Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-09-03

Mott Of the internal taxes tended to check the
progrels of luxury, by obfruding the free uie
of articles, which are not requite to the ncccf.
Cities, or real enjoyrents of life. By repeating
them the road to dliipation and vice is made
more open. Unlefs the administration aeGpned
NO alIi an increaGng drfitoton of prin-
found policy required that they ihou.d have been
! retained. LODGED if they were not extremely
| injurious, the United States ought to have the
| advantage Of a fyiter.:, which began to be Pro-
! ductive, bceaule completely i'll operation.
| A government cannot advance the PROPERTY
of country, if taxes are 70 laid as to operate
againa its manufactures and commerce. A
compariton of the internal taxes with thofc on
! bohea tea, brown fugar and falt, the repeal of
which the federalifts in Consrris attempted, but
| could not obtain from the oppoit, On of the
friends of MIR. Jeaerfon, will further difcovcr
the impolicy, nay, injniticc of repeating them.
Lord Kaime, the au nor. we nave quoted,
Jays, 4" / am grieved to obfcrvc, that we have
4" many taxes, detrimental to the fate as being
more orpreflive upon the people, than gain.
ful to the public revenue. Multiplied taxes
on Tie neccfareso of life, candles, foap, lcath-
er, ale, falt, sc. raie the price of labor, and
coniequently Of manufactures. 1t they lhali
" have the effect 10 deprive US of foreign
I" kcts, which we have rclfon to dread, de-
population and poverty mutt enfue,-The !alt
&c tax in particular is emincntiy detrimental
"Wih reiped TO the ether taxes, mentioned the
erich bear the greatelt burden, being the great
s'eit coniumers but the IN re they pay Of the
sfalr tax, is very ,tle,be caufe they reject falt
+! "proviGons." This reaionng is applicable to
bohea tea, and brown fugsr as well as to falt
Taxes or them neceh.rily raife labour, and an
increaied price of labour mutt oblrud the adj
vanceo,ent of manufactures. The purchafer
of thefe articles the ulc of which has become in
dfpenEble TO the laboring poor, has not only
to pay the duty impofed by government, but
fuch additional in,crclt contained in the price Of
the merchant, as will indemnify him aganit al
vapcng this duty at the time of their impcrta-
ton. The attempt therefore of the partizans
Of the executive to excite belief in the commu-
nifty that the repeal Of the internal taxes. origi
mated from their tender concern for Commerce
| and manufactures, is vain. They were caleu-
lated only to rcprefs the idle parade of the
rich and luxurious, while the taxes, they re-
fufed to repeal, are the ones, which real
ly injurious to manufactures and commerce.
| We have now given the fubjea of taxes a
concife and candid examination at leat we
dcGgned it. The corcluGon OF our reafonns
is, indeed it is perhaps snattcr Of fact, thai
taxes, principally paid bv the rich have been
repealed, and thofe RATED from the poor, have
been pertinaciouly retained: that the former
were in reftraint to luxury, and the latter to
manufactures. This ,eut naturally leads
US to enquire, what could be the motives of
the administration for conduit at once 60 in
confident with ak former projections +! The on
ly anfwer which can be given, is All ardent de-
FIRE to continue time ierving popularity a
popularity, gained without fervices, and preicrv-
ed without principle. The internal taxes being
,,inpofed without difguile, were paid with NOR,
reluctance, than thoie on articles of contump-
ton, becaufe they are conGdered as part OF
the price. Hence the administration tuppofed
it would acquire great merit with the people
by removing taxes, which were obvious to
Every apprehension. A prefumed incapacty IN
greater part of the nation to inveltigate its
conduit, was to fhield them from ceaiure for
permitting thofe, which were difguiied to re
main, whoever injurious they might be to the
real intereit of the country. Though the pre-
| fen, depoftaries of public confidence, lament
cd under their predeceAors the depreitd condi
ton of the poor, and the over gr wn itrensth
of the rich yet no fooner did they obtain
power than the burthens of the latter are lish
ened, but the removal of thole of the former
efedually oppofed. There may be patriotifm
in this. But, we believe it will puzzle the war
melt admirers of Mr.. JeHerlon to ihow it TO
the fatsfaetion of the people. If however they
can demonttrate il, as an individual, | viii
pledge myfelf to extoll the PRECEDENT, in fafhion
of the times, above HIM who has been liosl-
led, above Wilmington. HUME.
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