IMPORT DUTIES-Continued. the rate of 35 per cent. The above is a discriminating duty, and is unfair to the factory or firm which may produce wagons or other forms of implements used in agriculture. The spirit of the law throughout is to reward one class and punish other classes. Other class legislation of the same kind is found in the law-see salt, etc. IMPORT DUTIES-Discriminating in the Agricultural No. 199. Schedule. In levying duties on the products of the ground, no discrimination should be made in favor of one cereal or crop against that of another, either on account of location or political affiliation. No Democrat, whether he come from States on our Canadian border, Louisiana, South Carolina, or any other portion of the country, can ever explain with any degree of reason why three products of the grouud grown in Southern States, namely, rice, peanuts, and sugar, should be favored, while all the products of border States should be discriminated against. Let the farmers of these States read the follow ing and then decide for themselves: The duties fixed by the Wilson bill are as follows: Rice, 83 per cent.; peanuts, 72 per cent.; sugar, 40 per cent. Corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, and hay are fixed at an average of about 20 per cent. Now, let us see how it works. The total crop for 1893 of sugar, peanuts, and rice amounts to about $28,000,000 worth. The following is Michigan's crop of cereals for 1893, which serves to illustrate our point: This shows the amount in bushels and value, giving a total of $53,800,000. The operation of the foregoing, produces results as follows: The Southern crop of sugar, rice, and peanuts is increased by reason of the tariff, according to the philosophy of our friends, the reformers, in the sum of $18,200,000, while the crop of Michigan, which was worth more than double the rice, sugar, and peanut crop, is only increased in value by the same tariff law, according to the tariff reformers, in the sum of $10.760.000. No. 201. IMPORTS—Effect of, in United States. President Fillmore tells us that the effects of the law of 1846 were two-fold: (1) The large importation of foreign goods drained us of our currency; (2) home competition with cheap foreign labor bank? rupted our manufacturers, and turned loose our laborers to tramp the highways and fill our almshouses and prisons. Like causes produce like effects. The effect of increasing our imports, as has been done by the Wilson law, will continue to take just that amount of gold out of the country to pay for these imports. It will suostitute just thai amount of foreign manufactures for American manufactures. It will keep closed American mines, furnaces, mills, factories, and workshops, and doom to idleness just as many American laborers as kept those mines, furnaces, mills, factories, and workshops in operation. This is not a matter of rhetoric or speculation or guessing; it is a plain matter of figures, open to the comprehension of the plainest intellect outside of a tariff reformer's. IMPORTS, FREE-During Fiscal Year 1895. No. 202. The returns of the Bureau of Statistics show that nearly one-half of the merchandise imported into the United States during the fiscal year 1895 was admitted free of duty, the exact amount being $363,233,795. The value of imports upon which duty was collected was $368,736,170. Articles. Value. Whence imported. Animals. Asphaltum. Tags for grain. Bananas.. Other fruits Burlaps. Cabinet woods. Chemicals, drugs, and Coffee. Copper ores and bars.. Cotton, raw Dyewoods... Fertilizers.. Fibers... $2,737,078 Canada, Mexico, Germany, Great Britain. 266,956 British West Indies, Venezuela, Germany, Italy. 1,110,403 British East Indies, Great Britain. 4,674,861 British West Indies, Cuba, Central America, Colombia. 733,989 Cuba, Central America, Colombia. 4,903,182 Great Britain, British East Indies. 1,245,203 Cuba, Santo Domingo, Mexico, Nicaragua, Brazil, Co- 2,774,498 Central and South America, Germany, Great Britain, 1,049,073 Great Britain, Portugal, Spain. 4,814,383 Peru, Great Britain, Turkey in Africa 1,589,773 British West Indies, Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Mex ico. 1,092,449 Canada, British West Indies, French Guiana, Mexico, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, French Oceanica. 11,160,000 Canada, Mexico, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, British East Indies, Philippine Islands. IMPORTS, FREE-Continued. Articles. $1 107,449 Canada, Newfoundland, China. 5,560,322 Mexico, Austria-Hungary, Great Britain, Turkey in Af- 18,475,382 Brazil, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Belgium, 1 404,56 Turkey in Asia, Russia. 1,644,835 Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain. .1,149,951 Canada, Cuba, Colombia. Mexico, Austria-Hungary, Germany, British East Indies 2,755,45 France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, China. 1,638,838 China, Hongkong, Japan. 1,176,330 Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador, Cile, Russia, Spain, Turkey in Asia, Japan 3,2 0,078 France, Germany, Italy, Turkey in Europe, British East Indies. 730,669 Germany, Turkey in Africa, Turkey in Asia. 2,853,012 Belgium, Germany, Great Britain. 5,230,3:4 Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Japan. 561,490 British West Indies, Dutch West Indies, Great Britain, Italy 1,336,105 Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy. 2626 056 Fra ce, Great Britain, Italy, China, Japan. 4.124,712 Chile, Peru. 2,3 18,0.2 Betish west Indies, France, Germany, Netherlands, British East Indies. 1,700 784 Great Britain, Italy, Japan. 13,171,379 Caua a, Great Britain, China, Japan. 5,713,300 Germany, Great Britain, British East Indies, British Australasia. 4.7 2.142 Mexico, Freuch West Indies, France, French Oceanica. 1,202,606 Canada, Mexico. 23,996,224 Canada, Arrentine Republic, Uruguay, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Turkey in Europe, British Australasia, China. INDIA. In India the standard is silver; the monetary unit is the rupee; the value in United States coin is $0.29.2; the coins are gold: mohur ($7.10.5). Silver: rupee and divisions. The ratio of gold to silver is 1 of gold to 22 of silver. No. 204. INTERNAL REVENUE. In the year 1866, the year of highest taxation, there was collected under the internal revenue system, under schedules which have been entirely repealed, the sum of $252,744,398. INTERNAL REVENUE-Continued. The Republican party reduced war taxes as follows: By the acts of July 13, 1866, and March 2, 1867. .. ..$103,381,199.00 By the acts of March 31, 1868, and February 3, 1868. By the act of July 14, 1870.... By the act of December 21, 1871. By the act of June 6, 1872. By the act of March 3, 1883. By the act of October 1, 1890... Total 54,802,578.00 55,315,351.00 14,436,862.00 15,807,618.00 40,677,682.00 10,442,187.11% 294,863,477.11% twenty-two INTERNAL REVENUE—Under McKinley and Wison Laws. No. 205. Internal-revenue receipts under McKinley and Wilson laws. Month. Interualrevenue re ceipts first |