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them Therefore suggest to him hat until &c comes
forward boldly with his proposition Il i'll becomes him 10
charge that the chairman of the Committee Of WAYS and
Means lacks independence and spirit on this question:
Mr. BOYCE am delig nted al the remarks oS the ven,
teman from Ohio. would give me more pleasure
than TO make the Publication in my amendment he has
suggested mus confess that did not expect meet
with such con esson at his hands inferred from the
report Oh he COMMITTEES OF Ways and Means that the gem
ueann was opposed to me on this question. imagined
that he and those who act with him would think any prop
looking to free trade sort Of madness aclutc
lg at the stars, and making love the NOON there
lore presented no such proposition of perfect free trade
but the proposition have made Is step in that direc
ton.
But to TO the argument To illustrate the protect
i've policy let suppose that the people OF Vermont came
here and asked for protection in raising tropical fruits
Would they not at once be put down madmen1 Why
because every would say ut is absurd to raise tropical
cent cheaper from the West Indies There could be no
to this reasoning But what is the difference in
principle between this and manufacturing wooens If
they be got thirty per cent cheaper abroad The diff
ference is only in degree not in principle Suppose how
ever had gone into tropical culture in Vermont doubt
less fine villages and lighthouses would have grown up
and might be pointed to them evidences Of the BEN
EFT conferred on the country but the would be OBJ
vioas that these isolated spots Of prosperity had grown
at the expense ~ the rest OF country So in the
the factories Mt Lowell and other points they have -four
ished a. the expense of the rest of the country.
w limited time compels me to abrdge my argument on
few words the proposition submitted by TO re-
duce all duties above twenty cent to twenty per
and put tea and coffee in the twenty schedule
BY taking the imports of 1853, which year is within
small fraction of the average annual importations of the
last six years. the amount OF revenue produced by my
project would be S5oTll BOG 42-almost the identcil
demanded by the Secretary of the Treasury he
estimates that S48000000 $4,000 600 will be sufficient
to carry the government and pay off the public dabt
free to confess however that my plan IL not perfect 1t
is step in the right direction that is all look to free
trade and direct taxation as ultimate and inevitable
policy BY taking the step propose and one spproxima-
ting step afterwards we will be in condition to attain
the great point Of free trade without any sudden conyul
sion.
Ii could have modified the tariff exactly to my IDEAS
should have put the duties articles of necessity below
twenty cent at the lowest possible revenue standard
and Injuries should have put at thirty per cent In this
under indirect system of taxation the idea of relieving
the industry of the county from TAXATION and throwing
it property But knew it impossible to reduce
the duties articles Of necessity below twenty per cent
had therefore, to conform that necessity, and
quenty had to reduce luxures too low for otherwise the
revenue would have been too large.
As regards tea and coffee these put in the free list
In 1882 in the interest OF the prOteconists to give the
pretext for higher duties manufactures Mr. Clay
luton offered at that time is the key to this policy 1t is
as follows:
Reolped That the existing duties upon articles import
ed from foreign countries and not coming into competition
ought to be forthwith abolished except on wines and silks
and that they ought to be reduced"
am for taxing these articles for the very policy that put
them on the free list Indeed scarcely know any articles
suited for taxation They not produced in this
countrytherefore there would be indirect They
areof general consumption. tax upon them would bear
equally oil sections They the nature of luxu-
ries moderate tax upon them would facilitate lower
rate of duty on all other articles.
There one further modification should be willing to
make in the tariff if it reduced in good faith strictly
to the revenue standardhat s to put wool and other
raw material in the free list The effect of taxing the
material is that the consumer is compelled refund the
tax with interest to the manufacturer who has advanced it,
Adam Smith Gays, on this point:
They 1.-THE regulations exempting WOOL cotton DO,
from duties are perfectly just and reasonable and
sstent with the necessities Of the State, THAT
facture, the public would certainly be gamer"
am through it is for the committee FAY what shall
be done Those representing the manufacturers would
think act wisely TO consent to reduction Of duties for
the longer reduction deferred the larger will be the
plus and the more sweeping the reform Besides
duties with the raw material free put manufactures
GOOD Oasis as they could DESIRE and this point could
thDk, be carried Further the manufacturers would find
nm increased demand arising from the general prosperity
OF tho country following upon low duties Besides too,
our manufacturers should look the great and valuable
of the world where gold is be had for the gath
erng would also submit to this interest If the present
nigh rate OF duties may not prematurey stimulate rival
manufactures In the Northwest at the falls of St Anthony
lad other points As to those representing the sugar
terest would say sugar is marked for destruction anti
slavery and free trade both concur against high duties
sugar Would It not be WE'LL them for that interest join
In general reduction of all dues the stand
ard and thus avoid being singled for special hosl-
iyf To those representing the agricultural interests
would ask what possible motive can YOU have to main
tain the protective policy, your interest clearly de-
freedom OF exchanges and the markets of the world
40 tnose representing commerce, / w.ud ask what is
but exchanged To reduce duties and free ex.
Changes s therefore, to bid commerce alive and move and
have Its being You, gentlemen who represent the i'm
pera city OF New York should be clamorous on this sub
Ject New York city is pcrsonifed Free ex-
changes and you magnify and aggrandze New York be-
yora me power o. language to describe
10 the democratic party would appeal to emblazon the
ideas OF free trade and low on their historical
banner Cease to the of the country with Infinite
OK the occult meanings of past measures Seize
living, vital actual, practical truth and enforce il as
your cceeu Free trade antmonopeIy. veuayu are the
wa0words for you They appeal to the selfinterest OF
every individual and they gill the imagination with mag
ncent ideas OF the future grandeur of the republic Take
,he great ideas Of free trade for under that sign Won
THE ISLAND OF CUBA.
Inc Queen OF the Antilles is the glory of Spain She is
guarded with care and cherished with affection Ever
since the ostand manifesto made appearance the Span
Ism orcs on the island have been gradually increased and
large squadrons watch around her Cuba contains
from hirtwo to thryve thousand square miles Of the
richest soil and its products immensely valuable This
population at the close of 1865 estimated at 4454S2
divided according to Mr. Tbrasher-whose misfertunes
oecamc so much subject of interest with his American
fiends-as follows: