The Arkansas banner., 1845-11-05


 stilules the incidental protection of reve- nue duty--a result which sb far from being desirable 10 lhe people q gge, can only be regarded as public1 ss8 iaso;dablv result- ing from an unequafsys!eni Of taxation.
 Now let us suppose ihSduties upon all fo. reign imports, including sugar and iron, re- duced 10 a revenue standard of 20 per cent and take up the case of he sugar planters and iron masters at this poiut What ground would they have to eomg.ain of such an ad- Ijustment Of the duties upon hnports2 Could they pretend that any one oi those duties imposed burden upon lhem not equally inl- posed upon the hody Of the people, Tine whole of these duties would operate pvocise- ly upon them as upon others, with the ex- eeptien of the duties apan sugar and iron, and these, while they would operate as taxes nPon all the rest of the speopie, would ope- rate as honties to lle8sequal to twenty per cent, upon the wng' aNnt os sngar and lfrer tiey IF%SdSsed for aai5 surpose for example, sugar planter ol Louisiana pro- duces sugar annually to the amount Of fifty thousand dollars-probably q fair average and an iron master of PeApsylvania, iron, to the same amount The amoGnt ot other imported and protected articles consumed ay each, certainly would not exceed len thou sand dollars. Thus, under revenue tariff, these injured citizens would have to pay 20 per cent. on $l0000, equal to S2,000 to the Government, and to their confederate mono pollsts; and would only receive 20 per cent. oil S50,000, equal to Sl0000, from the great body of the people! Their ground of com Plalnt, then, against the leyelling equality Of a revenue tariff, would be that they received under 1t only five times us much in bouuties, as they paid in taxes and bounties united ]! l And what, under these circumstances, do thsy . modestly demand of the Federal Govern- mrnt and of 8 free trade Democratic adnin- lstration Simply that the bounty of twen- l " per cent. resulting from revenue duty, be raised to fifty by protecting duty, swell l ing their clear and real income derived from l the system of federal taxation from eight 10 t~enty-three thousand dollars This plain statement literally exhibits the character, not only of the protective duties upon sugar and iron, but of the whole sy&tem of of protec- 1 tive monopoly; and am srrc no honest pa triot can think of the unjust, iniqnitous, and audacous demand made by those bloated and heaitless plunderers, that the Administration should sacrifice their principles and the vita
 interests of the people, to secure their ale glance for the support oi the followers and victims whom they at the same time deceive and plunder, without feeling his blood boil in his veins, with the warmesl indignation.
 Taking q more comprehensive view of the subject, il may be stated as fact, that the greater part of the revenue from imports is derived from duties on the class of protected articles, principally sugar, iron, and iron man niactnres, cotton manufactures, and woollen manufactures Now all these interests are lanited tegother ia plundoring eonlederacy, upon the principle that each may rob the other, that all may rob the community at large. As have before stated, each them would receive at least five times, some ol them twenty times as much as they pay, even under strict revenue system. It is not ap- parent, therefore, that to permit those inter ests to control Congress, ln the matter of tax ation, would be to put the power of taxation. the most important of all political powers, in the hands of those who have deep pecuniary interest in increasing tie laXes2 II the man ulacturing nations of Europe would agree tc supply the federal revenue by perpetual tri- bute, would these monopollsts cousent to | total repeal of the duties on imports and ire, the country from taxation? They certainl, would not. They solemnly declare that thes duties, which are surely taxes to the country are essential 10 their prosperity; that to reduc
 them from fifty to twenty per cent. would b
 injurious to them, but 10 repeal them alto f gether would be absolutely ruinous. Her, then, IS confession of what is apparent witl
 out It, that those who receive the taxes, i'm Pudenlly claim the prerogative Of prescribing
 to the Government what burdens 8ball be i'm f posed on those who pay them! If we sub
 init to these things, can We claim 10 live m
 der responsible, representative republic; l
 ought never to be forgotten that a system O
 taxation, by which three-lourths at least O
 the public revenue is derived from duties up
 on foreign manufactures, the like of which are extensively produced in the United States
 is the most burdensome and unequal of al
 the known systems that now exist in civil
 ized nations, reduce and modify it as ", may. The whole of the duty imposed ol this class of articles, is discrimination against the imported, and in favor of home. made manufacture to the full extent of tha duty.
 Now when we recolect that all foreign i'm ports, are as truly the productions of domes tic industry, as their homemade rival-an, that the industry which dcquires the foreigl , article is as much entitled to be exenpe
 from taxation as that which mates tho domes tic article il will be seen that the very low est rate of revenue duties upon sugar ait
 iron, and upon all manufactures of iron, cot ton, and wool, is an unjust discrimination i
 favor of one branch of domestic industry all against another. The true point of equalit and justice, as l have always maintained i. would be 10 impose the same rate of duty 0
 the homemade, that we impose on the in ported manufacture. The exemption, there
 fore, of our homemade manufactures lrol the duties imposed on those we import, is , most liberal concession, gratultously made
 the people to the manufacturers and thi
 they are not satisfied with this discrlminato Is proof how feeble is the sense of gratitud ; and justice among masses Of men, when thel , interests are in question. But our system [ as bnrdensome as it is unequal. It may b l safely stated that it imposes pecuniary bur , fipn an tb,, nonrIa finn se rrpaf til