The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-08-04
AND REVENUE TAR
IFS
Iron the Winona Rennblican

Lrom the Winona Republican.
The difference between protective
ana revenue tariff is perhaps as we'll
described by the st. Louis Democrat as
can be done without going into an elabor-
ate discussion of the subject. We quote:
Duties on foreign imports NAV be laid
for two objects-to fill the Treasury. or
to help some special interest. The first
Is duty for revenue. The second is a
duty for protection. The duty for rev.
enue must not be SO high as absolutely TO
exclude the foreign product, for if it is
no revenue is derived. But the dav for
protection, since it seeks not revenue but
exclusion of foreign competition is effec.
tive for protection precisely in propor-
ton as it excludes the foreign proiuct
and is therefore worthless for revenue
An absolutely effective duty for protec-
ton, therefore, puts no money at all into
the Treasury. But it does not follow
that 1t takes no money from the people.
On the contrary, by enabling somebody
TO sell domestic product at higher
price than the foreign product would
nave cost if not excluded, it taxes the
people for the benefit of favored inter
est fosters one branch Of industry
at the expense Of another" If a6soL,ttssv
effective for protection, the duty Yields
nothing to government, and the phoIe
sum taken from the people goes to favor
ed individuals. If partly effective, it
yields something to government and
something TO individuals Only when it
is an absolute failure does the protective
duty yield nothing to individuals; only
when 1t Is partial failure does it Weld
anything to the government.
Now the revenue which the effectively
protective duty does not raise, and does
not mean to raise, must be obtained bv
some other duty. This other duty. again.
may be wholly for revenue or partially
protective. In proportion as it 1t is pro-
teetlye, 1t takes from the peope sum be-
You'd that which it yields to the treasury,
and that additional tax goes to private
Individuals" fosters one interest at the
expense of another"
The tariff purely and strictly for
revenue then, takes from the people no
more Than 1t puts into the treasury.
But It Is both difficult and rare to de
wise tariff which shall yield to the
government SO large sun as $150,OO0,-
OOO, and yet take from the people absc-
iutely nothlng beyond what the govern
nent receives. Hence, an absolute and
strict reduction to a revenue basis is
not ordinarily understood when that
phrase Is used. We have had several
: revenue tariff" ordinarily So called
but not one OF them imposed a6soLuteLy no
burden upon the people beyond the sum
yielded to the Treasury. In ordinary
understanding and use, therefore, the
fu rttf'1 ic u
with intent to raise revenue, and to avoid
Us f1T US is practicable the imposition of
taxes beyond che sum received by the
government by The words "as far as is
practlcaDle We mean to take into con-
slderatlon the difficulty OF getting any
perfectly complete and philosophical
scheme from congress elected as ours
Is AS matter OF fact many duties
always have been imposed which actually
taxed the people more thai they yielded
10 the government, and such duties wilt
De imposed which actually taxed the
people more than they yielded to the
government, and such duties VIII be i'm
posed uhtll the people understand their
Interests more tally, and elect men who
Will more etfectually guard those inter
eStS. Hence, an absolute tariff for
revenue only Is not a natural or uheor.
eSlcaI imposslblllty, but it is politically
lmpractlcable until the people become
more fully Informed AS to the effect OF
Different forms OF taxation, or the sum
needed by government becomes consid-
erabIy smaller. In ordinary acceptatlon,
the phrases, "a revenue tariff" u reduc-
ton OF tarlf 10 revenue basis" means
thls---a removal OF those features which
Intentionally and plainly tax the people
more than government receives, and an
adjustment OF tariff with the raising of
adequate revenue at the least cost as the
controlling purpose If as an incident
and not as tile controlling object, some
body Is protecSed-some interest is en-,
ablcd to take from the people money
beyond what goes int9 the treasury
tariff Is ofthe sort advocated by Henry
Clay-"a revenue tariff with incidental
protection"
AN ASSAULT ON BACK HAIR
THOSE HORRIBLE CHIGNONS.