"All will agree with me that a reasonable economy, instead of the actual
wild extravagance of government, is more than ever a national need. Who
will disagree with me, that in addition to the contribution from
internal revenue, the tariff should be used merely to contribute towards
the due expenses of the Government economically administered, but so
applied as not to break down the standard of American citizenship, as
exemplified in the working people of our country; and eked out, if it is
possible, by contributions into the national treasury of sound
inheritance taxes?"