Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-08-27

Government to appropriate any part
OF the property Of the cl(izen by tax.
alton, is the necessity of supporting
the Government in it's several depart
ments, working strictly within the line
of their duty; and the only measure
of the right is the extent Of the neces-
sity, reasonable economy being the
fixed rule by which to terminate that
necessity. Every dolIar which the
Government extracts frca the people
beyond this, is sheer downright rob.
berry. Now, q protective tariff in It's
very nature, implies the ,avying Of q
tax not for The necessitlos ofthe Gov
ernment but for the benefit of class.
Levied upon articles of manu-
facture, it is money transferred, by
act Of Congress, from the pockets Of
the consumer TO the bank account Of
the manufacturer. And this is rob
berry. Previous to the war and in
Democratic times an average duty of
some fifteen per cent. was laid upon
imports; aud without dollar of in
ternal revenue collected by the Feder-
al Government, the amount received
was ample 10 pay the then seventy or
eighty millions ofexpenditures. Now,
as part of tho blessings Of Republican
rule, a continuance OF which you are
promised under Gen. Grant, these du.
ties run from a nominal sum or moth
ing, on raw material, TO three hun
dred per cent. on manufactures, aver
aging upon tho whole list more than
forty y-fve per cent And Of this, one
half at least an absolute gin by the
Government to the manufacturing in
torest---a gift taken by robbery from
your pockets. Eleven times has the
tariff been raised by several acts of
Congress since 1860, and we have
now just barely, by the adjournment,
escaped another elevation. Oh, the
choice blessings of Republican rule,
which are 10 be continued and multi
piled under Grant
But the inequity, and iniquity too,
Of the tariff, is greatly aggravated by
the fact that its chief burdens fall up
on us of the West One-halfofthe pro-
cccds of the tariff go to swell the prof
its Of the Eastern manufacturer, who
buying our produce cheap, sells us
wares dear, and then investing his
rapidly accumulated wealth in bonds,
purchased with "greenbacks' at sixty
cents on the dollar, escapes taxation,
receives his interest in coin, and after
his bonded claim against the Govern
mcnt has, in the lauguage-of tho Chi
cago platform, been "extended over a
fair period of redemption,D like the
English debt, he or his heir in the
tenth generation, expect TO be paid in
gold at the rate of one hundred cents
to the dollar Oh, the blessings of
Republican rule TO be continued under
Grant But the West, blinded during
the war by the veil Of "loyalty," at
last is beginning TO open her eyes to
this enormous wrong piled upon her T;
and warn the East, in no sectional
spirit, but in all kiDdnfss, ye. in all
earnestness, that the strong patient
men of Tho West, staggering under
this burden, are resolved in inoxora-
bic purpose, to shake u from their
shoulders al every hazard.
| have said that the necessities Of
government economically admins
tered are the limits of its right to tax.
Wherefore, also, IL is true that every
dollar stolen from the Treasury, and
every dollar misapplied from the legit-
innate purpose of government, is 10
much robbed from the people. And
ye. 10 the vory first year OF Republi-
can blessings, the year ofgrace, 1861,
we had the testimony upon the floor
of Congress, Of leading Republican,
that "the Treasury had been plumber
ed well nigh in that slhgle year, Us
much as the entire currcrt yearly ex-
penses Of the Goyernment during Mr..
Buchanan's administration" kepub-
lican petit larceny was then put into
the pulp or embryo but several years
oil rapid and vigorous growth, nave
developed 1t now into The bone and
grizzle OF sturdy and gigantic thcit
and robbery And to-day the expen-
ditures oil the Goverment Legitimate
and larcenonis, are nearly hvo times
as great as when eight years ago, the
power was snatched from tho Demo-
cratic party, and delivered over TO
Republican misrule.
THE PUBLIC DEBT
And now allow me awora as 70
the puohc dept ~ IS van tnlng
70 day 10 inquire now tnls ueot came
to be contracted, or how much of u
was originally necessary ano Just IL
NAV have been the most essential, the