Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1846-10-09
CARROLLTON OHIO-FRlDAY, OCTOBER o 1916

Ter Of New York, with the State Taxes, and
placed 10 the credit Of the Federal Treasury
The collection would not cost a dollar, and the
support Of the Federal Government would fall
upon properly instead Of upon labor. The eco
nomy and feasibility of such a system is superior
to that Of customs. By the removal of the latter,
many evils would be remedied, particularly thar
OF every few years arraying the manufacturers
against the government, and making the distress
oiworking people the means Of warfare"
While these indications are appearing in high
quarters in the Atlantic States, similar ougiv-
ing, showing something like a concert fmoyc-
ment, comes forth in the far west. The Quincy
/ (llinois) Herald Of recent date has the follow
ing:
Direct taxation is the very reverse OF indirect
taxation. 1t is taxation upon property, not con-
sumption. Under such a system of taxation,
every man pays, as nearly as may be, (for no
system approxlmates to exact justlce) upon the
amount of properly he owns, and not upon the
quantity and value Of the articles he eats, drinks
and wears. 1t is, therefore, just and honest
system of taxation, under which every man
knows how much he pays, and for what he pays.
Ii IS always called by its right name, viz: tar
and not price. 1t dcceiyes nobody"
We must say that this design Of doing away
with custom houses entirely and Of relying upon
direct taxes for the support of the General Gov
ernment is far more consistent with the princi-
pies avowed by the party in power than their
course of action on the subject of revenue has
been thus far. If they are really opposed to
protection, as they say, there is no way of re-
moving protection but by total removal of all
mpost duties. They have been long endcavor-
To ronnnnilo
Of Tariffs for revenue but not for protection and
of the mighty constitutional difference between
incidental protection and direct protection.-
Then on the one hand while they have exulted
over the prostraion of the protective principle
in the establishment of the new Tariff, they have
told the people Of Pennsylvania and other States
not to be discouraged-lor they might rely upon
it, let the Wings say what they would, that the
new Tariff did really contain great deal of sub
stantial protection.
! Now it matters very little for what particular
purpose duties are imposed; it matters very lirIe
whether the protection they afford is incidental
or Direct they do afford protection, and so long
as duties are laid at all so long will some parlicu-
lar branches of industry derive more or less pro-
lection from them. We do not ofcoursc allude
here to duties upon articles which cannot be pro-
ducGd at hOmG-such as tea, coffee, spices, and
other tropical productions. A Tariff may be
called a revenue Tariff but no Tariff can be
made to yield revenue enough for the wants of
the Treasury without affordiug very considerable
protection. The Wings looking at the real ma
ture ofthe case, since protection in greater or
less degree must be thus afforded to domestic in
dustry, are anxious TO systematic the principle
and continue the means of revenue with sub
stantial encouragement of those industrial inter
ests and withthe dcvelopcment of those domestic
resources which form the best and surest ee-
ments of national strength and independence.
The other party, denying protection as princi-
pie yet obliged to extend some degree of it, if
they lay duties at ALL are involved in inconsistent
cios; they cannot have system, and therefore no
interest knows whether it is to have this degree
Iofprotecton or that or whether it is to have any
permanently. The difficulty of adjusting the in
congruous ideas of revenue without protection
leads them often to discriminate against protec-
ton, and thus deliberately to level the force of
the Government against particular pursuits in
which the honest industry of the people finds
employment.