Show AVERAGE BATE PER CENT free trade and deceit is nowhere more conspicuous thin in the statements regarding the average ad valoree valorem rate of duty the subject ia at beat a chimerical one it i like chasing rainbows to attempt to calculate or anticipate antii pate a future aver age it cannot be more than guessed at for the average rate does not depend OR tha rate of doty bat OM the aralue and amount of importations thus the average ad valoree valorem rate may change from year to vear while there haa been xo change ix the tariff whatever the only wy then is to calculate on actual valnea of and daly collected othia will not be a true arera ee but perhaps the nearest that can be COM I 1 free trade paper in the coan try is still maintaining that the average arta bader tha mckiniry tariff is GO per bent now what ara the actual bactat the latest figures at hand ar thoe ending september SO during alia 12 montha ending on that day our imports were as follows free of duty dutiable total total duties collected dar link chete 12 maniha it will be eean then that during the 12 30 1891 the average rate of duty on dutiable ins was 47 per cent while on tot il imports the honest way of reckoning it was only 23 per cent the free trailer is nt only dishonest in his amount but he usra a dishonest method in getting at it he only computes the rate on dutiable imports lav chis mode of rec great barita ns average rate is nearly per cent suppose our worth of im por trall caime in duty fre with the ex caption of worth upon which we collected duty would our average rata of dury be 50 per cent the baet is aa nearly as we can calculate it that our present average rate is oay 23 per cent less than at any lime since 1861 american economist |