The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-02-04

Mr.. Carey was very impatient about the
action or non-actiOn of the secretary OF
the treasury, and wrote as follows;
DEAR SIR:
Nothing less than dictator is required
for making really good tariff. Would to
heaven you or | could I'LL the place Tor
week.
Pray let me know who it is that makes
the present iron difficulty, and what, ex-
actly it is about. Perhaps | may assist in
having it removed
Cobb [of Georgia, secretary of the treas
ury, could do all that is needed as well dd IN
60 days as he will do it if you give him 6oO;
He would do it, too, for California as well
as Boston. 49,
| had an account, two days since, of the
state of affairs among the poor people VINO
have been driven out of Iowa, and 1t Is far
beyond anything that you could well con-
ceive of. Half of them would return, II
they had the means of so doing. Think OF
men walking bal efooted, six or eight
miles in search of a days employment
Is it wonderful that emigration is at an
end? Is it wonderful that ship owners
and railroad owners are being, ruined?
| Or is it wonderful that Iowa, Wisconsin,
Minnesota Indiana and Illinois are so
completely down that New York mer-
chants have refused to sell to those states
except for the cash paid down before the
delivery of the goods? think not.
Yours truly,
Phil, Apr. 10, 60 HENRY q. CAREY.
Hon. Mr.. MORRILL,.
Mr.. Carey, like Mr.. Bancroft, was q
sound money man, and, in 1862, opposed
to paper legal-tender money.
DEAR SIR:
Many thanks for your excellent speech
| lust now received and now re-read with
nearly every part of it | agree most
thoroughly, having had the greatest dread
of the legal ender experiment. Happily
! in the four weeks that have since elapsed
there has been total change in our pros
poets, giving reason to believe that your
| pre- dictiOnS as to The duration OF the war,
! though made in the darkest day we have
ever seen, are about to be realized, and
that we have at length arrived at "the be-
ginning of the end''-Heaven grant that
such may prove to have been the CASE
There is one tax that | have long wish
ed to see imposed, and would now urge
upon your committee, if | could see how
it could be Collected-and that is a tax on
the estates OF absentee owners, of from
five to ten per cent of the incomes. Our
whole system, tor nearly thirty years, has
tended to the production of absenteeism,
one of the greatest curses that can atf1ict
a land, and the result exhibits itself i'll the
fact that from ten to fifteen millions are
annually required for the support OF our
own people domiciliated abroad. One
$15OOOO, all of which he eXpends in Paris,
while leaving to us all the care and all
the expenditures required for preserving
his property for his use. Were dictator
| would make him pay one-half of it into
the public treasury, but as | cannot, |
would be content with little of it. Pray
think of this matter. If there was any
way of accomplishing it you might get
millions year at the least, from this
source.
The terribly long bank-bill, which has
been printed UW NOT D"k, if enacted in
to law as it now stands. 1t is full OF
things that banks are 10 az, but there is
not a word in regard to things that they
are to qrt in return. Of all the questions
4 in political economy there is no one that
I is more simple than that of money. and
Il yet it is SO bedeviled by men who fancy
themselves economists, that it is made al
ready incomprehensible Did you ever
read a tract of mine called Money!"
think sent you one, but if not. will do
so, if you have any desire to see how sim
pie are the laws by which the medium OF
precious metals is formed.
Is there any chance of bankruptlaw
1t should be passed. | congratulate you
Oh the general improvement of our con-
dition. | remain with great regard,
Yours truly,
Phil, Mar. 3, '62. HENRY c. CAREY.
Hon. Mr.. MORRILL,.