The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-05-27
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The Columbus Journal evidently has not OBJ
served that our revenues under the present
tariff are the largest ever received by the Gov
eminent Nor does It appear that this Is the
most equitable tax that Is paid, since 1t IS
more universally distributed among those who
can afford to pay taxes than any other descrip-
ton Of tax levied. But the point ever recuTs
If yOU do not raise revenue by import duties
you are compelled to raise It by an odious
internal revenue system, which everybody de-
sires to have abolished. Dayton Journal.
Now what does all this meani We have
made ourselves tiresome repeating that tax in
the shape of duties on imports was the least
burdensOme and vezatious form of taxation,
because the tax was confounded with the price
Of the article, and because each one could pay
or decline to pay this tax, as he saw fit. We
therefore favor the continuance of Just those
rates of duties that viii bring in the largest
possible revenue.-Colt1l6U Journal
just so. And just so we favor
those duties which viii produce the
greatest amount Of revenue, with
this difference: Those duties must
not be so low as to operate against
the productions Of our own manu-
facturers; for the moment that is
done, our laboring population is fore
ed either to work at reduced prices
or the manufacturers are obliged to
suspend, which affects the laboring
class still more, by depriving them
of labor and pay both. Nor are the
laborers in one branch alone affected.
Thrown out of employment in one
branch Of industry, and unable to
subsist without the wages Of labor,
the workman must find employment
in some other branch, if 1t be so for
tunate as to be protected, and there
the supply Of labor exceeding the de-
mand, forces the wages down, and
labor is the sufferer from free trade
proclivities carried into effect. There
is this difference between US and the
State Journal. We favor that rate
Of duties from which the highest
will be derived without op-
pressing the interests of our own
manufacturers, or disturbing the in
terests of our own laboring popula-
tion, in order to encourage the pau
per labor Of Europe. The State
.JomaaJ evidently favors that rate Of
duties which will produce the great
est revenue independent Of all other
considerations. In the same article
it says speaking Of pig iron, "A duty
of S. per ton is preferable to 50, be-
cause the revenue will be larger at
the former rate" And why larger?
Evidently because the importation
will be larger, and it would have to
be at least doubled before there
would be any perceptible difference
in the amount of revenue, and that
rould moi occur unleSS the article
c0uld be introduced and sold at q less
rate than 1t can be produced and sold
here. Competition would demon
strate that, Tor the manufacturers
here would not yield their market to
the foreigner without q struggle. If
the importation could not be doubled
then the revenue produced would
not be equal to that produced under
the present rate, and therefore the
rate would be the best even
to the State Journal in
its answer to the Dayton Journal,
1t the head of this article. But if
,he importation can be doubled, what
s to hinder it from being trebled?
What to prevent its being quadrup-
ed, and what even to prevent its
a.,ing possession o. our market? It
nav be argued that il the i'm
cannot be doubled, it viii
be because the rate is still too high 10
allow its entering into active compe-
titiOn with 4Io+ ~c ,,, ,.,, ,,,,,,,,fo,
Ture. Granted. And it would give
an additional argument why the rate
should remain unchanged. because
from it would be derived the larg-
est possible revenue" without Grip
pling our own producers. 1t might
be found that 'the largest possible