The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-16

necessary of life; and the manufacturing labor l of the country is starving to death. That ls experience. There the thing has been tried And now they have got to point, which IS anchanging so long as the agricultural inte- rests can control. Let me add word winch may be relevant to a state of things with Us. How is 1t that the agricultural interest oi Great Britain. composing seven per cent of its population, k able to command the legis- lative policy ol that country It is because the government, in the course of the pursuit of Ibis policy has built up debt resting on the land of the countrv-the stock held by the landhoIdefs and landlords of the country whiehthe government can't pay-and through Is credit and lis debt, ihe landed interest commands and must command, while that monarchy exisis, its legislative policy. And It can command protection 10 it's wheat aad beef and other productions, while the Iaborer starves al his loom and spinning jenny. Do we, feilow-citizens-a l am sure address people a large majority of whom are tar- mefs-do We desireany monopoly to the agri- cultural interests: Cries of :. No" mo- Then tbe manufacturing and mechanical mte- rusts shou1d uot-as wise men among them do nat-dasire to drive the agricultural inte 9esf, bv seeking for lham elves, to this result Because lhe road is plain. lis a beaten track Not England alone. but France, Spain, Aus .H5a. have followed il 10 the same conclusion. Now. the argument is, " protection against ti4e psaper labor oI Europe" How has that paaper labor been produced2 Bg carrying out the Prohibitory policy. We should pre- teet ourselves to the whole extent of the revenue of our government, with the ezeep- ton of what we enjoy without taxation, bv duties on imports, Beyond that il would be impoliFic, as il would be unjust, to %. But an deaaing you too long on this subject Another word saaIl close
 Nftt is this system of benefits which our opponents 90 urge upon us, and to oppose which they say, is antj-patrioiic and anti American: Srip il oI is imaglea qHatl- aez. and of the beauties of rhetoric in which f1et dress it up, and ii is a system of taHa- Iia5l autae people And did ousHevolati9BaTy 5s.aezs eyer dream. when they were eonter- me ea the federal government this tfemen- cons power ef taxation, that the people were fa sand up ia mass and instruct their repre- eeaIa,iFes-,.taX Us on-taX us.oH-beeaHse hylasalian yoa can drive Us into uneqaalled prosperity = Laugher.l Fellow-eitizeass t is 1allacy D.vesl the human mind of H5iadiee, and it will detect the faIIaex d HaHee. lis not a system of blessing al all aa# iI F8Hf government required no revenue 20 Congress would be permitted to lay taxes to tax you into prosperity. This is all the baaeH1-alI the honest part of the invention that by a just regard to the different inter esls of ire country, by an honest exertion ol ths taXiHg power, you may relieve burdens on t..e community. Tax lightly the neees- saries of l1a, and you relieve taxation on the poor and labaeing classes Tax heavily lhe iazHfies. and you reach property that should heai. tHe heaviest portion of taxation. Where Eotf interests conflict with foreign interests. bear taxation on the foreign article as hard as ifz zWill bear consistently with revenue. YoH i'll sae treasury and relieve taxation from aR- other source. What Ipay more formy coat of#e cotton wear, I do not pay en any thing else-whiIst aid an important interest," But the moment you depart from that prinei- pie. and consider any system of taxation blessing, have shown you by the history of the old governments of the world, where the mistake must lead.