The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-12-08

Il ExTRAvAGANcE-Had the expenditures Of
1 the national government reached the enormous
sum now required by the party in power, under
a wing or American administration, the vocabu
larry of the English and cognate languages
would have been exhausted in the effort to ex-
press the varied sentiments of alarm Of indIg-
nation, of hor Tor, and even of disgust which
such a waste Of the public money would have
excited in the bosom of democrats. Now, how
ever, the subject presents itself in altogether a
different light A thousand causes call for and
justify the expenditure of millions, chat never
would have been thought of, or tolerated for a
moment, under wing administration. We
remember Mr.. Fillmore was bitterly assaIed
for the expenditure of some forty millions per
year, large portion of which was required to
pay for services rendered, or expenditures made
under Mr.. Polk, and during the Mexican war.
We have had our attention directed to this
sub iect in consequence Of an article taken from
! De Bows Review, in which the absurd and
oft-tlmes refuted proposition is advanced, that
thirty eight millions of dollars are PAID by the
people of the United States to the American
manufactures of cotton and WOODEN goods, IN
the shape of bountes, in consequence OF the
duty levied by our tariff laws upon the lmpor-
5 ted articles of similar character. We have
asked the question often, without any advocate
Of free trade deigning to answer why demo
Gratis persist in collecting national revenue by
the imposition Of duties upon foreign manutac-
lures, if the consequence of such system is,
that the American people must pay four or i've
dollars to northern manufacturers, for every
one that goes into the Golfers of the national
government?
: De Bows Review states that rs or so mil
] lions of dollars worth of cotton and wooden
goods are made in the United States, and that
the duty upon this amount of the foreign arti-
Gle under our present tariff would bring into the
f national treasury about thirty ght millions OF
2 dollars; but as this amount is made at home,
/; the enhanced value of these goods will 60 into
t the pockets of the home manufacturers. Is 1t
not passing strange, with such theory, that
the dominant party, having controlling nflu-
ence in each branch Of the federal government,
will persist in collecting the enormous revenue
: now required to carry on the affairs of State,
by a mode which makes the people pay four
times us much as is really expended, great as
that sum is admitted to be? Does not their re-
fusal to adopt direct taxation as the mode OF
collecting revenue, demonstrate conclusively
that the mass of democratic leaders do not
themselves believe in the truth Of the PROPOSE
: ton they have so long and so earnestly labored
+ to prove, viz: that duties upon foreign lmporta-
tons. add the amount Of those duties to the
domestic article? Yet, in the statement made
in recent number of the central State organ
of the ruling powers, that thirty eight millions
Of dollars were paid by the people of the United
States to the domestic manufacturers OF wooden
and cotton goods, was prcdicated upon the
truth of this theory.
= 1t is well known that most kinds of cotton
: goods made in the United States, are sold at a
| price below what any foreign nation could send
aere and sell at to US; yet it is said we are taxed
some 80 or 40 per cent. upon the aggregate
: value of the entire amount of cotton and wooden
goods made in the United States!
The fact is the cotton mill owners in Man
chester can't sell at their counters, goods Of
+ equal weight and quality, at the price we pay
for0them at our doors. The theory, then, Of
the free trader is absurd, and no mind of ordl-
f nary strength can fail to see, that we can and
do buy most of the articles upon which proec-
tive duties are levied, as low as the same can
be made in any foreign land, our citizens dc
:, not pay any extra sum for such commodities
, in consequence of the tariff. If, then, duties
upon foreign articles sufficiently high to stimu-
late the manufacture of such articles do not
materially, if in any degree, enhance the cost
of these things TO the consumer, ought not a
, wise government adopt system of protection
i. which is 'attended with so many, and greatly
beneficial results, as is well known to flow from
developing the resources of the country, and
diversfying the labors of the people? But if,
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of duties levied upon foreign importadons, upon
the home manufactured articles, does it not
! eyince a cowardly shrinking from responsibility
and an objectionable dercction of official duty
to tax the people five dollars, in order that one
, dollar may be collected in a way least offensive
to the people, but evidently most oppressive:
MEETING OF IsRAELIrEs.-A large meeting
= of Israelites was held at PhiladeI phia, on the
18th, at the Franklin street synagogue, to take
> into consideration what course to pursue in refe
renee to the "forcbe abduction by the Roman
/ inquistion of the child of Mamola Mortara, {
: ctizen of Bologna" Mr.. Alfred JONES' in the
t chair, briefly stated that the meeting was called
in consequence of circular received from sill
= Moses Montefiore, president Of the board o
) deputies of British Jews in which the facts o
lne aDQuCllOn are SCI lOTJn. IteE. MT. LetSel
e followed the chairman with preamble anc
resolutions, which were adopted, sympathizins
with "Mamola Mortara in the cruel bereave
ment under which he now suffers, by the un
provoked barbarity of the Roman inquisi;on,
!; speaking in becoming terms of the outrage, anc
;, agreeing
"To address d memorial to the president o
the United States, requesting him, as the chic
magistrate of a free people, who ought not to
u look with Indifference on the suherings of those
not so blessed, to call the attention of the papa
government, through the United States minis
ter at Rome, to the effect that all civilized ant
: enlightened nations, having the least idea O
t liberty Of conscience, ~unequivocally condemn
It the desire of making proselytes which is carriee
into practice in the manner and extent this i
, done in certain countries, SO as to authorize
Il nurses and other servants, or any other person
e to perform the rite of BAPTISM in cases of sick
e ness, in consequence of which act family tie
L, are violently disrupted, and sorrow is carried
h to the hearts of pious parents, who are com
- pelled as in the present instance, to see theI