But how is the spirit of expenditure to be exorcised? Not by preaching; I doubt if even by yours. I seriously doubt whether it will ever give place to the old spirit of economy, as long as we have the income-tax. There, or hard by, lie questions of deep practical moment.

I mean this, that together with the so-called increase of expenditure there grows up what may be termed a spirit which, insensibly and unconsciously perhaps, b…

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to c…

We may be for or against the South. But there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an Army; they are making, it appears, a…

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a mi…

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.