Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-11-13
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deal worse; for the money of A is taken
from The pocket OLA to supper, the indus
try of B. and the money from the poke,
of B to aupportlhe industry OLA. Both
A and b will say this is fooIishness,- bet.
ter lei US keep our money 10 encourage
each his own industry, because, Isl, you
give US the trouble of putting our hands in
our pockets so often for nothing, and, Sec
ondly, because we have 10 pay the TAX
collector. who has no industry Of bis own
for receiving money from one aud paying
il over 10 the other. Do you believe it
possible, / mean, for any convention to
grant power to Congress to tax the whole
country at pleasure for the support Of New
England manufacturers j? You know this
would be done, and yer you know this is
the very thing that is done. A State has
the power 10 lay taxes 10 encourage indus.
try--why? because State has all power
nor prohibited. But what State has exer-
cised The powet,of levying taxes TO en-
courage manufactures? States have grant,
ed charters incorporation for this purpose,
but have in spirit Of justice, granted them
equally TO all who. under like circum-
stances, applied loi them. The parlia-
ment of England possesses The unlimited
power TO encourage industry, because it
possesses all power without Limitation;
aud how has it exercised this power? By
taxing all industry for the support of each
each for the support Of all! England
like the States, acls in a spirit Of impartial
justice. lfshe taxes A for The benefit Of B,
she equally taxes 3 for the supper, of A.
So that there every body is taxed, is
no, for manufactures only, bul for every
kind of findustry; for you know she has her
corr laws but in all this, England, although
she be unwise, is impartial. just, aud
equitable. She never refuses 10 b the
measure conceded to A. But would you
take England for a model, aud give to
Congress the unlimited power over human
industry which belongs to The British Par
lamenl? see nothing to be gained by
following this example. think see
great deal TO be saved by avoiding it. The
taxation Of every thing, under This system,
in England, which their statesmen would
be glad 10 get rid Of, is so great, that the
prices of :hiugs that make up the neces-
saries, anI comforts, and luxufies OF life,
rise in proportion and make her Tho dear
est. when otherwise she would have been
The cheapest country in Europe. The
consequencetis, thar when rich man there
happens to fall into poverty he fees 10 the
continent, where the taxes being lower, he
lives cheaper, aud has comparative COM
fort and enjoyment.
l make these statements, gentlemen, to
show what your own Congress is doing
under Limited constitution, having but a
very partial and limited power over hu.
man Industry, and what England is doing
with an absolute and unlimited power over
the same object. The one is unjustly and
oppressively taxing one portion of the
country for the benefit Of another, the
other is taxing, however foolishly, yet cer-
inly more fairly, all for the benefit of all.
If Congress has power over manulac-
turing, it has equal power over CONNER
cial aud agricultural industry, and if it has
Gower over taxation to support and cher
ish the one, il has an equal power Of Taxa
lion is not confined to duties on imported
goods. |, must comprehend every des-
cripliou Of taxa ION direct aud indirect.
Surely it will not be said that Congress
has an especial power to encourage man.
ufacturing industryi but of encouraging it
by Indirect taxes alone. The genius Of
protection has not adventured so much.
Now le, US see, gentlemen, wha: would
he The result of direct system of taxation.
We have poor farmer, who, with cotton
at s cents, is scarcely able to buy second
shirt to his back. The tax collector comes
and asks return upon oath of all The tax
aole article lie has consumed, cotton bag
ging, salt. sugar, iron, molasses, &c. The
farmer says he has never yet paid for the
encouragement Of The industry Of the man.
ufac,urer in making them, and for :his lie
must pay according TO law, il il cost him
Tie bed of his wife aud children. But
have you brought nothing in return, re
joins the farmer, for The encouragement of
my industry? My industry is as vaiua-
BILE as theirs. Ifthe la& man says MO. the
farmers eyes are a, once opened 10 the
beauties ofthe American system. The
illusions ofparty are dispelled. He sees
for the FIRST time clearly that he is paying
by the sweat Of his brow 10 support people
I'd Massachusetts and Ohio. without get
ting anything in return, and that he does
ge, any thing in retGrn, it is the meres,
'loulshness-he is paying so much to en-
courage the labor Of Band ''B is paying
just as much 10 encourage bis labor, aud
that both Of those have TO pay the lax-
collector, who does nolhing bul collect
from A and B, to pay oyerto c aud D,
and from c and d, TO pay over to "A and
b. Butifthe tax man says he has brought
nothing this is the law, the farmer sees
for the first time that sHrh. injustice aud
oppression are insupporlable-rhat i! is as
much as he can support his own family;
and thar he must be broken 4down fhe
is obliged 10 contribute TO The support Of
families in Massachuseyts and Chin afronf