New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-09
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iDcome-'aI weighs exclusively upon the upper and
middle classes; indeed. more than two birds Of it
Is made up from tie Incomes OF the ars.Ocracy and
the higher rank If The middle class. But, y as,
| th be other Usr.,aXes-Wha' with The high prices
Of provisions and the rising rate Of discount, the
lower layer. Of the English middle class have been
severely punched BY the incometaX. aud are the e.
fore most inpatient 70 throw il of Nevertheless,
| the cries they raised would hardly have been re-
| echoed in the press. and certainly not in the
| House OF Commons if tae ars'Ocracy and upper
middle class had not taken the lead OF the agi-
! tatiOn, eagerly sczing the opportunity 70 hide
| their narrow minded seli-hAess under the broad
max Of philanthropy, and getting rid Of an
inpost, the burden OF hich they unable 10 shift
on the shoulders of tbe multitude While IN France
duriI the time Of The Rtpub9ue honntte Il p.Oderfs
the establishment Of an income AK was ~arded Of
BY branding a. surreptnous socialism, IN Eng land
| he abolition OF the ,ame TAX i now attempted by
| pleading sympathy With popular suflsrings. The
game has been played very cievery. On the return
Of peace, the sposesmen Of the petty middle class
turned their attack not upon the iucome-taX itset
but only on its Tar-.urplus and It's unequal dstr
button. Tue upper classes feigned a. embrace the
popular grievance, ODy 70 sophsticate II. ongin7
meaning and TO convert cry for diminished taxa
iion o; small incomes, into a cry for The exemption
from taxation Of large ones In the hea, OF COM
bat, and the Impotence of Immediate alteration,
the lower middle class were neither aware OF the
,h,ffle played upon them, Dor did they care about
terms hich secured the support of powerful tlues
As to the wOf king classes, without organs IN tue
press, and without votes in the electoral bodies,
their claims were quite out Of the question.
Sir Robert Peel's Free Trade measures rested
nots riously on the incOmetaX az their basis. IL
will be easily understood that direc. taXscon is the
financial EXPIRE, SION OF Free Trade. II Free Trade
Ii cans any thing. it means the removal Of customs,
excise duties, end all imposs directly interfering
with production and exchange.
Now, II taxes are not TO be- raised by customs
and excise duties, they must be directly derived
fItm property and income. With certain .mount
of tsIts, no abatement can take place 10 the one
mode of assessment vIthou. corresponding III
crease of the other. They must rise end fall 10
ibyer,e ralo. it, then, the EDgirh public want 70
10 away with the greater part of direct taxation,
they must be prepared 10 lay hel.er duties on COM
moiities and materials Of manufacturers one
word to reDOunce the Free Trade system. Thus,
indeed, the present movement has been interpreted
On the Continent Of Europe. Belgian paper says
that at meeting held at Client 10 discuss The
policy of Free rade OF Protection, one OF The
speakers urged the new opposition in England u
the income-ta1 rs proof of change 81 the ma
"tioral opinion in favor of protection.
Thus. ia che of their recen; addresses, the Finan-
cal Re.ormers of Liverpool utter their apprchen-
zion lest Great Britain should return to he princl'
pies Of restriction. We can, they say, scarcely
q believe in the possibility of such an exhibition
" Of national inialuStoD; Jet every reheetios man
Of ordinary in elect must see thai IL IA To tnis
" end AID 10 nothing else that the present enorts
" tend" A. Free / rade, and consequently d rect
taxation. are in Great Britain offensive weapons ia
The hands of the industrial capitalist against the
landed atistocrat their common crusade agai0st
the iDcome-tsI bears witness OF the same tact
economically which was politically demonstrated
by the Coalition Cabinet-the lsss'tude OF the
olo o,A
compromi,e, With the olgarchs, in order 70
,scape concessions TO The prOletaG.sns.
Sir G.. Lewis, in striking sail before the Anti
Income. Tax League, exhibited at once the revere
of The IN. dial. No IeWissOn Of the psper duty, no
forsakng of the e-lnsurance tax, no s0stemeht "I
II wine duty but, on the contrary, Increase OF
the IN port duties on tea and sugar. According 10
the settlement of Mr.. Gladstone the duty on tea
was to be reduced from q per pound, irs' TO 49,
| and then 10 J.; and The sugar duty from = per
| cwt first 10 Is and then 10 Is !. lhs refers
! 70 refined sugar only. White sugar was 70 be re-
| duced from II Is successfully "a 1872 md llIS;
yellow sugar from - 10 II { snd lOi6 d; bro'r
| sugar from ID To 10 and 96; moiasseS from
| 51to3q The var arrested This settlement; bat
according 70 the law passed in $50, il was nnw 20
De- realized successfully in l-57 aud l-j-. ; q
| Lewis, who on the 1911 Aprll, lsj5. had raised
| the tea duty from u "a 3 per ponnd, proposes
70 throw i-s reduction over four years -fmiOIshlng
| il 10 = for 1~1 - 10 > for lS5S-o9 Ia ) Tor
ls59-60, and ipaly to l.. Win ne sugar duty
be proposes deslag IN q similar way. II IL known
thar he supply oi sugar has fallen below us de-
maid and rha, - stUeAs are redI I'D = me mar
| Nets of The porld-rhtre beins - LI1lro, tpr
| instance. al pre.en. Only 1900 tuns, against
| q 400 tgO years ago. Thu the prices of sugar
sre, OF course, Tsbg. a. Ia tea, Pamefst"ns
| Chinese expedition b.. succeeded IN creating an
| artificial Imitation Of supply, AID c'rs"4lsGt
4 -. ma
sill bot tell you ihAt IN period OF dearth aud
r sire prices, any reduction oi duy, % bcnehi n't
| nny the imvuI er bu, -. general consumer also,
| must be sudden and striking SirG Less asserts,
on the contrary, thai, VI ri.ing pncrs, reductoas
Of duty are thr surer 70 40 rue 10 the btneht OF
tie cOD,umtr the less they are pcrc.Psibe. lns
assertion sand. O1 level only vito his strange
doctrine HAT PosJ-Cfice cnargrs are direct AZ,
| ard that cOmpcanVa ccns tu,es The rcteeming
| feature Of taxation
DecI,a,e III IL. incOns- tax % be counterbAanced
by the ne si>e IL The duties On ca apd susar-.he
! later beng Goa mon nrcr -arlrs VIII the 1T n'h
people-n, ans yldeniy diminishing be taxes IN the
| rich ,, augmeniiBg the ialrs On ibc poor. Such
! cou,drrairu however, would rot have lHteriered
| With he zoe IL tae House OF Commons bus There
| are the teadeaers, who haze entered into large
c,atiacs AID arrsngs mems on Ne eAprr-. Ih''h'
| a. th,y sly u the statement, made Oh The lSih Of
| April, ls.G, b, SIT George Lew's in the House Of
| Coumnn.-a statement agiiu ,ePea.rd - th-m Oy
he Board OF Gus ms "n he llth Move Lnrri TO
| 10 the efrct rhst 4" ih. du 0n Tea would Or re
| "Cuced % /. 81. III TO-. q Of April l-01 lnege
they sre standing upon thrl. bond aud upon budget
| morality Ard there is Mr.. Gladstone, glad :" re-
| vrnye himself upon Palrers"n, who qGse TT zen
-Iousy ous'ed The Prell',s, alter having used th-n
IT, overthrow, first the Derby administration, then
| Russell, a. lastly their own patriarch, Old Ae'r-
| deem. Pesdes as he ant. or OF The financial SET