New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-27
not have struck the Senator from Michigan while

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nresentipg his side Of the same subject. It's THIS;
rri direct taxation shall be resoriei to, the great and
nornt source OF 10 the Government must % ~
res Oh foreign impoTts Now, every one hpows ma. s
amount thus be received 70 enhanced 81 me NUM- -
coosurers OF foreign imports IL Increased hence CO
tepo TIA the wOul be 1creased ny NE poC -
posed for by increasing he number o. sgilc1lul. 20
fuer YOU increase The number Of import consumer Anu
their AGILITY TO cousume ia other words thei, so.y ~
rtyrb9se for nsum1ii0n. The Government hA.s ~
doubt would be- the gsine IN her revenue hl-ei ' Vs
her receipts from the fub {; lands
No ore except the Senator will deny, pre-
sume that the measure would establish as pro-
ducers within the next ten years ~ ieas1 ~
hundred thousand persons. Now suppos'nS Iua'
by the tenth year the ability a THESE persons ~
rY1rchsse ard consume 6utiabe articles would DC
increased but $50 each, here would be an IN
crease COZ sumption in value Of 50, Ooo' Inc
increase of revenue from this source alone, az the
,resent tariff of 30 per cent. would be S'i9OO,OOO
Tor the wear 1861. Add to this $3.50, l52-the an
nual expense of the present land system "niOn
would be saved 10 the Government-eno yOu
have an aggregate increase Of revenue Tor tnas
year alone, without estimating the intermediate
increase and saving, Ss,336,l52. The sdrtng
alone for the whole period would be so,3ol,9ZU:
This is an increase OF revenue, as BURKE Would
saw. through TIE political secretOns OF the coun'
try;" but the Senator from Michigan sayslt IS Dat
one part Of The community PGylHg for pAat IS en-
jOzed BIZ the other 1t looks to me good deal IKE
an ample Remuneration iot iiSSio' N'~~
Just policy.
Vow sir. keep your lands and what will they
net YOU for the whole ten years Let US see :
As before stated, the net money proceeds lot
ls4o were S9e3,343. This IS greater than they
will ever be again, particularly II you make tue
last issue of bounty land warrants negotiable.
But take this amount, and multiply 1t through the
whole term, and YOU have but 1888, 433 for the
entire rerod compared 10 1886, l52, the increase
and saving Of one year alone under the measure
proposed, and the additional saving Tor the time
of 81 525 making aggregate OF el9'eol, 2SV'
Such would be the comparative results unoer
YOUR present revenue system; but II resort De
had 70 direct taxation, the revenue advantages OF
this measure TO the Government over the pollcy OF
keeping the lands unproductlve and untaxaOie
would still be great. The extent cannot De car
culated with certainty, but may be apProxlmated'
Then assuming that the amount OF lahd winch
would become individual property and subject 70
taxation would be only three times the amount
that would become so under your present policy,
and the amount in ten years would be about lou,
COO 900 of acres. Surprising this to be worth, SET
tied, $40 per acre, an ad valOrem tax OF only one
mill 20 the dollar or ten cents to the hundred dol
lars would yield revenue OF OVOO, increas-
ing annually in amount but diminishing IN rate :
and which added to the expense saved, $3.50, l52,
makes an aggregate OF e., $50 49, to be compared
AGAIN with S9s3343 only, and that continually de-
creasng in amount TO the Government. Ada 20
all this the vast national wealth which would pc
created by the encouragement and impetus given
to agricultural production, and the pecunlary ana
revenue advantages OF the measure we are as
cussiDg will appear incalculabe Let one item
suffice as an example, Suppose but one fourth
of the land have mentioned to to be cultivated
in wheat in 1861, and to produce but ten bushels
per scre-it will produce from twenty TO iorty-
the value of this at so cents per bushel would be
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLIONS OF DOL
LARsl And yet we have said nothing OF horses,
cattle, sheep, beef pork WOOL cotton, sugar, rice,
tobacco, hemp fax and the various other products
of labor and agriculture, all OF which constitute
vast source OF revenue as well as OF individual
comfort.
Perhaps the Senator from Michigan begins to
perceive by this time that there two sides to
this view Of the question. If not l must notice
one other objection urged by him. twas this
"That the measure would depreciate property
now held by States and individuals Why Sir,
the very opposite would be its effect. In the
country as in the city, it is not the price demand
ed or paid for one lot of land tina. increases the
value OF that adjoining but the Improvements made
and the GuSinesS done upon Il. Take the land
owner in a sparse settlement of the West, and
could you do him greater favor than to give the
lands about him to those who would settle and
improve them create g necessity for and the
means to support schools, roads, mills, workshops
and villages Or, take the New York and Bos'
ton Land Company, whose lands stretch across
the State of Illinois; and could you benefit them
more than by settling the lands about them, and
hemming in theirs with improved farms The
same may be said OF the school and other lands oil
the States. Why, really Sir, If had not known
better, should have supposed, when the Senator
was urging this objection, that he yet lived IN
Name, instead of Michigan. AS it is, must think
that be has lived very superficial observer The
property of the non landholding State would be
increased in value, through the increased import
ance OF the commerce and trade of those States,
as before stated. To you of the old States, re
peat. you have every inducement 10 yield the
measure under consideration Why oyOu-why
lrW YOU withhold it 1t can be but from two
other considerations: nat of political Po'cer, and
that of hcTdfEP and crOWding your tdb0ring Dopu-
lation, UNTIL you CAN FORCE down The WAGES
OF LABOR TO THE EUROPEAN STANDARD.
Inregard to the first of these, l again think you
reason from false premises to erroneous conclu.
sions. You may lose rslatire political power
through this measure, by promoting the growth
OF the West; but this il inevitable, whatever
policy you may pursue for If the Vest do not
receive your surplus poor and suffering popula-
ton, it will receive, though not soon full equi.
valent in numbers Of your ADLER population. If
you fear to suffer POstire loss ofpotlcal power
by diminution Of your present numbers, renem-
Der this would equally be the case whichever
class the West might receive. But is this posi-
bic, or at least probable : When, for the same
pellOu OF tlmei nave you ever given on 30 mhny
Of your numbers to people the West as since
1910? And when, for like period, have you
ever increased so rapidly in population Never.
The reason is. the natural richness of the West,
developed within that time gives reputation and
invites immigration to the ich0ie country which
immigration, together with your natural increase,
more than makes up your loss and usual increase
Tito accumulate and crowd surplus laboring
population, until you have driven it to European
want and misery, until you have forced down
wages to a European standard, be your motive
for Withholding the public domain from free set
Element, you might as wel.-you had better abandon
it, if you love your country. tellyou what you
know this can never be done under this Govern
ment-it can never be done, and this republic stand
You must fuse it into a tyranny or despotism first
Thank God, you have no power here, as in Eng
land, To transport men to Van Diemans land for
seeking to obtain By combination a pi.tance for