Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-04-21

time, $40 -se
The population Of New-York, $50 o50
OF Pennsylvania. 500 545.
OF Jersey, 2lI.1Au
According TO the progressive increase of DO
pulaiiou in the u States, which doubles i,.,lc
in every twenty four or TWEEN, y.five years. The
population in 1901 will now be increased one
fourth and the efore
The present population of the
State of N. York is 732 SEQ.
Ditto of Pennsylvania 753.iSII
Ditto OF Jersey 264 cas-
And the total population of all
The States is 6657 1917
To lind what proportion of IL. 600 700 dolls.
Is paid by the state of " Y say
As 8 637 10y, the total population. il 10
1000 600. doll. is 732 $50. the population of
York. 20 the portion it pays of that sum, and
'"e 9oo''ent VIII be l. S24.446, dolls
| That of Pennsylva I,3Sl7ir.
! That of jersey. 478 9A5.
Pennsylvania pays 37,3I7 dolls. more impasr
revenue than the State of N Y. pays.
but 'he case with New York is. that she ex-
pores and impor for large part of the sou,h-
ern states. & also for part of the eastern states
and this increases her collection of imr re-
venue TO more than ,hree times The amount of
what she pay herself. 1t is this Thar enables
| aer merchants, many OF which are Britt. H. or
brush agents, 10 carry on 'rade t. SCI
imported articles to other states with the i'm, ost
\ duy upon them ami receive rhas inpost duly
e'ther IN r'Oney or in ir1duce time enough %
make a second VOYAGE with i, before III y pay
'tin'o the treasury eF the u. s. The capitals
OF those r1erchan.s made M in 4 great mea-
sure, of the impost revenue that rests in ,hei,
! hands Il IS by the b'unders of such men as
ar Haze, who belongs TO the federal fac'ion 81
| o'underirg politicions, that matters of This kind
are brought to light The bunders of one man
Ut e. s@rve to suggest righ' ideas TO anchor
The impoSt revenue collected at the port
OF n. Y. is estimatedat more than four mil
lions OF dollars, about three millions ofwhich
IS drawn from other states, and the remain
ing l'S24. 426 dollars, is paid by the popula-
! ton OF n. Y. which, as before said, is 81 ,317
less than is paid by Pennsylvania
| Mr. Hale's proposal is ~ demand of the
government Of the United States The an
trotriatton Of a sum cquai 10 me imh9st
rcUcnuc IF tie tort Of .W7v York as If
all the impost revenue collected there was
paid by the state. / have now placed be-
tore his eyes the folly as we'll as the inius-
tee OF his proposal, and ] have also done
1t to prevent other people being imposed
upon by such absurhities.
MIR. Hole concludes his string of resolu-
tons with the following:
"Resolved, as the sense of this leeisla-
"ture, that no nation however enlightened,
"populouS, or enterprising it may be, can
"malntain respectable standing as a COM
"mercial nation, without the protection
"and support of a respectable navy
| In the first place, this resolve is concei-
we'd in ignorance and founded on a falsehood.
| Hamburg has carried on a greater conn
merce than any town or city in the Euro
pean continent, Amsterdam excepted, and
9 Ia m hrrs.rr h.
| and on the other hand, England with ma
wy of nearly one hundred and forty sail of
the line besides frigates almost without
number, is shut out by land from all the ports
on the continent of Eurore.
NavIes do not protect commerce, neither
IS the protection of commerce their object.
They have the foolish and improbable Dur-
pose of fighting and sinking eack other at
sea; and the result is, that every victory
at sea is victory of loss. The conuuerof,,
after sinking and destroying a part of his
enemies fleet, goes home with crippled ships
and broken bones. The Engish fire the
tower guns and the French sing TIE Deum.
But Mr.. Hale, in order to have compile
ted his work, should have added another
resolve, and should have been about the
expense of navy; for unless the United
States have navy at least equal tothe ma
FiSS vi plHGT ndtlonS, Snc naQ better have
none; for it will be taken and turned a.
gainst her. The navy of one nation paws
no reSfiect to the navy of another nation.
The expense of the English navy for 1906,
according to the report Of the chancellor of
the exchequer, in March Of that wear, was
upwards of sixty-eight millions of dollars.
The portion of expense which the state of
New York would have to paw as her 0uota
towards raising what Mr.. Ha e calls a g res
hecfa6ie Many" would he eight millions of
dollars over and above the impost revenue
OF /, 324,426 dollars, and therefore Mr.. Hale
should have finished with a resolve TO the
following purport:
"Resolved, as the sense Of this Ieeisla-
"ture, that the farmers and lsndholders
"of the city and state Of New York OUGHT
"most cheerfuly tn pay, and this legislature
"has no doubt but they will pay, the sum
" OF eight millions of dollars annually, over
"and above the impost revenue, as the
"G1tofa of'fhiS state, towards raising srcs-
"hecto6ie nary to fight either the French
"navy, the Spanish navy, the English ma
" Wy, or any other navy
AS trees cannot be voted in ships by n
resolve of the legislature it is first neces-
sary to settle about the expense Of navy.
and the manner in which that expense is
TO he betrayed, before they resolve about
bnilding navy. Count the cost is a cord
maxim. Mr.. Hale has begun his work at
the wrong end.
COMMON SENSE.