The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-11
From he Nasdeile (Tea.) Union. TAXATION-WHO PAYS?
CLAY, ADAMS, FOSTER, JENNINGS, AND oTH Fr Wufes oN TIE rI1 tRtFP- Nh tf'4xKTIoy

CLAY, ADAMS, FOSTER, JENNINGS, AND oTH-
 FER WHies ON THE TARIFF AND TAXATION.
 The whigs, and whig orators, and whig presses, especially in Tennessee. have lately assumed several positions i'll regard to taxa ton, and the operations of the Tariff upon prices and consumption. The wholly inde- fensible and absurd position has been yirtu- ally, and in some instances, openly assumed, that a "high Tarif makes cheaP gQods'2-a fallacy, every man of sense would suppose too shallow to deceive any body. The truth is, ever has been, and ever will be, as an un- ewing law of trade, that the duty laid on goods by impost or Tariff, enters into and forms c part of the price paid 6y the last pur- chaSer or coRS@n1er-and that under the fore going law of trade, the present Tariff is op- erating, and will continue to operate until modified, most unjustly and unequaly upon the laboriRg and agricultural portion of the people, who form a vast majority of the whole. To set this matter right before the country, and to establish the truth by the testimony of distinguished whig witnesses, is an easy task, and is the purpose of this ar tclc. We shall produce the deliberate evil dence of the prominent wings named above, which, with our whig friends, we hope, will be admitted to be conclusive. The first named-one who will surely be believed by our opponents-is MT. Clay himself In a speech made in the Senate of the United States, on the l2th of February, 1923. quo ted in inc recent edition of his Life and speeches, published by his friends, at page Hi, Mir. Clay says:
 . "We are instructed BY ALL EXPERIENCE, that the consumption of any article Is in proportion to the reduction of its price, and that in general, it may be tahen as C rule, THE DUTY rroN AN ARTICLE FORMS PoR- TloN OF ITS PRICE.
 This, one would suppose, would be allI the proof reasonable whig would ask but as we fear we have some opponents who are rather unreasonable, we will next call Mir JoHN QUINcY ADAMS. In Report made to l the House of Representatives in Congress, as Chairman of the Committee on Manulac- lures, in the year 1882, Mir. Adams says:
 "The doctrine that duties of impost lthe | tarill) eheapens the price of the articles upon which they are levied seems 10 conflict with the first dictates of common sense. By | whom is the duty paid Certainly by the purchaser of the article, whether of foreign or domestic manufacture The duty consti- tutes part of the price of the whole mass of the articles in the market It is su5siaa- [ 3aliy paid upon the articles of domestic ma nnlacture as well as upon that of foreign pro- ductlon. Upon one it is a bo,taip, upon the. other it is a burden, and a REPEAL or THE TAX MUST OPERATE AS AN EQUIVALENT RE- DUcTIoN OF THE PRICE OF THE ARTICLE WHETHER FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC"
 The next witness we shall call to the stand IS the Hon. EPHRAIM II. FOSTER. In 1889, f Tn an address to the people of Tennessee, winch may be consulted in the journals of t the House of Representatives of the Gene ral Assembly of thatyear, at pages 1s9-198, his testimony may be found at length His address was made 10 the people through to the Legislalnre- page IgS, of the Journal, he says =
 "lhere is yet another way in which swe { may discuss this importantsubjeet, (tarif ard taxation) aud make it's dangers apparent 10 the most minimizing mind. The general