Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-10-15

raising 10 the consumers the price OF I'M,
ported sugar which yieldsa revenue equa
lilo The burden, but The price Of domestic
sugar, which imposes an equal burtheu
and yields no revenue. 1t Is this lastre.
sult, ,.whic, unjuslIy transfers the money
Of the many 10 the pockets OF The few,
which constitutes the incidental protec-
tion Of a revenue duly-a resullw hich Sc
far from being desirable 10 the people al
large, can only be regarded as unblic
evil unavoldably rasnl,iuS from an ane'
quail system Of taxation.
i Now lei US suppose the duties upo. all
foreign imports, including sugar and lron'
reduced 10 a revenue slanard ol ~ per
cent, and take up the case OF sugar plan
ters and iron masters this point What
ground would they have 10 complain oi
such an adjustment Of the dulles upon
imports? Conld they pretend that any
one of these duties imposed burtilen
upon Them not equally imposed upon the
body o. the people The whole OF lhese
duties would operate precisely upon them
as upon others, with The exception OF the
duties upon sngar aud iron, aud these
while they would operate as taxes upon
all the rest of The peuple, would operate
as oounties to them. equal to twenty per
cent, upon the whole amount OF sugar
and iron they produced for sale. Sup
pose, for example, Il sugar planter OF
Louisiana produces sugar annually to The
amount of fifty thousand dollars-proba-
| bly, fair average, and an iron master O!
Pennsylvania, iron 10 the same anouat.
The amount OF other imported and pro-
lecled articles consumed by each, Certain
| ly would moi exceed ten thousand dollars.
Thus under revenue tariff these injured
citizens would have 10 pay 20 per cent on
$4,000. equal 10 $1,000 TO The govern
meut aud To heir confederate mouopolisls,
and would only receive 2O per cent on
SSU,OnO, equal 10 $4,000, from The great
body of The people Their ground oil
complaint, then. against the levellins e.
quality Of revenue tariff, would be hat
they received under it, only five limcs.as
much in bounlies as they paid in taxes
aud boun,ies united! And what under
these circumstances do hey modeslly de-
tnand Of the federal government and of u
iree trade democratic administration =
.ssssJimply that the bounty oi twenty per
frenl resulting from revenue duty, be
raised to fifty by a protecting duty, swell
ing their clear and real income derived
from the system OF federa! taxation from
eighty 10 twenty three thousand dollars !.
This plain statement literally exhibits The
character, not only of the protective duties
upon sugar and iron, but Of the whole
system of protective monopoly, and | am
sure no honest patriot can think Of the un-
just. iniquitous and audacious demand
made by those bloated and hearless plum
derers, that the administration should sa-
criice their principles and The vital iner-
es,s of the people. to seccre their ollesi-
ance, for the support of the followers aud
victims, whom they al The same time de-
ccive and plunder. without feeling his
blood boil in his veins, with the warmest
indignation.
Taking a more comprehensive view of
the subject, il may be slated as Il fact that
the greater part Of The revenue from i'm
ports, in derived from dulles on the class
of protected articles, principally sugar.
| iron, and iron manufactures, collen man
ufacirres and woolrn manufactures
Now all these interests are united loseth-
er in plunderiue confederacy upon The
people, that each may rob the other, thai
all may rob the community at large. As
I have before slated. each of them would
receive al least five times, some of them
twenty times as much as they pay. even
under n strict revenue system. Is it moi
apparent, therefore, Mat 10 permit those
interests to control Congress, in The mat.
er Of taxation, would be TO put The power
of taxation. The most important OF all po-
litcal porcrs, in the hands of those who
have deep pecuniary interest in increas-
ing the taxes? If The manufacturing ma
tions OF Europe would agree TO supply
the federal revenue by perpetual tribute
would these mouopolisls consentto total
repal Of the duties on imports and free lhe
country from taxation? They certainly
would moi. They solemnly declare that
these duties, which are surely taxes to he
country a,o essential to their prosperity
that to reduce them from fifty 10 twenty
per cent would be injurious to Them, bnl
to repeal them altogether would be ab,
soIu,ely ruiuous. Here, then, is a con
fessiou of what's apparent without il, thai
those who receire The taxes, impudentFy
claim the prerosatve of prescribing to the
government what burlhens shall he i'm.
posed on those wEo pay them! II we
submit to. these things, can we claim Ia
live under responsible, represe ntalive re.
public? II ought never 10 be forgotten
That system OF taxation, by which three
! fourhs at least of The public revenue j:
derived from dulies upon foreign manu-
features, the like of which are extensive.
Ily produced in the United States, is the
most burlilensoms and unequal OF all the
known systems that now exist in civilized
nations, reduce and modify il as we may
The whole of The duty imposed on this
class Of articles, is discrimination against
4 the imported. aud in favor of home made
I manufacture TO the full extent of that du'
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