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Dunstan Times, Issue 268, 14 June 1867, Page 3

The •* Economist ’’remarks ;—That a Government which one year ago had no internal revenue at all, whose tax-gatherer never came to the homes, or intervened in the dealings of the people, should ho able to raise £00,000,000, or any such sum, is a miracle. In any other country the hare attempt would have, caused a revolution. But in America these taxes are. borne as patiently as any taxes are ever borne in any country. There is uo more idea of resisting them than there is of declaring v monarchy. No endeavour has been made to sweeten the impost by nicety of adjustment, or by delicate selection.Congress limply laid sv tax on everything it could think of, and let it hit whom it could. Yet this financial decimation of the people excites little mm min ing. The Americans are little apt to imagine that the acts of their Govui mtnt can be iy rannical. They are theacts of the. • persons, for w.hom they yoted, .of their agents, and- there is no semblance of the biller feeling which prevails-in most countries at taxes imposed by a superior authority felt or fancied to be other than the people, | The Americans, too, have the money: ; everybody-]# well off. and everybody seeml ingly wishes that the Government should be well off.