The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-28
JACKSON AND WILSON
TYPES OF DEMOCRATS
CUTTING COMMENTS ON THE
PRESIDENTS JACKSON
DAY SPEECH.

The Jackson day speech of President
Wilson at indianapolis has furnished
texts for a vast amount Of newspa-
per comment. Much of the comment
Is far from complimentary. For exam
pie, the Washington Post, recognizing
New Orleans as the fittest of places
under ordinary circumstances for the
delivery Of the anniversary address
can see good reasons why the pres-
dent decided not to talk in that city
the metropolis of the once prosperous
state whose greatest industry, sugar
growing, has been ruined by the Will
son policy of free trade in sugar. 1t
would certainly seem that the presi-
dent was wise in staying away from
| the Crescent City of the Pelican state.
A Friendly Thrust.
Then the Cincinnati Enquirer, a
lifelong democratic paper, asks If
there is man living who believes that
Andrew jackson would have insisted
that a democratic congress repudiate
pledge such as that which was
adopted at the democratic national
convention at Baltimore July, 1914, in
The following words:
1--WE favor the exemption from tolls
Eof American ships engaged in coast
wise trade passing through the Pana,
ma canal We also favor legislation
forbidding the use of the Panama
canal by ships owned or controlled by
railroad carriers engaged in transpor-
Itation competitive with the canal"
No man believes Andrew Jackson
capable of studied and intentional
catering to the interests of foreign
shipping, foreign labor and foreign in.
dustry as the present occupant of the
White House has done and Is doing.
THE Enquirer draws some other con-
Itrasts between the Jacksonianism of
So years ago and the Wilsonianism Of
today:
What jackson Would Not Have Done.
did any one ever read or hear of
Andrew Jackson's administrations or
dering American citizens out of the
domains of any foreign country be-
,cause his administration cared not to
protect them in such country?
rs there any record of Andrew
Jackson's permitting more than 100 of
his fellow citizens to be murdered in
Iany country and failing to exact stern
Justice from those responsible for those
murders?
rs there any record Of high officials
in Andrew Jacksons administrations
meeting the complaints of Americans
driven out of any country with the
question: why did you go there"
rs there any record in either ad-
ministration of Andrew Jackson which
shows the abandonment of endanger-
led American men, women and children
by the naval rces of the United
States, and the rescue of these help
less people by the armed forces of a
foreign country?
1T is glorious memory that Andrew
Jackson has left; one that should be
IA'SAAVA SN etAAN SAAStiohSN ~ CNOAy AAlhNi
lean that loves the constitution and
lhonors the flag.
He never repudiated a plank in a
democratic platform; he never failed
to protect American citizens either at
home or abroad; he yielded to the ca.
Ijolements of no foreign nation, and was
las firm as adamant, the personificaton
lof determination, in his resolve to pro-
ltect the interests of his beloved coun-
TRY and it's citizens.
1T is well to honor Jackson at all
times, but Jackson's glory and Jack
sons fame never shone so bright
never cleaned with such brilliancy as
Ithey do now by contrast"
The contrast is marked indeed, so
marked and so wide that one wonders
IL the democratic party of 1915 ever
remembers Andrew jackson at all, ex
Icept when celebrating the anniversary
lof the battle of New Orleans Jackson
was patriot and a protectionst. That
is the first half Of the contrast.