Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-07-03

up the manufactures oil our OVID CndAtiy
as the objects and means of revenue, go
without it and borrow year after year,
clinging to system that experience has
proved inadequate, as closely as II 1t
furnished the most abundant revenue
with the least possible pressure Oh the
people 1t IS truly singular to find on
this subject so little reasoning and so
much defamation no one has attempt
ed to convince the people that it would
not be for their interest to have the reve-
nue. of the country built on its domestic
produce and manufactures. To discuss
and examine their subject on one side
seems almost trifling with public atten-
ton. In my former remarks it cannot
well be said that there is nothing worthy
ofnotice or deserving a reply--it cannot
surely be intended that this great mat
ter shall so to the decision of the free
men of the country with the mere COM
mon stuff about oppression, burthens on
the poor, and such like canting. My
manner may be too plain for financiers
or statesmen the style ofmy writing not
sufficiently courtly--or our opponents
may think that, let the reason and facts
Of case be ever SO strong, a mere shrug
or unsupported declaration, that excise
will be in practice the same odious and
hateful tax which they call it in their me-
MORALS and addresses, will satisfy the
people-that impost, which furnishes
them capital and profits, is beneficial to
the poor and mild mode of taxation !!
While they thus keep within their shell
and refuse to do more than make asser-
tons, they must allow me to tell them
to their boards, that they are wilfully de-
ceiying the country and themselves
that they sign their names to memorials
which they either do not read or do not
believe; and when they attempt to rouse
the passions and prejudices of the nation,
it is by inducing others to believe what
they themselves know not to be true
that impost is either just, polite or equal.
Arguments are scarcely worth using on
matter SO plain that simple state
ment will bring the whole merits TO the
,liIlId tuC ulOol tOit lupllICt3 90
in the following:
ImhoSt.
Ad valorem goods, 100000
Duty at 90 per cent. 100000
The people pay 4S,000,O00
Ercisc.
The same amount manufactured
this is spent at home.
The same excise or internal duty
leaves saving to the country at
large of 32,000,000'
This difference is made up of domes-
tic materials, domestic labor, machine
ry, fuel, buildings and provisions, which
have value and market under sys-
tenn of excise, but are of no vane under
one of impost. To balance Mis- i'm
mense item, there is in favor ofimpost
only the solitary one, the employment
of American shipping and seamen in
bringing foreign goods here-and this is,
in fact, the national difference of the t,so
systems. A regular trader to England
or France will import s 900, 900 worth
OF goods year, which employs 800 tons
Of shipping and 25 seamen-Sl 100000.
ofthe same goods manufactured at home,
would employ of men, women, children,
produce, &c. SC. &c.-read-
err, say for thyself how much make
thine own calculation, reflect ten minutes
and extend thy view to all the branches
Of national industry-then tell me, dost
thou by this time understand the mean
ing Of zvords !? Thy comprehension,
however limited, will explain the terrors
Of excise to foreign and eastern agents
The terrors of impost to every patriot.
sThis is a general view--to be more parti-
cular, it must be observed that the 10 and 90
per cent. added to ad valorem goods is not
sent abroad nominally, but in fact-for, besides
the notorious undertaking. which is very ex-
tensive as to consigned and auction goods, the
evasves by making up articles Of mixed ma
erials, charged with different rates of duty, as
cotton and silk, one paying Is and the other
IS, and entering them as of the lowest rate, at
east equal if they do not exceed the custom
louse additions and shipping charges. This
general view is, therefore, substantially cor
ect. ~
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