Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-28


ever in tho history Of this Government, distinct
ly tired before tribunal Of the people and con-
demned, il was the question Of a protective Ia
riff. The country ProsPered by its Reputation,
and the laboIer bought where his money would
buy most. But this issue has again risen, and
in shape more offensive and injurious to the 4
true interests ofthe country than ever before The
would have sanctioned II would have alarmed
the old Wing party as mucn as any other by its
stringent and prohibitory features: 1t goes far
t@-ond what was deemed wise or prudent by the
strongest protectionists Of former HIGH tariff pc
riods- And now allow me to STATE some of its
specific practical operations as a part Of the
financial policy of the present hour.
1t forces the laboring man, the consumer, tho
farming classes generally to pay for manufac-
tured articles, which embrace large portion of
the necessities of life an increased price overt
their proper value and over that for which they
can elsewhere be bought of from forty to one
hundred per cent. Thus tax of most fearful
rate is levied on one branch of industry, not to
support the Government, but to COZ tribute as a
gratuitons donation to privileged 'and favored
business That is the first extortionate species
of taxation which meets us in the examination
of this subject. l. is one which ft any time
would fall with oppressive cruelty os large ma
jority of the LOYAL people of the country; but al
a time like this, when the Government itself is
claiming almost the entire substance of the land
for Its maintenance, no language can be found
sufficiently strong with which TO characterize the
enormity of such policy.
In the next place, the present tf.gif robs the
Government of much-needed reve.ue by keep
ing imported goods from our shores. Under its
operations during the past year, according to
statement made few weeks since IL the British
Parliament by the Chancellor Of thes English Elk
chequer, our importations from GTeat Britain
alone have fallen off to the amount OftsS5 600 O00
The report on the finances of our own Govern
ment for the year ending June 80, 1861, shows a
loss in our receipts arising from Gu toms during
the first three months after this tatif went into
operation of over ten millions of dollars as COM
pared with the receipts during a sin. liar period a
year previous. Under the tariff OF 1916, rev.
enue to support the Government was sought by
liberal terms of trade with foreign tations, and
richly obtained The rule is now lsversed and
for the unworthy purpose of protesting class
of business which ought TO sustain, itself or be
abandoned. this great fountain of p.cuniary sup
port TO the nation is dried up. 1t NJ. longcrhows
into the Treasury, and the money sIhich is thus
diverted from the public to privateiand individ-
ual benefit has to be replaced unde this Admin
istratiOn by direct and specific taxed on the peo
pie. Thus taxation grows and tuements its
aa ming proportions in order that the interests
of favored few may be cherisE ed and pro-
NOTED.
But the manner in which this 1xation is TO
be levied and in which it is 10 aile the differ
ent interests of the country exceeds all the pre-
ceding features of criminal outrage sn those who
live by producing from the soil siy the provi
sions of the tax bill which recentt passed this
House tax of three per cent. Gd CA'orem is laid
upon all articles of manufacture nshe hands of
the manufactures. II lis estimated that there will
thus be raised $50 900 900 of the aEnual income
arising from taxation This the manufacturing
interest is to pay for the support of the Govern
ment, and the airs of patriotism 'fhich are as
sumed in consequence are eminentlf characters
tic. But inasmuch this manufacturing inter
est is guarded by Morrill, tariff frlm all COM
petition in selling, and strictly protected in in
creaSing its prices of sale to It's fOrcf customers
to an almost unlimited extent will sany one, in
his simplicity, pretend that the thee per cent.
wherewith it is taxed, the $4,000 900 which it
has 20 pay, will not be charged upl the buyer
when its goods are sold! The tal5 and taxa
ton are kindred measures, born of n common orr
gin, and, like leashed hounds, hunt their inno
centprey coupledtogethcr The taritiitands guard
over the interests of the manu- acturSr while tax
alton hunts for every other subStano. in the land
on which to fasten Its fangs. Az it, for the
sake of appearance, the manufacturing interest
is mentioned in a bill, the tariff Seps forward
and enables its cherished friends to recover back
every dollar which they are assessed by raising
the price of the wooden cloths, thl linens, the
muslins, the calicoes, the plowsharet and the inn
plements of husbandry, and the articles of daily
necessity whi,h the American Cove, Inventories
its citizens to buy of its protected .lonopolists
This is the elimination, the climax wrong. a
Government which plumbers one citiS n to enrich
another needs the strong, stern handy reform on
its helm.
Though perfect equality shoult prevail in
meeting the immense taxation whic4 is coming
like mountain avalanche upon th& people, vet
it will be born amid sorrow and weaty pain but
when it shall all fall virtually on wen class of
citizens il will become an iutoerablA suffocating
nightmare of ruin and of death. 4lallenge the
attention of the country that such = the work
ing of the present system, which il . pretended
has been adopted for the support of ihe Govern
ment. Already we see its eflocts.1 The great
manufacturing corporations of t!, East are
crowding their bloaded pockets WHY rapid and
gigantic gains. Their dividends Of profits are
swollen some thirty, some sixty, asd some an
hundred foli. This is no random sietement, but
is sustained by the statistics before fe. 1t is
fact, too, of which the whole county, has taken
cognizance.
Sir, no sectional boundaries 10 any love of
country prompts these remarks. tcall God TO
witness with what devotion love e..ry sod and
rock and river, mountain, prairie, and forest of
my native land. For its happiness Aud glory il
would be sweet and honorable TO dig l reckon
no section of il above another. 1t il all alike TO
me. all dear and hallowed by the principles of
constitutional liberty. But / speak IN the name
of Justice, which is everywhere p,scnt, in tho
name of fraternal and American eqtality, and q
ask you, implore YOU, to look at ~ condition.
of the Western people. Their insrests have
been abandoned on this floor by mtse than half
their Representatives, and they fand to-day
bearing the hard brunt of the ptiless vtorm which
has burst from the angry sky. T(y are shut
out from oil the fair markets for tl{ir produce.
Their natural channels of trade To tll South are
closed by the impious hand of wal and their
avenues 10 the markets of the NIth are OBJ
structed by the avarice of railroads. 1t costs
sixty cents to freight bushel of c, L. from the
Wabash river to New York. and fayeS from
seven 10 fourteen cents TO the farm q, who has
caused it 10 grow and gathered it 4, a the re-
ward of bis toll. For everything els1 he receives
the same bcgearly return. And r. who has
lifted up his voice here in behalf o. that great,
that honest and oppressed people Where is
their representative i'm the COmmit4 T. of Ways
and Means, that great despotic CONT ittee which
natures measures of tariff of taxation. and of
finance and whose DEGREES on thisf door are aS
unaltcrable as the laws of the Meds and Per-
siansl On that committee, which &speaks the
voice of fate for the veal of tIc tax-pav-