The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-25

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siye difference In the first case, the working man,
be his means little much, has no resource but to
buy the taxed necessaries or do wlthout--he FEELS
that his free will is, IN measure, invaded NOT SO
in the last case-here he has some resort-his Tree
viii remains whole-he may ran To ms garden, or MS
farm, or his household manufacture, II he chooses OF
thinks proper In the first case, he may be said 10
pay an involuntary indirect tax and IN the last case
voluntary indirect taxa sensitive difference IN 'e
sentiment of the freemeD, be assured. some sinsu-
arly charitable beraliss say that those VINO ooec'
TO paving a tax upon those articles when are uh7
adapted to climate, can substitute rye conee sage
mint and other herb tea SPICE wood, and native red
pepper, sc. ~,
reference to the taxed tea OF the Revolution, anu
the battle of Buukers Hl might, perhaps, be an APP
propriate reply In truth, there no indirect tax IN
the whole catalogue so UNJUST to the working man as
that which is now to be levied products that do
moi belong TO our climate and papable too that 1t
should not be thought OF for moment. Let us ex-
pose its partial operation by illustration or two
We will instance capitalist MANUFACTURED WIN an
investment of $1,000 0, having family OF nine and
himself, and employing IA families oil ~ each' Inc
tax hill of the Committee of Ways and Means, which
is before u.s. levies on teas du OF % 10, III, and
cents per pound, and bohea, species similar to
clover hay cents pound coffee, 20 per cent; on
cocoa one cent per pound; chocolate, cents pouhd;
mace so cents pound; nutmegs, 80 cents pound;
cloves. cents pound cinnamon, rs cents pound;
cents pound ginger, cents pound; camphor,
2 cents pound On salt-in this instance | mean
rock and Island salt, the purest Kinds, lO cents
bushel Of So pounds, measured bushel OF 'hese
kinds weighing much more. On raw sugar, ~ cents
Der pound clayed sugars, cents pound refined
sugars cents "A pound moasses, cents gallon
The foregoing articles, with the exception OF sugar
and molasses-and the duty that exoTbitant, from
so TO rs cents-are either rejected by, or not found
in our climate, and should be duty free Now sup
pose that the duty per annun on the cohsuHPto" VI
these necessaries should be dollar piece-a mod
erate estimate-to every ope about tins establish
ment il exhibits the spectacle OF a congregation OF
Ia non-capiiast working families arounda manuiac-
turing establishment and each OF such families, COM
prising ten individuals paying as much tax on I'M
ported necessaries, towards supporting their Govern
ment as the l000 900 dollar capitalists family OF ten
persons Also that employs them! One specimen,
this Mr. Chairman, Of taxation on labor to the re-
lief Of capital under this tax bill we VIII oiier
another Most of us have heard OF the suiferlngs,
and prvations, and intense wearing labor that the
thousands Of destitute females IN some the larger
cities undergo, to earn the miserable pfttance that
will barely sustain life in themselves and their
children. Let US suppose one OF those ware
houses or clothing contractors, with capital OF
100000 that employs some hundreds oil these
heart-broken females, at mere skln-and-Done pay,
each of the n contributing as much tax toward the
expenses of the Government, on the consumption oil
the articles | have enumerated, as the one hundred
thousand dollars capitalist that employs them the
whole of these, suppose some three hundred, that
work for hun, paying, at sixty cents each one nun
dred and eighty dollars yearly OF tnis KIND OF tax
while he in unrestricted indulgence, pays from hve
to ten dollars perhaps according to the family he may
have-another sample OF taxation on labor to the
relief of capital" A working man in the west,
with wife and ten Understanding uncommon
here--will have to pay as much tax in his Govern
ment's support his consumption OF those foreign
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command from the soil of his country, as his
capitalist neighbcrs Of extended thousands of dollars
Spch will be the wide disparity of the action OF this
kind of tax upon labor and capital all over the Unlon
If Congress persists in imposing It, But It VIII not
be the tax to Government alone that the consumer
will have to pay for when he buys the article the du
ties will have been doubled, perhaps from the vari-
per centages levied the tax itself by the tra
fickers through whose hands it will have passed.
Suppose this problem should be submitted to the
tax projectors. If working family of ten persons,
with capital at all but th,ir hands, pay from SIX to
ton of tea, coffee, spices, sugar. molasses, and SALT
towards supporting their Government, what should
an idle family of ten persons, with capital of one
hundred thousand dollars, pay on similar consump-
tom Would not proportionate solution, applied to
all the capital in the Union, pay the debts Of the
States at once, well as the Government expenses
ask the Peoples representatives TO pause, before
they inct this anti-clmae product tax upon the la
Dor of the country, will have the most OF 1t to
pay, nearly all, from the way i have shown II Will
work nothing more plain. do not merely appeal
to the justice and wisdom of the representative, but
| appeal to his humanity, against eXacuns duties
from such imports that have become necessarles III
universal request although some choose to call them
lu ,uries. Will he make the toil-worn laborer and
and the widow and orphan contribute as
much towards the expenses OF government throuSh
the action of nccessltous consumption as the lnde-
pendent and the opulent'
Win he make the destitute heart broken female OF
the cty who has been reLuced from more prosperous
days, perhaps to distressing indigence, who has tc
work herself almost blind her need e. from daylight
in the morning To the middle OF the night, and Unger
to earn some twenty Fl e cents towards barely sus
ming life in her children and herse Viii he wiring
tax from her scanty pttance of tea and coffee, add
sugar, and salt 100 to $50 per cent. from the
handful of coal in her little CRATE, that she shver-
over while plying her intense labor OF freezing win
ters night 2 Will he, | say, make this poor womac
assist her Government, that has perhaps leglsialed
her her dep essed condition. equally with her rich
neg bors, of thousands upon thousands, surrounded
by all the lux ur,es and comforts, and enjoy nents
lille If h will do this thing however, he may ye
need her prayers with the recording Angel that the
deed be not traced with her the book of fate
where mmutable rulhw appear for and agains Us all
| do not think, Mr.. Chairman, that we will be able
to burden the farmers and mechanics and other work
ers ofthe West with this ancimats product tax with
out hearing from them the occasion The faI mers
Ohio pay their own State and county taxes cheertuy
that matter belongs TO themselves; but they vii
not sit very placidy under this Congressional offspring
of special purpose that Is gong 10 be imposed OF
them. Let the wives of the Western household enjoy
their tea and coffee in peace without the indirect tax
acoompa nDent to remind them OF the benign ia. or
burdening wisdom OF their Governments let thea
have their nutnegs, and cinnamon, and pepper, ant
ginger and aspce which they cannot raise in thei
II IN hoyo han, r1nr b.,I
$50 per cent tax abstraction Depend upon it, if you
tax this instance, their husbands and sons will MAKE
you un,ax again.
perceive that according to the report Of the Secre
taIy OF the Treasury, accompanying bill TO provide
revenue from imports, &c, that the impost indrec
tax which would be collected off the anti-cmate pro
ducts of tea coffee, spices, cocoa and campho by tn,
provisions of the tax bill of the Committee of Ways
and Means, would be about S4S56,0 and the indi
rect sugars. noLasses and salt. about - %