Excerpt from An Appeal to the American People as a Jury: Speeches on the Tariff in the United States House of Representatives in the Great Debate, April 17-May 19, 1888; Specially Selected From Both Sides With these facts before their eyes they made haste to roll all the burdens of taxation Off the shoulders of the wealthy and lay them upon the shoulders of those who could only pay as they procured the means by their daily toil. Could not that 000 contributed by the manufacturers from the rich bounties which the Government had given have been retained until the war debt was paid? Could not the from incomes have been held for a few years longer? Could not the tax on the receipts of the wealthy corporations have been continued for one decade? If these taxes had been kept ten years longer we would today have no national debt, and in addition to the moderate reductions now proposed we could give back to the people the hundred mil lions now required to pay its interest and sinking fund. Upon what economic principle or principle of justice were these taxes repealed and the whole burden laid on articles going into daily con sumption. And which must be obtained by the labor of mind and muscle? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.