The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1853-11-26

uhu''s hiuhty - lGdoubtedIy the most puteu
The Chancellor Of tie EKcheqner il. as Mi
biads,one truly observes, er otc;o a man q
peace. lhe ddhcu:iy of making bulh ends NEE
'rhders the prospect ni war. appalling as il is a
ali tunes, dUubly appalling to u financial MINIS
ter, That which cuts oil the ways aud means
while It enormously increases tho expenditure
which dams up the sources Of taxatlon at the We
ry moment when II is dLanng them dry--tha
which can convert a surplus into deficit, and q
deficit into bankruptcy-is legitimate ubrc
OF financial abhoueuce. Austria canno. keep III,
excess of expenditure over income within th,
monstrous auonnt Of fifty millions of flurns. Il
France, imperial onDiputence cannot coerce th,
, budget within reasonable dimensions and eve,
we show too much pIde at our surplus for per
sons who regard it a. durable and permanen
po'arssion, But there is one man in the world
aud that man a iinaucs minister, who is troubled
with none of these diiiiculiies-nay l. lust now
suf'e iug under difHeulties of precisely contrary
character. The American Secretary ci the Trea
sury, Mr Guthrie bpfrsecuted by an obstinat.
surplus, which clings 90 him like the Old Man OF
the Sea 10 the back o. sinbad and is perpotualy
claiming appropriation where no means exist ot
dcvo,ing TO the public service the supers bundant
riches Of the revenue. This comes uf doubl,
system Of taxation, Of central government
confined to certain enumerated functions which i,
cannot exceed, and local government forbidden
to raise revenue by means Of custom houses on
the frontier, The authors Of the American con.
.tituiion. when they considered and minutely dc
fined what should and what should not be left 10
the csntral authority, never dreamt Of the diff
Guilty which the rapid Increase Of capital would
Introduce IN adapting tho revenue to the wants
OF The State. ltneyer occurred to them that the
central xuatll 10 ,,.i, a., /,
one OF the most embarrassing problems for future
statesmen would he how to cat down its iesour.
ces to the required ah16unt. Had it been any
other kind OF taxation than that levied through
the custom house on which the central govern.
ment was to subsist the matter would have been
comparatively easy. but the difficulty lies in the
peculiar nature Ufa revenue from Customs Ii is
because that revenue has o twpfuld operation
protective as well as financial, that the difficulty
has arisen. Nobody is fond of paying taxes for
Their own sake and the resources Of the federal
government would long ago have been cut down
to level within its expenditure, If the question
had not been embroilejby the fact that large
classes OF American citizens claim an interest m
the imposition Of taxes which the State no longer
wishes to receive or the people 10 pay. Iu other
words, the question OF protection supercedes that
oi the duty oi the government TO its subjects, aud
equ'es '"a' more revenue 'hah Is wanted should
oe '"'Seu W ofuef ihat one part OF The communi'
ty may levy = tax on the other
i"e au'e"' OF nee trade doctrines INTO Amer
ca has diminished this apparent difficulty, and
the people are beginning to levrn that raising re-
venue mas no necessary eonnex'on whatever with
showing particular favor to any branch Of indus
try, 1t does not appear, from the tone of the
American papers. that they have yet acquired
very c'ear or accurate notions of the true limits
VI e'.eh' oI Tue doctrines oi free trade. One OF
snen y'o'es'' WIN mach carnes'ness, against
wa. 10 'a''s' -, VI 'ahsuSse ..fe expressive than
= oIa"',',,, a .i 'o''A ~ 'a'.,'' ana so,,aef
IN oa,',,.,, IL, s'o'u uIou' e'"s wn,Gh ia'i up
;,s ox,a",a' S,;m ,npo'" ,on''''ua'y eAceeu
vsrv accrra,a H. ,hn .,t,''; 4" t"e .ne1'y oe nov
ahIy sornJ 1g,n 80 s u,us'eu "'e "'e'
ia much alIeviatsd ~, ~ ;',sI YOU, ,p'.,''o"
dpc,ior ,osrl,;n,, s,an, H." VS. VI p'o,
to Aus,raI;a .n1 oans 49, ~, W I'ns "''""
nroa, ;,,.,;n- !, ~ 80 '.' 20 'e''' n"' 'na, WIN
ihs ajvonc. ,r,i.I Lol ,o+ rs VI l''"'' anu
in ,be panacsr,sn, and paes " 'a'e years
Nj l, - ''u' "pP''''''n Vi u'"chnery
10 of ~ sn,or;S.,' 80" 'ne s'e"' ''"Jo'i
and ,ha oef,,,s ~ H. peop prepared 10 sec
If that snn.,n ,onS oI,,' oo", "iu " "'reSt h''h
ar,ovo,,s hn.I "eA''" WHICH hc HhuS so
T,;s :. ;,1.al .,,
nation rc,nn,arI,, ',i;"s.i: 10 etI.''0" s'e"'
corso :, hos r,o,. ,,,a .'i""s !. 's revenues oe
AMI goei;nc, 70 ,,a, af I.1 "oN u spend
trem.lv brnsf fc;,l n t,'o h,1,Jo.so ~ s,.,' In?
dor ., t ~ ~ 80 ' "o " s'o'h' I" u"
Which ia ro,roJ; ;r,, -. W. .''o .,e"'ute u, ",
Loar,l,, u.;sh Al. -s'us' Us VIII we
talirg AZ cnrc,o,;,"n, 80 r' =. "'s u''uel
nla. Ia -, ., -, n'' 'ee uan' Pf"c'
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