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would ouly magnify the evil and
widen oppression; saw that depart.
ure must be made from unequal bur-
dens, and return made to justice and
right. The adoption of this policy
of relieving its people is the brightest
page in Roman history. To this it
owed its boundless sway and i'm,
perishable renown. And shall this
government, with constitution with
out peer in annals of time, do less
to relieve its people than heather
Rome? We announce to political
doctors now met and standing in con-
sultation around the body of revenue
tariff with their nostrums and pre.
scriptions to patch and to give it the
appearance of new resuscitation for
another race in the same old circuit
of tributary burdens, we announce
that a departure must be made from
injustice and return made to right
to the constitution. We remark that
analysis of the nature of revenue tar
lift proves individually that it possess
ses but one principle, and that fills
the nutshell of its whole being, no
room left for anything else; that prin-
ciple is unequal taxation, conceived,
born alone to antagonize with and
crush legitimate laws of trade, prov.
ed by its effects from its earliest his.
tory to the present time. Misappre-
hension of its true nature and effects
by the masses, and its adaptedness as
an engine of power in the hands of
ambition have doubtless led to its
continuance. And in proof of the
fact that its whole nature or element
is unequal taxation, examine the rev>
enue tariffs of the past, and you will
find none on record but what is insep-
arabic from unequal taxation, and
hence inseparable from tyranny, be.
cause unequal taxation is tyranny.
And we remark that it matters not
how particular congress may be in
handling this badge revenue tariff, how
much they may try to minimize the
evil which was done in 1916. Walk.
er tariff, reduced in 1856 from 20 to
IA percent on total imports, less OBJ
jectionable than any tariff since that
Of Hamilton's. Still, unequal taxa.
ton was stamped upon it-still it rob.
bed labor of its fruits.
Impossible to legislate by a princi.
pie that is tyrannical with other than
tyrannical enactments. Tyranny can
not be patched SO as to be anything
else. Therefore congress handling
revenue tariff insures tyrant legisla,
ton. Then let the people command
their congress away from all the
plain of despotic badge, up higher to
the rock-the constitution there to
stay. Let congress, the servants of
the country, and the people come
nearer to each other. Official ser.
wants and the people have lived at
too great distance from each other.
the cause of our ills. For had the
legislation of congress been warmed
by the breath of the peoples close
inspections, the only rectifers on
record of abuse of power, disclosures
OF favoritism to the public mind
would have banishe1 it from our
midst long ago. Revenue tariff tend
ing to Capitalization of wealth, and
impoverishing Gas we have shown in
a former article) if not abrogated
will continue the building of an olig>
archy of protection, wealth that will
soon, without doubt, command the
destinies of this nation. What else +?
When the wealth of this oligarchy
is increased by taxing production, to
the impoverishing of the masses, and
the weakening of the wealth produce
ing forces of the nation, who can
estimate the losses In this country of