The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-26
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II
Consequence Of our Mexican acqusitions
Now. nearly oil the army of the United States
10 in Texas, or in our Mexican acquisitions, and
much Of our navy is employed on the Pacific coast.
where the cost OF every thing is enormous in
qucncs OF the abundance Of gold Land surveys
arc 10 be begun land titIes to be settled REVENGE
cutters to be kept up; in short. new end great
country there 10 10 be coonised and provided for,
with coast surveys, ights, Notifications, docks.
mailships, and hsrbor improvements; aud where
there c1ists now little or nothing every thing to
be brought up TO an equality with the old States.
There is no calculating for future expenditures
there. Already we have on table . bill re-
storing to California what 10 called her "civil
func''-a fund expended before her organi-
ration as a State-amoun.ing at pressnt to about
half million in The bill thar has come down from
the Senate. but as claim upon US amounting TO
y 300 900 in oil.
We must not. however. now shrink from the
responsibilities has brought upon US, and that
we have assumed. After we have annexed Texas,
and stretched out our arms over the Rocky moun
tains to the Pacific. we cannot turn back from
what we have undertaken. All OF these ands
now our country, under Government, and wc
mus, protect and provide for them. There is
ambition 30 mean as that which covets the posses
sions OF others. but grudgcs the cost OF governing
them.
THE REVENUE AND ThRIrr 1916.
The xpenses OF the administration Of the Gov
eminent now being necessarily so large, I shall be
asked, no doubt, " How is il that you Whies. who
predicted tho tariff OF lS46 would 40, yield revenue
it yields enough not only To maintain the xpenses
OF what you call double United Statce. but To
leave surplus OF some millions ia the treasuryi"
IL IL fair question, and will not shirk it will
meet IL face to face. There time when il
would have appalled, me, but only because 1 was
ignorant OF the history, the written and written
history, OF the tariff OF 1916. IL may well have ap
pallcd Whig to know why il was, when such
\ sound men Is George Evans and oil here predicted
in the Senate and in this House that the tariff Of
1876 would not yield enough 10 carry ON the Gov
erumcnt, that il sbould really yield enough, and
more too. propose TO solve this apparent contra
diction Of prophecy and experience. and to the So
luton beg the careful attention of the House.
When George Evans and others, in 1876, made
these predictions, they were based upon the tariff
bill of July 80, 1885, which cut up all mportAtons
into schedules, from litter "A to letter l." and
then affixed 10 them horizontal. universal al vsl0
rsp,,. from one hundred per cent down to five per
Procrustean tariff bed attracted their atiention No
other nation under the Gun. civilized savage,
had been thus before, to say the least, 30
original. Procrustcs struck out the idea Of bed.
upon which short men were TO bo stretched out to
III IL, and long men TO be chopped OF to 6t il; but
a universal aa palo,sm tariff bed was something
altogether new in political economy. So many
cents duty on gallon Of brandy or wine. was
duty,a specific DUTY. everybody could conpre-
bend; but Gone hundred per centum nd coiovsM"
("schedule A') on brandy and other spirits dis
tilled from grain-such scheduled, from "a 70
"P'. confounded them. Brandy, wines. and a
thousand other like things, susceptible OF sccu-
rate specific admea surement why, they asked, sd
pa loren then! 1t wac premium for bad brandy,
and half poisoned wine. every body saw; for, the
cheaper was the nominal coat abroad, the lcsa was
the duty at home, unless a wrongful or fraodu-
lent system OF invoices was introduced. by which
all such things were rated abroad, below what they
were worth. What appraisers, they asked, too,
can tell what wine is worth, lad poiorsm,) uniess
they have been experienced, practiced wine bib
bers from their youth up' Even they. too. might
bc dec ivod, for when liquors come over sca, csps
cially high priced wines they often come. as II 10
termed technically, "siok; J" that ~. muddy and
rolled apparently Of od rsforem not quarter
price. Universal geniuscs, they sald, were wanted
under such universal ad raiortms for appraisers-
the universal genius that can tufh from arrack,
kirchenwasscr, to ginger-roots aud guiatIne, or
from bananas To leeswsx, with an instant, tho
rough comprehension al every thing. Their x, eat
ohicc don however, aud their sppreo. nsiops, came
ir1m lie s.fious radical d, f,cl. in the principle