Show A FALSE CLAIM country has been treated to a good deal of talk through re publican sources about a large deficiency fici ency in the revenues of the government ern ment and it is charged up to the democratic tariff of 1894 and 1895 in this year while the g 0 p is trying to force the tariff question to the front this 9 claim may ma attract some little attention and if it is studied just a little it will he be seen to be an absolutely false assumption the mckinley bill was the tariff law in this country for about two years viz 1892 3 during which time in the port of new york which furnishes 80 per cent of the duty on imports there was less per year collected under the mckinley law than was wa received at the same port for the year ending june 1896 under the wilson law had the high protective tariff law of mckinley neen been continued there would have been a much larger deficiency tha 1 there is another reason why the revenues of the government fall off from import duties is that with the of silver every article of trade and commerce is is reduced in value and as a large part of the tariff duties are based upon an ad malorum schedule the amount of revenues derived from duties on imports decreases as the values decrease from a table prepared by mr worthington C ford head of the national bureau of statistics from which the exact truth may be learned it appears that the receipts from custom duties this year will be nearly more than was received under the last year of the mckinley bill but after all there is no danger of any radical change in the tariff even it if mckinley were to be elected the g 0 p are only bluffing about tariff and protection they would not increase the general average one per cent but then what is the use of talking about tariff this year the people will not stop to discuss this old threadbare subject either in the east or in the west still we shall hear the gold bugs of the plutocratic party striving to attract some attention to their hobby bobby while they continue to plunder the people through their sound money schemes but the tariff issue with the people will be no more than a fly on a cart wheel this year |