Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-02-21
For the Portage Sentinel.
Taxes by the Yard, and Taxes by the
Weight.

For the Portage Sentinel.
Taxes BY the Yard, and Taxes by the
Weight.
II will not set unconcerned while my liberty
is invaded; nor look in silence upon public rob-
berry. will exert my endeayors at whatever
hazard to repel the aggressor, and draw the thief
to justice, whoever may protect them in their
villainy, and whoever may partake Of their plun-
der.-PIrT.
GENTL EMEN-I see two sides of your
paper covered over with such announce
ments as these: "New Goods" "Great
Bargains" "Ten Days Later from Eu-
rope" "Wa ak up, Walk up" and inter-
mingled frequently with general Settle
ments," and "Sheriff's Sales" If any at
tention has been paid to the figures which
| have made-to the thirty-three millions
of dollars which is added to the cost of for
eign goods annually by the government
and the way in which the people finally
pay it; and 10 the amount which is raised
for the home manufacturer on domestic
goods, to remunerate him, as is said, for
the difference in the cost of manufacture
between this and other countries, the true
meaning of these merchantile and finan'
cial announcements, more properly called
Treasurers' Proclamations, will be better
understood. These beauties blossom with
the greatest profusion in the Fall & Spring,
and are indigenous at every four corners.
(The State government, with more mod
esty, has but one Collectors Office in a
county, and notifies its wants but once in
the course of year) They say to the
people, "W ak up 10 our stores, stone,
brick, and wood, and pay your taxes" Mr..
Wholesaler says in his card, 81 have paid
beforehand for you $33,OOO.OOO to the
general Treasury, and oil ask for the use
of my money is 10 per cent, which, with
the sum advanced, | am content TO add
to my goods" Mr.. Retailer, otter having
paid this advancement with the profit,
spreads himself behind his counter, and de-
clares "the infinite pleasure it would afford
him to receive backzthe money so paid,
from his friends and customers, with only
80 per cent. proft.' Mr.. Consumer, with
leaden face, says, "Those charges are
reasonable enough. Measure me off that
piece of cloth, and I'll take that keg of
paint, and that other one Of nails. 1t is
true the sum levied at the first has swelled
considerable, but it is so distributed on ev-
cry thing buy, that l do not feel it much.
And then, as our candidate says, | can pay
it eat may leisure. After this exhibition
Of political and domestic economy and wis
dom, he packs his purchases into his wagon
and drives home, followed shortly by the
constable ard sheriff: He left the office
a0ithout a receipt. His case is like the
most of those who like government which
lets them pay their taxes "at their LEISURE"
and in a way which hides from their view
the actual amount. * -.
| was informed by friend the other day
''that Uncle Sam did not get much out of
him, for he was always careful TO buy our
oDn manufactures. Now, doubtless he
was correct in supposing that he did not
contribute much to the general government
in this way. But wherein was he better
Oft than John Randolph who would not
purchase our manufactures at all? The
one paid, in his purchases, the tariff and
profits; the other pays the amount of pro-
tectlon, which is precisely equal to the rate
OF the tariff, together with the same profits.
Ii tariff has raised the price of foreign
goods in the houses Of the wholesale deal
ers in the city of New York 25 per cent,
the home goods furnished the same houses
from Lowell and other places in this eoun-
try, are protected and benefited at the same
rate. The two kinds of goods, foreign and
domestic, lie side and side, perhaps, in the
same wholesale Establishments and are there
found and purchased by the retailer. On
the one kind. the wholesaler pays 25 per
cent. to the custom house officer; on the
other, to the manufacturer The two class.
ss are marked on his shelves at the same
price, differing only as to quality. 1t mat
ers not whether it costs part, or the whole
of the 25 per cent. more, 10 manufacture |