The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-26

Use to keep them until his return,
and he's never returned, ssid,
"When the pc can get nothing
else t. eat, they will eat the rich. I"
But Whist esisla i0r7 First, the
adjustment Of all tariffs, Gus oms, i'm
port d expo dut es by the Federal
Government, aud let the S ales furn-
lsh he general COVE nment; for Il is
iieraly a government # united
States. Astbe Federal GlveInmeat
is ade for the S stes, so the Stat IS
are made for ths ps op'e. And ss The
sta 90 ernmeats are supported by
the people, S, the Federal Govern
ment IN uld be supp RED by the
States. L { the st sites collect their
tax in their oEn way and by their
own tax collectors, elected by their
own people. Right here 90 per cent,
perhaps, Of the Necessary tax will be
saved, and the tendency and tempta-
ton to extravaganza AID peculation
removed LIT no lax he laid on the
necesss,ies of life aud the necessities
of business, but tax all property and
all luxuries. Then the producers, the
the agriculturists, on whom every
thing depends and from whom our
very living is derived, will he unfe I.
ter, d and free 10 buy aud sell TO the
best advantage, with nothing to in
fringe their freedom or infringe
upon their personal and indi-
vidual liberties. Ia short, this
great and primal interest would pros
per, and as q conss quence all other
collateral and subsidiary Interests will
share their prosperity, as the planets
rsvolve around and share the splen.
dor OF their free and central sun. The
tenseles, cry OF over production will
be heard no more, as il the mere Of
the necesssries Il life that are pro.
ducsd, the harder it is 10 live.
Second, let the S'a.es adopt q sys-
tenn OF graded or graduated taxation
somewhat similar to the LEHMAN
rogs'ion Of ancient Rome, l. &. tax
a.. property not in a regular ratio OF
increase, but in an increasing scce.-
eIatiug ratio; not in aritmaical or
geometlical progression or cJmpouod
interest, which all have regular ratios,
but in a ratio that increases more and
faster than the increase OF the proper
tv, so that the lucky man with $780,
600 will pay more in proportion than
the man with $1,000, that is more
than 100 times ss much tax. After
making every man pay his pail of 81
TO So for the personal protection Of
his life and liberty, then make
every man and woman OF property
pays the ssme-$l to Son all prop
eIty, real or personal, not valued at
over ST. 90, for the security and pro.
lection of that property. Then for the
Fl 81 addition Thousand add l0l per
cent, for the next additional thousand
l02 per cent, next l03 per cent, and
30 on. This will be check TO the
venal greed Of the rich aud stimu-
lus TO the Responding poor and tend
TO equalize our individual possessions
without the old superstitions OF the
Jewish jubilee at the inius ice OF
pagan agrsriani m. II those radical
innovations necesstate mobilization or
amendments of our organic law, State
or Federal, let them he made; and il
they COZ flict with previous provisions
it will no. b. the first, as witness the
Fourteenth amendment TO the first
a tice Of the Fedora Constitu IL n
Third, make every tax collector or fs-
cal agent pay over every week or every
month promptly and thus stop pois-
oning our Canadian neighbors.
Toe idea of taxing tariff on i'm
porting the products Of labor to pre-.
vent competition with our own prod
ucts of labor, and at the same time
admit free immigration labor to COM
pete with our own labor, is simply
preposterous, and the laboring man
who can't see this is unworthy the
franchise OF the ballot, be he brain or
muscle. Let US abolish our whole
system Of Federal revenue,
it's circuities and sinuosities and tor
tucsities and infractuosities, and sim
plify and relegate the sys en- to the |
States or the people, for the people |
make the States and the States make |
the nation. Then when riot raises its |
hydra head let the stroOg arm Of the |
promptly, instantly, Wig |
orously and relentlessly crush it, for |
what is & government for but to protect
life and property. Here, in my opin'
ion, is the root OF the evil and this the |
remedy. This, or internecine war
with a carnival OF carnage and deep,
dark devastation, like Marius mid |
the ruins OF Carthage bIooding over
their folly, their solitude and desola-