The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1888-02-29
TEE CASE IN A NUTSHELL.
Internal Taxation Means Free
Trade Abroad It's Abolition
Means Development at
Home.
AAanta Consultation.

DAWSON, Ga, FEBRUARY g.
Editors Constitution: In consid-
ering the tariff reduction question,
it should be constantly and care.
fully berns in mind that the issue
is How can congress best redSce
the revenue receipts Of the govern
ment to its just needs, and in DO
ing so give the greatest bene-
fits to its own citizens, and es,>
courage the development and in
crease the material wealth of the
country2
The receipts can be reduced in
two ways-one to give free trade
at home and protection against the
rest Of the world. This method is
favored by Senator Brown. The
other is to give free trade to all
the World except at home. This
plan Is advocated by Senator Cal>
quit.
Now let us analyze these propo,
sitions from standpoint Of abso>
late fairness, and see what benefits
will follow to the country and its
citizens by the adoption of the one
or the other. And in doing 60,
let us avoid all mean and little
preiudices, and by all means
shun ordinations and recFimin,
tions.
Senator Brown advocates free
trade at home, which is that every
American citizen shall be free to
sell to each other whatever they
make or produce without govern,
ment tax, whether it be tobacco,
cigars, whisky or anything else,
And he favors instead, of raising
| the revenues of the government
fro i customs duties that il, by
taxing foreign articles coming in
! TO this country, thus giving pro-
lection and cncour cement to the
capital and labor engaged in dcvcl-
oping the resources and Increasing
the material wealth of the coan-
try. thereby gradually reducing,
by internal competition, all. such
imported articles; and at the same
time gi@|nS employment to mills
ions of our OWL Ff5ple.
Senator Colquitt favors protec-
ton at home, which is to establish,
by taxing the citizens of our own
country for trading with ono anOth-
er, a monopoly-whethNr inten-
tional or not-on tobacco, whiskey,
ETC., and to raise the revenues ef
the government in this way, and
to let the imported products of
foreign lands come into our coun-
try free of tax, if the internal tax
es on whiskey, tobacco, ETC., were
sufficient to run the government.
And by this process of taxation
break down the development of
the country and turn thousands OF
our own people out of employment
BY bringing them in open and di>
rect competition with the labor of
other countries.
Now, there is no one who will
argue that the internal tax on to-
bacco, whiskey, etc, would, if kept
up one hundred years or longer,
add one dollar to the wealth of the
country. 1t develops nothing, it
stimulates the production of nos
thing. 1t would be like a man
changing money from one pocket
to the other, or two men swapping
money dollar for dollar-and pay.
ing, the government tax for the
privilege of doing 50.
1t is the love of development
That makes me favor the import tax
rather than the Internal revenue
laws; 50 that in the end our chill,
dren and children's children for
all future time may reap the re-
ward of what this generation pays
out-even in taxes to build up
home industries.
The government has to raise
certain amount ofmoney for its
support. If in doing SO you can
give development to the country
and protection to its laboring mass
es, islt not better than to keep up
the internal tax that only protects
a few manufacturers, and estab.
fishes class of middle men who
make their profits by charging one
citizen for trading with anotherg
And remember that every one of
these middle men is in favor of