The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30
ISSUE MAKING.


the negro question and the tariff After many spats and
speeches Champ Clark of Missouri rose to engage in
the manufacture of an issue for the campaign He
ected the tariff and when ne finished that venerable and
me-tred question put out and laid IN It's corner
while the referee counted ten One thing IN all this
Democratic search for something to use IN the cam
paign interesting in Mr.. Hearsts platform is this
statement Believing in the principles of government
expressed by Thomas Jefferson, applied with matchless
courage by Andrew Jackson and nobly supported by
Abraham Lincoln"
Lincoln has been dead thry-nine years, and is now
adopted of the saints the Democratic calendar!
In his lifetime he opposed everything for which Democ
racy Stood from the time he entered politics mem
Der of the Illinois Legislature until the night he was shot
by Wilkes Booth He opposed slavery, fought the Le-
compton constitution, the fugitive slave law, secession
free trade and every other Democratic policy He was
the founder of the national bank system and the second
founder of the Union and in every and princi
pie of for which he stood was fought tooth
and claw by the Democracy of his day.
Buchanan, Jerry Black, Lewis Cass, Toombs, Yancey,
Wgfal Governor Seymour Hendricks, Bill Allen, Thur
man, and the long list of Democratic leaders contem
porary with him looked upon him the enemy of the
country and the destroyer of the constitution If the
Democracy of to-day adopt him they must adopt also his
supporters and point with pride those great and wise
promoters of the principles of Jefferson and Jackson:
Sumner Lovejoy, Thad Stevens, Joshua R. Gddngs,
John c. Birney Gerritt Smith, John Brown OF Osawat-
ome Wendell Phillips, Senator Dooltte and Jim Lane.
Mr.. Champ Clark is not to be outdone by Mr. Hearst
in claiming dead Republicans the opponents of living
Democratic principles and in his ssue-makng speech
he lifted cKnley right off his seat in history Re-
publican leader and sat him down the Democratic
side of the tariff question!
Republicans may well pinch themselves and ask with
Congressman Cobb, where was at?' Some ought
put paddock Dingleys record or some hot after
noon in the House the Democrats will it in the dim
relic 1ioht OLE
ceiling and claim him exponent of their time-hon-
ored principles
1t is not far cry 1890, the year of the Mckinley
tariff which the Democrats attacked like Cossacks
sxooping Chinese village 1t was denounced the
of all economic villaines, and, denouncing it. the
Democrats elected the largest majority in the House
that any party has had since the Civil War. The banner
of free trade flung ocund to the breeze and mpas
stoned oratoy followed the sunrise the continent
from ocean, and then up and took drink
next morning in Maine and renewed the chase.
But Mckinley stood to his guns, and in the center of
hollow square formed of the old guard of his party
refused to surrender In 1896 he into the Presi-
dency with policy recanted act apoogized
for Now according to Champing Clark, he is fellow
SHIPPED by those who opposed him and to have been
logical that year they should have supported him in
stead of Bryan
Clark declares that there Democratic free
traders. They all for tariff But what sort of issue
does that make? We appear then to have parties
both supporters of the same thing If the Democrats
make question of degree instead of kind, they may
decline upon tariff tariff requires the
high taxation of what don't produce such as tea,
coffee and few hbers and fabrics In the fiscal year
Ioo2-3 derived from tariff taxation $2544447o8 and
from internal $27I,88o,I22 Our total
was $68326 and total expen $5o3o38
oo3 To be there surplus, but is about to
be made useful in building the Panama canal.
Does Mr.. Clark propose get all that tariff revenue
out of the few articles don't produce, very few in
and all susceptible of being substituted? When
ever we have had and coffee the people have
used something else The high tax that would make
those articles produce the yielded by the Ding
ley bill would materially disuse them. The Nc
promote the domestic manufacture of tin sugar. buttons
and many other things which furnished use for our raw
material employed labor and made us independent Of
! other countries.
Mr.. Clark should submit bill of particulars and cir
cumnavgae his tariff that the people will know lust
what it means. Democratic denunciation of the Nc
Kiney tariff of 1890 elected Mr. Cleveland in 1902 bur
when his party tried make tariff it was monde
script which he refused sign and denounced spe-
cial message "a record of perfdy and dishonor" We
venture inform Mr. Clark that the people do not want
any perhdy and dishonor tariffs. Protection is
good enough.
A Berkeley educator. skilled in the gentle art of
teaching the young idea how shoot, has unburdened