Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-04-08

wards will ask six dollars per yard ior IT. ""u 'e
er have To pay that for it-ihat IS 10 s"y' 'e -,
IN 49, ., !,e r,- the six wards, instead OF thirty
dollars as before the tariff duty was inP"se', mi
dollars together with the merchah. 'teieS p
upon the dollars when mas pee"' ~ Wv, 1i ., him
or his tariff DUTY added to the cost OF me eio' "
hss he sells il 10 the farmer This interest ana pro-
e, amounts together, as have shown ~ ,ne case "
Tho coffee TO- al .east thirty nine ana 'af Psi 9e,'
~ ,,a,st being SIX and the profit ihlrty-thrse ana
IL, 10, conf nd these added to the SIX dollars will
,n,ks EIGHT dollars and thir,y.six cens-the amount
the farmer compelled to pay Tor the SIX y"'us VI '
over and above what nc did pay Tor tue sine qua.!
and ouaniity of cloth before the tax or duty was ''
posed OF this eight dollars and thrty-slx cents me
Government gets but the one dollar winch II imposed
as duty on the yard Of foreign, and OUT oil that d"
s was shown in The of the coffee len cents goes 10
-, officers and accents for collection, leaving in the
Treasury but ninety cents of nett revenue III theh
10 get iney cents of nett revenue Tue Government
has 10 impose burdens the people to the amount OF
epht dollars and hiry.s cents, what burdens must IL
impose TO get three millions OF nett revenue
Upon this particular point, will say nothing more,
than 10 read extract from one OF the money articles
OF the New York Herald. But cannot 10 this, win
out renarkng Justice TO the author OF those aftces
that for year or Two past they have, in the general
displayed very uncommon industry ana aoiii'y, ana
greatly aided in displacing error and exposing the
frauds and coruptions with which the country has been
long afflicted through its corporations, lis currency
It's stock jobbers and paper-mongers
The article proceeds
uoyed according 10 the late census OF
these. per 5colo employed in manufactures Of all
adtona taxes for their other words, they
compel them only of the manufacturers IN TINS
goods manufactured L. To them have added the
articles imported IN the same year, forming the
"Asarss Of The u s and psy,s Of manufactured goods IN 1889
(Here follows the table, which we have twice pub.
Gshed)
Aggregate value, sSa5 s396lj s5I,I45,7l
NTH or o snI ' a souS Of a ns
OK either Increased duties do or DO not
which absolutely necessary support Of the Government
they mauesly unjust inasnuc they tax The many for
legged by of Tariff paid by
benefit Whatever ron TaT.ir
whether duty The fact however and ad
te above i'm orfs OF s oJ0)o 3Oo5o0 be
n will amour, {, an ad valorem duty Of per- eenus winch
WA not only raise The price Of the imported goods TO The same
VIII then have additional per cent on OF
goods annua w, " aa 10 b w' enc
The relief offered the states by the Distribution act To the
6oeoo most singular manner OF conene the greatest good
upon the greatest NUMBER
And now, sir, in connection with this subject, and
in order show that, independently OF the immense
loss which have proven the people sustain in this
operation there yet another of loss TO them in
the fact that the money distributed will not to the
men who taxed for it, the proportion they paid,
] will, in conclusion, read an extract from some re-
marks of my own, made in this body on the 18th JAN,
ISL. On that occasion, SAID:
"And who to receive the fund distributed -
Not the people, who the first place, paid it; but the
States-the Legislatures of the States. In what would
this result Extravaganza and waste Not, indeed,
because legislative bodies (for they no) likely
be composed of less vIrtuous than others, but
he:ause no body of men, however honorable indy'du
ally, ever could, eau, with safely, oe charged
tn the conduct Of public affairs in the absence of all
responsibility. Ii for this reason, drawn from the
ca.amitoos experience of the world, that the ser
he America
imposed upon all the departments OF power, as well
Upon each public iunctionary, The most positive
res .rans and highest sanctions, by their written
Organic laws. The great the only security the people
GA State now have for the economy OF lis Legislature
in he expenditure Of the public money, is the espon
sihity undc- which the Legislature acts, Of having,
ltse first TO tax It's constituency, order 10
j.: But, by the system of distribution, the responsible.
lty Of collecting is TO be separated from the
power a}2iy Congress is To tax the people, the
LIE legislature to expend the tax. Each member of the
latter body aware, therefore, as he would be, that,
when the State Treasury was exhausted, Congress- not
hc, must be@r tie od!um OF laying tax TO re-
pltnish it, would very naturally seek obtain for all
objects in his particular district county the largest
appropriations possible; considering, he would every
dollar thus obtained clear gam, to that extent out OF
The common spoil. In this manner, The very desire
now strong with the representative, and justly so,
10 please his immediate constituents by his economy
OF the public money, would then become reason
equally strong for lis profgae waste. Where, IN such
taxation necessary TO meet it? No WHERE un'il Go.
yernment had consumed the whole substance Of the
toiling multitude, and left them here, as in England,
clad the ragged livery OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and
hopeless.
.sS,r, have already said that the money if dstri.
bu,ed, will go not to the people who, in the first in
stance, paid IT, Again, have said hat IN all Govern
protesting be free, this power Of unlimited tax
alton ever has divided the into classes oil the rich
and the poor and upon such division founded separate
orders in the Statethe one who govern and riot; the
other who toll and obey. Such always will be found
be the result The process which leads to is plain
The aggregate fund in the hands of Government is
made up Of contributions by every citizen. In the np-
plcation OF IT, therefore, IT'S Benefits justice requires
that each should receive proportion equal to that he
advanced But IS this the case? Never; ever can
j, b., 1t one OF the evils the best of Governments,
that equality The distribution of burdens and benefits
is found utterly imp.ac,cable And, Sir it is for this
very reason, than for all others together that tax.
alton and expenditure should be strictly limited. For,
in every made thus 10 pay unrequted rl
butte TO others. The wrong increases with additional
assessment, until finally, If continued, it breaks the
equilibrium of society. The favored class rises to
wealth by the very that depresses the unfortunate
Each day separates them more widely ieon one ano-
ther and the former, drawing still nearer to the Co
yernnent, whilst the latter is sinking beneath 1t, be-
comes in the end, the Government Itselta ruling or.
der based upon and sustained by the pase of the null
titude.
"What with US hes been the fact, and what its re-
suits, the very first instance of distribution? To all
it known that 2 OF 644 dollars, then called its
plus revenue, were, IN the year 1857 distributed by
this Government, in the of deposi,e with the
States. Where went that money? To the people, to
the by whom it had been advanced No. not the
fifth dollar OF IL but TO the Legislatures frs and then
chiefly TO banking or to other corporate companies, and
to the rch for the very that they
"And now, that may the more clearly expose this
the fragrant injustice inflicted By the practical ope
ration of The distribution principle upon the tax paying
mass of the people, shall trace briefly yet with all
the accuracy of which a matter confused and COM
pcaed admits, the progress OF this surplus fund.- from
the National Treasury TO It's last known destination
But here before proceeding further, it is important to
remark that speak in reference only 10 the S2 24, l3
received BY The twenty out of The twentysx States, By