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pratons for the same description of ex-
penditures during the present year, do not
come up to six million of dollars. What
does the administration design TO do with
these additional seven millions! And how
does it happen that the civil and diploma.
tic expenses of the government have been
more than doubled in the first year of
federal administration! These matters
need explanation, and they will have to be
explained before the people will consent
to have their taxes and debts thus cnor.
mously increased.
But how is the Secretary Of the Treas
ury going to provide for this extraordinary
demand of SIXTEEEN MILLIONS OF
the peoples money to supply the treasury
during the very first twelve months Of fed
eral rule! Will he attempt it by raising
the tariff and increasing the present duties,
converting them from ad valorcm into spe.
cifcs and minimums? Has not that
scheme~been tried and failed? Did not
the tariff Of 1842, which contained the
very features which the Secretary and the
federal party now seek to restore, fail Of
accomplishing the results, as revenue
measure; which were anticipated from IN
Did it not tend to diminish the revenue in
stead of increasing it! And has not the
tariff Of 1916 operated to produce results
precisely the.reverse! Has not the latter
encouraged importation, thereby adding
to the conveniences and comforts of the
people, and at the same time produced
more revenue? The affirmative answers
to these inquiries are undeniable. So far
from increasing the revenue and supply-
ing the additional wants of this most ex.
travagant administration, an addition of
duties, and their change to the specific and
minimum forms, will diminish it, and cause
still greater deficit in the treasury.
What, then, will be the resort? or
course it must be to direct taxation, or to
an increase ofthe public debt AS the pres
ent administration will hardly dare, in a
time of peace, to send the tax-gatherer into
the domicils of the people, to levy upon
their goods and chattels, and as borrow
ing is the less unwelcome mode of replen.
ishing the treasury, they will resort to tina,
plan of supplying their wants. The ma
tional debt is to be increased And the
American people are soon to be made,
under federal rule, hewers of wood and
drawers of water to the Rothsrhids, the
Barings, and other great European capi.
talists, who supply Austria and Russia,
and every other despotsm of the Old
World, with the means of crushing down,
butchering, and enslaving the people
S,,nb to ha tho -, IL or,1 <,f
policy of the present federal dynasty,
, which affects to be the impersonation Of
conservatism in America, and undoubted.
ly is-that conservatism which in Europe
recognises no power, authority, or privi-
lege, except in the favored few, and which
breaches for the preservation of thrones
under the specious, but, as it is applied,
atrocious text of "law and order''-a text
ever upon the lips of tyrants when they
conspire 10 put down liberty and order.
On the coming in Of the Harrison ad-
ministration in 1871, the same game was
played which the present imbecile cabal in
possession Of the government are now at
tempting. Then deficit was announced,
which, as now, was sought to be maintain
ed by show Of figures, artlully arranged,
to give false impression, and to enable the
partisans Of federalism TO misrepresent by
the education from them OF an inferential
falsehood. Then this deficit was made the
groundwork of re-enacting prohibiting
tariff for the benefit of the monopolists,
and creating national debt for the bene-
fit of the spectators of the stock market.
Then the huge spectre Of forty million
debit was conjured up to frighten the
country, and convince the people of the
wickedness of democracy and democratic
policy. And then the whole fabric offalse-
hood thus artfully constructed by the agents
of federalism was knocked to pieces and
razed to the ground by the application of
truth and argument in Congress, and
through the columns of the democratic
press. Then was the government depnv-
ed Of its means by prohibiiive duties, and
compelled to hawk its bonds about in the
markets of Europe for purchasers at dis.
count. The result Of such quackery in
craftsmanship was the overthrow Of the
party that resorted to it. And such will be
the result of the quackery which the pres
ent administration is attempting, with much
feebler capacities for making it successful.
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