EFFECTS OF. THE PREsE NT .TARIFF
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EFFECTS OF THE PRESENT TARIFF


We often hear the Wings charging democrats


with being in favor of direct taxation They say


you advocate Free Trade, and what can you ex


pect, under the operation of this doctrine, but d


rect taxation We meet these gentlemen at once


and tell them that they do us great injustice that


we advocate recenue tariff; and that they, by
their course since they have been in power are
about to involve the country in the practice of a
system which they, of all others, seem so much to
deprecate.


Let US examine the facts. The present tariff
was passed by the Whig party 1t isa tariff of
protection. AS such, it lets in under low duties
articles which it is difficult or impossible to make
in this country, and keeps of, by enormous du-
ties, variety of articles made here Now what
are the effects of this The northern manufac
turer is protected, because he has the market in
great measure to himself and as foreign articles
are kept off, so the government receipts from the
tariff are diminished And what is the effect of
this2 The government relies for its support up
on the revenue from the tariff; and whenever,
from whatever cause-whether from too high
duties or no duties at all-the receipts from this
source fall below the expenditures, the govern
ment is forced either to borrow or resort to d.
rect tar0ti0m. Are not these things so


Now what are the ordinary annual expendi-
lures? Those of 1886 are put down at twenty
nine millions of dollars; but this would perhaps
be an unfair standard inasmuch as our Military
establishment cost that year more than eighteen
millions. Let US then take the first year of whig
rule, from March 4, 184l to March 4, 1872
twenty-six millions And now let us see whether
the receipts from Customs will cover this amount
During the same period the total amount of re-
ceipts from customs was S16,813,766 32-seven
millions less than acGs required to carry on the
goUernment. And what did this state of things
lead to2 To the creation, by the .Whig rulers,
of National Debt. And what must be the effect
of this Direct taxation to pay off that debt
for experience hassshown that, high tariff, how
ever much it may benefit the manufacturers, al
ways fails to raise extraordinary amount of
revenue


Here, then, we have shown that the Federal
Wings themselves through their leaders and by
to bitter realization ofthe very system against
which they so loudly and constantly declaim
The Federal Wing leaders are the advocates ofl
any sort of taxation which will make the rich
richer and the poor poorer. And we intend that
their unblushing hypocrasy-thelr cant about
direct taxation-and their affected love for the
poor man shall be properly exposed.