The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-09-22
NO TARIFF.
Free Trade Universal. Direct Taxa.
alton to support the General Gov
eminent.

freeing misunderstanding their in,
crease and full usefulness would point
the mind to the fact that parallel eff
fects would spring from personal po-
litical freedom. An incident in the
life of the immortal Pitt, the emf
Dent English statesman and political
economist, impressed my mind with
no little weight. After one Of the
great battles of free trade in English
parliament, his attempt to free the
trade of Ireland, producing much ops
position, he was approached by Hedg-
wood, an extensive manufacturer, ex.
postulating against bringing English
labor into free competition with the
pauper labor of Ireland, Pitt remark
ed: "Mr. Hollywood, you are an
excellent manufacturer, but you are
a very poor statesman" What a
blessing to this country to have had
a Pitt on the tariff commission.
Up higher still would blessings have
risen had there been many Pitts and
fewer Hedgwoods in congress, and
thence no tariff commission at all.
Or, if any commissioners, they would
have been those who, in paraphrase
of the present ones, would have been
equally alive to all industries, to the
high and the low, to the rich and the
poor. Tariff commission, the child of
the degradation of politics-the child
of the alliance between the rulings of
congress and monopolies-the child
of the alarm of protectionists of COM
ing retribution = Tariff commission
seems to me to be political priest
hood appointed by the rulings of pro-
lection to prescribe-to assign limit
to-and dictate tariff investigation to
guard the lines of this tariff sanctum,
and has the effect after consulting
monopolies to embarass full inquiry
by show of reform and research in
some directions to occlude and blunt
the mind to the true troubles of the
country. This two headed system
revenue tariff is so blended as to make
the revenue system subordinate to
the protective system being thrice the
greater. Thus revenue tariff for pros
lection for monopolies, with inciden-
tai revenue to the government. This
none can question. If the law of'"the
tea tax" must be executed, let dnties
intended for revenue for the govern
ment be put in one, and duties in>
tended for protection put in another
bill. If this could be done, reform
of moment would take place. The
great matter is that farmers, laborers,
all see and know fully the unconstitu
tional exactions practiced upon them
and this hybrid lives no longer. VIII
men support others if they fully
know it2 In this tariff commission s
peregrinations, do you see close com
munings with the representations of
taxed laborers? Do you hear any
thing about this great disparity of
earnings, or anything to reconcile the
inconsistency of the masses supports
ingmonopolies? The silence of the
grave, as to these, reigns in all the
realm of these beleagured interests.
These followers of the pillow, common
laborers, though the burden hearers
of the nations developments, are too
humble to warningly catch the eye
to touch the greed of this millionaire,
courtly policy for wealth and power.
The people may be hoodwinked for a
time, but not always. Populi causa
superabit. Violations of natural in
spired laws. no less violations of nat.
ural laws of trade or free trade by
governments and monopolies, by
edict of the Great Architect, have
their judgment day in this world.
BY natural inspired law, natural
law of trade. free trade is the inyal