The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-08-04
NO TARIFF.
Free Trade Universal. Direct Taxa
alton to support the General Gov
eminent.


your labor in the dearest market, and
to buy what you need in the cheapest
market without obstructive interfer>
ence from your Government, is nat
ural right, which cannot in a consti.
tutional government be alienated by
influence" Potent, indeed, is the
cause for reform, and for the discom-
Torture of this occult courtly affec>
ton for favoritism, when this golden
principle of political economy, doc
trine of the constitution, is put down,
suppressed in our country by revenue
tariff, which none can question. Is it
then a matter of surprise that there
Is awakening of people who, de
ceived, have been under the name of
revenue for the government paying
three times as much to support man.
ufactories as they pay to support their
government? Think of it! Three
dollars paid (given) to manufacturers,
and one dollar paid to the government,
and still called tariff for revenue for
the government. 1t seems that tar,
lift for revenue for manufacturers
would be more appropriate. Still
editors and politicians, amid continu>
ed enrichments of the few, to the
impoverishing of the masses-amid
the overthrow of equipoise between
industries, the barometer of true ma
tional prosperity. are saying not yet
time to make full departure from
the policy of unequal burdens. Not
yet time to return to the letter of the
constitution, still speaking of patch-
ing revenue tariff, unequal taxation,
tyranny, still paying obeisance to this
moneyed oligarchy, manufacturing
monopolies, which by such Difference
have become so emboldened that they
now demand Gas in Pennsylvania)
protection moneys-demand the PEG,
pies money. Is not this robbery !
Come and work for the peoples cause.
Come and put down this robbery of
the peoples earnings. Mandate of
self-preservation is laid upon the
people CT these states to settle the
constitutional question as to the right
of congress to continue this favor
lite legislation, legislating moneys
out of the pockets of the masses into
the pockets of protected monopolies-
to decide whether the doctrine of
equal taxation, OF revolutionary
prestige, shall rise from present desc.
crations or MOTTO test, to know
whether or not there is balm in this
protested Gilead for the healing of
this people.
If these abuses of power are not
summarily met, class legislation not
summarily abrogated by the PEG.
pie, continuance of favorite legisla-
ton will clothe congress with abso-
Lutte power. According to Blackstone,
apostle of legal thought, a class has
grown up under this courtly protec,
ton policy in our country, little, if
any, short of nobility. Subserviency
of the labors of one class to another
has been the bane and greatest degra,
dation Of nations. We remark that
the protected class and taxed masses
OF our country are parallel cases
with Patricians and Plebeians in Ro-
man history. To which history we
refer all advocates of unequal bur
dens, and commend its perusal. The
past is the best teacher. Suffice it
here to state that by abuse of power
Plebeians became tributary 70 Patri-
clans, were deprived of their rights,
loaded with unequal burdens, and
their labors made subsidiary to the
support and opulence Of the Patriot.
ans. A cry had gone up from Plebe>
ians to the government for relief, as
from taxed masses in our country.
patricians lilo tho T.uo.ol L.. =: