Show How Woolen Clothins Is Taxed The McKINLEY bill following tho virtual I pledge of the Republican platform of 18SS was the first tariff measure ever passed in this country which adopted the prohibitive principle It pieced duties on articles of foreign manufacture with the view of shutting them out altogether This whilst it benefitted home producers it cut down the revenues of the government immensely Whoever said that the rule of the McKINLEY Mc-KINLEY bill is to put the lowest taxes on articles used only by people of means told the absolute truth The taxes on rubies emeralds sapphires and other precious stones are not oneseventhof what they arc on woolen clothing and slllis ala thirty percent per-cent less The highest of the taxes on the woolen schedules are intended to actually prohibit import After getting above tho line where the tax permits the largest importations importa-tions the revenue decreases with the increase in-crease of the tax until when it becomes high enough to prohibit imports entirely it yields no revenue at all to the treasury The McKiNLET system imposes a higher average tax on woolen clothing than the average tax on any other class of articles whatever Tho following tablo showing this to be the fact Is from page 8 of the introduction in-troduction to the treasury report on imports im-ports issued by the HARRISON administration administra-tion for 1891 the righthand columns showing the average ad valorem rate collected col-lected and the per cent Manufactures 01 wool 80 62 Tobacco and manufactures of 7677 Spirituous and malt liquors and wInes70 24 Earthen stone and chinaware 5724 Glass and manufactures of 55 CO Silk manufactures of 01S3 Cottpn manufactures of 5093 Flax manufactures of 3788 Leather and manufactures of 33 j Iron steel and manufactures of 3303 Chemicals drug dies and medicines 3050 Fruits and nuts 2785 Thus tho workingmeus flannel shirt is taxed by the Republicans higher than the tins wines brandies silks etc of the mil llonHire But this doos not show the full extent of the Republican tax on the peoples peo-ples clothing only such taxes as yield revenue |