Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-10-07
Direct Taxation.

wing paper before us claims to perceive
evidence amply sufficient to conviction,
that there is shortly TO be a new issue on
the Revenue question, and that the demo
cratic party will take ground in favor Of di-
rect taxes on property and income for the
support of the federal government. The
wing editor, seeing IN such system final
end to governmental favoritism and eX-
travagance, shoulders at the bare thought
of its adoption as the policy of the demo
cratic party, and asks in haf-serious-half-
doleful accents, as if to convince himself
well Of the monstrosity of such political
heresy-" Who goes for direct taxes on
the people by the Federal Government! 2"
We do, for one. And without dwelling
just now on the justice, equality, eXpedien-
cy and economy of such a change in our
national policy, we propose to borrow the
ovtraots. addncna IA, 49,, c~I---i = H.. -
prove that there has been an arranged and
simultaneous movement by the Democra-
tic press, from one end of the country TO
the other, in favor of direct taxation,-eX-
pressing our qualification at these eviden-
Ces of the onward tendency OF tue prin-
cples, and liberal opinions.
The first extract is from the Democratic
Review (Sept. No.6 "the chief organ OF
the dominant party" as the wing editor
calls it. In the course of an able article on
the Tariff system, the Review says:
"The evil has become SO great as to lead
TO the consideration, whether it should not
be counteracted by an entire abandonment
of indirect taxes, and an abolition OF the
Custom Houses. BY such course, pa
tronage of some Il 900 officers will be ia
ken out of the hands of the Federal Co.
vernment, and a source OF vast corruption
dried up. The wants of the Federal Go
vernment may be % millions per annum
besides the land revenue. This could ca
silly be raised by tax apportioned among
the States.
AS, for instance, the mill tax of N. orL
Welded $685. ,067; two-mill tax wouIt
give at least 81 100000, which would b.
collected without any increase OF machine
nv by the Comptroller of New York, Will
the State taxes, and placed to the credlto
the Federal Treasury, The collection
would not cost dollar, and the support O
the federal government would fall upol
nroperty instead of labor. The econom
and feasibility of such system is superb
10 that of customs. BY the removal OF te
latter, many evils would be remedled, pan
ticularly that of every few years arrayln
the manufacturers against the government
and making the distress of poor people tn
means of warfare"
The next is an echo from the might
west The Illinois Herald, a respectab
democratic paper, holds this language:
6 Direct taxation is the very reverse
;,d;rect taxation. 1t is taxation upon pr
9,erfy. not consumption. Onder such
9,s,em of taxation, every man pays,
yarIv as NAV be, for no system approx
a,as n exact Justice, upon the amount
.ronerty he owns, and not upon the guar
NV and value of the articles he eats, dfini
Ia wears. 1t is, therefore, just ana
-. eystern of taxation, under Whlch eV
,,a3 knows how much he pays, ana J.
- - he oays. 1t is always called 6y
W., name. viz: tao and not PTace' 1t
ceives nobody
The New York Globe uses the loiiO " Il
direct and pointed language:
GA system Of direct taxation w QUIZ 70
notv-men out of every huhulc
men ,srofore. we are wiling to appear - !
nerea Of The people in se'lllhs =
M, n Y. Journal of Commerce, ire
,,a5e paper, otherwise politically. .!,;l ns"'
~ indifferent, comes out IN inns "''
" rho,e is one idea which all the pa1p p
no raj, talk in this way seem not = -