The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-09-22

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cry county in Ohio the number of
sheep has been largely diminished
with the last year, and the total de-
crease is not less than II million and
a half.
Well rs an intelligent writer said
"that our legislators havo blunderingly
Disseminated in favor of the rich
against tie poor; the idle classes
against the laboring classes and articles
of luxury against articles of necessity"
Not GaRderingy, for Governor Hayes
wa in Congress when this tariff was
revised, and Mr.. Sherman boasts that
for ten years he has taken part in pre-
pairing every law on finance or taxa
ton, and both arc going around the
State coDgratulating the people that
they are so justly, so evenly, so wisely
and so lightly taxed. / do not won
der that MIR. Sherman told us at Can
ton, and told us truly, that he never
knew the difference between a avenue
and a protective tariff.
These gentlemen, when driven OIL
these points, tell us that the poor, the
laboring men, the farmers, do not use
imported goods, and, therefore, do not
pay these tariff duties. 1t is true they
do not use imported goods, and do not
pay these duties to the Government
That is one of the enormities of this
system. The price of the domestic ar
-tiele is regulated by the tariff The
/, home manufacturer fixes his price
: that he may just undersell the foreign
oser. The consumer pays the price, and
he has the exquisite satisfaction Of
knowing that mono of it goes into tile
: Treasury, but all of it goes into the
. pockets of the manufacturer. The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
Mr.. Wells, in his last report, says that.
the duty on lumber paid into the
Treasury in 1868 was two million two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
but that it cost the people sixteen mil
lions to collect it. The duties on salt
yielded in 1861 M million of dollars,
but the price Of every bnshel of salt
made in this country was raised to the
: consumer from twenty-three. to forty
eight cents a bushel. ~,
The effect on agricultural interests
produced by this tariff, Ineed not IL
lustrate to an intelligent Western au-
= dience. You feel IT, Tho effect on
commerce is stated by Commissioner
Wells to be such; that If ships, avail
able for foreign trade, were furnished
Ius without cost, we could not employ
them Hte g.. aau;- ial Or moI3 /
y SECRETARY PAYS PREMIUM Oh BOMBS,
80 Isaid the expenditures were unne-
o:cessary and wasteful, aud that they
were all in the interest of dead, mac
tive capital. The last report of the
Secretary shows that he is boarding
: SOL, 214, 1886 in coin, and SO, H.
600 in currency. Why? To what
good purpose2 The customs of a half
year are there. The people are pay
ing six per cent. in gold as interest on
the public debt and the. Secretary is
4, hearding this immensetamodnt. Each
month, with great parade, he sells
six or nine millions, and with proceeds
he buys bonds, giving in'the market
for them twenty five per cent. above
par. The are now redeemable. On
their .faee-by the now re-equity, they
are payable in legal-tender notes. The
holders gave legal tender for them
when legal-tender notes we're worth
not more than half what they now are,
and yet the Secretary of the Treasury
insists on paying a premium of TWEEN
ty-five per cent. / will not argue
again this question. 1 prefer to rely
on the authority of Sherman, and Nor
ton, and Stevens and Ewing. They
say the bonds are payable in green
backs. Then they ought to he so paid;
and the people are robbed when a
premium is paid. IF they are payable
in gold, the Secretary ought to pay
them in gold, and not buy up the pa
per of the Government at a discount.
1t IS difficult to speak of this con
duct of the Secretary with the respect
which is due to his high Office. 1t
costs the people, as Mr.. Ewing has
wel7said, more than all the. frauds of
the whisky ring, and Is scarcely. more
honest than they.
Under this process Of paying pre-
MUM the market value of the bonds
has gone up from ten to twelve per
cent, and 10 the Secretary exclaims,
'tfVVhat a marvel of financial ability !!
I, Ny magic touch has, in three months,
raised so high the credit of the Gov
-. ernmentlT" My friends, pay of a
few of your notes in the same way;
then stint your family, cramp your
business, seize upon the earnings of
your children, and insist on giving to
your creditors Inventive per cent.
more than your note calls for, and
your credit will improve ; always pro
vided the public does not consider
you a fool, or. the Probate Court does
not eonsign you to a lunatic asylum.
, DEBT NOT DIMINISHED.
And in the midst of transactions
like these we hear of large payments
on the public debt, and Governor
Hayes congratulates himself that IN
four months the debt has been dimin-
ished $40, 100000. He says the debt,
; on the LIST of March was $2,525, 000-
900, and on the LIST of August Vas
e2,481, 000, 600 Why, gentlemen,
every other Secretary thought The
Pacific Railroad bonds were a part Of
j the public debt. Chase and MeCud-
foch always included them. They
amount to S64, 100000. Add these to
the S7,481 600, 600, and the totalsap-
pears to be 50, 545, 900, O00, or twenty
millions more than In March. "Fig-
4 ures won't lie may be a very true say
+, ing, but they can be so turned and
twisted that they convey to us com