The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-13

tobacco. wool, coal, 1foas to4os Guk 80 80
he precious metals, with an endless xsrls<y
Of timber, with running streams OF pure
water traversing every State
It is however argued that tarIn TOT re-
enue that iiscriminates IN favor q nome
projections is detrimental to the Interests
Of the cotton States. which can hardy q
true. since manufactures located ana oP
GRATED IN the midst Of the cotton nsh1s
would afford home market Tor me pro
ducts Of tie farms. where mutual excnan9s
vouId be made without the cost q tre-lss
portation- Moreover. the Increased manu- y,
facturs of cotton increases the demand 80
price Of the raw material and the Pr1es q
this one regulates the price q the otner'
s05 snnnIv and demand regulate both ex-
eept in times of great revolutions ~ t ~
and business. Besides factories furnish
rome market for food, consequently en-
couraCes the growth of the grasses and
grains and domestic fowls and stock OF all
finds. By these diversities agriculture =
made more profitable and agreea-
bic and better adapted 70 the condition
| and labor of both SEXES, and there Is no part
of the United States where they are more
headed than in the cotton States or where
their success would be more certainly as
sured. / therefore conclude that these States
should now favor q judicious t1rIn WIN
inst and reasonable protection 70 Ametl-
can industries against the cheap pauPet
labor of foreign nations. The present
tariff aud the public expenditures are SO
nnreasonabIy high and excessively extraVa-
giant as to be an abuse of the powers on
| the Government, and when considered IN
connection with the internal revenue laws,
| they become intolerable.
| The expenses of the public administra-
tons have kept pace with inflated TAXATION
| and as co-workers they encourage and sus-
tain each other and progress togsther'
hence a reform of each Is equally demand
| ed and should be revised in harmony with an
honest. economical administration OF our
republican institutions
As Governments are instituted to protect
life, liberty and property, and law for the
| collection of revenue or otherwise, that
proceeds upon the idea of hostility to the
products of human labor, whether in the
field or the factory is subversive OF gov
eminent itself.
1t should be the lin of all laws 30 secure
the greatest good to the greatest number
and harmonic any real or fancied conrlc'
of interests for the common good of all
and these are q part of the peculiar offices
of laws for collecting duties on imports
to support the government.
As "a tariff for revenue only" in it
strict, literal sense, would injure protection
and imply opposition to the industrial ant
manufacturing interests of the United
States, it would controyene the great OBJ
iects of government and Law. Extreme
protection is the very opposite of "a tariff
for revenue only" and is equRllg unwarrant
| A
alive, iudicious tariff lies between these tw'
extremes and would produce ample revenu
for the Just demands of the government
provide for the common defence and tn
general welfare and regulate commerce il
the interest of the United States. Doe
not the broad power to lay duties for thes
purposes confer on Congress the right t
discriminate 'sfor the purpose of counter
vailing the policy of foreign ma
, tons and of favoring our own HON
j industries and productions" especially, "a
the imposition of duties, are, in all Gem
i, mercial nations, the United States included
powers avowedly exercised for these YER
! ends"
! Absolute free trade, with all nations, ca
only be accomplished by raising the entir
, revenue for the wants of the government
by direct internal taxation, a system
, wholly unsuited to the United States, an
, not contemplated by the Constitution, ez
cept in great emergencies, particularly il
times of war, when commerce and impor
, tations are deranged and the collection o
, duties irregular and uncertain. Our Ow
observation of the operations of this mod
/. of taxation, since the war, demonstrates it
unsuitability. The South il fast passing
away from its old land marks, and enterini
upon a career in harmony with the marc
of events and the progress of civilization
q and the able, conservative and business ik
message of Gov. Lowry, shows that our ow
State is nearing the dawn of a, new an
! brighter civilization, and as the Leg
! islature, now in session, can hasten O
hinder its coming, it is to be hoped that
I will not rashly antagonize any of its institu
tons and enterprises, but rather foster an
protect them, that their usefulness may
: enlarged and made the means of allurin
additional immigration, capital and enter
prise in furtherance of the many improve
ments so admirably described by the Gov
ernor.
q May it not be wise, at this particula
+ time, to keep in practical remembrance
that there is tide in the affairs of States
, no less than individuals, which taken a
the flood leads on 70 fortune.
Yours truly, A, NJ. WEST.