The Arkansas advocate., 1833-09-18


 
 of which S6oo,000 will % to the manufac turer. Hone halfbe manufactured at home, then to get $ss,f60,600 into the Treasury, the people must pay $A,s0o,o00, one half of which must go 10 the capitalist. So, the domestic supply increases until the whole study is manufactured. ;si home, when tho whole enhanced price goes to the capital ist, and the people have lobe taxed for the support of government upon something else or in some other.
 And upon whom do these indirect taxes fall most heavily. Upon the people of the interior States. The New York merchant imports u piece of broad cloth, which with- out duty, would cost $f per yard; but the duty mako ii cost him S6. He adds his profit upon the S6, because the duty is to him as much part of the cost us tho cash paid r. 1t in London. If his profit be twenty-five per cont, then t will cost tho next purchaser seven dollars and lilly cents. IIe asds his profit supon ilie .s,ast and thus the further 1t goes into the interior, or the greater the number of hands through which 1t goes, the cost of the article arising from the tax or duty, as we'll as the original price, is increased and compounded Tn this manner the importation tax becomes higher by perhaps ten per cent. to the peo- pie of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, &c. &e. than to the people in Philadelphia and New York, although they pay an advance of perhaps 25 per cent on the original du- ty.
 The only real object of throwing the proc ceeds of the public lands out of the Treas- ury is to keep up the tax duties on protect cd articles, so as to make t yield like a. mount.--In bringing into the Treasury $2,4o0,000, however, the people will be taxed four or five millions, more than e. qual proportion of which will fall upon the western States.
 Buff Mr. Clay's object be solely to get rid of the revenue arising from the sales of public lands, why does he not take the di- rect mode of reducing their price2 To western man, who wished to keep up the tax duties, this would certainly be the most obvious course. But it would not suit the manufacturing capitalists. If lands were very cheap in tle west, their dependents and working hands might be tempted 10 emi- grate and they could not hire lahorers at SC cheap q rate-could not make so high a 1 profit upon their capital. This bills, there- l fore, so framed us at the same time to keep up the price of manufactures and keep down the price oflabor.
 It will not permit the laborer to acquire capital in lands; for 1t is its policy that his labor and that of his children and his chi- dren's children shall go to "make the rich richer" 1t will force or induce all labor CTS to remain attached to these factories, like d sort of Russian seris who pass .g::..l. I the soil, reducing the price of their labor by competition, until it will yield them bare subsistence, and New England shalIwifness around her own work shops the misery and starvation which have been produced by a like policy in Old England.
 Wedo not anticipate these consequences from this bill alone. Hut t tends to pro- duce them, and is founded in policy which leads 10 such results.
 Who then are to be benefited by this schemel None but the capitalists who own l the manufactures. It violates the national faith, t distributes the common property un- equally and unjustly; its object Is to perpet- | S,I5ft,fs sI1y fJsttrS, u ISppp nItn tax es on the people, to keep down the price of labor, and to prevent laborers from acqlir- ing lands that they may be kept in depend- ence and reduced to slavery.
 The means by which the scheme is to be carried into execution afc worthy of the end. It lis mercenary in every feature. It does not address itself to the patriotism, public spirit, or public morality of the soun- try. It appeals only to sordid ayarice. It buys support by promises of .Money. It invites the old States to maintain tby offer ing less than their share of the common property. It attempts to reduce the new by a seeming gratnity into an abandonment ofthelr dearest interests. 1t gives a shilling l that if may take dollar, and affects to load the States with benefits while it is aiming to usurp their rights and annihilate their in- dependence.
 In another number we will exhibit the results which necessarily must follow if the public faith solemnly pledged, the fnda- mental law of the Republic and all just and i patriotic principles are to be set aside as proposed in this bill.
 I VIII
 THE pUBLIc LAEDs--MR. cLAY's BILL. Hoau fte principle assumed au Ase Btit must
 operate. The inapoytance q preseruing l he public .Jaifh. No man can examine the details of this scheme without perceiving that :tsers is nothing like correct principle in 1t. It's ut fer disregard of solemn compacts cannot be questioned and if aims a fatal blow at the q x1 <e.A2