New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-21

SUD Treesury had never been suggested. Can We
he expected to swallow the potion thai the coo-
coctors are 30 inv;ncibly shy Of
Mr.. Boyce of South Carolina, we notice, h~
just been making report, from Select Committee
r,sed on bis motion, in favor Of repeating al
Duties on Imports. aboliihing all Custom Houses
ard tioe the Government by Direct TAXATION.
This Mr.. Bc5ce processes TO Think, and probably
thinks be tbioks the only sound and benefcent sys-
TEN Of france, highly conducive to Public Econ
omy. &c. Ger proof Of which, look at our CITY
Government, supported wholly BY direct taxation,
Jet IN the average moro corrupt, oppressive, and
scsDdalously Profigate, than even the Federal Gov
sfnment itself)
Mr. Boyce processes to have no doubt that the
eIiise abolition of Import Duties and the imposition
nstesd of Direct Taxes for the support of the Fed
ersl Government would be highly conducive to the
public well-being. But 90, most lame and mpoten'
conclusion > Mr. BOyce does not propose to do 81
present that which he n.sts would be 60 beneficent
He does net hope to ipaugurate his beloved policy
just yet Such radical changes must be the work
of time, &c. In short Mr. Boyce is for saying one
thing and doing another, like the rest Of his class
| In the name Ct WONDER how much time do the
Free. Trade doctrinaires want They hive had
| prsctca, possession Of the Government, for fse-
tiItbs Of The last Thirty years. The Press has
grosred beLeath the burden OF their messages. re-
| port. aud ,peecbes. Their millennium was for
mslly nsugursted, in documents that M1k,nna
might have envied, by Robert J. Walker, mora
than twelve years ago. They have male and
altered Taiffs as they pleased almost ever since
| 1873. Ttty made Tariff under Walkers 'pecial
inspiration in 1916, and it has not been touched
since, except to reduce it. How chances it, then
that the country is not prepared, in this year OF
grace 1863 for the full enjoyment of the blessings
of absolute Free Trade AID Direct Taxation Have
Calhoun argued, AID Walker propheSised, anl do
Bow figured, and Bethune lcctured, for 50 miny
years without effect Have The Times AID nearly
every other oracle of British policy schooled US so
long in vain Has our experience been Indeed 50
much in coli ict with Walkers Vaccinations that
We cannot be driven further on the path he pio-
neered What tolerable, what plausible rea-
son can be given by Free Trader for the as
sumed reluctance and unpreparedness Of our peo-
pie to enjoy the full benefits of his favorte
policy
II we were Free Traders at all, we should be of
tie most thorough sort. We iDsist that, if Tariffs
OIL Imports not bers fcenty Protective they are
not jUstfab!c at all. Regarded merely as con-
trivaic e for raising Revenue, Tariff is grossly
partial, capIcious, arbitrary, unjust 1t compels
poor mechanic with a large family to contribute
more TO the support Of Government than childess
miser who rolls in wealth. Ne hold that the poor
mechanic enjoys reflex and compensatory benefit
from a wisely discriminating Tariff in the Pro.
lection of bis Induitry; but how Free Trader,
who denies this, can uphold any sort of Tariff,
even for an hour, we do not understand. We urge
a change in the Tariff, with view to Protection,
and insist that it should be made at oncethe soon
or and more thorough the better. We believe re-
turn 10 the Tariff of az this day would add ten
millions per month to the earnings of the LaSoring
Class of our country this present year, aud still
more next year, without detriment to any other
class, but with general advantage to all. Aud
whenever we are caught advocating National
Policy as very proper in itself, but not to be at
tempted for some years yet, or only to be intro
duced very gradually, because tho People are too
ignorant or too stupid to appreciate it, we shall
hardly expect to be heard or needed.
1t was naturally enough to be expected that, for