The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-07-05

build the new palace. 1t was not in
tended that you should hear it ALL
Here is the law. The title reads:
can act to make appropriations for
the Legislative, executive and judicial
expenses of the Government" And
under the caption
ITO CoDIFY THE LAWS OF II UNI
TEL STATES,
is found this appropriation of half a
million to commence a building which
In the end will cost al least ten millions.
IF we were out of debt, such a build
ing would be imperial in its character;
but in debt as We are, with such taxa
ton as the people endure, it is a crime.
UNEQUAL AND OPPRESSIVE TAXATION.
In 1868, Massachusetts paid seven
teen, and Chic twelve millions internal
revenue tax, while for the current
fiscal year it is estimated that Massa-
chusetts will pay less than four and a
half millions, and Ohio more than
sixteen. The tax on Ohio has been
increased four, and on Massachusetts
reduced twelve and a half millions =
This was done by taking the tax off
the manufactures of Massachusetts,
and imposing them on ii ose of Ohio.
When the internal tax was taken off
the manufactures of Massachusetts,,
the price of them ought to have fallen,
but was Increased. The very men who
voted to take the tax off of manufac-
lures increased the tariff tax on for
eien goods, thus destroyed competition,
and enabled Massachusetts to gain
enormous profits OH all she made and
sold ; and these profits were at the
cost OF Ohio and other agricultural
States. In 1868, the six States of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky,
Missouri and Virginia paid four mil
lions more taxes than the six New
England States, but this year they
will pay f~orty1seven millions morei
and Ohio alone will pay more than
double the whole amount of taxes
paid by all New England. These
facts are taken from this table in the
official report of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue.
THE TARIFF TAX.
A tariff Is a tax which .compels a
person to pay more for the article than
Il Ia worth. And of all taxes, the
most oppressive, insidious, and odious,
is the tariff for what is called protec-
ton. tits oppressive BECAUSE it main
ly falls on labor insiduous, because it
ia paid on the increased price of the
article bought without being scene /;
odious, because for every dollar of tar
III tax which goes into the treasury,
the people are compelled to pay the
home manufacturer a bonus of So
Only one fourth of the wooden goods
used in the United States are import
ed. Aud of every four pair of pants
worn, the stuff for only n pair is
manufactured abroad, and for the 9th
er three pair is home. On wooden
stuff for pantaloons there at a tariff
tax of sixty cents cents on the dollar.
If the imported stuff to make a pair
costs three dollars, the tax is $3.50,
and the value of the goods S1,20. The
home manufactures then adds 60 cents
on the dollar to the value of stuff for
pantaloons, and MS he sells three times
as much as is imported, it follows that
the people pay him a bonus equal to
three times the amount paid into the
treasury on the same materials. De-
Quoting the tax of twenty millions on
tea and coffee and we have left a tariff
tax of about one hundred and sixty
millions. And assuming that we con-
sumo three times as much of our own
manufactures as we import, it follows
that the same year we pay n hum
dred and sixty millions into the treas
ury as a tariff we pay four hundred
and eighty millions to the home mo-
nopolist more than his goods are worth.
APROTECTIVE TARIFFS OPPOSED
TO AGRICULTURE AND
COMMERCE.
Between the States of the Union we
have absolute free trade. The farmer
sends his products into Pennsylvania
and New York ; his only cost being
that Of transportation. Suppore that
he had to pay a tax of five cents a
bushel upon delivering his wheat,
where would be his profit?
Absolute free trade is not proposed
with other countries, but we propose
q large reduction of the tariff tax, and
thereby not only reduce taxation, but
the general price of goods.
Commerce-meahs the interchange OF
commodities, and that system must be
wise which enables a pers IN to sell the
surplus of their productions at good
profit in a foreign country. But this
must be mutual. If We raise more
wheat than we can use, it becomes our
interestto exchange the surplus of our
wheat, for a part of the surplus of her
goods, and we are both gamers. She
gets bread, and we clothes. But our
wheat and her stuff have to be carried
across the ocean, which requires ships,
and ships open to us the trade of the
world. Then, Ohioans, which do you
prefer, the interests of Ohio or of
Massachusetts?
THE GREED CT MASSACHUSETTS.
My friends, 1 have no prejudice
against Massachusetts, but / am not
willing to pay her tribute. Many of
the noblest names in our country's
history belonged to that old common
wealth. Franklin, Samuel and John
Adams and Otis, of the olden time,
and he the greatest orator the world
has seen since the great Athenian died,
we're sons of Massachusetts, But
while / cheerfully yield honor where
honor is due, l have ever resisted the
collection of tribute by Massachusetts,
from the other States. On Several &C.
casions, on the floor of Congress and
before the people, l called attention to
the fact that, ever since the foundation
of our government, Massachusetts, has