The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-10-06
NO TARIFF.
Free Trade Universal. Direct Taxa
ton TO support the General Gov.
ernment.

strated truth i'll economy that the
good of each is best for ALL" The
policy based upon what is known as
the balance Of trade, that ruled Eu-
rope three hundred years, from the
elevation of Charles V. to power,
that whatever is gained by one par
ty in trade is at the the expense of
another, is exploded forever" Or
thus, if one nation is trading freely
with another, both parties fairly divid.
ing profits. then by destroying half
this trade the one will be able to mo-
nopolize all the profits to itself. 'The
moral of this is, ignorance and selfish
ness are twin brothers" Good of
each is best for ALL" This lifts the
science of economy into the "purest
atmosphere of ethics" cooperating
with the purest moral sentiment.
Thus the economy or moral sentl>
ment that should prevail in exchanges
between individuals, or our several
states, should prevail between indi-
vidual nations of the earth. We re-
mark, proper conception of the pur-
pose, and extent of the tax power,
granted by constitution being para>
mount. We refer to Art. l, Sec. 8,
of the constitution. ''The congress
shall have power to lay and collect
taxes, duties, imports and excuses to
pay the debts and provide for the
common defense and general welfare
of the United States; but all duties,
imports and excuses shall be uniform
throughout the United States The
tax power, as here disclosed, was
granted for the sole purpose of rais>
ing revenue to conduct the operations
of the government; the perversion of
this from its legitimate object is to
convert it in part from revenue in>
to penal power, power which if
fully admitted would be sufficient of
itself to possess the government of
entire control of the property of the
people. For if the government has
the right by the constitution to cause
the property or fruits of labor of one
to 90 to another, it has the right to
control all the property of the people,
and to consummate consolidation at
once, which it is now doing by de-
grees. Claiming and exercising the
right to dispose of the fruits of labor
is considerable advance in a TRADE
that lacks but one step of complete
despotism. For do you see anything
in this section to justify the perver>
sion that manufacturers have right
to the earnings of others? Do you
see any power granted to raise reve>
nue. for other than to meet the ex-
penses and Indebtedness of the gov.
eminent? The revenue for monopo>
lies now being much larger than for
the government, do you not think,
if such had been the design in the
constitution. that something would
have been inserted to that effect? Do
you think they would have mentioned
the smaller revenue, AMI said nothing
about the larger if such had been
their design? Undoubtedly power is
here granted to congress to raise rev.
enue alone to meet the disbursements
of the government. To convert this
power to any other purpose, in be-
half of protection, is tyranny.
We remark, the duties on tea and
coffee were repealed and about one
hundred and fifty articles remain on
the free list that are not produced in
our country and therefore if taxed
would produce no protection. This
shows how little protectionists care
for duties that produce revenue fol
government alone. Such articles
above all Others that raised or manu-
featured in this country and therefor,