The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-07

Extract Of a letter from
"NEw YoRK, Aug. 3, 1886
'The new tariff bill on the basis of the invoice cost
abroad Of foreign articles, which makes the consul
mer in the United States pay taxes United States
duties according to the quality Of the article he may
choose, is certainly wiser system of taxation than
he exploded one of specific duties, which expert
ence has proved was only a bonus TO stupid emf
grants to produce an inferior article in the United
States and compel our citizens 70 buy IT, especially
those whose occupation as well as wages compes
them to use the coarsest articles OF food and raj
tnent The veteran advocate Of tariff Of protection,
Mr.. Webster, may affect to have represented the
wages class in his late speeches 10 the United States
Senate over the dying tariff of lS42 but every boy
Of the public schools knows that of the 100000
voters of the Union, 800 900 are confined 10 the
disbursement annually Of a revenue not exceeding
S300-say an aggregate of $40 DOC, 900. We will
estimate that the remaining 200 900 pay them
this in the three great natural items of civilization
y. osss 81 and he zone
10 that he has nothing, besides penIsHA atthe wear
said minority class, claiming to own the land as
well as everything but the breath Of heaven, called
the atmosphere. Legislators have been on band
since the days OF Moses and Voltaire said they only
dehberated to determine the rates of conhscation
they should fix for their own out of the wages
and labor Of the producing class. II believed
that the beneyolence of the European blood and its
progeny in America, would under the action Of the
serfs and execute the laws SO to prevent every
man from paying one cent of taxes without his
sent. But the history oflaw-making in the United
States has been but continuance Of the European
taxing system, under new names, to enrich and
make arrogant the cunning and idle, whose calling
is to make themselves the chiefs Of the destitute rank
| and file of society, divided only on the imaginary
plans of improy their domestic condition with
spect to quantities Of food, shelter, clothing The
market may be overstocked with orators, lawyers,
DOCTORS issuers of paper money, legislators and tax
collectors but hundreds of years must elapse in the
United States before skifu artisan or laborer will
be compelled to labor for less than at the rate of $500
per year, without any tariff law ofany kind tor pro-
tecon or to transfer their wages to the nom
| producing class and enable them to have hired ora
tors on the floors of the legislative or legal halls:
The public school education has already instructed
not less than 100000 souls Of the rising generation
| to practise more common sense than the advocates
| of the tariff of 1912 If MIR. Webster were put on
the arena to 5000 per year exclusively by the
sweat Of his face, provide for his wife and chill
dren, he would probably have less logic and
romance, and common sense enough to feel that
| the less of his wages he paid for shelter, food,
and clothing, the :.ore of said wages would re-
main in his pocket, as it is but the single and un-
taxed of both sexes who require saving banks to keep
their paper I'M Are the greatest class to receive
| all the punishment of taxation, and the oppression
practised upon them by the aorney-at-law tribe for
being compelled to debt, only to keep fam
lilies from starving or freezing' Such catastrophes
as these are even excluded from the columns of all
the public press and hence unknown o,the rep
resenatves of the genteel and privileged classes in
the legislature, they too judcious to publish
any truth that would expose the tricks and Juggling
by which they plumber first and thereby starve Che
wages man and his family. George Miiflin Dallas
Of Pennsylvania by giving the casting vote, anc
thereby killing off the tariff of 1912, has executed Q
wise and glorious action, and will receive the sup
port of all men of common sense, because the new
law introduces the great lever Of competition By
which the great wages majority, without newspaper
or orators to represent its humble wants will receive
more wages- e., of the necessaries of life ant
Of better quality. He has increased the comforts o
the laborng men, to wit: 2,800,000 voters, Abbot
Lawrence and his class are too rich to enter Thu
kingdom Of Heaven rnl A DEMOCRAT"