The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-08-18
SATURDAY. AUGUST IS. 1883.
NO TARIFF.
Free Trade Universal. Direct Taxa.
alton to support the General Gov
eminent.

Quesney, says: "The policy most
sure, most true and most profitable to
the Nation and to the people, exists
III entire freedom of competition.
Without liberty of trade all other lin.
erty is mockery.' Allusion in cons
clusion of last article was made to our
deprivation of shippir accompani-
ments, by protection And we here
remark that so long as revenue tariff
continues, it being the cause of this
deprivation, we can, comparable to
our requirements, have no efficient
exporting facilities. Confirmation of
this is the fact that revenue tariff is
an avowed enemy of imports and
exports, and combats all competition
successfully. controverted by none.
Does enrichment of monopolies to the
impoverishment of laborers. com
pensate Tor these national requisites +?
Why this boast cf matchless springs
Of wealth-of unconceived resources
of aggrandizement, and 'far-reaching
possibilities, maintaining meantime
apolicy that in its whole nature wars
against their developments aud their
expectations, the standard sources of
individual and national prosperity !?
We export to import; as imports are
increased SO will exports be increased;
as imports are decreased so will ex-
ports be decreased. Statistics prove
that in given number of years we
will export no more than we import.
Revenue tariff taxing imports, de-
creases imports, and therefore decreas
es exports.
Exports being the life blood of this
nation, hopes Of future progress will
fix the status of its destiny. How
pressing then is the necessity that ev-
cry weight be removed-that revenue
tariff, the disturber of natural laws of
trade, the destroyer OF equilibrium
between industrial departments, pro-
ducing plethora of investments in one,
to the detriment of all others, the
undisguised enemy of exports of the
nations wealth, be abolished without
delay. In proof, that as revenue
tariff or duties are raised exports will
be decreased, and as duties are reduc,
ed exports will be increased, we re-
fer to tables of high protective tariff
of 1924, and to tables of much re-
duced tariff of 1888, viz: In 1926,
s66,944,745; 1926, s53 ,O55,71O, 49,
81, S58,921, SOL; 1884, SS1, O34, 1852;
1885, s1O1, 1S9,0S2 and 1886, s1O6, (,
917,6S0. How rapid the rise when
weights are taken off Exports of
manufactaFed articles observed the
same law Of increase on.reduction of
duties, and this under great derange-
ment of currency. The more pro.
ducts farmer exports from his farm
the more prosperous he is; so the
more "A nation exports from its bor-
ders, the greater its prosperity. An-
tagonist of this, the source of nation.
al progress and wealth, should meet
prompt overthrow st the peoples
hands Let mepsfolies oe taught by
one great arousal at the ballot box
that. they must work for their living
like other people, aud that they, max,
ing, 80, 40 andn50 per cent. shall nc
longer be'3propped by men who are
glad to make 6 or 10 per cent, and
let that ballot overshadow and dwarf
into naught the mastodon anomaly
viz: constitution guaranteeing free
dom of labor, freedom of industries
congress guaranteeing enslaved labor
enslaved industries Impossible t.
return TO right. too soon.
Free trade between our severa
states, and mode of supplementing
i these governments, have, conceded
by all, redounded to incalculable ad
vantage, any attempt to modify which