The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-05-12

"o uley 40 DeyOnu- lnat winch Is aus
s0utey necessary TO the support of Government they
are manifesty unjnst Inasmurh they tax the many
for the benefit of the few. they do not raise the pr
ces a. is alleged by the advocates of tariff but that
The revenue is paid BY The foreign Manufacturer the
home manufacturers derive benefit whatever from
tariff and must be the TO him whether there is
duty or not. The fact is, however and admits of no
cavi, that prices increased by the duties IT. on
the above imports Of 81 ,00O 000 revenue Of Co.'S
UOO is to be raised to refund the proceeds of The public
lands voted away it will amount to an ad val0um duty
OF per CENT which will not only raise the price Of
Inc imported goods TO the same extent but those Oft the
home manufacturers also. The consumers will then
have to pay an additional six per cent. S446 900 900
OF goods annually phLh amounts to $l3 900 900 of
which the Government will get $4,000, 900, aud the
manufacturers $40 COG, 009. The relief offered to
the States by the distribution act, 10 the extent of S3-
0OO, 700, will thus cost the of the people 49,
5000 dollars. A most singular manner of conlar-
ring the greatest good upon the greatest number
And now, sir, in connection with this subject and in
order to show that independently of the immense loss
which have proven the people sustain in this opera.
on there is yet another source of loss TO them in the
fact that the money distributed will not 20 to the men
who were taxed for it, in the proportion they paid,
will in conclusion read extract from some remarks
Of my own made in this body on the 25th of January,
l84l. On that OCCASION, said:
And who are TO receive the fund distributed Not
the people, who, IN the first place. paid it. but the
slates-the Legislatures of the States In what would
this resu Extravaganza and waste. Not; indeed; be-
cause legislative bodies or they are no likely TO
be composed ofmen less vruous than others, because
no body ofmeD, however honorable Individually ever
could, or ever can, with safety, be charged with the
conduct public AFFAIRS in the absence of all resLons>
bltY. ltwas for this reason drawn from the caamit-
Gus experience of the serious the thoughtful the eau
tiOus, people Of America imposed upon all the depart.
ments of power we'll upon each public fincona-
y. the most positive restraints and highest sanctions,
by their written and organic laws The great the on.
ly security the people of State now have for the econ
omy of Its Legislature in The expenditure of the public
money, is the responsibility under which the Legsa-
ture acts Of having ITSELF first to tax it's own consit-
uency, in order to raise it. But by the system ofds-
tribution, the responsibility of collecting revenue is to
be separated from the power 10 apply it, Congress is to
tax the people, the Legislature to expend the tax Each
member ofe latter body, aware, therefore, as he would
be, that when the State Treasury was exhausted Con-
gess not he, must bear the odium oflaying new tax
to replensh it, would very naturally seek to obtain for
all objects in his particular district county the largest
appropriations possible; considering as he would every
dollar thus obtained clear gain to that extent ont 0f
the common spoil In this manner, the very desire now
strong with the representative, Justly So please
his immediate constituents by his economy oftbe pub
lie money, would then becUme reason equally strong
for its profgate waste. Where's in such case would
be the limit to expenditures? where 10 taxation necessa-
ry to meet III No where until Government had con.
sumed the whole substance ofthe toing multitude. and
left them here in England, clad in the ragged livery
ofpauperism-breadess and hopeless.
"S,r, | have already said that the money if
distributed will 60 not TO the people who, in
The first instance, paid it. Again have said
that in all government, protesting 10 be free,
this power of unlimited taxation ever has divi-
ded The mass into classes Of the rich and The
poop and upon such division founded separate
orders in the State; the one who govern and
riot The other who toll and obey. Such always
will be found TO be the result The process
which leads to it is plain The aggregate
fund in the hands Of Government is made up Of
contributions bv every citizen. In the appli-
cation Of therefore or its benefits justice re
CURES that each should receive a proportion
equal 10 that he advanced. But is this The
case? Never; nor ever can il be. 1t is one Of
the evils 10 The best Of government that equali-
~ in the distribution Of burdens and benefits
is found utterly impracticable. And sir it ID
for this very reason more than for all ,olhers
together that taxation aud expe ndture should
be strictly limited For in every tax some
are made thus 10 pay unrequited tribute 10 OIL
ers. The wrong increase with each addioh-
al assessment. until finally ifcontinued it breaks
The equilibrium Of society. The favored class
rises to wealth by the very cause tba, depreses
The unfortunate. Each day separates them
more widely from on another and the former
drawing sill nearer to the Government, whilst
The latter is sinking beneath it becomes in the
end The Government itself "a ruling order,
based upon and sustained BY the Pillage fthe
multitude.
VIVA, with us has been the fact and what
it's results, liz the very first instance of dislrib-
u,ion? To all it is known that % lOl, ,64A
dollars then called its surplus revenue were
in the year 1887, distributed by this Govern
ment iu The name of dsposte with TIE State.
Where wen, that money! To the people2 to
the men BY whom it had ben advancedi No
not the fifth dollar oft; but to the Legislatures
first ard then chiefly to banking or to otheI
corporate companies and to the rich, Tor the
very reason that they were 30.
"And now that may the more clearly ex'
pose this--,he EAagrant injustice inflicted BY
the practical operation Of the distribution PrIn'
ciple upon the tax paying mass OF the people
l shall trace briefly yet with all the accuracy
Of which matter 90 confessed and complicated
admits the progress Of this surplus fund from
the National Treasury 10 iIsilast known desti
nation. But here before proceeding turtle
| il is important 10 remark tha, speak in refer
ence only TO the $25, ,234, l3l received BY tn
twenty; out OF the twenty elk States by whic
| L 80 honn m da n thtn Inv