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responsible for the higher cost of living will probably 
be believed by ignorant men, who know nothing of the 
subject now and in all probability never will until they 
have overthrown the system that has been so beneficent. 
There appears to be a deep popular desire to have the 
tariff reduced, in order that the consumer may not be 
taxed. This experiment was tried by the Wilson Tariff 
Act during Grover Cleveland’s second term. Under this 
low tariff, or tariff for revenue, thousands of men were 
thrown out of employment and their families were 
hungry. A free bread fund was collected by the New 
York World one year after the inauguration of a free 
trade president on a taric for revenue platform. Did 
the New York World or any other free trade organ ever 
find it necessary to collect funds to feed the hungry 
under the McKinley, the Dingley, or the Payne-Aldrich 
tariff acts, which embody the ideas earnestly supported 
by General Jackson, as shown in his letter of 1824? In 
this letter he further states: 
“‘Providence has filled our mountains and our 
plains with minerals, with lead, iron and copper, 
and given us a climate and soil for the growing of 
hemp and wool. These being the grand materizals 
of our national defense, they ought to have extend- 
ed to them adequate and fair protection, so that we 
may have within our own country a supply of those 
leading and important articles so essential to all.’’ 
General Jackson was not unmindful of the experi- 
ence of the patriots during the American Revolution. 
When Washington’s army was recruited, there was not 
a single wool manufacturing concern in the country. 
When General Washington assembled his army, there 
was not the slightest pretense made to uniform it. They 
eame to the flag with the homespun fabrics that were 
within their reach. After the campaign their clothing 
was absolutely worn out. At Valley Forge 4,000 pat- 
riots had actually to be relieved from duty because 
they were literally naked. The Revolution would have 
failed then and there for want of wool manufactories 
as a munition of war had it not been that John Adams 
and Benjamin Franklin obtained a loan from the King 
of France with which they purchased in Holland blan- 
kets and clothing for Washington’s army. It is with 
this experience in mind that General Jackson in the 
aforesaid letter to Mr. Colman said: 
MANICURE 
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The Comer Lasting Wave for permanently 
waving the Hair, Endorsed by leading spe- 
cialists in Paris, London and New York. 
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Formerly at Oceanside 
COILFEFEUSE 
‘‘I am in favor of the tariff for preserving 
within ourselves the means of national defense and 
independence. Particularly in a state of war would 
I advocate supporting it. The experience of our 
late war ought to teach us a lesson never to be for- 
gotten. If our liberty and republican form of gov- 
ernment, procured for us by our Revolutionary 
fathers, are worth the blood and treasure at which 
they were obtained, it surely is our duty to protect 
and defend it. Can there be an American patriot, 
who saw the privations, dangers and difficulties ex- 
perienced for want of a proper means of defense, 
who would be willing again to hazard the safety 
of the country? I hope there is not, and if there is, 
I am gure he does not deserve to enjoy the blessing 
of freedom.”’ 
In view of the fact that during the last twelve 
years of the high duties of the war tariff, the wool clip 
of the United States increased 100 per cent., when that 
of Great Britain, with climatic conditions superior to 
ours and with free trade, decreased more than 19 per 
cent., and also in view of the fact that under the pres- 
ent tariff act, the number of sheep has increased 54 per 
cent. since the present protective duties upon wool were 
established in 1897, what would General Jackson, if 
here today, say to Mr. Underwood’s report No. 45 on his 
wool bill (H. R. 11019), saying: 
““The test of law and experience, by which 
every human project must stand, fully proves that 
protective duties on wool do not serve a useful pur- 
pose. The fact must be faced that 40 years of high 
protective duties have entirely failed to help the 
wool growing industry.’’ 
What must he have thought of the brazen false 
pretense of the Democratic platform, which says that 
under protective tariff the rich have been getting richer 
and the poor poorer? By every test that can be applied 
to verify this assertion, it is shown that the wealth of 
the American people since we have had a protective 
tariff law has increased more rapidly than that of any 
other nation in the world. The rich, it is true, have 
been getting somewhat richer, but the poor, under the 
present tariff law, have been getting rich faster than 
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CHIROPODY 
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(Rear of Frank Bros. Boot Shop.) 
MAGNOLIA 
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