The most remarkable feature of this business is precisely that to which the least attention is paid; namely, that, in one way or another, property has to be violated.

Impose on each industry a proportional tax, so as to preserve a balance in the market, and you create a MAXIMUM PRICE,--you attack property in two ways.

On the one hand, your tax interferes with the liberty of trade; on the other, it does not recognize equality of proprietors.

Indemnify the beet-root, you violate the property of the tax-payer.

Cultivate the two varieties of sugar at the nation's expense, just as different varieties of tobacco are cultivated,--you abolish one species of property.