The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-11

clans call indirect tax and the mysteries oia system which steals in silent impunity from unconscious purses, may easily deceive well informed community, whilst it imposes heavy burthens on their industry. The ne cessary policy of our State government avoids all subterfuge, and appealing openly to the pockets of the people, sustains itself 1 by direct and unequal tax upona all the pro- pertv of the country. Every citizen paysin nronortion to his wealth and means, and the aggregate amount may be made to corres- pond, in a reasonable degree, with the wants of the treasury forbear any commentary upon the superior excellencies of this sys-' tenn of taxation, but may briefly remark m passing along, that by reaching the sense o1 the dullest capacity, 1t excites the watehtul- ness and jealousy of all, and tends thereby, in an eminent degree, to secure the country I against official peeulation. and the wastelal 1 consumption of the public money.o
 Again, at page 204 of the Journal, Mir Foster continues the eloquent discussion of Tariff taxation as follows:
 sIt is not possible, admit, under our finan- cial system, to make an accurate calculation l of the amount of taxes annually paid by the people of Tennessee into the Treasury of i the United States but l have explained in another place the manner in which these taxes are collected, and if we estimate the amount by comparative view of wealth and population, IT CANNOT FALL SHORT OF MILLION OF DOLLARS. Yearly, then, do we pay into the treasury of the Government at I Washington this enormous sum of money, and though few, perhaps, know the fact or stop to calculate the cost, q iS c -conSta7lt araja a70n our resources, and abstracts from our sleeat and cur tolls. BY INCREASING THE PRICE OF OUR SALT AND OUR IRON, OUR sU- CARS AND OUR SPICES, AND ALMOST EVERY ARTICLE WE USE OR CONSUME. For all this, we have no pecuniary return-literally none. I Who is he that reflects, and does not see the oppressive inequality of such a state of things Wten pag dag comess 1rc are to7d in I frateraai accents Adt ace gre one household j; but ac1c4 Inc 5oua}ies of tEe fdmily chest gre 10 De distribHtcd, thc Eon's share fallS 10 OUT elder b70ther-Hc crumbs dad bones are ours. ,
 Thus argued Mir E. II. Foster, now one of our Senators in Congress, against the hard- ships, injustice and inequality of the opera ton of the Tariff as 1t stood near the close 7 of the year 1889. The Compromise act was then in operation, by which all duties were in a state of annual reduction, gradual ly coming down to 20per cent.-where they were to rest The duties had already been reduced, at that date, greatly below what they were under the act of 1892, and, ol course, greatly below what they were under
 the earlier operations of the Compromise Act
 of 1883. The rates, duties and burthens of
 which Mr. Foster complained so forcibly, and by course of reasoning so clear and just, were vastly, in all respects, bel0lc the bur thens and taxes imposed upon almost every necessary of life by the ab6minabe whig Tariff law of 1842, ao1c ia force, and passed in violation of all the pledges of the Com promise of 1853; and Mir. Foster NOW, and : aH tbc gHig lcadefs, at the command of AIr. Clay, and whg caucus dictation, are the
 open, loud, deHuneiatory advocates of the present law. That their whole scheme and system of tariff taxation is wrong, unjust, in- iquitous and oppressive, being an increase of tbe rate Of lafaii0R coademaed bg Mr
 Foster ID 1899, is thus proved by whig tes- timony-by Mir. Foster himself
 2 On the subject of the rights of the agri- : cultural States, especially of the South, and : more especially still in regard to the injus- l tice of the present, or any similar system oi : taXation-of any system creating protection- : protection beyond the just and equitable pro- !, lection incidentally afforded by tariff for ! revenue, to meet the economical wants ol 2 government, we have all further testimony l In an Address 10 the people ol Tennessee : by the whig members of the tweniy-fourth I General Assembly of this State, published : about the close of the session, in the Nash : vile Republican Banner of the 18th of Febru- : ary, 1842, signed among oihers,- by Dr : THOMAS E. JENNINGS, the Whig candidate l for Eleetor in this Congressional district, Vt l find the following forcible declarations, sane } toned and signed, we believe, by every whig 3 member of that Assembly:
 ? ''Need we remind you that upon carafu ? retention by the south and west of their duo :, and constitutional federal power in rcpresen. : tation, depends their security of possession : and tile to slayes--depends their successful ], and rioh3ul enjoynemt of reward and pt0fl from the industrious caliirdtioa and prodUc- [ lion of He great staples ot soil and climate- 7 depends thicr interests it inc long and uamit- a jgated, yet continued conflict bet1cecn he md1a- l gtactwing and agrjeulfma1 States, for fire : tradc or T PROTECTIVE T.aRIFF- l depends tbe falflmentof Hat moral, imezlcc- } tual and physical polcer which alraits He mighfy popuIation deatiaed 10 GH the great ;, oal1cy of the Mississippi. These Truths ere ttoo peelk haoea tofePeat-too important to De jorgottea."
 Aferreading these several proofs, as tothe injustice of the whig policy in regard to tariff taxation, and the effects which this policy has upon prices-upon the prices ofthe plain necessaries of life, and even the prices of iin- I plements of labour formed ofiron and steel- upon salt, sugar, clothing, &c., &c.-who, what man, not blinded by party predjudices, or deceived, can approve of such sytsep, or repose faith in those who are its advocates, or in the head and father of the entire system it. sell, Henry Clay of Kentucky We ask the question in sincerity. is for our country