The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-09-08

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then should be regarded by wise
party as no longer a legitimate sub
jeot of discussion. 1t has passed
from the realm of deba able ques-
tions, and should not be classed in the
category of facts. Arguments for
and against its adoption were admis-
sible last autumn; but now they are
! out of place. We cannot advocate or
help it. We must accept it as one of
the elements in the problem offered
for our solution, and address ourselves
to that as effected by this inseparable
modification"
There is another fact which indi.
oates that these opinions foreshadow
the future platform of the Dem cratic
party.
The New York IFo,ld not only de.
clares the speech as ssolear and able,"
and again as "manly and free from all
party clap-trap," but itself declares
these questions as Greatly Obsolete"
and that the whole Democratic party
are "fast coming to these conclusions"
Having seen, therefore, the nature
Of the Issues which Mr. Adams and
the M assahcusetts Democracy regard
ms finally decided, we now offer few
sentences to those which he terms
"liviug questions"
These are the present systems Of
taxation, for as Mr.. Adams truthfully
says, "There is no nation in the world
which is taxed as we are taxed; )" the
relations of capital and labor, rigid
economy in public expenditures, an
opportunity for all to buy in the
cheapest market with honest coin, so
that taxes may no longer utterly con.
sumo wages, and tho utter abolition
from the statute booke of Congress, or
of States, Of all test oaths, disfran-
chisement or penalties.
The financial question is ono which
the whole country feels. 1t comes to
the door and home of every man. It
involves the very life-blood of the
prosperity of the people.
Upon this point we prefer to give
the entire language of Mr.. Adams:
The next sturdy robber is the tariff
upon imports, which is, as he says,
under all circumstances, o tax paid by
the consumer. But what kind of
tax it is when our tariff is protective
and not revenue tariff solely, let
Mr.. Mill, the latest and best a0th0ri-
ty on the subject, tell you. "All Gus,
tom duties which operate as encour-
agement to the home production of
the taxed article are an cminently
wasteful mode of raising revenue.-
They are purely mischievous both to
the country imposing them and to
those with whom it trades. The
amount of the national loss thus co-
casioned is measured by the excess Of
the price at which the commodity is
produced over that at which it could
be imported" SO much for theory.
Now, what does the Special Rcpubli-
can Commissioner tell you this tariff
practically is7 A tariff which is un.
just and unequal, which needlessly en-
hanoes prices, which takes far more
indirectly from the people than is re-
ceived into the Treasury, which rem
ders an exchange of domestic for for
eign commodities nearly impossible,
and which, while protesting to protect
American industry, really in many
GASES discriminates against it; and he
goes on to tell you what is the upshot
of the whole systom. And thus the
wave of taxation continues to extend
and enlarge itself until no man can
measure the breadth and power of its
influence, aud breaking ultimately
with full force upon two GLASSES of So
ciety-those living upon fixed in
comes and the day laborer. Do you
wonder, then, that the workingman is
discontented, subjected naked to the
lashipg of suoh q pitiless storm of
taxations? Do you wonder that he
turns inoredulous from the silver
tongued demagogues who would per-
suade him that he is we'll Off Cen
tleman, he know, he is sinking he
feels that his, strength is failing him.
Il is borne in upon him that he must
drown If he comes not swiftly.
2, And what can we do for him Why,
do what Andrew jackson would have
done. Give him hard money and an
open market. Take off your weight
from him and let him alone. What
is needed then to restore prosperity
20 labor and satisfactory relations to
capital : What is necessary TO allie.
viate. the pressure Of public burdens
and dispel the odium Of the debt q
And what must, be had before we can
have national welfare, is return to. q
gold and silver currency and Q, ,redne.
tion of the imports and exports to. the
lowest point which our need for q
large revenue will permit. The pro.
seoution of this demand ID not alone
Theoretically the peculiar province of
the Democratic party. 1t Its tradi,
tiopal and immoyable policy, To, it
the mon who have. marched before US
have been Ii sucoeeding clusters sol-
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