New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-15

10 be submitted to with as little Of Wry lace as
possible but with no pretense at good grace.
There are not many of us in whose obituary 1t VIII
be- recorded as we told our readers the other day
once was in that of citizen plainly too good to
live long, that "ns lored to pay our tdres.' The
man, therefore, who invents some vehicle, as the
apothecaries call it, for facilitating the deglutiton
of this nauseOus annual d0se-sOme anasthetlc
which should make us insensible to the operation
which now painfully separates US from so vital a
part Of ourselves as our money-some drowsy sirup
which should hll our senses in forgetfulness while
this bleeding is going on-would be beneactor to
mankind greater than Jenner or c. /. Jackson.
The man who invented indirect taxation, indeed,
whereby this drug is SO mixed up with what we eat
and what we wear that We take it without knowing
it-as the pill is sometimes involved in the baked
apple or inglutnated with the currant jelly-he
made an approximation toward this happy discoye-
ry But the memories of childhood can tell all of
us how we discovered the artifce at last, and how
tho thought of the pill or the powder poisoned the
mucilaginous sweets of the apple and tainted the
gelstinous msciousness of the jelly So it is with
children of larger growth, when they lind that
they are paying the taxes to the grocer or the
draper which their less sophisticated sires reluct-
antly submitted to have extorted from them by the
collector.
But something more attractive, or at least better
arranged than this invention, must be devised De-
fore we shall derive that sweet satisfaction from
the gentle solicitation Of our purses, which kindled
the halo around th, head Of the exemplary indi'd-
ual we have above alludet TO. NJ. Ernie ue "irar'
din thinks that he has discovered tnc s.!e scorer,
the grand arcanum, the elixir of ii;, which Is to
make the tax book sweet in our mouths as was that
administered TO the Apostle in the Apocalypse
without being, like bis, bitter afterward The orig
inal idea We believe, was due to Fourier, who
called il Garantisme, but it has been pared and
nodded into shape, and brought persistently before
the world BY NJ. de- Grardin, through the columns OF
the Prose- while he had the control of it, The pc
cuarity Of the invention consists in the metamor-
phosng of taxation into insurance. In other words,
the StatcSyill guarantee to all it's members their
property against all insurabe losses beside the or
binary duties now undertaken, if not performed, in
consideration of the premium paid annually in the
shape of taxes. 1t proposes making Government
great Benefit Society, a Mutual Insurance Com
pany, of which all the partners are to enjoy the
benefits, in proportion to the amount of the pre-
MUM they pay in. The sufferers by the great lire
here for example or those by flood at Albany
would be- entitled to have their losses made good
out of the common stock, as matter of right, in
proportion to the share they owned oft.
1t is affirmed in favor of this plan that it changes
the whole expression of cOuntenance with which
We shall confront the x-gstherer. Instead Of wait
ing TIL he comes to drum us up to our payments,
We should meet him half-way-nay, We should
seek him diligently with tears that he would have
the goodness to take our money for the sake of the
sweet security it was 70 buy for Us OF the State
There would be- no more concealment OF property,
no more fictitious transfers of stocks no more
fraudulent conyeyances Of lands. Every one would
be eager to give in his whole estate because his n
surance would be in proportion TO the premium ne
would pay. II would be substituting a voluntary
system for compulsory one. No one gnidgrs the
premium he pays into an insurance office, be-
cause he knows he will be the better off for it IN
the comfort Of his mind certainly and the better
of for il in his, estate in of losses. 1t is
a taking idea TINS of making each man the III
surer OF his ncighbor and dividinga kindred losses
so generally among the whole that they will be
scarcely felt by any one in particular. 1t would
procure stability Of government; for the pressure OF
taxation from which no adequate return seems to
be- perceived, is the cause of most European reyo-
lutions. The members of mutual-insurance com
pany would not b. likely to mob the clearinghouse
and lynch the directors if they were thereby 10 en-
danger their own share in the adventure. Whether
this would conduce to that freedom Of INDIVIDUAL
action. which We are wont to regard as the great
secret Of social progress. may well BE- doubted.
II is supposed that the first approach To tins
b.atiic state of things, and one which should be
made at once. will be- the satisfaction OF losses BY
crime. which il is the acknowledged duty of Gov
eminent 10 prevent The Government takes from
me a certain sum of money, in consideration of
" bch il processes to undertake TO protect my per-
s,n and property from all assaults Of my enemies
Now if il fail TO do this the least that Il should do
j. IA make coed to me my losses, and give me
amends for my bodily hurts. But what is the pro-
lection il gives me as now administered, am
attacked BY ruiian, garroted, knocked down and
robbed Ii | can point out the villain. the Govern
ment will arrest and commit him-committing me,
too, if | an not good for stu further sum u