Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-03-27

SdSn payments are NOR, inueeu, ICStCTSO,
nor any thing like it but the paper has,
by some means or other, been diminished
in quantity, and, without restoring cash
payments, lord Holland, dare say, sees
clearly enough that it will be difficult to
Ind the means of paying the dividends at
the bank from taxes raised OH the country,
even this ycGr-and can hardly suppose,
that he thinks it POSSIBLE to Go il for year
to come.
Before l conclude, cannot help address
sing few words to the English land oTo'i-
ers, who, last year, did the work OF the
ministry, and very f0olisly incurred al
most all the odium of the corn bill, in the
passing of which they were, in reality, not
at all interested. That measu, was said
to be for the protection oj'Gg1icUitGtre, but
it was, in fact, for the protection of tacca-
tion. The ministers al iirst seemed indI6e-
rem about the matter, and, indeed, rather
discountenanced Sir Henry Parneli, who
IN 1913 proposed the bill. But finding in 1914
that nobody else vou d undertake the
thing, they undertook it themselves; ard
then the Lcndon newspapers, wAo had, N
tue most outrageous manner abused Sir
Henry Paineil and the land owpcrs, tack
ed suddenly about, and abused still more
outrageousiy the opposers of the corn bill.
One would think that this would serve as
caution to the Westerns and the CokeS,
especially since they have seen, that the
corn bill produced none of the effects that
they expected from it that they were
| merely SUFFERERS Of taration, and that
they loaded them selves with Iii will for no.
thing at all. MIR. Western, who wrote
pamphlets, | believe, as well as made
speeches, must, by this time, sin to dis
cover, that it was not, as he thought, for
farmers, that, in reality, he was pleading
but for the PlaCrmeu, the army, the navy,
and the fund-holders. The landlord and
! his tenants will be pressed hard thiS yea7,
| and some OF them neat yCar--but theirs
| are commodities that very soon ind their
| proper level, and that nothing can wholly
| sweep away. II wheat were to fall to SIS.
| bushel, which is not improbable, Mr.
| Western and his teuants, instead of 15s. in
taxes, would pay SIS. His S COOL. year
would soon be as good to him IS 9,OO0l. are
now, or have been for years past. His
| property tax would be 30Ol. ayear instead
| OF 500 year. All his exptnces would
bear the same proportion. He would have
| a coachman for n. year instead OF oil
| His coach horses would cost him col. each,
| instead of Col. / am aware, that his style
of living would be less Shozvy, but SO would
| that ~ every body else; and he would still
| keep his proper place and suitable state in
society. Men are always more eager "a
| bout gaining than they are about keei1i'lg
and this is the true cause of The errors of
| the landowners last year.
If, therefore, the landowners be wise,
| they will, this time, be silent. Notw.,h.
| standing my jeer at the close of nv last let
! ter, their estates will not, if they be not e.
| gregious fools, :" slip through their fingers"
They have only TO stand, and let the thing
take its course. They cannot be made to
| pay direct taxes beyond their incomes and
| their year. One year will not ruin them,
| though ii may many of their tenants. If
they contribute largely towards the ind-
| rect taxes, 1t IS their own fault. That is
no concern of any body. That is the fault
of no minister. Let them Go 5 their fore
| fathers did drank strong beer and eat beef
| at breakfast, and bar sh wine from their
| tables, and they VIII find that no minister
| Can reduce them to ruin.
Even the farmers will be ruined, those
that are ruined, BY their own folly. they
will not curtail their expenses sufficiently.
| Sugar, tea, coffee, wine, spirits, are now
| numbered amongst their wants. If a rich
| farmer had resolution enough to bring his
| style of living, down, at once, to the pro-
portion of wheat at IS. a bushel, ne would
| be as well off as he was four years ago.
| He would live a less snowy life. He would
have no sofas, carpets and parlor bells his
| wife and daughters would wear no silk
shoes, and would certainly use neither
| paint nor perfumes. The howell trade, of
which they are main prop, would decline
But there is the Bible society to supply them
with matter for reading, * Bibles, too, are
printed upon untaXed paper. However,
if wheat continue at 6s. or Is. q bushel,
down the farm h uses must come to the old
| mark. The change viii not be a CHI ange
for the worse the country will be full as
happy as if wheat were again 15s. bush
ell and the only difficulty will be, whe re
to fo,t the money for the government peo-
pie, the Army, the Navy, and the Fund
holders difficulty, with which, as far as
can see, the landlords and farmers have
nothing at all to do
The tradesmen must follow the landlords
| and farner They must all come down,
If any come down. 1t will be less iuc-
1trious community that is all. Those that
live by furnishing mere Injuries will turn
their hands to other kinds Of labor. One
wine merchant will suffice for the whole
city ; nor do / despair of seeing tie time
when this article will, i'll country towns, be
dispensed only, as formerly, from the apo
| thecary's shops.
diculous as you in America, who
drinS Madeira wine like water, may thmg
this, assure you, that to this it must
come, unless new and coDious issues of
paper money take place. BY paper mon
ey we have been raised up, and down
we must come, unless sustained By pap
er money. 1t is curious to see how the