Show I 1 y I 1 osy 1 Z I 1 TAXATION IN IM MEXICO personal or organ oran an con damns restrictive taxes on trade 1 between states J the chicago times herald is an exponent of the most rabid sort of mckinley ism and has industriously boomed the ohio major for president As an exponent of a high tariff policy which imposes heavy taxes taxes on goods brought into this country from canada on our northern boundary or mexico on our southern line that paper has dilated on the beneficial effects of taxing taming trade and has fulti insisted at ed that this count rys prosperity depends on the amount of taxes levied on commerce between the united states and other nations yet while favoring a system of taxes on international trade which might just as logically be applied to interstate commeree commerce the times herald argues directly against its own trade restriction theories in commenting on the decision of the mexican government to abolish all taxes on trade between the different mexican states this is what the chief McKin levite organ has to say in favor of freer iracle trade af after ter twenty y 6 five ve years 0 of f promise the politicians of mexico declare they will at last fulfill the ass assurance arance to the thrifty portion of the people that interstate ter state customs duties shall be abolished mexico is composed of twenty seven states two territories and a federal district each state has haa hitherto taxed imports import 3 from its neighbor as paris taxes the produce of the neighboring country entering the municipal boundary the interstate taxation of mexico has been one of the stubborn causes of its slow development the governments of the states have been chiefly sustained stained sti by excise duties levied on all al foreign and domestic merchandise and by some direct taxes the city governments ju sustained stained in part by direct taxes have received in many cases a percentage of these duties the result has been discouraged production abolition of interstate untied will stimulate industry and induce capital to undertake a more comprehensive activity over many of the infant industries dus tries of the country counter tho the interstate taxation has been as p prohibitive as the of spain by which silk culture existing axi sting as far back as the time of oharles charles V was destroyed |