The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-01
NEW YORK.

Always the Enemy Of Liberty.
From the beginning of American ma
tional institutions New York has been q
national enemy. When in 1886 the gov
eminent of the confederation was in
desperate need of money, seven of the
states had granted an impost and several
others had granted it partially, New
York was one of the four that resisted
1t altogether When congress made
known the true position of the national
finances and declared that crisis had
arrived, in which the people OF the
United States must decide whether they
were to continue to rank as nation by
maintaining the public faith at home and
abroad, or whether for lack OF will to
establish general revenue they would
hazard the existence of union, all the
states except New York passed acts pro-
viding the required money. Driven at
last by shame into doing something, the
state of New York adopted law re-
serving to itself the sole power of levy
ing and collecting the tax, making the
collectors amenable to and removable by
the state and not congress. This selfish
and exceptional course rendered the
whole system imperative in the other
to offer was that congress might misap-
ply the money arising from the impost.
THE real motive" says George Tick
nor Curtis in the Unconstitutional His
tory of the United States" with those
who ruled the councils Of New York at
this period was hope of the commercial
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the, state, and the
jealousies and fears of national power,
which were widely prevalent, were dill
gently employed to defeat the system
proposed by congress"
A second appeal in 1887 to the legis-
lature of New York was equally futile.
New York antipathy to the idea of an
American nation has never been over
come When the question of adop-
ton of federal constitution came
up, the whole influence of the govern
ment of the state Of New York was thrown
aga,nst it. There had been a strong
party In the state" says George Ticknor
Curtis, who lived long enough in New
York thoroughly to understand it, lever
since it's refusal to bestow on the con-
gress the powers asked for in the revenue
system of 1888, who had regarded the
union with jealousy and steadily opposed
the surrender to it of any further pow
ers."
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| union to this day New York has been
anti-national Had it been able to do so
it would have prevented congress from
ever collecting a dollar of customs duties
at its ports. So long as the slightest
hope survived that it could acquire that
| privilege for itself, no matter if it were
at the cost Of destroying the uion of the
states, it persisted in its refusal to sur
render Jurisdiction of customs to the ma
| tional government.
With equal selfshness and like malig-
nifty toward the rest of the states, it Is
now engaged in conspiracy to prevent
congress from collecting for national
purposes a dollar from it's boarded
wealth in the form Of an internal revenue
tax. It is undoubtedly true that il
New York dominated the supreme court
Of the United States, every tax, whether
customs or domestic, taking dollar out
Of the pocket Of New York for the peo-
pie Of II tied States would be de-
clared Vi ptional. II !.