tem of safeguarding our industries and our working classes, thereby manufacturing the goods ourselves, the result will be that we shall have the goods, the money, and the employment." " It will be observed that here Lincoln is supposed to have made the remark shortly before his death; whereas on its emergence it was supposed to have been made in his first speech. Very recently, the English "tariff reformers" have utilized it again. They distributed (apparently in the course of 1913) a post card bearing within an ornamental scroll the following printed text: "I do not know much about the tariff, but I do know this much: when we buy goods abroad, we get the goods, and the foreigner gets the money: when we buy goods made at home, we get both the goods and the money." — ABRAHAM LINCOLN. This naturally led to attack by free traders, in the columns of the Manchester Guardian. The Guardian in turn made its way to this country, and thereupon our loyal protectionists were led to retort that this shallow newspaper "in an unguarded moment recently allowed its finespun theory of free trade to come into direct conflict with the protectionist common sense of Abraham Lincoln." 1 Finally, the phrase has descended to base uses indeed. In recent issues of New York newspapers, a brand of shoes is advertised as "made from American materials, with home labor and by home capital," and then follows the precise passage quoted a moment ago from the Story of a Tariff of 1910, with the interpolations about American labor and foreign labor, and the reference to Secretary Stanton. The advertisement, however, seems not to have been found advantageous. The advertiser was overwhelmed by a host of inquiries, and made a public reply in which he withdrew 1 See the Textile Record (Boston), July, 1913. I have been able to secure little information about the British episode. The Literary Secretary of the Tariff Reform League writes me: "We have no post-card containing the quotation from Lincoln, nor to the best of my knowledge have we ever issued such a post-card. . . The quotation is of course well known to us, and it is quite possible we may have referred to it in our Monthly Notes,' though not in any recent years." Another correspondent in England suggests that a branch of the League may have circulated the card. behind the shelter of the Protective League and its publications; and he refrained from continuing the advertisement.' It seems certain that the phrase is apocryphal. There is no evidence that Lincoln ever used it. Further search may show just how it originated. Possibly the claptrap about the goods and the money was invented before it was foisted on Lincoln; possibly it was ascribed to him at an earlier date than the first here noted (1894). By dint of repetition it has come to be associated with Lincoln almost as much as the cherry tree is associated with Washington. So crude is the reasoning (if such it can be called), so vulgarly fallacious is the antithesis, that we must hope that it will cease to be invested with the sanction of a venerated name.2 F. W. TAUSSIG. HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 1 The advertisement appeared in New York in the Journal of Commerce and the Times, May, 1914; perhaps in other newspapers also. The advertiser's answer to inquiries was in the Times of May 18. 2 Since this note was prepared, my attention has been called to a letter of Mr. Horace White's in the New York Evening Post of April 10, 1914. Mr. White points out that nothing like the oft-cited passage is to be found in Lincoln's writings, and pungently concludes: my reason for thinking that Lincoln never said this is that he was not a fool." 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