New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-04-22
liz labor, as follows;


The social qualification above exhibited embraced
populs.ioa OF 100000. The upper ten thousand OF
MOBILES and gentry merged with rich merchants
bankers and manufacturers into the wealthy class
They numbered in 1860 allowing five persons to fam
nv 600 COO The middle class" numbered 1900 900.
The working dass' numbered 100000, and the
roor old and irsrm who public charge constr
tinted another million. Now, taking the entire British
tax at $4,000 900, the upper class pays sli25VO
200 the middle class" pays ESQ 600, and the
working classes pay SOL 500 DOOR still further an
alyzed the upper class" pays sllo year per head the
" middle class" rays SO CO head and the working
olsss''psys IS 2; head.
practically. hcx do the English working people the
phrase includes Irish English and Scotch pay their
ray Of one hundred and one millions Of doars' Does
the paypent fat press upon their to purchase
The necessarie, of life, This is denied by all British
economists. They say the above table shoWs' tha
,ba a. u IA. rr head is made up OF these items; 10
bacoo = cents spirs and malt 81 IL; tea o. cent?
.,osr NJ cent? other taxes 81 05-tbat 1f tie to''i
animal 8 25 per head paid by the working people
more than hay (s2 So is for tobacco and Intoxicating
d,;rts tho, ,oev nav tax Of only 81 43 year upon
o. raooss,ri.. q, life that their bread butter mix
moo, f.b seseables fruit bouse, Goals candles, dress
ard edncatioH are free Of du.y and assessment
Tho e,ner;esce through which English legislators
ooord-ris.. have troseled in pursuit of just and
- ,,,n.inle. Of ta1tion and revenue, certainly
..n1d NOT h. lost on when We approach the unac'
rs,or,ed labor of insiitItng an excise system IL We
ill avail ourselves Of tlat experience, We shah accep'
as the basis of eur systm this truth;
,rbs,e e pott in re scale Of taxation at which the
ia Of ,.,eu,e liz he greatest, with the smallest
-. Of evasion ALTERATION and Illicit manufacture
I'D commerce Thee thsSaxation TO sustain war or
MA, delhi sbod begin and there il should end
~ a,nv tb;, prieiyle 10 the three leading subjects
go i, G,es Britain-Tobocco, Distilled Spirits
I'd Mai The 'uc point Of taxation of tobacco has
80 t haan ou1 though It is 22l years since the first
,ss imno.een it. The rates fixed BY law. and the
,no,hods ~ oolton are confessedy erroneous and
;opsisrt W. for years the revenue in Great Britain
10. do-;vod $1,000 annually from tobacco 50
,,nr.yorsha ;4he rate and 30 stimulating 10 Illicit
oor,rorce .,5dulteration, that smuggling around the
,.bole cosst England is distinct and established
roch ~ bness-tha. every vessel that trades to the
cor,nant carries passengers, brings back tobacco
- ,rb;cb ,duty is paid that full fyesevenths Of all
e., ,u,,. Knight for infractions Of the revenue laws
r-.Iulenf irnportations Of tobacco; that every
.iroo sar in the coasting trade Of England and the
voth o,tbe etire British taxation is borne and paid
-. .ohaoo, What amount Of money would be derived
81 an,s mo- all that is actually consumed cannot
he accnrtely aeertained 1t is known, however tho'
or, all the imported" cigars smoked in
rnc,on1are snggled. They are charged rs manufac'
,r,ed ,o,acoo 18th 81 &c p n duty; and the average
mice ofobaco in London before our war was cents
non,d ,biduty Is 2, COO per cent ad yaorem The
~ haa sfypp
no; boon cuts a pound--that Ia, 800 per cent ad
,alorem bee duties induce an almost universal adu''
teratiou osnu, tobacco, and cigars Sand CABBAGE
lesyes y.eria, acorns alkaline salts, water, forest
leaves rad lie are employed TO swell the traders
profts md recover back some OF the duty. YET TO-
bacco Joys ito the EngliA exchequer s3OOCoOOO a
rear II Peos statement is correct. that for every
10 or of dut,paid tobacco Consumed in England the
peope Of BeEum have been estimated TO consume Y
q, the Germas &c, the Dutc 81, and the Americans
a. only abouOnes sixth Of a that is smoked snuAed.
and chewed England passes honestly through the
Custom. Hous. Yet see whit revenue is derived
from this noio1s weed sndleasure from il the enor.
nous incom can get frO tobacco to be applied 10
the puttinglown Of the REBELLION and the payment Of
our war deh A tax as hayy as the English taI i'm
posed on outobacco wou yield at least a hundred
millions Of dollars; for ] is an article OF domestic
growth wihao principayand could be surely reached
ip the leaf AID with very tile cost Of collection.
Bat do mt propose Il imposition Of tax onIro.
bacco equaso what the bgbsh charge 1t with Their
duty. by th, confession some Of the best Of their
economists is TOO hight partially defeats its own
purpose Jhioh is Reyen, But the success Of the tax
faulty ast is in its amou and costly and troublesome
in It's co.eciioD is Of suggestion TO us, that it
would gem impoSsibeh Tobacco in America to evade
the desIy which War I'd public Indebtedness in Eu.
kiand aAace, Austria ID Belgium have imposed upon