Show JACKS OX THE TARIFF I Some of our Republican friends are fond of talking about the great leaders of the Democracy in early times in this country as protectionists because they favored a light tariff on some imnorted articles Of course the tariff of their days is not to be com oared with the robber tariffs of a recent re-cent neriod framed and fashioned to favor netted trusts fat corporations and bloated capitalists that they may from their great gains support the nartv that made it possible to gather them in Amoncr the worthies who are named as favoring a protective I tariff is President Pres-ident Jackson The following extract from his farewell address will show how much that stalwart old Democrat held to the heresy which bus become ramnant in modern times and which is known by the name of McKinleyism He said The corporations and wealthy individuals indi-viduals who are engaged in large manufacturing I man-ufacturing establishments desire a I high tariff to Increase their gains Desitrniner oolltlcians will support it to conciliate their favors and to obtain the means of nrofuse expenditure for the nurnose of purchasing influence in other Quarters S S Do not allow yourselves my fellow citizens to be misled on this subject The federal government cannot collect a surplus for such nurnoses without violating the principles of the constitution and assuming as-suming powers which have not been granted It is moreover a system of iniustice and if persisted in will in evitablvlead to corruption and must end in ruins It will be seen from the foregoing that Tackson held to the principles in relation to the tariff that are embodied em-bodied in the latest national platform of the Democratic party of today Protection Pro-tection such as Republicans would perpetuate per-petuate he regarded as unconstitutional unconstitution-al and a fraud and maintained for the benefit of the classes at the expense of the masses His warning ought to be heeded at he present juncture in national na-tional and local affairs |