Show TARIFF corruption last friday at the new york har was quite discovered another scheme to evade the tariff A number of boxes of macaroni had been landed from the steamship bolivia of the anchor line which hail just arrived from ports while work was progressing ono of the boxes fell and broke its contents being strewn about the pier when lo 10 there appeared several fine silk shawls on which thoro is a heavy duty the matter being thus brought to light the inspectors began an investigation which resulted in of similar boxes now this is one instance where a practice has been revealed but it may be but one time out of hundreds that this same firm has imported valuable goods without paying u cent of duty not to say that there are many other individuals and lorms engaged in a like practice and a very curious feature connected with smuggling is that it is fusul to be practiced only on such articles as are subject to a very high tariff tho country at largo would bo shocked if it knew tho groat amount of goods that enters the united states fraudulently on which should be paid the high duty required by law the fact of the case is that the rate of tariff kept up by the federal government on many articles is so high that it cannot be collected it is amply proven by practice that a moderate tariff will be readily paid but when it exceeds a certain rate it cannot bo A high tariff in short is a source of corruption to any government |