The daily gazette., 1875-02-15
1 GENT.
ON the Ne'c York World. sl4t.
TAXES! TAKES!!

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From distilled spirits. :. :. SIG. SAC. 900
from tobacco. co.....,................ 4,600, 900
from sugar and lnolasses. 8,213,O0O
From the repeal of the ten
per centlim reduction. 5000, 900
From The Little Tariff, bill. =. 100000
From the Revised Statutes..... 100000
from greater values placed on
loreign coinage, as recently
sustain by Supreme Court. 100000
S4S, S,653, 900
Nearly fifty million dollars of incrcas.
cd taxation in one year after IL is in
operation! That is the entertainment
10 which the leaders OF the Administra-
ton ton ut Washington invite the country
iTe Arst four Items on the above state
lpelt We take. fIom the estimate of Mr..
Dawes; the fifth, by the Little Tariff
bili, rs from Secretary Bristow; the 9Th,
icy INC dishonesty OF the Revised Sta
tutess' IS from Mr.. Wood, who has stu
died the sui Jcct with more care than
any one else, and the last item Of two
million OF dollars has been completely
overlooked at Washington, or concealed
by the Treasury. This last item of in
crease mas been brought about by
treasury Interpretation of law of 1879
authorizing the Mintmaster to estimate
the value of foreign coins, which esti-
mate expands the dutiable value of in
voices made in francs about 4 Der cent.
And this large amount is to be wrung
from the productive forces of the nation
upon the computations of friends of tn.
Administration which are now based, OF
course, upon the theory that, in cases ef
ambiguity, the lowest and not the high
est rates will he levied. The country has
seen IN Mr.. Woods exposure about the
Revised STATUTES what that means. Mr.,
Poland insists the coditication is exact,
ana Secretary Bristow defends the Trea-
sury Interpretation, but the result has
been an exaction Of five millions year
by way OF taxation more than, on the
same volume OF importation, was levied
before the revision. -.., .a
This tremendous and sudden demand
upon the country will fill the people ev-
erywhere as it has us in New York, with
surprise and Indignation. Fifty millions
more of taxation III one year after the en-
gine is put i'll motion! Why has not,th
nation been warned of this by the Ad-
mlnistration, ca: its henchmen in Con
gress? Why did Mr.. Bristow, in his re-
port to Congress last december, announce
IL dednlt for the year end June 80, 1876, of
only u little loss than Sl2 900, 900, and ask
Mr. Dawes to tell the country to-day that
the deficit will be nearly three times that
sum? Was it downright ignorancn III
the Secretary, Misrepresentation of COM
ing events in trade, or has the Adnistra-
tion a scheme behind OF proportionaiy
enhanced expenditure over civil strife2
Downright Ignorance is the pleaput forth
by Mr.. Dawes, Referring TO the estimate
| made by Mr.. Bristow, he says:
But in reality the actual receipts
| since that report was made were more
Iwi,teiy different than they had been dur
ing year for tile last 5 years. The actual
receipts had fallen far short of the esti-
| Inmates. From some causes moi, quite un-
derstobd by those who made finance a
| study, the receipts from customs had be-
gun to fall OF, and had fallen off to the
Iextent OF 81, 100000, or about 100000 a
| day. II that falling off continued during
the year. there would be a deficit OF $35,-
600 0eO!' D., - .''"''' 80
Does the country believe there would
have been such utter absence of the pro-
vision,of financial stateinanship il Gov
lernor 1'ilden were President or Finance
Mihisterr On the contrary, did not the
Governor elect of New York in hisspeech-
es after his election predict this result !?
| fFr66s some eaitses not quite understood"
Isays. Mr.: Dawes; Mot quite under
stood, by him and Mr.. Bfistow and the
| We 6ldlp. otiu PeitthA-
lily foiseen by Democratic economists
The annual report of Secretary Bris-
tow of the 9TH of December last is to-doy
profitable for study. He correctly ey-
hibltsa falling-otf in imports for 1871
OF 81 ,129 ,SG6, ana for 1972-73 of $59, 1885,
735, rs compared with the year proceed
ing; he comments on the inability of the
| West and the interior of the country to
d purchase foreign merchandise, and he
notes the unwillingness of importing
merchants to do business, but yet he sees
i only'adeiicit' of twelve millions at the
outside. He has been six months in
ofic5; lie points with satisfaction to the
Increased duties the Revised Statutes
have enabled him to levy, and congratu-
lnttss the country on, "I more general ac-
Iqaieseence'' in these unexpected rates
Of duty, and yet he under Estimates the
deficit by moro than twenty millions il
thirty-iive millions be now his estimate.
With sach changes of opinionhn the last
two months, what may the next two
jinontis bringpl '"i Are'i ''itN n'lN'4
| The logic of events, or rather the i'm
inutable laws of trade and political sci.
ence, aro driving the country to cruel
Iresults.. Mr.. Bristow's eyes must at last
have been opened to see that there is a
point where Protection does not protect
linf1atim does not inhate, and there is g
Imode of taxntion whiclTdoes not produce
p lrpVenue.r 1tn pNt lN'' w. 't NNi'''
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