The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-10-29

Weu, ny te40ex4 Wu8t b94 y0o a4Ign. III y
not vsFy pisisast ibr me 70 ~ h, ius, y be hu
ssk e haa bsen pleasans OK Ne % conm pntct14
with you through The FLOnmfAx Il las h9en
q. elesdzs Dc - . t1iss - yoa ths4ash IL
columns I, at tina, have trespasasd os, Il
fsr space. In kind editer hAs newer denled,me ghe
insszticn of all l have written. and foE jEhirA ]
now rstufn him my sincere thanks.
ny closing wosds win b not to forslt your
duiy from now until ths elsction b ovel-lesve
nothing undcne in every precinet ~ tks 6t1ae,
fbr with . fun Eote out Ne can carry HordA hy
handsome majority for Ha1cock, al ne STATE
| ticket and both congzsssmea have thu voters
end eaa d q sad WILL no H.
Imay odd posiscript to this letter II asythfsg
Of Importance comes TO light between now ind
| the closing Of the mail. And now, my 1aal
adisu. wiahing Tor the success Of our party
| and ths psiheiples We are advocaalg. and
that peace and good win may be extended
all over our glorious Union for all time to come
| By the election Of Hancock and English, Blox-
| ham and Bethel, Finley and Davidson. is my
| earnest prayer; and to al my readers / wish
fheY NAV be hlessed -isA Ls~isA, -ss1th ind
| prosperity and live 10 . ripe old age hi theHen-
joyment Of Democratic rule, M, only in Florida
but all over the Union. Faithfully yourI.
Twice WEkK.p
p g. Our visiting statesman, Gortam, has
not put in an appearaRce. Ny information il, the
Chinese letter Of e52e has made il verynnPleas-
| ant in the New England States and pailiculIrIy
Massachusetts,, where Ben Butler is !: making
things red hot, and the money that was Intended
to be used in Florida has been turned hi that d.
ha1 a.
| in my Democratic column, but il begins to 10. K
very much that way. How can you stop ii'
Don't il begin TO look like Sahd Csios insie&d
OF . solid South. against solid norths We
are for the Solid Union and lei the cyclone iage
on, if ii win effect 50 glorious result Wegcan
stand il il the carget-baggen can and win aing
bail Columbia, Happy Land"
- - ~sss.----
A TariR fer Revense vvithl IN Ici-
dental ProieeGien. r.
In his recent speech before IN immense
meeting of business men at Philsielphia,
Senator Baysrd said: g The Treasury of
this country il filed by taxation, and only
by taxation. In round numbeis some
100000, 900 are drawn from the Anaeri-
can people into their Treasury BY taxa
ton. More than one-haf of that IL drawn
by taxation upon merchandise from for
eign countries, and the system ID called
the tariff system. Since the Foundation
of This government by the Amerisan peo-
pie the government of the United States
has obtained revenue for Its expenses by
levying taxes upon the entry goods from
foreign ports What Is the principle upon
which TAXATION i 70 be sustainedf IL is
the public welfare. In the spirit sof levy
ing taxation upon imported merchandise
for the sake of raising revenue to- pay the
Just expenses Of the government, we have
the basis for which the tariff, as i is
called, was originally designed. What
was the result of this We did not tax
and we do not tax the manufacturer of
merchandise made within our borders,
and as . result If the same merchandise
made abroad and approaching oar bord-
era il taxed, what IL the resulth First,
revenue to the treasury, that 10 the great
and justifable object; and the iecond is
that necessarily Incidentally de St is
called, but logically and surely and nee
essarily-that tax is barrier OIL protec-
ton to the American citizen who IL en-
gagged in the manufacture of that same
article. Look, pray you, at things and
not men. Look at substance and not ut
shadow. We need revenue in this roun-
try; the expenses Of our government are
great, and with its growth the complies
tions of It's interests are apt to o'increase.
Ever since we were government the
American people have preferred whether
wisely or unwisely, to pay the t.lxes indi-
rectly upon imported merchandise which
they consumed to paying it directly
That has been our habit; that has been
our custom; that has been the preference
Of the American people, and i, fer one, do
not know ten men, much less party, that
propose to abandon this method Of raising
revenue to support the expenses Of our
government. Ia 1851 asysteln Of war
tariff taxation was resorted to-, and any
man who could invent . tax apop any
thing that Was 70 be imported WAS invited
to come forward and swell the litt. What
was the resnlts A tariff system was crea-
ted that taxed everything, and in that
spirit of war taxation the grtat object
and result Of revenue was LOST siyht Of
and, fcrgotten- If All the arTclae that
could be enumerated vere taxed alike.
where would be the prstsctiOBi to manu-
factursEs going into market gbreadi -
lcWers We 70 stop with supplying these
50 Aoo0, 900 Of our own people, Or vers We
70 consider euF capacity and 6apply the
markets Of the world p M
nlleHscsssic Gaina A. Csnlaseticat
Il Cppplste returns from the resent Con-