Both Sides of the Tariff Question; By the World's Leading Men. with Portraits and Biographical Notices (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Hon. Roger Q. Mills. " When the government interferes and requires the producer to pay a tax for the privilege of selling in its markets, it necessarily raises the price which its citizens must pay. If the object of the tax is to restrict or prohibit the importation of the article in order to give the market to the home producer, which he could not hold without it on account of the greater cost required to produce the competing article, it imposes a double tax on the consumers of both the domestic and foreign articles. No people ever have increased or ever will increase in wealth by the help of taxation. No people can increase in wealth by being kept out of market with their products. Taking one dollar out of a man's pocket does not put two in." So says the subject of our sketch, defining in vigorous language his position on the world-famed tariff question. Roger Quarles Mills is by birth a Kentuckian, having been born in Todd Co. in that State in 1833. The family came originally from Virginia. Of a restless, ambitious disposition, he set his face still further southward while still in his teens, and began the study of law in the little town of Palestine, Tex. Three years of assiduous toil over Black- stone and other authorities, together with much burning of midnight oil, and the aspirant for legal honors was deemed qualified to practice. Not being of age, however, a special enactment of the Legislature was passed whereby he was fully and formally admitted to the bar and began hi? career at the town of Corsicana, which place he has ever since made his permanent abode. At the outbreak of the Civil War Mr. Mills was swift to respond to the call of the Confederate States for volunteers. Throughout the bitter struggle he did active service, ofttimes wounded and running some ...