Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-11-17

the rope which hangs the criminal; on the
poor mans salt, and the rich mans spice
on the brass nails Of the coffin, and the rib
bOns OF the bride. AT bed or board, cou-
chant or leyant, we must pay. The school
boy whips his taxed top the beardless
youth manages his taxed horse with tax
ed bride on a taxed road. The dying Eng
lishmnn pours his medicine which has paid
z per cent into a spoon which has paid
10 per cent; filings himself back upon his
chntz bed which has paid % per cent;
makes his will on an eight pound stamp,
and expires in the arms Of an apothecary
who has paid license Of M hundred
pounds for the privilege Of putting him 10
death. His whole properly is then imme-
dia,ely taxed from 10 10 per cent. Be-
sides the probate, large fees are demanded
for burying him in the chancel his vir-
tues are handed down 10 posterity on taxed
marble, and he is then gathered 10 his faith
ers, TO be taxed no more"
The annual Government expenditures OF
Great Britain are nearly S400 900 900.
The heaviest appropriation goes TO pay the
interest on the public debt, which requires
Sl50,000,000 The army and navy alb
sorb about s65, 100000 There are 1000
pensioners, who receive annually about s5,-
100000 The Queen and royal family get
some $500, 900 10 supply the royal tables
and stables, the royal babes aud lap dogs.
Full $4,000, 900 GO 10 sinecures, such as
the lord groom Of the stole, the lord keeper
Of her Majesly's buck-houHds, the lady
sweeper Of the Mall, the lords wiue-tasters,
store-keepers, and packers, not emitting
the chieijustices in Eyre, who have done
nothing for a century, and the Duke Of We'll
lngton. who seems likely TO live forever.
TO these governmental expenditures must
be added the income OF the Established
Church, whose Archbishop of Canterbury,
pocketing his 100000 per year, mourns
over the modern degeneracy which gives
her only SAC, 900 900 annually.
With these facts before US, we may form
some estimate Of the condition and pros
poets Of the poor Of country where labor
is abundant at twenty cents day. Out on
the inhuman policy which would prevent
these hungry millions from ernigraling 10
our broad American acres, which stretch
westward almost 10 shutdown, and that re-
r morseless policy which would exclude them
from these acres, by blasting the soil with
+ the sif0cco Of chatiel slavery
Anxious TO avert dangers, as well as 10
relieve burdens, the great problem which
British hnanciers have set themselves to
solve, since the peace OF 1915, has been to
devise some means Of paying off the public
debt and reducing taxation. The boldest
proposition TO this end was brough, forward
by Mr. Ricardo, gentleman OF the liberal
school Of politics. an Edinburgh reviewer
, celebrated for his controversy with Mt
: Nautilus, the writer OIL the laws Of pop.
. ulaiion aud national wealth. For the TEL
: years subsequent 10 the peace Of 1915, The
: financial embarrassmenis Of England more
than once drove her TO the borders Of ma
J, tional bankruptcy Mr. Ricardo, then be
ing member OF the House OF Commons
!, proposed as the best mode of extricatinl
!. the Kingdom from those embarrassmenis
TO tax lis capital and property TO the amour
Of fs00, 900 900. and pay the public deb
: of at once He defended this scheme OF
the two fold ground Of justice aud economy
, contending that wha, debtor owes ough
!; !, always to be deducted from his property
" aud regarded US belonging 10 his creditors
and therefore should be given 10 them-tha
- all estimates Of the wealth Of the debtor
!" till such deduction and payments are made
70 are false and delusiye-that The then presen
~ generation bad contracted nearly the Who'll
u Of the debt, and therefore ought not to en-
y tail IFS payment upon posierity--and that
rs by Immediately discharging the debt, III
u expense Of managing it, aud raising the re,
9 enue TO pay the interest upon il would b
ie large saving 10 the nation. These propc
er si,ions he maintained by that vigour Of RET
ID soning, funess Of detail, and clearness {
'e illustration, for which lie was remarkable
ne and which won him a high place among III
y politico.econom philosophers Of his tint
e' But his scheme fell Of its own weight, ha'
~ ing few supporters except himself II WI
" in advance OF an age which never thougl
- Of paying, but only of borrowing. Thong
10. its author did not convince the Common
OF Of its practcability or expediency, he pre-
ne ty thoroughly alarmed the capitalists al
III property holders of the Kingdom.
-, After many years Of labor the part
uo Mr. Vansittari, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Peel, N
W. Huskisson, and others, 10 cipher the publ
oil debt into non.exisience, the hope of ev
FRS seeing il paid of seems TO have given plat
be 10 despair. TO be followed by apathy. \
he sane EngIishnan now looks 10 see il di
OF charged I'LL the huge monopolies which o
ne press the industry OF the country are abb
DC ished, the system Of Government entire
remodeled. and it's expenses cut down
lg- the lowest point of republican smplici
on and economy. TO talk Of paying de
tax of "a ,000, 600 600, whose annual interest
yo- more than $3.50, 000, 900, whilst Sl05.00
1t 600 is annually wasted on the Army, I
llP. Navy. and The Church, and 10000 m
&c. own all the land ofihe Kingdom, and eve
rly sixth man is a puuper or beggar, is SIM