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From Tie .Eetc-Hampslire JourAQl.
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MR. MooR In the last Patriot. appear. let
Ter purporting to be written bv Samuel Ai'Kean. a
Representative in Congress from Pennsy yiyana. In
this letter. MIR. NJ hean charges the Pre- esent OF
the United States with having been while Secretary
u State, in 1921 opposed 10 tie protection o nome
Industry and domestic manufactures. Lest should
BE- accused ofperyertlng his meaning, his Wnwold,
rs published, are here cited:


During the struggle (says hc) in 1924. for the
encouragement Of home industry, and domestic
manufactures, one fact, as suppose, was better
understood, none more frequently spoken Of, and
never denied, to my knowledge. than that Mr.. Ad-
ans. then Secretary OF State, now President of the
United States, was at that time hostile to the mea-
surcs Of the i~oposed tariff and CERTAIN it Il, that
his leading partisons in Congress, and particularly
those from Ncw-England, were decidedly opposed
to the whole measuie.P


In Misrepresentation, which is certainly incorrect
Mr.. M'hean might have intended nothing w.uil,
wrong. But it is in sound ethics held As cuipablt
to state that which DO not know 10 b~ true. a,
to state that which know not to be true. DIR
lng the discussion of the tariff Of 1894, the writer
With number of other members 81 Congress, tnct
with Mr.. Adams. who was then Secretary Of State
At table the conversation turned upon the polio,
OF the protection Of home industry and dome 81,
manufactures ct the members present, some wct
opposed, AMI others favorable to the measure thei
before the House. Mr. Adams. AS is usual wit
him, suspended Nls opinion until several remark
had been made By different gpntlemen when b
gave his opinion freely and without disguise. in IA
sor Of the general policy al protecting those gyca
national interests, and rcpe,,, witA much paiilt
several objecions urged by Distinguished! acnt!t
man from f.irsinia. who sat ncxt ac writer


! wall not attrihafe unworthy nntiyes 10 Nj
NJ f,cn but b. has 50 wotded his letter as IL lea,
Us in entire doubt from what source be derived Ii
rNnvirt,un al til unnpral 3S,.i
instoa. that Mr.. Adams was opposed, in 1924,