are ready to follow where George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson and An
drew Jackson lead, but Mr.. Tompklns
seems not to understood the doctrines
for which they stood and with which
their names are forever indissolubly
connected Where is the authority to
call Washington 1.-The Southern protec-
ton PRESIDENT" He did not fully agree
with Mr.. Jefferson on the tariff. Who can
say that he agreed with Hamilton?
George Washingtons name can never be
associated with the sort of protection
that has given us the steel trust, and
the hundreds of other trusts that have
given license to the few to tax the many
for their own enrichment. 1t were pro-
fanation to try to attach Washington
name as authority to a single schedule
of the Dingley bill of nominations
Next Mr.. Tompkins says; eve may, if
we believe with him, follow the lead of
Thomas jefferson, the Southern expan-
sion President" What is Mr.. Tompkins'
purpose just now in parading Mr.. Jeffer-
sons expansion views?" Is it to bolster
up the administration imperialistic
policy? If so, no. utterance of Jefferson
can be twisted into an endorsement of
expansion by force, or expansion such
as the purchase of Filipinos implies In
a letter to President Madison, in which
Mr. Jefferson wrote about his long
cherished desire that Cuba should become
a part of the United States, Mr.. Jefferson
defined his idea of expansion when he
said:
s'It will be objected to our receiving
Cuba, that no limit can then be drawn
to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be
defended by us without navy, and this
develops the principle which ought to
limit our views. Nothing should ever
be accepted which would require navy
to defend it,"
The people of North Carolina now, as
when they wanted to elect Jefferson
President third time, believe with him
and repudiate a policy of so-called ex-
pansion that is at war with every princi-
pie that Jefferson taught.
Next Mr. Tompkins invokes the name
of Jackson. and I'VE may, if we think
as he did. follow the lead of Andrew
jackson, the Southern sound money
president" In his day, Jackson was re-
garded by Nicholas Biddle and his asso-
ciates who were getting rich at the ex-
pense of the government, as the greatest
enemy of sound currency and safe bank
divorce the government from partner
ship in banks. 1t is Andrew Jackson's
famous fight with the national bank that
is chiefly responsible for the antagonisms
which his administration aroused. He
was a foe to such sound money" poll
cies as the Hannas of this day endorse
and approve.
Why is it that Mr.. Tompkins takes a
Of mi To hot
We may follow the policy of protection"
expansion" and Sound money!" And
why should he invoke the names of
Washington, Jefferson and Jackson as
sponsors for these three creeds? Wash
ington never stood for protection, except
such as was necessary to protect our in
FAINT industries, and was in no sense an
apostle Of that doctrine. Jefferson, who
was the great eXpansionist of contiguous
territory, abominated the sort of So
called expansion the administration is
carrying out in the Philippines. Jackson
was the foe of government by banks,
and his enemies were the very sort of
men VINO invoke DIS 1leluOIy III support
of their financial policies that are hostile
to every idea entertained by Old Hick-
DRY.
The propaganda for protection, i'm
perialistic expansion, and favoritism to
banks. whether carried on through Fourth
of July addresses or in stump speeches,
can get no aid or comfort from the
teachings of Washington, Jefferson and
Jackson, and it is proclamation to use
their names to secure Southern support
for measures that contravert the teach
ings and life of those three great South
ern presidents.
The feature of the Asheville Gazette
on Sunday was the printing, with APP
prevail of course, of the Charlotte Obser-
vers roast of Senator Simmons exposure
of the Republic conspiracy to. annul the