New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-09


Boyce clear and forcble Report in favor Of s5so-
ute Free Trade, and seconds ts logical conclusion
tbs. al Custom Houses be abolished aad the Fed
ersl Government supported BY Direct Taxation
alone. This is just what every FreeTraier who
has ary clear conception of his own meaning
ousht TO demand and insist on. If Free Trade is
the tue doctrine, then Revenue Duties are as
irrolitc and unjust as Protective. The Post forci-
bly, ssys Of them:
"Orr frst objection s this, the burden falls just as
heavily upon the poor man a. upon the rich. Mr.
Astor probably does not consume q lsrger proportion
Of dutiabls articles in the OF year than his
butcher or lis baker Of course herefe. he does not
contribute than they toward the expenses OF the
Federal Government II is needless to say that TINS
is grossly uIj just and oppressive
Most true. Yet this same grossly uojust aud
" oppressive .ystem mas been upheld By the Free
Traders Of this couutry-y.s and of Eogland, too
-thro ehout the last twelve years. Sir Robert
Peels accession to the Free-Trade,, giving them
the victory occurred almost simultaneously with
the pa,.age of tn. Polk Walker Tariff of 1916. In
either case, the power was not only possessed but
welded by the professed Free-Traders. Why did
they not venture to act on their avowed principles
Why are We obliged to taunt aud defy them to do
go now?
The Post commends the only practical alternative
for Tariff in the following wholesale fashion:
"The only substitute contemplated by the Federal
Constitution s Direct Tsxstion, ard sincerely hope
that the discussion 10 which the present eXgencies OF
the Treasury and recent e5cessss OF the Admnistra
ton will give rise may lead to it's adoption 1t is the
simplest the cheapest, the purest, the most equitable,
ardthe most natural system ofts1ation in the world 1t
would at dispense with the services OF over three
thousand Federal office holders, and free the political
deliberations of the people from one Of their most
demorslzrg ard turbulent elements 1t would at the
same tine relieve the nation of the vas. expense now
Incurred in collecting this revenue amounting, it is
said, to some $i,O00,OO0 a year. All that would be
NECESSARY to collect the requisite revenue under
such system would be for Congress to ascertain the
amount i. required, to apporton the sum among the
prescribed by the Constitution that is to say, each
pay ing euch amount of the entire tax to be collected
the proportion Of its population bears to the entire
population Of all the States, and then let esch State
collect ts quota in s own way a. 1t collects its State
aud county taxes For this purpose the Federal Gov
eminent would only require single officer, Sub
Treasurer you please in each State, to receive this
money and account for i. to the Secretary OF the
Treasury"
Has The Post forgotten the fact that the States
most eager to push the country into the war of 1912
were very ,low in paying the direct taxes which
that war rendered imperatively necessary The
old files of our cotemporary-for it was good and
strong anti. war journal-doubtess contain abundant
evidence of that same. And We confidently assure
our contemporary that, though We insist that the
Free Traders should 20 ahead ard abolish the tariff
they will never find it convenient nor safe TO dispense
with independent cole ctors Of the Federal Revenue
When the system foreshadowed by The Post shall
have been established, the Union will be a "rope Of
sand" indeed; for not only will the States prove
backward in pay ng up their quotas of revenus-and
the Free-Trade States, like the War States, will
prove at least as tardy as any-but States will soon
find excuses for not paying at all. Virginia, when
her secessionsts have the upper hand, will decline
TO pay her quota until the Government proves more
efficient in catching aud returning her runaway
,laves. South Carolina will refuse to pay unless
Slavery is established in the new Territories Mssi,
sippi and Arkansas ditto from love of reputation
generally. Ju,t let the States collect the Federal
Revenues, and the Union will soon be as weak aud
worthless as the old Conft tderation.
The Members Of Congress elect from Missouri,
according to the returns, are n foLows:
Dist. /. (St. Louis s)-'J. Richard Barrett
H. Boone, &C. Thomas L. Anderson.
Ill. Lewis, &c John b. Csik.
". Platte, &c james Craig.
V. Lafayette, &c. Samuel II. Wooison.
VI. Greene &c.l-John S. Phelps prob.).
VII. Washington, &c.)--John W. NOEL.
New Members.
Messrf. WOodsOn ard Anderson were chosen last
year as Americans, but voted for Lecompton and
evarv Kindred ahomi ation. an fha Nationsl Damo
Gratis" went in for their reelection, as was right.
They were sound on the goose, and none but
very green goose would care about the name by
which they were called, so that they did the work
required Of them.
The naked fact il that the Pro-Slavery portion of
tie old parties united and beat the still divided
Anti.Slavery portion right handsomely. Good